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Diaspora: Cluster and Character generation (ridiculously TL;DR)
Exactly one year after our first gathering, the Wednesday night group got together for our first session of the new year, and we decided to get started in 2010 with Diaspora, the world’s softest hard...
View ArticleBeing Immortal in Fate (Diaspora)
Tim challenges me. First, he never lets me coast during our games: not as a GM, certainly, but neither as – more simply – a roleplayer. I consider that a good thing. Second, he challenges me on my...
View ArticleDiaspora, Session 1: Teacup on The Tempest
I tell you, I don’t know why I bother prepping. Last night was the only Wednesday in February where I could wrangle the Diaspora participants into the same location at the same time (which is an...
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Diaspora, Session 2: Fight!
When we last left our space-faring heroes, they were delivering a cargo bay full of “mining equipment” to a (one assumes) secret base on Sebastus, a moon orbiting the main planet of the Dauphine...
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Diaspora, Session 3: Heat up the Iridium, it’s Shootin’ Time
It had been my intention to introduce everyone to the Ship, Personal, and Social combat mini-games in Diaspora during the first three sessions — basically in that order. Didn’t work out that way. As I...
View ArticleSacrifice, Interesting Failure, and Diaspora Hacks
I’ve been thinking (and talking) about sacrifice in games, and how that ends up playing out at the table. Originally, I was going to amass some kind of who’s who list of games that have mechanics that...
View ArticleDiaspora Hacks, by way of Dresden Files
After a series of scheduling problems, we finally got back to the Diaspora game last night for the first time in… oh, six weeks or something. Been awhile. In retrospect, I’m glad for the delay, because...
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