GeekNights 20111115 - Jared Sorensen
Yeah, I screwed up the bowling ball printing challenge, but at least the error was in your favor. Lesson learned! I'm pretty sure Scott knew I was screwing it up, but he was in it to win it and wasn't about to correct me.
I was in the
Opera House/Bees/Blank Grandfather game with Jared; it was at Burning Con 10/10/10. The grandfather was Kate Monster's, and the whole interaction pretty much freaked her out. She ended up friending the hacker, which bled her flow because he was tanking. Very cool.
I remember reading in another forum a discussion about how to print up a blank. One suggestion I liked that could be an extra step to what Jared described was: Gift the blank to itself.
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Also, I gotta play me some Freemarket.
The game about the Fat Man is called Fat Man Down.
It's a bit more elegant / complex than Jared tells it. The fat man is in on the whole deal.
It is true that there is a save word and the other players are told not to stop when the fat man use it. But here comes the kicker: The one who plays the fat man know this and has a second save word!
If he use the second save word - then the GM will stop the game.
It's not a happy game but the true horror is the experience of being a bully - not being bullied.
Apart from this technicality Jared is very right in his description of our gaming style.