A #TTRPG secret-building and PC-engagement trick:

When designing secrets for one PC to discover through their ambitions, give another PC small hidden pieces of the puzzle. They discover they they already have them as the story unfolds.

Example: I seeded the setting with ancient and powerful "true art" magic for my Bard PC to investigate (inspired by #Agone).

Another PC had a hereditary artifact, a locket, which had one of the original practitioners trapped inside as a painting.

OK fun fact plus intéressant d'accord : Coralie évoque un #JdR super intéressant, *Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne*, que j'ai découvert dans un de mes book-clubs-de-jdr-en-podcast préférés, RTFM. https://pca.st/j9oi1ogt

Eh bien dans ce même book club, il y a quelques mois, ils ont lu par hasard la version anglophone de #Agone et l'ont complètement défoncé. https://pca.st/p29hzpl1 #JdR #TTRPG

@Jean_no Et la traduction de #1984 par Célia #Izoard (éditions #Agone) mérite bien le détour...

On Rent, the state of things as we see them arround the world, at the end of this year (on our stupid calendar)

Yes. Rent is the unifying factor. Rent is the social condition which causes the most harm. Which unfrees most of the urban (world?) population. Rent is the shackle of servitude.

The historical work of the middle class is to transfer wealth from down upward. The middle class (and here I refer to the wealthy and thrinving middle class, who has job at a company and social status) is employed by the ruling class directly as managers and makers and stealers and officers and rulers and directors of those same companies who exploit the workers and unemployed alike. Everyone (except the occupyiers and anarchists and very few people who may have the chace to be part of a communist party or social support from the state) has to pay their dues in the form of rent in the beggining of a month or week.

We pay these extraordinary "taxations" or rents to evermore companies and people. We pay it to internet providers, to phone companies, to media companies, to water services, to electricity providers, to landlords and to the tech billionaires. This is on cities, because on the farmlands and villages, the paysans or campesinas, they have to pay it too (according to #REDD and #agone coming of course from the Worlds Largest Landlord, mister Bill Gates, and other techno billionares) in the form of fertilizer, seeds, and other patented products which allow you to, again, pay some more to the intermediaries like #mercadona #pingodoce who pay you 2$ per tonne, what they will in turn sell for 2$ per 100grams. This amounts to the wealth transfer upwards to flow through impoverishing the working and peasant and unemployed classes.

Its a massive wealth transfer like no one's ever seen. We're still to figure out if the Unionizing, like #amazonunions drives across the world, im chains like #amazon, as movements like #makeamazonpay develop, or the struggle of the two hundreed fifty million #IndianFarmers against the measures which imposed Imports from Dumping products, or even the massive movements from China's #foxconnriot or south asian #Unions will in fact be able to tear down these companies from their "outsorced" heart, which is where the middle class is not, the factories, for phones, garments, cars, food etc.

As to the role of the #Peasants and #indigenous, they have been making history, and we must bow to their fighing spirits, and learn all we can to fight together.

The #Zapatistas have been showing us the way foward, with such beauty in each new development. From coming up with the practice of #Artivism to renaming the so called continent of Europe to Slumil K'ajxemk'op, or Tierra Insumissa, the Zapatistas have been showing us that "a world where many worlds exist" is the way to evolve for all of us on earth.

The Brazilian #Yanomami are at this moment suffering greatly from unspeakable crimes, allowed and supported by genocidal ex-president B****aro, in an illegal gold-rush, and criminal drive to kill the indigenous people, exploit land, water, soil, trees, animals and humans for the profit of the few companies based in rich countries ruled by the same small elite of crazy lunatics. Our hearts are with all the peasant struggles, revolts and revolutions.

The social movements for land and earth and water must be leading us all into a new era of autonomy and care for planet.

#LaViaCampesina for example, with almost 200 international social movements, of which more than two hundreed million peasants worldwide are part, is maybe one of the largest and more interesting internationalist movements of the past few decades. We need of course, #WesternSahra to start appearing on our maps, or start asking teachers why it's not. That may tell us why #Mellilla massacres are not news in so called Portugal where we live. And of course, decades of fascistic denialism together with mass poverty and exploitation have created such alienated minds that speaking truth to power is not really easy for most people.

8) Favorite RPG for its art: Let me first say that I think art is really important to set the tone for a game. For me good art can elevate a mediocre game to greatness and make a good game average. I loved #Agone in its day, #EclipsePhase is gorgeous, #Nobilis 2nd ed. is a piece of art, #CastleFalkenstein was great, #TheOneRing hit the mark, but it has to be #Symbaroum. I loooove the artwork in this game. There is no contest.

(Busy day yesterday and forgot)

So for holiday s%!ts & giggles I am going to do a random roll, pull whatever number it is off my shelf, and highlight that game. Let’s see what comes up.

Dec 17th Roll:

Agone (Authors in photo)

“In the beginning there were Four Muses that had the ability to create substance from nothing. They created the universe and primarily Harmundia. Seeking perfection they created many life forms until they finally create a new Eternal, the Masque.” #agone #ttrpg

« Mousquetaires » et « Misérables »

par Evelyne Pieiller 

Le XIXe siècle est hanté par la Révolution, et, de barricades en répressions, prolétaires, intellectuels, militants cherchent à en accomplir les promesses. Deux romans vont donner au peuple trahi, mais obstiné, ses légendes, ses héros : « Les Trois Mousquetaires » et « Les Misérables », des œuvres qui ont façonné la grandeur de l’imaginaire collectif.

https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2022/05/PIEILLER/64616
par Evelyne Pieiller 

#Dumas #Hugo #Agone

Bon finalement le #vendredilecture aura duré approximativement tout le week-end (de 3 jours), à me replonger dans le #jdr #Agone.
Je crois que je suis pas loin d'être prêt à me relancer 🙂

Amis rolistes, je suis à la recherche de la fiche de perso "automatique" pour #agone de Miss Mopi ("Parchemin informatique"), en version 1.0. Elle est référencée sur #jdrp (http://www.jdrp.fr/site/miss-mopi-365.html) mais le site missmopi.net est down 😢
#jdr

On dirait bien que je vais me remettre au #jdr, et je vais peut-être même réussir à y embarquer @LeShibbolator 🤩 !
C'est reparti pour la re-exploration des Royaumes Crépusculaires ! #agone
Merci à @kevinbalicot de m'y avoir redonné goût ❤️

Quelques mots pour vous présenter Julien Delval, qui est peintre et dessinateur de fantasy dans une veine baroque et mythologique influencée par la peinture de la Renaissance. Il a illustré des couvertures de romans ("Le Lion de Macédoine", "Le Secret de Ji", "Abyme"), des jeux de rôle ("Agone") et des jeux de plateau ("Res Arcana", "Les Aventuriers du rail"). Depuis une douzaine d'années, il a développé une oeuvre plus personnelle, mise en valeur dans sa "Monographie" parue en 2010. Son blog contient de vraies merveilles. Le blog n'est plus très à jour, mais Delval poste régulièrement des crayonnés et des oeuvres sur les réseaux.
https://juliendelval.blogspot.com/
#fantasy #jdr #peinture #agone #mythologie #illustration #art #juliendelval

"La production de savoir ne doit pas être indépendante, in fine, de son utilité sociale, qui est au cœur des Lumières. Plutôt qu’un attribut conversationnel, de performance médiatique ou de carrière universitaire, la connaissance doit servir, d’une manière ou une autre, à l’émancipation sociale. Ça ne suffit pas du tout, bien sûr – il ne faut pas tomber dans les illusions de la force propre de l’idée vrai – mais il faut commencer par là."

éditions #Agone

https://lvsl.fr/la-ligne-politique-dune-maison-dedition-cest-sa-ligne-editoriale-entretien-avec-thierry-discepolo/

Impatient de redécouvrir #1984GeorgeOrwell dans cette nouvelle traduction de #Celia_Izoard !
Un très beau livre de 525 pages aux éditions #Agone.

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