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Was just plotting my next Game Tastings in meetings today, and so this is a real shot in the arm.

Jay Sparks@sparksjay.bsky.social

As someone who was in the audience for this particular flight, it was an amazingly curated experience that delighted and educated and entertained simultaneously. Just wonderful and I felt like I should have been paying extra for an excursion on a TTRPG adventure cruise or something!

Dr. Emily Friedman

@ecfriedman.com

I also love (judging from @gshowitt.bsky.social latest newsletter) that Grant & I are parallel-developing workshops that try to get folks freed from the D&Dragon in their minds (Grant to make more weird game designers, & me to make more folks who want to play stuff by weird game designers)

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Thin King Productions

@thinkingproductions.com

I think (suspect, really) offering something different than simply "D&D-adjacent" would be advantageous. Not a small step but rather a bigger one. (i.e. The concept of roleplay is the same but this game does something D&D *does not*.) e.g. Vampire: The Masquerade in the '90s. Catch a zeitgeist.

Dr. Emily Friedman

@ecfriedman.com

Yup — it’s why I primarily introduce GM-less games, as my own home group has found it a really useful reframing.

Thin King Productions

@thinkingproductions.com

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I can never fully decide whether system or setting has the greatest draw away from D&D-esque (for those who do wish to explore beyond its realm). This Tuesday, I swing towards "setting". The whole 'd20' era was a particular time in the early 2000s. Great concept, reality - rather mixed I found.