Paul Czege @PaulCzege@dice.camp

Daddy: Kiddo, you weren't listening to me!
Kiddo: I was listening!
Daddy: Then what did I say?
Kiddo: I don't know.
Daddy: You weren't listening!
Kiddo: Daddy, forgetting is not the same as not listening!

You can come back and play again, if you want. You can leave your character if you want. The GM is prepared with extra characters if someone fills your chair and you don't leave yours for them.

But fusing old school open table culture together with safety tools feels like a super productive thing.

Then everyone transitioned to closed games, and tried to get the same group of players together for it.

"Open Table" culture like that is super old school. It only went away when the Dragonlance modules were published and people in the gamer zines like Alarums & Excursions started talking about gaming epic fantasy narratives with the same persistent group of characters.

... didn't make it every week, it was no problem. It was how the game got popular. High school kids who knew about the college games would show up and that was how they learned how to be gamemasters. And then they would run the game for their classmates.

Back in the 70s there were college board game clubs that had weekly board game nights. When D&D was published, college dudes started running it at the board game nights. They would run it as an open table. Anyone could show up with their character and play. And if you...

"Open Chair" is clearly similar. You can step away, if you're feeling sensory overload, and come back later if you want and you feel up to it. But it also feels like, if you know you're done with the game, it could give someone else an opportunity to step in. I like that idea.

"The Door Is Open" (Open Door) safety tool is cool. It says you can leave at any time. It's about the gamer taking care of themself and exiting.

https://leavingmundania.com/2014/02/27/primer-safety-in-roleplaying-games/

Did you see the "Open Chair" safety tool in Sin's game Lutong Banwa? I think it's a super interesting safety tool.
---
RT @diwataMANILA
LUTONG BANWA IS NOW LIVE ON ITCH
Get your hands on this game about finding ingredients from Spirits and recipes from old civilizations.
Expansion coming for #SessionZeroOnline in January 30, 2021! Support #RPGSEA

https://diwatamnl.itch.io/lutong-banwa
https://twitter.com/diwataMANILA/status/1334897753239982089

... have about an eighth cup of crushed corn chips in them. Cross your fingers.

The kiddo asked for corn muffins. Out of the blue. He must have seen a reference to them somewhere. Well, we had just less than a half cup of white cornmeal, not enough for a half recipe. So rather than trying to do 2/3 of an egg again, I looked up cornmeal substitutes. These...

My kiddo and I discovered one in Denver today!!

If you are the family of a ttrpg designer, they will make a game about you.

If you fuck a ttrpg designer, they will make a game about you.

If you game with a ttrpg designer, they will make a game about you.

If you are the elected representative, or boss, or colleague...
---
RT @HTHRFLWRS
GAME DEVELOPERS: WHAT ARE YOUR BIGGEST ARTISTIC INFLUENCES THAT:
* AREN'T GAMES
* AREN'T MOVIES
https://twitter.com/HTHRFLWRS/status/1334192476245069826

Don't mind me, I'm just looking at the current Roblox Ready Player 2 promotion and thinking about all the twelve year old kids who are huge into 80s nostalgia.

I wonder how this tracks to national averages. 42% of respondents have never had a surgery under general anesthesia. I'm at four, and I'd already had two by the time I was twelve. Both of those were hernia repairs.
---
RT @PaulCzege
How many times in your life have you had a medical/surgical procedure that both:

1. cut into the tissues of your body
2. and, you were unconscious under general anesthesia
https://twitter.com/PaulCzege/status/1333791866001580036

Okay Baker Street detectives. So I'm making a double batch of peanut butter cookies and (on the left) failed to double one ingredient. Then adding the ingredient to not quite 2/3 of the remaining dough gave the imperfect result on the right.
What ingredient did I mess up?