Jul 10, 2019
Episode 548
This week's hosts: Shiv, Oisin and Shane
The week the party discuss the various flavours of downtime we use
in tabletop and live action roleplaying games. Do you plot like
Svengali or chill with your extended family? Should you do your
homework or just wing it when the GM asks you what you did during
your holidays? All this and more discussed live and in real time by
THE ADVENTURING PARTY!
Show notes:
Yo' Boy Savage on editing and note-taking duties this week! Let's
dive in:
Games mentioned this episode...
Pendragon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendragon_(role-playing_game)
Blades in the Dark - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blades_in_the_Dark
03:00 - Send even angrier emails to party@theadventuringparty.net. Like the best news anchors and presidents, we will say anything we read in an email. True fact!
04:30 - Now that we've outlined both types of downtime it's time
for Downtown!
07:00 - Shane "Air Quotes" Carr is a podcasting "Professional"
13:00 - If you have numbers in your LARP you need to turn it upside down and shake them out.
14:00 - This is a variation on the French notion of 'Staircase Wit'
21:00 - It's useful here to think about game framing. Stray outside
the frame of the game at your peril.
26:30 - Some games tackle downtime systems better than others.
Steal from them!
38:00 - One potential upside of downtime is that it's a good way to
avoid the 'shopping session'. If I wanted storefronts in my
fighting game I'd roleplay a Black Friday scenario.
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