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That Old Blank Page

By Kit

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June 1, 2011

Do you write? Even if you don’t, you know about it because writers write about it. You sit down, intending to write, and instead just stare at that blank page for a while. You get up, clean the kitchen. You sit back down. If you’re like me, you realize that there’s a problem on your […]

Weighted Random Number Generators and Narrative

By Kit

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May 27, 2011

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By now, I expect everyone who reads this has seen the recent XKCD, and read the hover text: (For the record: the hover text says “Also, all financial analysis. And, more directly, D&D.”) What do we make of this? There’s a lot of (I think fruitless) argument one could have back and forth over whether […]

Traction

By Kit

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March 2, 2011

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It’s an ineffable quality. I think of it as traction, or grabbiness. It’s that quality that makes you just want to play something, and not just want to, but to know what you need to do in play. This character has to do this, to want this. This situation needs to explode in this fashion. […]