The Lego Blocks of RPG Design (w/ Levi Kornelsen)

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On this episode, I’m joined by Levi Kornelsen, previously known as Amagi Games. He is a Canadian designer who's been part of the scene for a long time. He's designed a bunch of games like the Schema framework and the recent Saints of the Empty Throne but is probably best known for his RPG theory, such as the essential Manyfold Glossary. He's a big open source advocate and most of his work is distributed for free under a creative commons license. Everything he writes on his itch page is worth reading for designers looking for language and tools to diagnose or just better understand what it is exactly they're doing.

Blog: https://levikornelsen.wordpress.com/

Itch store: https://levikornelsen.itch.io/

Show Notes:

Praxic Compendium (by Levi Kornelsen)

Manyfold by (Levi Kornelsen)

Rec.games.frp.advocacy

rpg.net

The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust (novel)

Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell (novel)

Games Mentioned

(Too many to list them all)

Saints of the Empty Throne

Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

 The Whispering Vault

League and Fathom

Castle Falkenstein

Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast

Under Hollow Hills

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