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- Upcoming Interview on With Special Guest
- Doh: Something of the Something Something
- Happy Birthday, Robot! at the Tower's All-Weekend ...
- Time Between Kickstarters [Twitter]
- Deadline Extended for the Thousand-Year Game Desig...
- He says "She says…"
- Cel Shading the Cover of Do: The Book of Letters
- Father's Day Edition of Happy Birthday, Robot!
- Interview on WGN Radio about the Thousand-Year Gam...
- Amy Houser's Art for Do: The Book of Letters
- Speaking at GenCon 2011
- Cover Design for J.R. Blackwell's "Shelter In Place"
- JIm White's Playtest Feedback for Belle of the Bal...
- "Next" or "Adjacent" [Twitter]
- "Cydonia or Bust" Letter Contest [Do: Pilgrims of ...
- Liz Radtke's Vector Trace for the Cover of Do: The...
- Happy Anniversary, Mego!
- PDF of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple Now Avail...
- First playtest of Stupor Market [In the Lab]
- Dan Cetorelli Completes Hand-Bound Do: Pilgrims of...
- Good and Bad Examples of Game Jargon [Twitter]
- Iron Solis [Twitter]
- Lyndsay Peters' Dragon Chow Bags for Do: Pilgrims ...
- #DoCrossover [Twitter]
- Thousand Year Game Design Challenge - May Update
- Liz Radtke's Cover Sketches for Do: The Book of Le...
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Playing without Twitter. 140 characters is far too few!
ReplyDeleteI don't want to try and ham-fistedly explain the terms that put me off because I start to sound trite. A lot of people like the work in ancient language that White Wolf put through, but looking up "ithakur" each time someone mentions it puts me off the game.
This could be why it took me years to accept american football, but I understood soccer right away. Because of this, soccer is my preferred spectator sport, even in a town where football is king.
I really groove with terms that evoke, even through onomatopoeia, the game rules or game's mythology or theme. "Tap" is a classic, because it's both a physical maneuver and has meaning for the action. Continuum does have a good handful of these, but it does get to the point where you are "shrivving the burnback" (not a real example), or using terms that are necessary and technical but do not work to bring more context or understanding.