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Just finished what may be the final session of my Lacuna game, and wow, I think everyone had a great time.  It involved our agents breaking kneecaps to sacrifice a Personality in order to save their own skins, ramping off a 3 story parking garage to escape a world-ending rip in the fabric of all human consciousness, and two new players walking into a very fucked up situation, and handling it with all the grace and style possible.

And they became Wine Clearance.  Which does not exist.

Thanks to Daniel Lewis, Scott Owen, Kristen D, Steve Mains, new player Thomas, and thanks to Daniel Fowler for previous runs and becoming a lynchpin character for destroying the collective minds of all humanity.

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Two Great Tastes in one Package!

Onsale today, One Night Revolution! Yell at each other and declare who is the spy, and hopefully comes with the same hammy voice acting in the mobile app

$12 plus shipping

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/218415

We celebrate the departure of Daniel Fowler from Houston Gauntlet to spread the good word of gaming with traditional Gauntlet fare, and Nightmarish dreamscapes!

“In storygames, characters get created frequently, off-the-cuff, over and over, and some players find this really challenging. Scylla, players get hung up on picking the right name, feel stuck, and you lose play time; Charybdis, they flub a great opportunity for characterisation, or come up with a tone-deaf name that disrupts the setting. It’s a regular enough problem that Fiasco author Jason Morningstar compiled a book, The Story Games Name Project, which is just a big compilation of name-lists organised by culture and context. Everyone picks from the same list, bam, the naming in your brand-new fantasy kingdom is now Maori. It’s appropriate technology: you get tonal consistency without reverting to a boring default.”

https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/enter-your-name/

Who needs storygame names? The internet will solve all our issues and name our decedents!

Originally shared by Menno van der Leden

Who needs names? This page generates random names abound, based on letter pair frequencies as found in the Cugel’s Saga by Jack Vance. The result is imho a very convincing list of names (and some less convincing).

http://neeth.net/names/