Proceduralizing Shakespeare

By Sam Liberty I wrote “Forsooth” in 2011 with my longtime collaborator Kevin Spak as a submission to the Game Chef competition. In Game Chef, RPG makers are given a few weeks to write a fully playable tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) around a theme. That year, the theme was William...

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The Lesser Players Tale: Postmortem

by Lizzie Stark & Jason Morningstar In the live roleplaying scenario The Lesser Players’ Tale (LPT), a shabby group of Renaissance actors perform an awful play called “The Lusty Queen” in front of whatever audience fate throws their way. The actors adapt their play to each raucous —...

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How Marie Kondo Designs for Participation

By Lizzie Stark If you’re anything like me, you lost a week of January to Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Netflix’s reality show featuring the titular tidying guru who transforms messy houses and the humans who dwell in them using her KonMari process. That process, incidentally, is some A+...

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