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Nationalité: USA
Lieux de résidence: Durham, North Carolina, USA
Courte biographie: Jason Morningstar is a game designer who lives and works in Durham, North Carolina, USA. In addition to tabletop and live action roleplaying games, he has also made games for clients like Google and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His collaborations include the #feminism collection, Fastaval nominee Old Friends with Ole Peder Giæver, and the popular Love in the Time Of… games with Matthijs Holter.

Jason’s games have been featured at Indiecade and in the Gen Con 50th anniversary museum. He has been a guest at a variety of events, including Ropecon, Gen Con, Lucca Comics and Games, and Dragon Con. Jason was a keynote speaker at the 2016 Living Games conference.

Beyond roleplaying, Jason consults on the use of games for teaching and learning, most recently with the University of California, University of Michigan, Kaiser-Permanente Health Care, and the Innovation Learning Network.

In addition to design, Jason has written extensively on game-related topics. His articles have appeared in the anthologies Analog Game Studies, States of Play, and Unframed.

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Fiasco par Jason Morningstar

Great game, terrific rules!

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iagbegreg | 2 autres critiques | Jan 14, 2023 |

Fiasco par Jason Morningstar

An excellent indie game, although strictly for one-shots. Explicitly story-oriented and cinematic, so may not be well suited to folks looking for a more traditional RPG experience. But this is probably my favorite indie game at this point; I enjoy it more each time I play.

If you're checking it out, make sure to find all the additional scenarios published for free (as PDFs).

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JohnNienart | 2 autres critiques | Jul 11, 2021 |

Fiasco par Jason Morningstar

A great game!

An imperfect rulebook.

I found myself constantly flipping back and forth to reference small things, and the tables needed during actual play weren't all together in a convenient place. There's a "cheat sheet" page which is meant to remind you of the basics, but it didn't have nearly enough info to serve that purpose.

The playsets (settings and details needed to play) included in the book weren't really to my taste, but the free playsets available on the website were wonderful. I highly recommend digging through those for something that fits your specific group rather than using one of the ones included in here.… (plus d'informations)

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wishanem | 2 autres critiques | May 27, 2021 |

Durance par Jason Morningstar

I read through the book probably for the 3rd time last night in preparation for playing Durance for the first time. The book is well organized and explains things well, though we had a hard time translating it into play (I was the only one of the 4 who had read it). I'm not sure if this is a failure of the mechanic of setting up scenes with questions or a failure of the players to understand our communal goals of telling a story. I think with a few more games and more people having read the book this could be less frustrating.

Other than the problems we had, the game is interesting, has great setting and character generation, and sparks endless stories in my mind.… (plus d'informations)

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Hegemellman | Apr 2, 2013 |

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