{"id":607,"date":"2004-12-13T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T20:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/12\/13\/for-a-long-time-i-pretended-not-to-play-rpgs\/"},"modified":"2004-12-13T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T20:52:23","slug":"for-a-long-time-i-pretended-not-to-play-rpgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/12\/13\/for-a-long-time-i-pretended-not-to-play-rpgs\/","title":{"rendered":"For a long time I pretended not to play RPGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a third (it used to be more than half) of the things I&#8217;ve bookmarked at <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/xorphus\" title=\"Some guy from Australia actually has an 'anacrusisfans' category, which is kind of weird.\">del.icio.us\/xorphus<\/a> are related to role-playing, in theory and practice.  I wasn&#8217;t sure why, exactly, until a couple of days ago.  Hopefully in a few days it will become clear to you too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, one of the links I just got around to reading today is the brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.septemberquestion.org\/lumpley\/hardcore.html\" title=\"&quot;Roleplaying is negotiated imagination.&quot;  Yow!\">Roleplaying Theory, Hardcore<\/a>.  Unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t have permalinks or anything, but if you scroll down you&#8217;ll get to an entry called &#8220;A Small Thing About Suspense,&#8221; which suddenly makes clear to me things I should have realized a long time ago about scenario creation and writing in general.<\/p>\n<p>I want to design games for a living, but I come up with ideas for stories much more often than I come up with ideas for games.  I want to reduce that ratio, and I&#8217;m hoping all this reading and That Which Will Become Clear will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a third (it used to be more than half) of the things I&#8217;ve bookmarked at del.icio.us\/xorphus are related to role-playing, in theory and practice. I wasn&#8217;t sure why, exactly, until a couple of days ago. Hopefully in a few days it will become clear to you too. Anyway, one of the links I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-obsessions","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}