By Jon Peterson
Book Details:
ISBN: 0615642047
EAN: 9780615642048
ASIN: 0615642047
Publisher: Unreason Press
Publication Date: 2012-08-01
Number of Pages: 720
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books, Goodreads, IAmA
Synopsis:
Explore the conceptual origins of wargames and role-playing video games during this exceptional historical past of simulating the genuine and the most unlikely. From an unlimited survey of fundamental assets starting from eighteenth-century strategists to trendy hobbyists, enjoying on the international distills the tale of the way players first made up our minds fictional battles with forums and cube, and the way they moved from simulating wars to simulating humans. the discovery of role-playing video games serves as a touchstone for exploring the ways in which the literary proposal of personality, the trap of wonderful event and the rules of gaming mixed into the signature cultural innovation of the past due 20th century.
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When you choose your options from this list, you can choose to heal yourself and others (from Conditions), support yourself, or enable others to support you. If you roll 10 up, it’s fine to select the “remove a Condition” option twice, each time removing a different Condition. This move can break the pattern of isolation and confusion. S S Queer Content Playing the Game This isn’t really a game about monsters. It’s a game about the confusion that arises when your body and your social world start changing without your permission.
Let their sexuality and gender be incidental in some cases, and let it be the chaotic thing that drives the story forward in others. Use the game to explore and challenge your own ideas about gender, sexuality, relationships, what’s normal and what’s monstrous. S 43 S S Staying Feral Playing the Game Every moment of the game leads into the next. When you narrate something, others respond. Moves get triggered. Dice get rolled, and those rolls create new situations to react to. The fiction and the mechanics interact with one another to create an emergent story, one that has its own momentum and energy.
Take a move from another Skin. You have Unholy Allies. Add 1 to Hot (max 3). Add 1 to Cold (max 3). Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). Add 1 to Dark (max 3). 51 Sex Move When you have sex, heal all of your wounds, and cure all of your Conditions. If they disgust you, give them a String. If you disgust yourself, give them a String. Darkest Self None of your friends can help. They’re not strong like you are. You need to chase down the biggest threat imaginable, immediately and alone. Any challenges or dangers that you encounter must be faced head on, even if they might kill you.