Today’s arrival: The Other Renaissance by Paul Strathern.

Today’s arrival: Flashing Blades RPG. It’s some 30 years since this has been in my life…

Today’s game: Statecraft: Age of Elizabeth - a prototype in early development giving us the Elizabethan Age in 3 hours, for 2-6 players.

Today’s game: The Last Kingdom. A board game adaptation of a TV show adapted from a series of novels which are an adaptation of history (which is an adaptation of life that was lived).

Today’s game, in Narrative-Driven Analog Games at RPI: Tales of the Arabian Nights, by Z-Man Games. Chaotic story creation engine game.

This week’s reading: Donald Stoker’s Grand Design.

Today’s game: 1793: Patriots & Traitors. Still leaning, but I like how the laws come in and change the game state and the semi co-op element as everyone needs to work together to hold the Coalition armies back or everyone loses.

Yesterday’s secondhand bookshop find:

Today’s games in Narrative-Driven Analog Games: Monumental Consequence, and The Grizzled.

In Saratoga, NY, with some history: monument to the 77th NY Volunteers, part of the Army of the Potomac.

Today’s arrivals: The Price of Freedom and Lincoln’s War.

Today’s game. Back to Star Wars: Rebellion.

Today’s game in Narrarive-Driven Analog Games: House of Danger.

Today’s game: Peace 1905 prototype, testing the 2-player and 3-player game modes. Russia wins with the treaty ratified by both governments in the 2-player. In the 3-player Roosevelt was ahead until Russia blew up negotiations and forced the Japanese delegates to storm out - giving Japan the victory.

This week’s read. He covers a lot of ground from a variety of angles. I really enjoyed this:

New cards for Rebellion: Britannia prototype. New playtest. Never seen Rome struggle like this before. This suggests Rome is harder to play for new players. (Silures have lapped the other factions on the score track.)

Thank you to the generous, wise, and kind soul that is Richard Dansky for spending time with my students @rpihass.bsky.social and for dropping pearls of wisdom from his “The Video Game Writer’s Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You”.

Today’s arrival: C3i magazine. Bittersweet as it is Rodger’s last.

Today’s game - played with my Analog Games Lab, Chronicles of Crime, 1400.

Today’s development update - revised board for Statecraft: Age of Elizabeth prototype (still building the physical prototype).

Today’s project - new game development: Bartleby the Scrivener - a storytelling game.

Today’s arrivals: (planning one or two new projects for the new year).

Indeed, what stories?…

Students at RPI play Untold: Adventures Await, a story-making game, as part of the first two weeks of my new course Narrative-Driven Analog Games, offered by the Games and Experiential Media department.

Other games from this week’s Narrative-Driven Analog Games course at RPI: Onxe Upon A Time and The Storymatic.

Today’s games in Narrative-Driven Analog Games at RPI: PitchStorm and Untold: Adventures Await.

This week’s games played in my new Narrative-Driven Analog Games course: For the Queen, Rory’s Story Cubes, Nanofictionary.

Today’s developments: Decison Tower prototype 3.0. More testing.

Today’s learning session: Quartermaster General WWII expansion.

Today’s arrival: update cards for Peace 1905 (for @fortcircle.bsky.social ), development progresses apace.

Today’s learning session: I, Napoleon.

Today’s second game: Quartermaster General 1914. Allies just about hold on. (Game result called with a couple of turns to go, due to small child.)

Today’s first game: Quartermaster General WWII (second edition). Automatic Axis victory turn 12. Such a great system.

Only one day left! Now’s the time to jump on board.

Today’s museum: back to Saratoga.

Today’s read: Japan’s Longest Day, about the failed coup in Tokyo, the night before it announced its surrender, August 14, 1945.

Today’s game: For the Queen. Everyone defended her, although everyone was conflicted.

Today’s activity: testing a decision tower.

Today’s development: a Decision Tower (prototype 1.0) - exploring the potential of Dirk Henn’s battle tower for other uses.

Today’s arrival:

Today’s game, brought to me by my artist/designer friend Ron: Reductio Ad Absurdum (all the faces of the die are marbled effect without lettering or numbers and are difficult, although not impossible to tell apart).

Today’s arrival: some alternative history where Japan does not surrender in 1945 - the last ditch coup that failed in our timeline succeeds in this novel.

Today’s reading: about the failed coup in the last few hours of WWII that sought to overturn the Japanese government’s (and the Emperor’s) decision to surrender.

Today’s arrival:

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