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12. Have you designed a dungeon?
Yes, constantly. Free-form when my sister and I were tiny, then sheets and sheets of graph paper and keys and notes when I was in elementary school, and I am pretty sure I have never run a module as-written. This is my favorite, that I've modded several different ways over the last 40 years:
B2: The Keep On The Borderlands
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10. Have you played a journaling game?
"Castle of the Pearl" by Christopher Biffle came out in 1983. It was designed as a guided journal / self-help workbook, but it has a castle, and NPCs, and prompts, and promises adventure and self-discovery. If that's not a journaling game, I'll eat my bookmarks.
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9 Favorite game for it's writing.
I'm reinterpreting this one as the game I've most enjoyed writing, and that's probably Playing Nature's Year. Between finding the right bit of poetry, to designing a new game every 6 weeks, to the essays that accompany each game, this is my favorite writing in a game.
PsiRun might be a better-written /game/, but Playing Nature's Year just holds something important to me.
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8. Favorite TTRPG for its art
The truth is, some games are just as beautiful to look at as to play. One that I loved before it even had art is Dialect, by Thorny Games. When they kickstarted it, the art they chose was equally lovely, to the point I bought a print. There;s not a lot of art in the game, but the art there is has an evocative quality that perfectly conveys the game. It's an amazingly good match.
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7. TTRPG I've spent the most on but never played.
Short answer: All of them?
Longer answer: I've played a LOT of different games, but I've bought way more than I've played.
I love seeing what people make, so we do buy a lot of games, but I have no real way of going through them all & seeing what the most expensive one I've never played is. I keel think "Oh, that one?" then thinking "Nope, played it" so I'm just going with "I've bought lots of games I have not played."
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6. A favorite character you've played.
Where to even start?!?
From when I was very young, playing D&D, there was this fighter named Max that I would play over and over. He was big and strong and dumb as a pile of bricks because that's how the dice rolled, and he just blundered through the world with the outlook of a great big golden retriever, happy to help, happy to smash things, just a really positive guy. I loved playing him.
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5. TTRPG you've played the most
Ok, this is a bit of a story, and without actual counting, I'd be hard pressed to know for sure.
I was 7 when I started playing D&D. My next-door friends were Jono (9) and Jenny (10), and their older brother (14) had received the box set as a gift from their mostly absent father.
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4. 1st TTRPG I bought from it's creator.
I think it was Breaking the Ice, by Emily Care Boss. HOWEVER! We were constantly playing together and bouncing ideas around and etc etc, so it's just possible that she game me a copy?
I went to GenCon in 2005, pregnant with my youngest kid, and Matt Wilson was there with Primetime Adventures, which I know I bought. It's a fantastic game i don't get to play anywhere near enough.
https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Primetime-Adventures-2008-PDF.html
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3. A published NPC that had a lasting impression on you.
.....I..don't really know?? I remember the kid from H.O.L.
There might have been a sample character in Pendragon that was neat?
Honestly, I'm one of those folks who habitually skips 95% of fiction in a game text. If it's examples of play, or character creation, cool, good, but throughout the 80s & 90s & early 00s, if I opened a roleplaying book and it led off with more than a page of fiction, I'd close the book.
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