27 min
Joe's Table Podcast 8: The RPG Information Economy Joe's Table Podcast
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This week, we're taking a hard look at how you give out information in TTRPGs, and why you should be more generous than you might think. We'll be covering how players require information to keep playing, how anti-gameplay binary checks for information can be, how meta-behaviors can arise from players trying to keep playing, different ways to handle failed rolls, red herrings leading to further interest, paying too much attention to the rules at the expense of the fiction, chopping people's arms off, immutable characters and status changes, "whoops, I'm out" behavior in traditional games, trap-style modules, how other systems handle failures and how that's more interesting, telegraphing dangers & giving hints, snake holes, and the option to succeed at a cost.
Subscribe for more episodes! https://anchor.fm/joes-table
Check our the blog: https://arcandio.com/
Support us by playing our games! https://voidspiral.com/
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This week, we're taking a hard look at how you give out information in TTRPGs, and why you should be more generous than you might think. We'll be covering how players require information to keep playing, how anti-gameplay binary checks for information can be, how meta-behaviors can arise from players trying to keep playing, different ways to handle failed rolls, red herrings leading to further interest, paying too much attention to the rules at the expense of the fiction, chopping people's arms off, immutable characters and status changes, "whoops, I'm out" behavior in traditional games, trap-style modules, how other systems handle failures and how that's more interesting, telegraphing dangers & giving hints, snake holes, and the option to succeed at a cost.
Subscribe for more episodes! https://anchor.fm/joes-table
Check our the blog: https://arcandio.com/
Support us by playing our games! https://voidspiral.com/
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joes-table/message
27 min