{"id":304,"date":"2012-01-30T16:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/reverb-gamers-28-30\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T22:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T22:35:56","slug":"reverb-gamers-28-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/reverb-gamers-28-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverb Gamers 28-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><b><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">REVERB GAMERS 2012, #28: Do you have any house rules when you game? What are they, and why do you use them? If not, why not? (Courtesy of Atlas Games. Visit them at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-games.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.atlas-games.com<\/a>)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">Not sure if it counts as a house rule, but when Leighton Connor mentioned how he usually handles combat during a panel we did at GenCon last year, I realized that I do something similar: minor combat scenes usually last about 3 rounds, regardless of how well the players roll or how many hit points the bad guys have; major combat scenes last until all the characters have had a chance to do something cool or until somebody succeeds at a really cool last-ditch effort\/&#8221;finishing move.&#8221; Otherwise, my only house rule is that anyone who quotes Monty Python without very good reason loses Yum Yums. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><b><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">REVERB GAMERS 2012, #29: What does the word &#8220;gamer&#8221; mean to you? Is that different than what other people seem to think it means? <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">Someone who games. I usually assume it means tabletop gamer, even though more and more it gets used without qualification to refer to computer\/console gamers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><b><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">REVERB GAMERS 2012, #30: What lessons have you taken from gaming that you can apply to your real life?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">Unless there&#8217;s an apocalypse or invasion from another reality, a bunch of interesting facts that will never be useful. Occasionally you get insights on group dynamics and personal interaction, but those come from any situation where you&#8217;re working with other people to accomplish something so they aren&#8217;t really unique to gaming. Now running a game company, on the other hand&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REVERB GAMERS 2012, #28: Do you have any house rules when you game? What are they, and why do you use them? If not, why not? (Courtesy of Atlas Games. Visit them at www.atlas-games.com) Not sure if it counts as a house rule, but when Leighton Connor mentioned how he usually handles combat during a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2009],"tags":[52,1116,1193,1563],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prompts-and-challenges","tag-house-rules","tag-reverb-gamers","tag-monty-python","tag-leighton-connor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}