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PGOC 109: Social Contracts |
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Not long ago, the Southern Arizona Gamer's Association (SAGA) had their second first gamemaster's conference. Jess Hartley of One Geek to Another was the star this time around. We continue her discussion on today's show about social contracts at the game table. We also wanted to share another resource mentioned during the show for electronic resources called Temporal Gulch. |
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Released March 17, 2010
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I've been an OpenOffice user for yeears. I'm still hopeless with Presentation, though!
The Temporal Gulch site is great. Thanks for the link. The GM conference sounds like it would be great conference to attend. Every year when I go to Gen Con or Origins, I notice all of the seminars that I just don't have time to listen to because of all the other games and activities. It would be very informative if I am out in that part of the country at the right time.
I really liked this talk about the social contracts we have with one another and how that can affect a gaming group.
I'm looking to start up a Basic D&D campaign with a group of friend who are mostly experienced role players and I hadn't considered the social contract between the player and DM and how the un-said can totally derail the entire game...
I guess I should have said it already. I love this show. There's one more time. :)
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Good show, as always. I wish you'd shilled the GM conference a bit more on the show -- I live 400 miles from Tucson but was only 100 miles away that weekend and could have brought some GMs up that've been running for 30 years. Oh, well.
With all the talk about PowerPoint, I wanted to mention something for future conferences. There's a free office app called OpenOffice, available at OpenOffice.org, that includes a PowerPoint-compatible program called Presentation. I've had 100% compatibility with the presentations that I've made both in PowerPoint and in Presentation and running them in the other, but your mileage may vary. I have been using a Mac-specific version of it, NeoOffice, for almost three years now, and been quite happy with it. You just have to make sure you save your presentations in PowerPoint format if you're going to run them on a Windows computer. And the price is right: it's free.
Hopefully see you at the March Ides!