What I Love About Games: I love the storytelling and the art. I'm a fan of funny dice. We have one game that actually uses 2-sided runestones instead of dice, that's fun. I adore worldbuilding. I often read roleplaying gamebooks just for those aspects. I like smallish board or card games. We're huge fans of Looney Labs.
I love BoardGameGeek for its ratings and linked videos that let you learn about a game before buying it. If I see a game in our game store that's ~$20 or less, I usually just buy it; but if it's more, I'm likely to research it first, then go back to buy it if possible.
What I Hate About Games: I'm not a fan of abstract strategy games. I don't like games that are so complicated I'm not sure what to do. I dislike games with racist, sexist, etc. content -- I've seen one roleplaying game that literally hardwired the player's ethnicity into the game rules regarding what kind of things their character could do. 0_o I'm not keen on enormously expensive games, and a lot of contemporary ones are $50+ and may even require multiple boxes. While we're on that topic, I tend to dislike roleplaying games that require a ton of books to play well. I'll allow one book for players and one for gamemaster as reasonable. Expansions are okay but you should be able to play the game with just 1-2 books.
Favorite Genre(s): I favor fantasy, science fiction, and nature/science. We have some get-to-know-you games like Imaginiff. We have some goofy games, like probably a dozen versions of Fluxx.
Favorite Type(s): I like stacking-block games. I love roleplaying games. We have a bunch of card games. I'm not into video games though.
Favorite Quote(s) About Play: "Don't be a dick." "How much damage does a Panzerfaust do to a troll, Heinz?"
Great Fanworks Featuring Games: "a sequence that you never learned" by annataylor This is one of the many Kirk/Spock fanfics in which chess is a medium of relationships.
There's also my Love Is For Children series about the Avengers, which because it involves nonsexual ageplay, features numerous games. I've actually gone out and researched which games would best suit various situations.
In Lucy, there's a blink-and-you-miss-it scene where a bunch of thugs are playing Mah Jongg. It is the Asian equivalent of chess in terms of cultural weight. So if you know that, it shows that they aren't actually as dumb as they seem -- a fascinating little easteregg.
Headcanons: I tend to render geeks and other intellectuals as playing abstract strategy games -- chess, or a similar game for their culture/time period.
For some of my tribal characters, I found lists of comic books, TV shows, and video games that had native influences and listed each character's favorites as a way of distinguishing their personalities and interests.
Best Game I've Ever Played: When I was in high school, my friends wanted to play in my storyworld. So they gave me the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide and off we went. It wasn't a great game engine for my style, but it was enough for a start. That was the most fun I've had in a game.
My Collection: Maybe between 100-200? My partner has a bunch of board games before the stuff we picked up together. Well, if you count all the gaming handbooks it's probably a lot more. We have a lot of board games, card games, some stacking-block games, roleplaying games. I like to collect inclusive games. I've got a domino set that doesn't use numbers, it has pictures. Illusion is a card game where you line up cards based on the amount of a specific color in an abstract picture: basically a game for visual-native folks rather than text/speech folks.
Favorite Game Day Foods: I like something a little more substantial than junk food, such as a tray of meat, cheese, fruit, and crackers. Sometimes we make game-related food. Actually one of our favorite cookbooks is The Elder Scrolls Cookbook. I don't play the game, but friends who did had the cookbook, and I fell in love with it. We actually did a whole feast out of there.
I've Been a Gamer Since: I think I started playing hide-and-seek when I was about two. Amusingly, my mother and I could both hide by imagining ourselves as plants. We could see each other, but nobody else could. It made the game ... interesting.
About My Blog: I post almost every day, often several times a day. If you're looking for an active blog, this is a good bet; if you're easily overwhelmed, not so much. I post a lot about writing, some nature and current events, especially science news. I share my gardening and birdfeeding experiences, with photos in the warmer months. I'm an active supporter of crowdfunding and often link to other people's projects. My blog has folks from all over the QUILTBAG. I don't hesitate to post dark topics -- some of the philosophical discussions get pretty heavy.
What I Create: I write a lot of original work and some fanwork. A majority is narrative poetry, but I do some fiction too, occasionally demifiction or meta. As you can see from the above examples, I'm prone to describing games that I see in other universes. Oh, and there's a demifiction booklet of Heraldic games from Valdemar I wrote many years ago that's still floating around.
What I'm Looking For: I'm always interested in new friends and readers, or new things to read in favorite topics. I'd enjoy connecting with more artists or game designers.
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http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/
https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Ysabetwordsmith/works
What I Love About Games: I love the storytelling and the art. I'm a fan of funny dice. We have one game that actually uses 2-sided runestones instead of dice, that's fun. I adore worldbuilding. I often read roleplaying gamebooks just for those aspects. I like smallish board or card games. We're huge fans of Looney Labs.
I love BoardGameGeek for its ratings and linked videos that let you learn about a game before buying it. If I see a game in our game store that's ~$20 or less, I usually just buy it; but if it's more, I'm likely to research it first, then go back to buy it if possible.
What I Hate About Games:
I'm not a fan of abstract strategy games. I don't like games that are so complicated I'm not sure what to do. I dislike games with racist, sexist, etc. content -- I've seen one roleplaying game that literally hardwired the player's ethnicity into the game rules regarding what kind of things their character could do. 0_o I'm not keen on enormously expensive games, and a lot of contemporary ones are $50+ and may even require multiple boxes. While we're on that topic, I tend to dislike roleplaying games that require a ton of books to play well. I'll allow one book for players and one for gamemaster as reasonable. Expansions are okay but you should be able to play the game with just 1-2 books.
Favorite Genre(s):
I favor fantasy, science fiction, and nature/science. We have some get-to-know-you games like Imaginiff. We have some goofy games, like probably a dozen versions of Fluxx.
Favorite Type(s):
I like stacking-block games. I love roleplaying games. We have a bunch of card games. I'm not into video games though.
Favorite Quote(s) About Play:
"Don't be a dick."
"How much damage does a Panzerfaust do to a troll, Heinz?"
Great Fanworks Featuring Games:
"a sequence that you never learned" by annataylor
This is one of the many Kirk/Spock fanfics in which chess is a medium of relationships.
There's also my Love Is For Children series about the Avengers, which because it involves nonsexual ageplay, features numerous games. I've actually gone out and researched which games would best suit various situations.
Best Games I've Seen Onscreen:
WarGames
Jumanji
In Lucy, there's a blink-and-you-miss-it scene where a bunch of thugs are playing Mah Jongg. It is the Asian equivalent of chess in terms of cultural weight. So if you know that, it shows that they aren't actually as dumb as they seem -- a fascinating little easteregg.
Honor Among Thieves
But my favorite is this D&D car commercial.
Headcanons:
I tend to render geeks and other intellectuals as playing abstract strategy games -- chess, or a similar game for their culture/time period.
For some of my tribal characters, I found lists of comic books, TV shows, and video games that had native influences and listed each character's favorites as a way of distinguishing their personalities and interests.
Games I Love To Play Myself:
Favorites I haven't already mentioned above include Call to Adventure, Chrononauts, Dead Inside, Evolution, Planetarium, We Didn't Playtest This at All. My favorite game engine is PDQ.
I made a post about board games.
Best Game I've Ever Played:
When I was in high school, my friends wanted to play in my storyworld. So they gave me the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide and off we went. It wasn't a great game engine for my style, but it was enough for a start. That was the most fun I've had in a game.
My Collection:
Maybe between 100-200? My partner has a bunch of board games before the stuff we picked up together. Well, if you count all the gaming handbooks it's probably a lot more. We have a lot of board games, card games, some stacking-block games, roleplaying games. I like to collect inclusive games. I've got a domino set that doesn't use numbers, it has pictures. Illusion is a card game where you line up cards based on the amount of a specific color in an abstract picture: basically a game for visual-native folks rather than text/speech folks.
Favorite Game Day Foods:
I like something a little more substantial than junk food, such as a tray of meat, cheese, fruit, and crackers. Sometimes we make game-related food. Actually one of our favorite cookbooks is The Elder Scrolls Cookbook. I don't play the game, but friends who did had the cookbook, and I fell in love with it. We actually did a whole feast out of there.
Favorite Blogs or Communities:
I have a list of gaming communities here.
I've Been a Gamer Since:
I think I started playing hide-and-seek when I was about two. Amusingly, my mother and I could both hide by imagining ourselves as plants. We could see each other, but nobody else could. It made the game ... interesting.
Gamer, Designer, or Both:
Both.
My pocket game design challenge is here.
See my descriptions of Inclusive Games from Terramagne.
"Made for Togetherness" has a description of the Dhoni Game or Atoll Game.
"Chances Old and New" has descriptions for a couple different game systems.
About My Blog:
I post almost every day, often several times a day. If you're looking for an active blog, this is a good bet; if you're easily overwhelmed, not so much. I post a lot about writing, some nature and current events, especially science news. I share my gardening and birdfeeding experiences, with photos in the warmer months. I'm an active supporter of crowdfunding and often link to other people's projects. My blog has folks from all over the QUILTBAG. I don't hesitate to post dark topics -- some of the philosophical discussions get pretty heavy.
What I Create:
I write a lot of original work and some fanwork. A majority is narrative poetry, but I do some fiction too, occasionally demifiction or meta. As you can see from the above examples, I'm prone to describing games that I see in other universes. Oh, and there's a demifiction booklet of Heraldic games from Valdemar I wrote many years ago that's still floating around.
What I'm Looking For:
I'm always interested in new friends and readers, or new things to read in favorite topics. I'd enjoy connecting with more artists or game designers.