Kingdom: A Role Playing Game About Communities

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We're working on getting it resolved, but in the meantime you may not receive messages or download links if you have a Yahoo hosted account. While not a formula, Kingdom does suggest a structural approach to developing these Crossroad events. Touchstones (who are in touch with and represent how the population of the kingdom feel about how things are going).

I feel a bit anxious about people including or creating things that I don't enjoy when I'm in a shared creative space. Characters with emotions (hopes and fears), with problems (issues), and with relationships work together to create a narrative. Ben Robbins' Microscope may be the clearest-written game text I've ever read - which is helpful, because it is also one of the most innovative games I've come across in a long time.When RPGs grow into longer term campaigns it's very common for the setting to take on a life of its own with recurring characters and increasingly fleshed out histories and conflicts which many times the players themselves help shape. Way back in college, when I was taking anthropology courses instead of focusing on my major, I learned the idea of “emic vs etic”. For that to happen, we have to let go what we individually *expect* or *want* and just see what *does* happen. I feel like it has less amount of freeform, but the ruleset felt ambiguously strict, structured but without clarity, so will probably feel like I am playing the game wrong, if I am to teach this to others. I suspect a DM could easily adapt these seeds, almost like a one-shot adventure per each location and seed them out across a realm.

What I like about this that Microscope did really well is that the randomness isn't down to dice, it's down to how people find ways to complicate things.In Kingdom, the roles players take on are broken down by three basic functions: Perceptives (who have the power to predict outcomes of the Crossroads events).