Category: Game Stuff

Budding Game Designer (Battle Time! and an Elemental Magic-Themed Tsuro Remix)

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It seems like our son is getting into designing games. This isn’t so surprising: he loves playing games and anytime we introduce him to one, he gets right into it. IT was only a matter of time before he started hacking, modifying, and trying to build his own.  In fact, the other day he actually sat down and spontaneously designed his first unique game:   The other day, he spontaneously sat on the couch and, without a word about it to anyone, he designed a game—and I mean he designed it almost completely, from start to finish! Unsurprisingly, at least …

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Welcome to the Bastion…

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This entry is part 1 of 15 in the series Adventures in Bastion

So, I’m running an RPG for a couple of friends in the States (online, on Discord) who expressed interest in trying out an RPG. One of the players has done a little gaming; the other is a complete newbie. I decided to go with Electric Bastionland (or PDF here)because I was eager to try a system this stripped down and simplified. It seemed like a good introduction to the hobby, and has a setting that’s… well, different enough to sort of confound expectations.  Electric Bastionland is effectively the 2nd edition of Into the Odd; I never played ItO, but I …

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