Recollections

Contents

• The New Wave of Game Design
• A writeup of a Dragonmeet talk by Luke Crane and Jared Sorenson about game design that tries to set out the direction and intentions of the new wave of Indie Game Design.
• Playing Your Game Wrong
• Some notes on the controlling aspect of the new D&D 4e rules that has game designers dictating what kind of game you should be playing
• Ceremony and Essence
• A new way of looking at rule systems and the way they try to define what the game is about with a diversion into what makes a rules system "heavy" or not.
  
• Let's Vote On It
• Character development the socialist way. Decreasing player control of their character's development.