Comments on: Interview with Luke Crane

By: Treasure Tables » GenCon SoCal Gaming Industry Interviews

Treasure Tables » GenCon SoCal Gaming Industry Interviews — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:53:32 +0000

[...] gaming industry notables, from Luke Crane (recently interviewed here on TT) to Kenneth Hite. Permalink | Posted in Miniposts | [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:36:00 +0000

I’m glad you liked the interview, Nick. BW is a great game worthy of more exposure.

By: Treasure Tables » Gifts for GMs, 2005 Edition

Treasure Tables » Gifts for GMs, 2005 Edition — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:15:08 +0000

[...] Burning Wheel was also discussed in some detail in my interview with Luke Crane (who created the game). [...]

By: nick

nick — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:07:55 +0000

thanks for doing this interview, i had hear a little about burning wheel, not enough to have a real opinion about it. but this interview convinced me that i needed to buy it. well, this one and the Have Games, Will Travel podcast.

I am now that proud owner of book #1194.

While I will not kill off our current Arcana Evolved game anytime soon.. the idea’s in BW have changed my DM thinking. I have had lots of WOW moments, I will recommend BW just for that.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:04:28 +0000

Buzz: Yep! The young woman was one of my best friends, Stef, with her daughter Zoe. Two of my other close friends, Darren and Matt (Stef’s husband) were also in that event.

Small world!

By: Buzz

Buzz — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:20:45 +0000

Martin, was it the session that started at 8pm or so on, um Saturday night? There was a young woman in the game who brought her infant daughter that slept through the whole event.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:07:30 +0000

I wonder if we were in the same “Nest of Webs” session, Buzz — I played the boss rat’s chief kidnapper. That was a fun event.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:56:32 +0000

Great interview.

I played in the “Nest of Webs” at GenCon Indy this year, and it was pretty amazing; not what I was expecting at all.

Of course, I’m pretty sure I was the turtle (I played the rat king’s brother and secret cult leader). The event was pretty much a LARP, and I had zero experience with LARPing. Thankfully, I still had fun.

As for not letting players “give you bullshit” about trying new systems… IME, that’s a great way to get people to not show up… well, at least with my two D&D groups. My HERO group will alway err ont he side of HERO, but are willing to try other games if I run them (and, especially, if they are not D&D).

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:29:53 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

Over on the Forge, Adam Dray has posted a discussion of the scenario mentioned in this interview (“The Gift”) and his experience with it: The Gift at MACE 2005.

He discusses it in relation to some of the things that Luke and I brought up here, and it’s an interesting read.

By: ScottM

ScottM — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:47:59 +0000

Thanks for the interview; AIM style flowed well– it was clearly a interview.

Strangely, I just met Luke in person a little over a week ago, at GenCon SoCal. He wasn’t running a demo, but the intensity was still there. (It was the last day– I’d already missed him twice in the first two days while he was at seminars.) I can “hear” him in the interview– great job.

By: Judd

Judd — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:56:35 +0000

I would imagine the interview will flow better over AIM.

Whatever you did for this interview, keep on keepin’ on. It was fantastic.

By: S1lence

S1lence — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:38:57 +0000

Interesting interview Martin, thank you.

I personally prefer the AIM interviews, they seem more “interview”.