Comments on: Awesome!:The Storytelling Game

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Tales of the Rambling Bumblers » Blog Archive » Get Awesome! — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:27:40 +0000

[...] thanks to Mike DeSanto, who took the original blog post and turned it into a nifty brochure. Truly Awesome [...]

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:49:05 +0000

Sounds awesome to me!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:34:48 +0000

To be honest, I’ve never actually read or played The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, although I’m aware of the premise. So I guess it made me aware that you could structure a game directly as a story-telling game instead of a roleplaying game geared towards encouraging the result to be story-like.

The more direct genesis was a comment I left on somebody’s blog (unfortunately I don’t remember whose at the moment) about RPGs where failure was a real option, instead of “just rolling to see how awesome you are.” I was being a little snarky, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that you could actually have fun with that.

By: Tim Jensen

Tim Jensen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:09:47 +0000

Was The Adventures of Baron Munchausen storytelling game the inspiration for this game, or something else?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:32:27 +0000

I’m not sure. I think it would depend on either the players being entertaining enough that people wouldn’t mind waiting their turn, or dedicated to keeping their actions short and snappy so play passes quickly.

If you’re interested we could give it a try sometime when we don’t have a quorum for one of the regular games.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:10:30 +0000

Dude, this is pretty sweet. I wonder what the max people for this would be in order to keep it moving. I imagine you could manage with only 2 players (+1 Director), but it’d be better with 3.