{"id":1401,"date":"2014-05-08T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2014-05-08T09:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T16:18:05","slug":"talking-about-fantaji-with-calvin-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Talking about Fantaji with Calvin Johns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got to talk with my friend and game designer (and academic nerd) Calvin Johns about his brand new Kickstarter campaign for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/anthroposgames\/fantaji-universal-role-playing-system\" target=\"_blank\">Fantaji Universal Role-Playing System<\/a>. I loved Calvin&#8217;s work on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anthroposgames.com\/earlydark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Early Dark<\/a> and I&#8217;m excited to play around with the flexibility of this new system. Take a look at our recent conversation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BWiRF3D1rG8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re at it, you might want to watch the Fantaji system in action on the Kickstarter video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/anthroposgames\/fantaji-universal-role-playing-system\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The campaign had a great first day and it sounds like there are some awesome stretch goals down the road. 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