Narrative Control

Hi and welcome back to Narrative Control. This episode I yoinked an excerpt from Things We Think About Games.  “Take Your Turn Already”Hosts: Sean Nittner and Eric Fattig Length: 25:08 [00:26] Intro to the Show and to Eric Fattig [00:44] Open Design Podcast Promo [01:18] Welcome 2010 and some bad audio (it gets better soon) [01:35] I love introducing my co-hosts wrong.  Eric Fattig takes the stage. [02:10] “Take Your Turn Already” – From Things We Think About Games  by Will Hindmarch  and Jeff Tidball.  Also, the audio improves here. [02:51] Reading time with Sean [03:24] Classic board game example: Placing settlements in Settlers of Catan [04:57] How this applies to role-playing games.  Mechanical stumbling blocks in crunchy games. [05:22] This still happens in rules-light games as players hesitate over choices about what to do regarding their character and the plot. [05:37] Sean’s loathes planning sessions.   John Wick’s “Dirty Dungeon” from Wilderness of Mirrors. [06:22] Our L5R game runs in a round robin