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mercredi 2 septembre 2015

Strategic Gamemastering, part 3: Flags, THACO, and plot hook writing practices

Par Ludox le mercredi 2 septembre 2015, 07:13

Readers have brought my attention to several articles on flag framing. Basically, "flags"are all data objects on the character sheet.

If you haven't done so yet, I urge you to go read these insightful articles by experienced gamemasters.

This article aims at clarifying the relationship between flags and systematic strategic exploitation through the THACOSG, and the manner in wich the strategic gamemastering method can be used to design plot hooks for preexisting scenarios.

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lundi 31 août 2015

Strategic Gamemastering, part 2: Data organization and exploitation through the THACOSG

Par Ludox le lundi 31 août 2015, 11:00

This is the second installment of our series of articles on optimizing gamemaster effort through systematic gamemastering strategies. In the first article of this series, we have seen together how a clever gamemaster could infer player expectations for a given game by thoroughly mining all available data sources.

This post is focused on the practical organization and exploitation of all data gathered following a practical methodology, which I have named the "THACOSG" (Table of Holistic Analysis of Concepts and Objects for Strategic Gamemastering).

vendredi 13 juin 2014