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Styles of Role-Playing Games

January 31, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Role playing games are interesting for many reasons, one of which is how difficult it is to actually explain the game and how it’s played. Often it’s easier to just play a session with someone and let them experience it, rather than trying to describe what can be a somewhat unusual activity / past-time. In […]

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Players “Topping From The Bottom” in Role-Playing Games

January 17, 2021 by John Champaign 1 Comment

I’ve been role-playing (with some large breaks) for decades. Often when I start a game, I’m introducing brand new people to the hobby, so I tend to set the tone and have found things run smoothly. A while back, I started talking to people about playing online (via Roll20 or Discord) and have found a […]

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Recruiter Spam is a Waste of Everyone’s Time

January 15, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Like many technical people, I regularly get e-mails from FAANG (Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google) recruiters starting “Your experience as a developer combined with your educational background could help us tackle some of our tallest tasks…” Without fail, the gist of the message is that they have a job posting that they want me to […]

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Getting A Cover For Your First Book

January 8, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

With most activities there is a problem of “expert blind spots”. The idea is that once you start understanding a domain of knowledge, you forget what other people don’t know. When you talk about it, you assume a background similar to your own – other experts. USUALLY, it would be reasonable to listen to the […]

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Dogma in Role-Playing Games

January 7, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

I’ve long been fascinated by the role of dogma in RPGs. As a child in the 80’s, role-playing was going through the Satanic panic, but was also quite a trend. Somehow my brother and I got a copy of the basic D&D box set and tried to have our babysitter play it with us – […]

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