On the final night of the Green Dragon Fest adventure game event, a cabal of master game masters and I met atop the Elf Tree Tower to reflect on the event and their ideas about the hobby. Prepare for laughter, poignancy, and wisdom.
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Includes terrain and mini photos from my sessions with Baron de Ropp, Alex Alvarez, and Justin Alexander. Justin Alexander will be sharing about his adventure, Timat's Get, on his website soon: thealexandrian.net/ Credit for the amazing resin dragon wyrmling miniatures in Justin's game goes to artist Peter Heeringa.
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Chapters:
0:00 Silly Prelude
1:05 Intro
3:10 The Amusement Park Method / The Poltergeist Method
8:50 I give my positive impressions of each interviewee :)
15:09 Question 1: How did the Fest compare to your expectations?
Answer themes:
- Confidence about the gaming, worry about logistics
- The payoff of going small and intimate
33:25 Question 2: How was it making green dragon themed games?
Answer themes:
- The green dragon represents unity among the game masters and sessions
- The satisfyingly cheesy "logo" effect of revealing the green dragon
- Creative interpretation of "green dragon"
41:29 Question 3: What makes the game fun for you as a GM?
Answer themes:
- The challenge of bringing different groups/approaches to a similar finale
- The challenge of making a radically unique game to "cold water shock" the players
- Putting all the advice given on KZread to the test at the table
- Chasing the high of reciprocal creative feedback
- Lotion rooms and Doom Turtles
59:37 Question 4: You are the leaders of a certain movement or region of the hobby. What is your collective manifesto?
Answer themes:
- "The Heavies"
- Prioritizing narrative over rules
- Utter devotion to craft
- Becoming mega energized/animated while running the game
1:07:36 Question 5: What's been your favorite ever dragon adventure?
Answer themes:
- Wandering red dragon starts forest fire and burns down campaign world
- Durathrax and the Tesseract Dagger as a player and then a GM
- One-shotting the draco-lich!
- Audivisti, vidivisti, laboravi
- "This is why you can't touch Good things!"
- The final decimation of Tiamat