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Just played two fantastic games of In This World, back-to-back, with Story Games Seattle veterans Ace and Joe. Yes, we played one game, and then got so excited we jumped right back in and played another. Why? Because after the first game, which got us chatting a mile a minute, Ace made a comment which […]

Police carry badges… Dragons breathe fire… Nations have borders… In our world, things are a certain way. Sometimes ways we don’t even question. But In This World — the world we make together — things can be different. We can see how the world would turn out if we examined our assumptions… and maybe turned […]

I had this idea for a game. Been kicking it around for ages, but couldn’t figure out how to make it into something you could actually *play*… until I had a breakthrough a few weeks ago. With that new wrinkle the rules wrote themselves, so I recruited some brave souls to try it out: First […]