Hamlet's Hit Points.pdf

Praise for Hamlet’s Hit Points

A critical hit! Whether you approach Hamlet’s Hit Points as a writer, as a

critic, as a ilm buf, or as a gamer, you’ll ind that Robin Laws is there ahead

of you, pointing the way. An unparalleled game designer and best-of-breed

game master, Robin reminds us that narrative is worth it: worth creating,

worth studying, and worth nurturing in any format, with or without dice.

—Kenneth Hite

Author, Tour de Lovecrat

In skilled hands, roleplaying games are powerful lenses through which we can

see our world and our lives in fresh ways. Robin Laws applies a lens to the

lens, zooming in with Hubble-like intensity to expose the rich relationship

between interactive stories and their participants.

—John Scott Tynes

Game Designer, Puppetland and Unknown Armies

Robin Laws cannot see a game-box without thinking outside it.

—James Wallis

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A NoTe AboUT THIS PDF’S FoRmATTING

this pDF edition of Hamlet’s Hit Points is formatted—and thus,

paginated—differently from the book’s print edition. speciically,

in the three story analyses here, beat maps that graphically depict

several beats in succession have been eliminated in favor of single

icon-and-arrow combinations per beat. we’ve done this because

on many pDF readers viewing an entire two-page spread at once

is impractical, but to do so is necessary to make easy sense of the

print edition’s multi-beat maps. however, because you may want

to have it, a separate pDF that is identical to the print version, for-

matted in spreads rather than single pages in order to preserve the

print edition’s exact appearance, has been made available in parallel

with this version. in addition, a third pDF presents all of each story’s

beats as single, massive, one-page maps.

if you acquired this pDF from a legitimate source, all three iles

should have been provided as a bundle. if you did not receive all

three pDFs, please contact service@gameplaywright.net or your

pDF’s vendor.

he icons that identify the beat types described in Hamlet’s Hit Points have been released under a

Creative Commons license. We hope you’ll use them to create beat maps of your own. For more

information and to download these graphics, visit gameplaywright.net/hamlets-hit-points .

A thousand thanks to Jason L Blair, Seth Johnson, Joshua Rensch, Melissa Rensch, Josh Roby,

and Karen Twelves for their help with our crowdsourced eleventh-hour proofreading.

Gameplaywright Press

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his PDF edition of Hamlet’s Hit Points was prepared in August, 2010. It does not have an ISBN.

he print edition of Hamlet’s Hit Points is ISBN-13: 978-0-9818840-2-8 (ISBN-10: 0-9818840-2-4).

Cover design by Will Hindmarch

Book design by Jef Tidball

Set in Helvetica Neue and Garamond Premier Pro

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