2019-02-06 Zak Smith

I’m listening to episode 35 of We Eat Art, a podcast featuring an interview with contemporary artists. This episode is about one of the hosts, Zak Smith, who also does D&D with Pornstars.

I really should do a recommended reading list of all his blog posts I like. The ones I like the best are about both art and role-playing games.

Here are some posts of his I linked to from my Mastodon account over the last two three or four months:

D30 Ways To Be The Worst Critic In The History Of The World belongs to the series Art History For D&D People
«enjoy the privilege of being unprofessional as long as you can hold onto it» – Stay Unprofessional
RPGs and art, again. The spectre of degenerate art. Book burning and RPGs. Nazis. We still have to think moral panics through? Roleplaying Games As Degenerate Art
An Art Lesson From the Late Goblin King: “If you want more Bowie-sexy and less cleavage-sexy in your game art, ask for it and blame art directors if they don’t give it to you”
An excellent essay by Zak on what the OSR is about. The term he uses is “tactical transparency” and it makes a lot of sense to me: «Tactical transparency is the degree to which a common-sense idea that would be effective in the “real” situation that the game-fiction mimics would also be effective in the game.» The rest of the blog post explains what is meant and I enjoyed reading it. – Drunk, Prone & On Fire (Tactical Transparency)
«You know what mechanics are interesting in games? The ones where you have to do things fast, and... The ones where a partial result means something.» – Here's Some Advanced RPG Theory For You
«The game’s about what the rules are about—the more rules a given subject takes up, the more the game is going to be about that, the less space a subject takes up in the rules, the less it’ll be about that» – StoryGame Design is (Often) The Opposite of OSR Design

D30 Ways To Be The Worst Critic In The History Of The World

Art History For D&D People

Stay Unprofessional

Roleplaying Games As Degenerate Art

An Art Lesson From the Late Goblin King

Drunk, Prone & On Fire (Tactical Transparency)

Here's Some Advanced RPG Theory For You

StoryGame Design is (Often) The Opposite of OSR Design

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Update: 2019-02-11 More Zak Smith.

2019-02-11 More Zak Smith

– Alex Schroeder 2019-02-11