Forge Midwest 2009: Interview with Willow Palacek

Posted in Forge Midwest 2009, Interview, Non-Actual Play, RPG Only on August 5th, 2009 by Kevin Weiser

Our final interview from the heady days of Forge Midwest 2009 is a brief interview with Willow Palecek, Forge Midwest organizer and designer of the FATE-based RPG Awesome Adventures. We talk with Willow about why she made Awesome Adventures, how she got into roleplaying, and how Forge Midwest came to be in Madison instead of Chicago. It was nice talking to Willow and I can’t wait for next year’s Forge Midwest!

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Tags: Awesome Adventures, Blazing Rose, Carolyn Burg, Champions, D&D, Dust Devils, Escape from Tentacle City, , Hero Quest, Houses of the Blooded, John Woo, , Legend of the Five Rings, , Mouse Guard, , , Spirt of the Century, , Storming the Wizards Castle, The Forge, The Mountain Witch, , Voight-Kampff Test

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Forge Midwest 2009 After-Action Report

Posted in Discussions, Forge Midwest 2009, Non-Actual Play, RPG Only on May 8th, 2009 by Kevin Weiser

Before our third session of 3:16: Carnage Amongst the Stars, Jen and Kevin regale the rest of the group with their experiences at Forge Midwest 2009. We met a lot of cool people and played a lot of great games. This episode has a fair amount of info about a few of the games we got a chance to play: Zombie Cinema, Prime Time Adventures, Sorcerer, and Mouse Guard. If you’re a little curious about how those games play out, this might be helpful.

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Tags: Awesome Adventures, Blazing Rose, , , Charles Darwin, , Clyde Rhoer, , Dead Rising, Dogs in the Vineyard, Dragon Turtles, Duel of Wits, Full Light! Full Steam!, Greg Stolze, Hero's Banner, , , Jonathan Tweet, Joshua AC Newman, , Luke Crane, Mark Rein-Hagen, Passions, Poison'd, Richard Dawkins, , , Shadout Mapes, Shock: Social Science Fiction, Sorcerer, , Willow Palecek, Zombie Cinema

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Forge Midwest 2009: Tim Koppang Interview

Posted in Forge Midwest 2009, Interview, Non-Actual Play, RPG Only on April 25th, 2009 by Kevin Weiser

In early April Jen and I took a road trip up to Forge Midwest 2009 in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin. We played a lot of games and met a lot of cool people, expect a fair amount of content related to that in the upcoming weeks. One of the high points was a chance to play Hero’s Banner with it’s creator Tim Koppang. After running it for myself and two others (Edward “Sabe” Jones and a dude named Tim who’s contact info I didn’t get) I grabbed Tim (Koppang, not the player) and did a short interview with him. We discuss his inspirations for the game, the term “Storygames” (he’s not a fan), his gaming history, and whether free will actually exists or not. It was a real pleasure to meet and interview him.

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Tags: Bill Mudron, , Dust Devils, , Hero's Banner, Keith Senkowski, , , Song of Ice and Fire, Story Engine, Storygames, The Forge, The Gaming Outpost, Tim Koppang

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