Minimum Skill Example: MCRD Library
After yesterday’s riff about minimum skills, I figured I’d better give a nice thorough example. And where better to demonstrate a range of minimum skills than to look at what’s expected of the friendly...
View ArticleIt Must Be Tuesday
Routines are a natural human behavior, whether the people engaging in them choose to admit it or not. And one of the most common routines in this day and age is the weekly schedule: the things that...
View ArticleShaking Up the Week
Yesterday, I talked about the uses of a weekly routine in grounding a story or its characters in their world. The advantage, of course, is that it creates a set of predictable yet limiting events,...
View ArticleInspiration and Military Reading Lists
RPG Blog Carnival June 2010, hosted at Campaign Mastery, is on inspiration. So I’m going to look at some of the things that inspire me. I’ve already talked about nonfiction books as an inspiration...
View ArticleBringing the Audience into the In-Group
More than a year ago, I talked a bit about in-groups and out-groups, and the role of PCs between those groups. In-groups make for excellent distinctions between sets of characters, but there’s one...
View ArticleReading Through the Ranks: I’m Staying With My Boys
A bit over a year ago, I mentioned military reading lists as a source of inspiration. The Marines’ version of the military reading list (known as the Commandant’s Reading List, though I’ve never been...
View ArticleMusings: The CDC and Its Zombies
Thursday morning at the office I’ve been assigned to until my library reopens. It’s still early, nobody looking for SAC or the Relief Society or even the Education Office, so I’m trawling through...
View ArticleRavyn Rants: Exceptionalism
There was a conversation I once had with one of my regular patrons, a civvie who worked the electronics store, whose daughter was one of our regulars. I’d run into him at the trolley station, on the...
View ArticleNot Near As Straightforward As It Looks
Not too long ago, I had what felt like the same conversation twice in a span of about twenty-four hours. One day, on my commute home, I found myself talking to a fellow trolley rider who knew what my...
View ArticleWhy Lack of Straightforwardness Matters
Yesterday, I talked about how almost everyone will look at a character’s job and decide that it’s easier than it actually is, including the character doing the job. Today, I’m going to talk about why...
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