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Originally shared by Jason Cordova

For this Story Game Sunday, Doyle Tavener will be running Lacuna. For more info about the game, go here: http://www.memento-mori.com/lacuna/

As ever, I will provide food. BYOB. 

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Originally shared by Jason Cordova

For this edition of Story Game Sunday, we will be playing Fiasco using the brand-new White Line Fever playset. 

“Hurtling down the highway in a 1973 AMC Matador, you are an extremely unlikely group of individuals. How did you get here? Why are you going so fast? The answers, and your destiny, are all right here in this cramped seventies muscle car.”

I will provide food. BYOB.

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So, tomorrow is Ribbon Drive, and I’m a little nervous about it. This game has some very strange mechanics (you use mix tapes to tell a story about a road trip) and I feel like it could careen right over the edge if we’re not careful with it. Fortunately, the group playing tomorrow is comprised of people I trust in terms of handling themselves well in a story game. Most everyone also played My Life with Master, which is another high-concept game. We had great fun with that one, so hopefully we’ll pull this one off, too. 

Discussion: Are there aspects of RPGs that are unnecessary holdovers from the hobby’s roots in wargaming? Which mechanical tropes, if any, are downright vestigial in the year 2013? On the flipside, if it hadn’t been for wargaming, would we even have RPGs? Could we have gotten to a game like, say, Fiasco, without starting at Chainmail? 

I have some opinions, but in the interest of open discussion, I will refrain from offering them.

InSpectres was great fun last night.