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		<title>You Will Miss That Really Cool Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben robbins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go Play NW is coming up. If you&#8217;re going, here&#8217;s a shocking statistic: you will miss 95% of the games.
It&#8217;s basic math. A hundred people, with an average of five people per game (or less) means twenty games per slot, and because of those pesky laws of time and space, you&#8217;ll only be in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partners In Crime: Teaming Up at the Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben robbins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The game table can be a lonely place. Everyone else is running around, having fun exploring their pet plots or doing cool things, but no one seems to be interested in the thing you want to do. So you sit quietly and wait, and you get more detached and disinterested in the game. You drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping Stones: Telling More Interesting Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben robbins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive&#8230;&#8221;
&#8211;Sir Walter Scott
Lying to someone in roleplaying games often goes something like this:
&#8220;I want to convince the guy these are not the droids he&#8217;s looking for.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, roll.&#8221;
>roll roll roll< "I win!"
It's simple: you have a goal and you roll to achieve the goal.
It's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flipping Coins: Dice for a Desert Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben robbins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ve had those times when you&#8217;re at your Grandfather&#8217;s for Xmas, and your younger cousin who&#8217;s really curious about this whole &#8220;roleplaying thing&#8221; wants you to run a game for her, but you try to weasel out of it by saying you don&#8217;t have any dice, and of course she&#8217;s like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play Constructively: Pass the Ball</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben robbins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re a good player. You&#8217;ve got all the basics down pat: you understand your character, when it&#8217;s your turn you make decisions (even bad ones) rather than hold up the game, and when you sit down at the table you are ready and eager to play.
You&#8217;re definitely holding up your end, but as you&#8217;ve already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Sins of Players</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 14:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben robbins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaming is a social contract.  Everyone has agreed to show up and spend their time participating to the best of their abilities.
Just as the GM has agreed to not (intentionally) create a situation which automatically wipes out the party, or precipitously violate the framework of the imaginary world by having German tanks roll out [...]]]></description>
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