After a series of scheduling problems, we finally got back to the Diaspora game last night for the first time in… oh, six weeks or something. Been awhile. In retrospect, I’m glad for the delay, because it gave me time to think about a few problems I felt like we were having with the game, […]
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Sacrifice, Interesting Failure, and Diaspora Hacks
I’ve been thinking (and talking) about sacrifice in games, and how that ends up playing out at the table. Originally, I was going to amass some kind of who’s who list of games that have mechanics that let you ‘push’ to achieve victory, but in the end I came to the conclusion that that kind […]
Diaspora, Session 3: Heat up the Iridium, it’s Shootin’ Time
It had been my intention to introduce everyone to the Ship, Personal, and Social combat mini-games in Diaspora during the first three sessions — basically in that order. Didn’t work out that way. As I mentioned at the time, the first session took a bit of an odd turn when Kate flipped the space combat […]
Diaspora, Session 2: Fight!
When we last left our space-faring heroes, they were delivering a cargo bay full of “mining equipment” to a (one assumes) secret base on Sebastus, a moon orbiting the main planet of the Dauphine system. I say “one assumes” because, culturally, Dauphine is pretty anti-space — they tried it once, their attempt failed miserably (from […]
Diaspora, Session 1: Teacup on The Tempest
I tell you, I don’t know why I bother prepping. Last night was the only Wednesday in February where I could wrangle the Diaspora participants into the same location at the same time (which is an improvement; it had originally looked as though it would be April before we could play with the Cluster and […]
Being Immortal in Fate (Diaspora)
Tim challenges me. First, he never lets me coast during our games: not as a GM, certainly, but neither as – more simply – a roleplayer. I consider that a good thing. Second, he challenges me on my choices. I’m not saying he busts my balls over every single thing I do in a game, […]
Diaspora: Cluster and Character generation (ridiculously TL;DR)
Exactly one year after our first gathering, the Wednesday night group got together for our first session of the new year, and we decided to get started in 2010 with Diaspora, the world’s softest hard sci-fi game. Counting myself, there were four players, and we opted to each create two worlds in “the cluster” (a […]