We experimented a bit with this session. OK, we really just wanted to be as cool as Stabbing Contest! I had a microphone for my iPod, and we had a long drive down I-78 on our way back home, so we recorded a session on the games we played at DexCon 2010, in Morristown, New Jersey, including Misspent Youth, Lady Blackbird, the Dresden Files, Shock:, and Jason’s own game, the Fifth World.
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The Fifth World began with an excited discussion Mike & I had about the OGL a few years back, where we speculated how much further we could go not only with open source rules, but an open source setting to go with them. Inspired by Michael Green’s Afterculture, and mechanically by Ben Lehman’s Polaris and Matthijs Holter’s Archipelago, this playtest features me, Willem Larsen (of the College of Mythic Cartography) and Cory.
If you plan to attend Dreamation this weekend in Morristown, NJ, let me know. I’ll run four playtests of The Fifth World there, and a few slots still remain open.