The Podcast- A Conversation with Daniel Jones about sharing less-common RPGs
- On Accommodating Imagination with Che Webster of Roleplay Rescue
- Imagination Calls
- On Imagination and Preparation
- On Preparation for In-character play with Tablerunner Crispy
- A Conversation on Attention and Imagination in RPGS with Primaeval Fantasy
- On Mentors and Peers in RPG Learning; with Che Webster
- Attention and the Rabbit Hole Road to "Immersion"
- On the Fragility or Durability of Immersion
- Halloween OctOSR from the Highway of Madness
Whispers in Darkness
What to expect from Casting Shadows
Using either the pull-down menus at the top of the page, or the various means of tag and category search tools arrayed along the sides, readers can explore a growing collection of commentary and comments about roleplaying games and techniques for both players and adjudicators. The focus of these posts is strictly on face-to-face and play-by-post ‘tabletop’ … Continue reading
On Immersion and Engagement in RPG Play
To help explore the topic of what can be meant in general, and what we specifically mean in a given example when we wax eloquent about immersion, I like to separate things into two defined experiences, that of immersion, and that of engagement. Immersion can suffice on its own, but as usual, the more things a word applies to the more ways it can subtly interfere with communication.
#RPGaDAY2023 Day 30
For me, the key to today’s prompt of ‘obscure’ is not to think about the perspective of the world, even the part of it that plays games that non-gamers have heard of, but rather to think of grail quests for those limited-run or long-out-of-print items by that subset of gamers who curate a library of … Continue reading
Colours out of Space
Casting Shadows 