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Daily 121: Wondrous Wednesday - RPG and Cicadas

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Summary

Cold cloudy day. Inflatable projector screen tested - works but catches wind. JC: four varied cases. Role-playing game "Chasing Adventures" (based on Dungeon World/Apocalypse World) - narrative-driven with collaborative world-building, bucket of infinite water with wraith curse. Wondrous Wednesday on cicadas coming in two months. 15-20 people in parking lot/field.

Transcript

0:00 all right welcome to Anna in the air under the sky by the fire and around
0:06 Baltimore your daily podcast briefing of all the goings-on ins and rounds arts
0:09 and ideas Sudbury school so today it was another cold day slightly less cold than
0:18 yesterday so that was nice it's cloudy which was not so nice I do believe there
0:25 might be a fire going to be started soon we got our big inflatable projector
0:31 screen today and we put it up to test that it works and I guess it does we're
0:40 not sure about the wind for that it could catch a lot of wind and that's not
0:47 very heavy but otherwise looks looks nice and good um so yeah we can we can
0:53 do movie night whatever you want so that's cool now we had JC today it was
0:59 actually kind of a bit of a long one we had four cases all kind of varied and so
1:07 that was that was interesting again you know like those who have been here for a
1:16 while you know they're just really good about saying yeah you know that's what
1:22 happened this and that and then gone along with rules and actions debating it
1:27 you know whether it really makes sense or not and you know and accepting it
1:32 when it happens so that's that I also did some role-playing day we've been
1:41 doing role-playing for past few months and today the group started exploring
1:52 this new city where the treasure is this bucket of infinite water though comes
1:58 with the cost drinking from the the bucket starts to turn someone into a
2:05 wraith so don't want to do that too much and pouring the water out well
2:11 priors a sacrifice of life this was all kind of just generated in the game by
2:17 the players that was really fun and so then we had a little adventure around it
2:21 and we'll see what happens next week but yeah it's fun we play a little
2:29 role-playing game called chasing adventures it's based on another game
2:33 called dungeon world which itself is based on apocalypse world game and it is
2:42 a game that kind of still uses dice to determine outcomes but it's much more
2:48 narrative it's much more not necessarily like you succeed you fail and the GM
2:55 kind of drives it it's more like okay you know here's an idea what's the kind
3:03 of background and letting you know players collaboratively create a world
3:08 to make it interesting and then as things happen with the dice you can you
3:22 know like you have partial successes most the time that's what happens you
3:28 have failures where something bad happens not necessarily related to that
3:33 failure you can still kind of succeed and actually have but still lots of bad
3:37 outcomes and of course you can have the successes but it's all supposed to be
3:42 very narratively talked about much more more about that than it's yeah it's it's
3:53 an interesting thing it's kind of like when you watch a show and you know there
3:58 are times when the character succeeds so that leads to something else there are
4:02 the times when they just fail but always leads to something else right it's not a
4:05 dead end it's always kind of narratively going on it just feels very appropriate
4:10 for this kind of school because you know that's what the day is like people doing
4:16 lots of stuff and success and failure are not just you know right and wrong on
4:27 a test it's you know it's it's it's messy and full of story ideas and I mean
4:38 that's just what it is around here right that that's living life and so it's been
4:42 really fun playing that I've been enjoying it and I think the players have
4:46 too so hopefully I can play a story this year and you know we'll see if there'll
4:56 be any appetite for it in the future all right so I think that's pretty much cap
5:03 of the day lots of people out right now two three four five six seven eight like
5:13 fifteen to twenty people out here in the parking lot field area so that's cool
5:19 lots of running and excitement and I know it's always such a delight to see
5:25 this that's good um anyway that's it for today I'll see you when I see you oh
5:34 maybe I failed to mention I did a wondrous Wednesday today and it was on
5:39 cicadas and I was talking random stuff it was kind of cool but I don't really
5:44 know so much look it up skaters cool thanks we're gonna be seeing real soon
5:50 in two months bye bye