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Back to Basics: My Game Itinerary
Why it takes me roughly 4 hours to run a game. Part of the Back to Basics because I’ve tried…
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How to GM Abstract Combat Part 3 – Initiative, Combat for the Non-Combat GM
Part 2 can be found here. This is Back to Basics. Initiative is a simple matter, it is for the…
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Sins of the Crusades Notes on Army Organization
Sadly its really hard to research Komnenian Armies. This is because of the haphazard situation and the constant conflicts unlike…
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A Call for better definition of Skills, and more
If you agree with these assertions, then I want to point you towards Agency and Skills. Particularly how people feel…
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Back to Basics – Empathy as the Goal
This is related to my post on the thesis that GMing is very much like Active Listening. Related to my…
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Sins of the Crusades – Season 02, Episode 06 – Betreyal
Thanks +Wilton Heath, +Dan Mungham, +Thunder Clonch , and +Il Pella for playing. The team was planning an attack, the problems and challenges were plenty the…
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How to GM Abstract Combat Part 2 – Economies of Attention
This is Part 2 of How to GM Abstract Combat. Here is part 1. Back to Basics. Economies of Attention…
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How to GM Abstract Combat Part 1 – Think in Opportunities
Playing a game like Airsoft requires me to have some mnemonic tools to help improve and to compensate for the…
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Sins of the Crusade Season 02 Episode 05 – Byzantine Allies
Note: Listening again to the game, I was really out of it. Thank you goes out for my players patience…
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What Milsim has Taught me about Describing Combat and GMing
Airsoft and RPGs always keep being a source of contemplation. RPGs and behavior economics give me the words to describe…
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Jan 18 2015 – retreat and Circle strategy, Observations
Most of my main mistakes is my better knowledge running into a limited set of options: which was that I…
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Insurgency Jan 17, 2015
the Insurgency Game today had a lot of lessons. Most memorable lesson is that CTO takes the guard, regardless of…
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GMing Back to Basics: Gming with very Basic Mnemonics – Active Listening GMing
The most basic mnemonic of GMing is being a good listener. Effective and Scientific Communication Skills are easy to take for…
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Running GURPS like Fate, and a conundrum
So I’ve been running GURPS like Fate… this would tear the hair out of any GURPS GM. But then I…
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Jan 11 2015 Game KM14
Jan 11, 2015 CTO vs 4 opfors, including myself. First time to use my WE AK74NU. A GBBR ak carbine…
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Gravity in everything the PCs do. Some mnemonic tools for your consideration
Things in a game goes along faster when we deal with what is important. We do this in summaries and…
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Sins of the Crusade: Episode 4, Season 2 – Byzantine Enemies
Thanks to +Willy So , +Milan Runic , +Il Pella , +Thunder Clonch , +Dan Mungham , and +Mike Dulay for joining the game. When the lion cannot fight his own…
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December 14 2014 Game
Notes:First use of our own Cheap Go Pros: the SJ4000 and the PixPro Mercury by Kodak. 2nd CTO hosted event…
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Scanning and Observation Notes
I like how Insurgency has a lot of dust and visibility penalties and the bots have good sneaking AI. They…
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Committed Phase, Game Theory-ish
I talked about schelling point before and I learned to put to words something recently: Committed Phase. Basically its a…
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My Ideal Work Style: The German Cultural Work Model
My Ideal Work Method. I know the article oversimplifies things but here are my thoughts on the matter. Goal Oriented…
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Sins of the Crusade Episode 03, Season 02
Thanks to +Il Pella , +Wilton Heath , +Dan Mungham , and +Mike Dulay for playing. Summary of Events After the events in Taranto, we fast forward 3…
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More thought into things
A lesson in my safety training, which has been enforced in other disciplines, is that doing something should include the…
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October 26 Game Reflections
Lesson from I should do more of the basic Gun Familiarity Drills before the others arrive. I will have the…
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Sins of the Crusade Season 2, Episode 2: Desperate Enemies
Thanks for +Mike Dulay , +Il Pella , +Alais Legrand , and +Thunder Clonch. +Wilton Heath was unable to join but gave a heads up early. I…
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Pistol Day with GMan.
Basically hung out with Gman to shoot in his back yard. I live in a condo so I dont have…
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Sins of the Crusade Episode 01, Season 02
Thanks to+Il Pella, +Wilton Heath, +Mike Dulay, +Thunder Clonch, +Matthew Cruz, and +Alais Legrand The week the party sworn themselves to Bohemmon, it feels a…
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DIY Sports Camera Mod for the NOTE 2
Is that a Note 2 on your head or your just happy to see me? Cons: Heavier than a Sports…
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Cylcing of Attention, Reflection between fractions of a Second.
Short Bursts vs Long bursts is more about how much “attention” and “tunneling” we allow ourselves in a situation. My…
