Episode 77: Keeping it Real while Playing Pretend (Verisimilitude vs It’s just a game)
Episode 77 Tuesday March 1,2022
Call ins & Emails from the Outlands
1. Call-in from John Alan Large
2. Tiamat, again! https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50487/wizkids-reveals-d-d-icons-realms-aspect-tiamat
3. Marvel Fans?: https://insidethemagic.net/2022/02/evangeline-lilly-canadian-trucker-protest-canceled-al1
4. Randy backed this OSE KS https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/old-school-essentials-fantasy-rpg-box-sets
and https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/hell-on-the-high-plains-a-deadlands-booster-campaign
Main Topic: Keeping it Real (verisimilitude in gaming)
Verisimilitude : the quality of seeming true or of having the appearance of being real
Related articles:
https://nerdarchy.com/balancing-rpg-verisimilitude-against-were-still-playing-a-game-right/
http://www.rickneal.ca/?p=308
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/474xlb/an_idea_about_realismverisimilitude_in_fantasy/
Economics: bands of adventurers with tons of gold, flooding markets with goods
Religion: different religions and placing them believably within your campaign world
Ecology: big dragons and other awesome monsters
Community: life and death, diseases, poisons, accidents, industry, etc.
Politics: democracies, oligarchies, monarchies, all sorts …
A Cabin Con Moment
Payment deadline passed…
Randy is waffling between running a 13thage game (50%) and running nothing (50%)
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