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I've been seeing a lot of videos and blog posts about the resurgence of #piracy in response to #enshittification . A common note is that its a _service_ problem, not a _product_ problem which is correct.

A company that has known this from the get-go and has never #enshittified is #Beatport - […]

S3RL feat. Lexi – Genre Police (midnight_uta remix) dumbest girl alive 🏳️‍⚧️

Genre Police remix is out now!!

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💞 Genre Police are here to save the day 💞 #beatsaber #s3rl #genrepolice #goodmusic #goodmap
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Genre Police: Friends, NPCs And Countrymen I want to talk about how using the word 'NPC' actually means a lot of things. Because each one you introduce to any RP game has an intent, role to play and ways they can expand.

I want to look at different grades of NPC and how we should approach them, what we can do to make sure that they become part of a living world and how they can change. #genrepolice www.geeknative.com/1...

Genre Police: Developing A Complex I've gone through periods of going very hard and very dark in some games, not always to the games favour.

Professional GM Ben Jackson-Ellery digs into the nuances of building a baddie #genrepolice www.geeknative.com/1...

Genre Police: Warning, Content Think of the worst thing and make it happen. Puncture arteries, shred flesh, go for the damn jugular.

Professional GM Ben Jackson-Ellery tells the story of how he clawed back from shocking a player to earning their trust in horror #horrorrpg #genrepolice www.geeknative.com/1...

Genre Police: Playing The Player Running an RPG is a kind of arcane act, weaving an illusionary spell of storytelling for a group to devour. But when we think about spellcasting, it's often easy to forget the material component of such a conjuring.

Professional GM Ben Jackson-Ellery shares the types of good player traits he's seen and how he works with them. #genrepolice #ttrpgtips www.geeknative.com/1...

Genre Police: The Cameo You might be tempted to bring that player in to do a 'guest slot' in a game for a few sessions. Well, I think that's a great idea! However, I've been both a GM and a player when this has and hasn't wo...

Ever have that friend who wants to play but doesn't have the best schedule? Or someone you think could bring a new feeling to a game for a short amount of time in order to make an arc feel different to the ones that went before? www.geeknative.com/167378/genre...
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Genre Police: Friendship Is M…echanical When we look at D&D, often a narrative about a group is about found family or how outcasts come together to trust each other.

In Daggerheart players spend a resource called 'Hope' to activate abilities and it got me thinking about how games represent the bonds between characters. www.geeknative.com/165307/genre...
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Genre Police: High Esteem So let's take a look at how we can boost players' love of your game.

Recently, I had someone introduce me to Michele Borba's five building blocks of self-esteem and I think they apply as RPG tips www.geeknative.com/164837/genre...
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Genre Police: I'm In Charge! I want to now look at a few other ways hierarchical structures in RPG groups can sometimes cause conflict at the table.

Sometimes, the person who is in charge just shouldn't be. Maybe they often jump to the wrong conclusions, and only the GM can see how often it happens. www.geeknative.com/164288/genre...
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Genre Police: What's For Who I recently had an interesting conversation about flow, and I want to share it because I think it reveals some things about RPG that we don't talk about often.

This set of GM advice and RPG tips comes from a conversation discussing how the Feng Shui 2 action focus tropes worked with someone who hasn't seen that many action films and doesn't understand their tropes. www.geeknative.com/163075/genre...
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In the last Genre Police, we briefly talked about how this can signal the end of a campaign's attractiveness to new blood, which is one of the ways we protect a game group against sputtering out. www.geeknative.com/162905/genre...
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Genre Police: The Thinimblin Line In that moment, I understood a concept I've felt in other long-running gameworlds. We'd reached the Thinimblin line. And it made me sad.

Professional GM Ben Jackson-Ellery reflections on the hardship of crossing the "Thinimblin Line" as settings and worlds mature in this RPG thought piece. www.geeknative.com/162727/genre...
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