About this episode

This episode features a reading of the blog post 'Born to Play, Doomed to Die' by Chris McDowall.

The Bastionland Readings revisit blogposts from bastionland.com written and read by Chris McDowall. Born to Play, Doomed to Die , original post found here: https://www.bastionland.com/2021/09/born-to-play-doomed-to-die.html

People in this episode

Host: Chris McDowall

Topics covered

• tabletop roleplaying
• game design
• blog readings
• Bastionland
• narrative
• play

Keywords

• tabletop RPG
• game mechanics
• Bastionland
• roleplaying games
• blog post

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: bastionland.com

Books & works: Born to Play, Doomed to Die

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