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Episode 316: Remembering Greg Stafford

October 26th, 2018 | Robin

 

Join us for an elegaic Gaming Hut as we tackle but a single topic: the life and work of our friend and inspiration, the grand shaman of gaming, Greg Stafford (1948-2018.)

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5 Responses to “Episode 316: Remembering Greg Stafford”

  1. gdave says:

    Also worth mentioning in relation to innovations in RPG mechanics are “Brownie Points” in the Ghostbusters RPG. You could use them to add dice to your pool before rolling, or to re-roll your pool after rolling. You earned them through achieving goals, over-coming challenges, or just good role-playing.

    They weren’t the first meta-resource for managing dice rolls, but they were one of the earliest, and pretty much set the pattern for what’s become pretty much a standard RPG design element (Hero Points, Bennies, Inspiration, etc.).

    I think you could do at least a whole hut on the innovations Ghostbusters introduced to RPG mechanics and their impact on subsequent game design.

    And I think that it’s worth emphasizing that the Ghostbusters RPG was a well-designed, fun, incredibly innovative system that was also extremely different from BRP and other incredibly innovative systems Greg Stafford worked on. Other than his collaborator Sandy Peterson, I can’t think of any game designer who contributed so many innovations in so many different directions.

    RIP

  2. fridrik says:

    Why did John Wicks name come up repeatedly in connection with Greg. What’s the connection?

  3. Randall Porter says:

    Also in the remembering Duke’s passing that Heritage was the 1st Company to publish licensed RPG’s, and Minis rules. Star Trek, John Carter and Lord of the Rings.

  4. […] then, there has been a lot of talk about his life and legacy, but I can mostly recommend Ken and Robin’s Special Podcast Episode, which has several anecdotes about Greg, and the Chaosium Forums’ Condolence Thread, which […]

  5. […] then, there has been a lot of talk about his life and legacy, but I can mostly recommend Ken and Robin’s Special Podcast Episode, which has several anecdotes about Greg, and the Chaosium Forums’ Condolence Thread, which has […]

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