{"id":253,"date":"2011-02-28T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-07-06T15:59:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:59:50","slug":"actual-people-actual-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Actual People, Actual Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When our weekly RPG session fell through yesterday, I turned to the web for solace, reports of actual gaming experience to confirm or contradict my developing expectations (read: concerns) for the <em>FATE<\/em> system.  In the process, I came across <a href =\"http:\/\/apap.libsyn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Actual People, Actual Play<\/a> a podcast devoted to playtesting RPGs and reviewing how specific mechanics affect play.<\/p>\n<p>Since they&#8217;ve been doing a lot of <em>FATE<\/em> recently\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmostly <em>The Dresden Files<\/em>, but also a one-off in the gonzo post-apocalyptic style of Thundarr and <em>Gamma World<\/em>, and comments that suggest an earlier stab at <em>Spirit of th e Century<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe site was just what I wanted.  But more than that, it&#8217;s topic is something of perpetual interest to me, delivered by people who seek to stay even-handed and open-minded.  An excellent podcast, well worth the time of any system geek.<\/p>\n<p>Gamers who don&#8217;t particularly care about systems as such should nevertheless listen to episode 44, which is a hoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When our weekly RPG session fell through yesterday, I turned to the web for solace, reports of actual gaming experience to confirm or contradict my developing expectations (read: concerns) for the FATE system. In the process, I came across Actual People, Actual Play a podcast devoted to playtesting RPGs and reviewing how specific mechanics affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}