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RE: Experimental Community Deployment: Tabletop Roleplaying
I will have to continue to follow and see what develops, it has been a very long time since table-top dungeons and dragons, and with the advent of computer gaming I have just never gotten back around to that sort of gaming. Still I will keep watch.
Fair warning, I tend not to talk about the very traditional RPGs. I was an extremely traditional RPG GM for many, many years – to the point where I effectively just didn't want to do it anymore. Luckily for me, about that time there was a very small movement in the RPG design community into GM-less designs and that freed me up quite a lot and effectively save my interest in role-playing games as a whole.
It was a big deal. Especially for someone who had been published a few times in the field by some of the bigger names at the time.
Unfortunately for me, I have kind of slid out of role-playing in general even though I keep an iron in the fire over on the industry side of things. One of my plans for this next year is to get back into it and see what I can do in terms of getting more actual playtime. That alone might be one of the hardest things to do when it comes to role-playing games as an adult; you're not in school with the guys you hang out with and everybody has demands on their attention so it's hard to lay aside time and space to do something that takes a little bit of intellectual sweat.
The announcement of Communities in beta just happened to come along at the right time, so maybe this will give me a little more of an excuse and a push to put together work on a more frequent basis and talk about it in public. It would just be gravy if it provided the same excuse for other people with an interest.