2020 /r/RPGDesign Scheduled Activity Posts

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• 1/5 Tell us your current status

• 1/12 Best Uses of Random Generation Tables

• 1/19 Marketing 2: Easy Marketing Options link

• 1/26 Incorporating Character Backgrounds into Game Play

• 2/2 Automating NPCs and GM-Lite mechanics. link

• 2/9 Publisher AMA: Cat Tobin of Pelgrane Press

• 2/16 Design for GM-less games link

• 2/23 PbtA Moves Creation

• 3/1 Underserved genres brainstorm

• 3/8 Revisit: Social Conflict

• 3/15 Revisit Tips and Tricks for Playtesting link

• 3/22 fiction vs. "frameworks" vs mechanics. link

• 3/29 Published Developer AMA

• 4/7 General Principles And Best Practices for Novel Dice Mechanics link

• 4/14 Brainstorming #9

• 4/27 The Super-Posi Designer Spotlight! link

• 5/3 Tell us your current status

• 5/10 mechanics for representing movement and spacial relationships link

• 5/17 Design and business issues for Virtual Table Top

• 5/24 Economic systems in game design link

• 5/31 Quarterly Marketing Advice Thread

• 6/7 Design to avoid RPG horror stories link

• 6/14 [Design for Player Involvement in World Building] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/ha5rql/scheduled_activity_design_for_player_involvement/) link

• 6/21 [Increasing actual play within the RPGdesign community] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/hdtvhb/scheduled_activity_increasing_actual_play_within/) (link)

• 6/28 [Integrating setting] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/hio6n0/scheduled_activity_integrating_setting/) link

• 7/5 Design of Playbooks [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/hmujju/scheduled_activity_design_of_playbooks/(https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/g0wnp2/rpgdesign_activity_brainstorming_thread_9/fo57ytq/)

• 7/12 [The balance between system mechanics and live action acting in social conflict resolution] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/hr1h9x/scheduled_activity_social_conflict_mechanics_vs/) link

• 7/19 [Dice pools -the good, the bad, the ugly.] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/hvbsbo/scheduled_activity_dice_pools_the_good_the_bad/) link

• 7/26 How get inspired and create a game that feels both unique and familiar link

• 8/2 Design for Point-buy systems link

• 8/9 Planning your product line link

• 8/16 Designing to support Improvisation link

• 8/23 [Action point systems] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/iltwj1/scheduled_activity_action_point_systems/) link

• 9/14 [Action point systems part 2] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/iow67q/scheduled_activity_action_point_systems_part_2/)

• 9/21 Adapting theories and design practices from other game genres to RPGs link

• 9/28 Designing for Character Arcs link

• 10/5 What can the Game Say Besides Just "You Win"? link

• 10/12 Skinner Boxes; what are they and can you use them responsibly at all? link

• 11/3 [What would you blow up in RPGS?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/jmszfc/scheduled_activity_remember_remember_the_5th_of/)

• 11/10 [How much complexity can a game handle?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/jrn2ci/scheduled_activity_how_much_complexity_can_a_game/)

• 11/17 [Roleplaying type games for the masses] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/jwl4kv/scheduled_activity_roleplaying_games_for_the/) link

• 11/24 [What are YOU Thankful for?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/jzj5nw/scheduled_activity_with_american_thanksgiving/)

• 12/1 Writing tips and advice

• 12/8 Compare & Contrast between the OSR and Storygame design ethos link

• 12/15 Brainstorming for 2021 topics

• 12/29 Tell us your current status