#RPGaDay2019 prompts 25 to 31

Continuing on with my video summary of #RPGaDay2019 tweets, prompts 25 to 31. Previous prompts 1 to 8

I badly explain a point in the video about RPG and suspension, using the example of how big breaks in music can really add to a song, adding suspension. I also couldn’t remember any tracks in that moment, so:

The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations, Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs, Metallica – Sad But True, Beastie Boys – Sabotage, Garbage – Supervixen, Alanis Morissette – All I Really Want, Scissor Sisters – I Can’t Decide, Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well, Tool – The Patient, Portishead – Only You, Foo Fighters – Monkey Wrench, Queens Of The Stone Age – The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret, Tool the patient, Sigur Ros – Staralfur, Queen – Fat Bottomed Girls, Rage Against The Machine – Freedom, Kavinsky – Nightcall, plus so many more.

Maybe I need to return to this and explain myself clearer one day?

#RPGaDay2019 day 25 Calamity
I love epic calamities in my #RPG settings. The exploration of the lore, the debates, and the ramification of those events 😍
Just picking a few: #L5R The Shadowlands, #Aberrant Galatea, Paris and chunks of Europe #Trinity, #LoTR, #WoW Sundering 1/3

— Richard 'Bat' Brewster 🦇 (@Batjutsu) August 25, 2019

#RPGaDAY2019 ~ Suspense (day 27)

So far this month there have been a lot of great tweets, videos and blog posts, sadly I cannot link them all. So, it feels weird singling out the following links, as well as reblogging IvanMike1968 great article. After checking out these links I highly recommend reading IvanMike1968’s blog, because I think he wonderfully sumarises why so many RPers not just enjoy but need to discuss rules and settings.

https://twitter.com/Catrinity/status/1166438752975314949

http://autocratik.blogspot.com/2019/08/rpgaday-2019-day-25-calamity-day-26.html

IvanMike1968

If you’re reading this instead of watching my video, congratulations. You get more content today. Taking the time to read ought to be rewarded every once in a while. But don’t get excited , it’s only a little bit more content.

The first thing I thought about when the topic of suspense came up were the dice. There’s nothing like crowding around the plastic gods seeing what will happen. I’m not super big on complicated and detailed systems but very often building a dice pool for ubiquity or FFG Star Wars can be a lot of fun and the suspense starts to build. Not that those systems are complicated but it’s a little bit different than just rolling a D20. No matter what system, the suspense starts to escalate once an action is declared and it’s obvious that the outcome depends upon the roll of the bones. When the dice…

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G is for Granny Weatherwax

Thinking about characters, for both fiction and role-playing games, and in particular Mage: the Ascension. A chat on facebook linked the article below, plus:

Dustin Daugherty: I consider Granny Weatherwax a Kami, a static magician possessed by the Spirit of No Nonsense.

Saucy Dryad

Esmerelda “Esme” Weatherwax, most commonly known as Granny, is one of the most compelling characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.

More than that, she’s one of my favorite characters in all of fiction*.

While there are a multitude of witches in Discworld, Granny is known to be the best, the most powerful, the one everyone else looks to. Not that she’d lay such a claim.

“Mistress Weatherwax is the head witch, then, is she?’
‘Oh no!’ said Miss Level, looking shocked. ‘Witches are all equal. We don’t have things like head witches. That’s quite against the spirit of witchcraft.’
‘Oh, I see,’ said Tiffany.
‘Besides,’ Miss Level added, ‘Mistress Weatherwax would never allow that sort of thing.” 

She’s strong and forthright and comfortable in her heavy, hobnailed boots.

“She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult.” 

In a religious debate, she cuts to the heart of it.

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RPGaDay – In Preparation for 2019

Casting Shadows

#RPGaDay is returning for its sixth year, but in a whole new way that embraces the flexibility and creativity that make roleplaying games great.

The Infographic

Share this wherever people discuss roleplaying games~

Each day in August, RPGaDay invites gamers to share a positive example of the fun of RPGs. This year, the prompts have been presented as single word entries that participants can work with in any way that inspires them, both in terms of content and in terms of form. In the past most responses have been Tweets, YouTube videos, and Facebook comments. This does not begin to address all the different ways that gamers experience and express their creativity. The prompts invite participants to respond to them in any creative and positive way that suits and inspires them. Write, Draw, Act, Design, Dance, Compose, or… whatever comes to mind!

Despite a terribly busy schedule doing paid graphic…

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A Public Declaration

The ever writing and questing Mark Stay, co-founder of the Bestseller Experiment.

Mark Stay Writes

We had a pivotal episode of the Bestseller Experiment podcast this week. We finally revealed if we made our target of ten thousand copies sold of Back To Reality by the end of Glastonbury weekend. You can listen here…

EP208: Glastonbury Or Bust – Did We Make It?

It’s not much of a spoiler to say that we didn’t make it. However, if failure is a teacher then we learned an awful lot. Here were the big lessons for me…

• Write a series – It’s much more difficult to sell a standalone book using advertising tools (Amazon Merchandising Services, Facebook Ads, Bookbub, Publisher Rocket) that are best designed to sell more than one product. So guess what I’m writing next…?
• Not being able to use AMS in the UK hurt our chances of success. Yes, I know some authors have managed to use loopholes to run ads in the UK…

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Writing, Community & Bestseller Experiment

I’ve not written about The Bestseller Experiment for a while, so I decided to make a video about why I recommend people join the BXP Team. It is a great writing group with lots of unusual benefits.

In case you don’t watch the video, I have two extra reasons for wanting to mention The Bestseller Experiment and the Patreon BXP Team:

1. I was interviewed by Mark Stay for a Deep Dive regarding my article Dispelling Myth about Dictation / Speech Recognition.
2. I have submitted a sample of my work, The Palliative Priesthood, for the One Page Punch-Ups. I appreciate there will likely be many submissions and thus my work might not be chosen, but hopefully it will be.

With more overall tiny health improvements, I think my writing has improved, and I now am not frightened of giving myself deadlines. Being involved with The Bestseller Experiment and the Patreon BXP Team has helped me stay motivated through the past few years of chronic pain, to do what you can, tiny progress is still progress. Healthy writing includes not stressing yourself out about your failures or trying to hold oneself to a high ideal without taking into account physical and psychological reality.

https://www.patreon.com/bestsellerexperiment/

https://bestsellerexperiment.com/

Beard & Public Declaration

After several years of barely any healing, now I’m finally improving, so it is time to shave the beard. Check out the video below for my public declaration to finish and publish several projects this year. In association with The Bestseller Experiment https://bestsellerexperiment.com