This is a talk by Lowell Francis about Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, a PbtA game of post-apocalyptic families and factions. Lowell (@edige23 on most social media) walks through the facets of the game giving advice and insight, with feedback and questions from the seminar participants.

Talk Outline
Example Character Keeper
Sample Map
Legacy: System Guide for New Players
World Building: Collaborative Maps

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A community event talking about GMing and playing hard moves, managing costs, and balancing consequences for PbtA, Forged in the Dark, and other storygames.

This is a talk Anders did for the Open Hearth gaming community. It contains a brief overview of the history of the Cortex system, an introduction to the mechanics, a look at example characters from some different Cortex Plus games, a look at the different traits available in Cortex Prime, and some discussion on things to think about when making a Cortex Prime game.

The Open Hearth: https://openhearthgaming.com/
Cortex Prime: https://www.cortexrpg.com/compendium/explore-the-rules
The official Cortex Discord server: https://discord.gg/z4y8SpAHpJ

A community event talking about the basics of FitD, challenges for play, best practices, interesting mechanics, and new games. Begins with a 30 minute overview, followed by a longer group discussion of folks' experience with and advice for playing Forged in the Dark Games. This is the actual, unedited audio from the discussion.

You can see an event outline here

For a great look at FitD games, check out the +1 Forward podcast summer series on several of these games. 

Members of the Open Hearth Gaming Community submit their favorite games and gaming experiences of 2023 in our year-end special episode.

Website: https://openhearthgaming.com/

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Time Codes

• (00:00) - Opening

Games Mentioned (a partial list)

Arcane Crimes Division
Back Again from the Broken Land
Be Seeing You
Bluebeard's Bride
Bump in the Dark
Court of Blades
Cthulhu Dark
CY_BORG
Demigods
Demon Hunters
Don't Kill a Bird with a Baseball
Eating Oranges Under the Shower
Fall of Magic
Fathom
Fearful Symmetries
Forbidden Lands
Free from the Shadows
Galaxies in Peril
Girl by Moonlight
Good Society
Hearts of Camelot
Hearts of Wulin
Hearts of Yokai
Hit the Streets: Defend the Block
Infinite Galaxies
Long Time Listener, Last Time Caller
Lord Why Have You Forsaken Me
Masks: A New Generation
Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands
Monster of Week
Monsterhearts
Mothership
Mountain Home
Mutants in the Night
Mythic Bastionland
Nahual
Numberless Secrets: Hearts of Wulin
Old-School Essentials
Pasión de las Pasiones
Public Access
Solar Blades and Cosmic Spells
Speed Rune
Star Trek Adventures
The Between
The Policy of Truth
Thursday
Trail of Cthulhu
Trollbabe
Trophy Dark
Trophy Gold
Wickedness
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast

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