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Puppetland

Puppetland: A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe is a role-playing game written by John Scott Tynes. The game was first published on the author's website in 1995. Its first print publication was in Arcane magazine issue 16 in early 1997, then later by Hogshead Publishing together with Power Kill, a satirical role-playing metagame by the same author, under the title Puppetland/Power Kill. A much expanded edition was published in 2016 by Arc Dream Publishing. A free edition, including most of the game text is available on the author's web site.

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Puppetland: A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe is a role-playing game written by John Scott Tynes. The game was first published on the author's website in 1995. Its first print publication was in Arcane magazine issue 16 in early 1997, then later by Hogshead Publishing together with Power Kill, a satirical role-playing metagame by the same author, under the title Puppetland/Power Kill. A much expanded edition was published in 2016 by Arc Dream Publishing. A free edition, including most of the game text is available on the author's web site.

Key claims

  1. publication date: 1995 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. publication date: 2016 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "1995". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the publication date is "2016". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325289982

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