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Rascal News · November 2 · 54 min

Reading Club: Realis

Book club episode! We are are discussing Realis by Austin Walker. As always, you can participate in the talkback episode by sending in a response to any or all of the following questions. You can record yourself speaking, you can post in the discord thread for this episode, or write to thomas@rascal.news. Looking forward to hearing from you. What do you think about Realis? Have you read the ashcan or even the latest version? Have you played it? How do you feel about the anti-canon approach to setting writing? (Less the weak version of "rule zero, change this however you want", more the strong version of "here are the questions, answer them at your table".) What's your experience with the trad process of prepping a new campaign (from deciding the premise to worldbuilding to communicating that to players)? Does this game's design and approach to prep feel like it alleviates some of the pitfalls of that mode or inspire you to try it? Schedule: In December, we'll be doing Stars without Number by Kevin Crawford. In January, Wildsea by Felix Isaacs. And in February, we'll wrap up Season 2, with a finale on Blades '68. The music used for this show is by Nihilore and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. The opening track is So Does Hope and the closing track is Something Beautiful Is Going To Happen. For more from us, visit Rascal News.

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Book club episode! We are are discussing Realis by Austin Walker. As always, you can participate in the talkback episode by sending in a response to any or all of the following questions. You can record yourself speaking, you can post in the discord thread for this episode, or write to thomas@rascal.news. Looking forward to hearing from you.

  1. What do you think about Realis? Have you read the ashcan or even the latest version? Have you played it?
  2. How do you feel about the anti-canon approach to setting writing? (Less the weak version of "rule zero, change this however you want", more the strong version of "here are the questions, answer them at your table".)
  3. What's your experience with the trad process of prepping a new campaign (from deciding the premise to worldbuilding to communicating that to players)? Does this game's design and approach to prep feel like it alleviates some of the pitfalls of that mode or inspire you to try it?

Schedule: In December, we'll be doing Stars without Number by Kevin Crawford. In January, Wildsea by Felix Isaacs. And in February, we'll wrap up Season 2, with a finale on Blades '68.

The music used for this show is by Nihilore and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. The opening track is So Does Hope and the closing track is Something Beautiful Is Going To Happen.

For more from us, visit Rascal News.

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