Game Recap: The Mirror Academy
Inktober 16, Mike Phillips The Mirror Academy To test out "Magus Ludus", a domain game centered on each character being a wizard, I threw 10 level 4 GLoG wizards into a school and told them they were responsible to raise up the next generation of students. Things did not go according to plan. NOTES ON PLAY Co-Creating With Microscope To begin our game, we played a few rounds of Ben Milton's "Microscope". This resulted in this document (not required reading, but it contains much of the lore). Turn Structure Each turn, players described their goal and how they pursued it. For the most part this meant they were working towards a particular plan of their own design, gaining progress on it until poof it happened at 100%. While this resulted in some interesting hijinks, I found that it often fell flat in terms of interesting play. Players had a lot of freedom to choose what they wanted to do, but the process often looked identical and presented few risks to the cha...