Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: New players
Role-playing exhibits strange relations among subcultures and general society. People are introduced to play in many ways and presented with many claims, factual or not. Posts here present instances to arrive at some larger understanding of what we do and how people learn.
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Augustifesten 2023
This is a downtown festival held in Norrköping every year, mostly associated with food but which has accumulated all sorts of other activities through the years. Now it’s almost a local extra version of the Sweden-wide Kulturnatt in late September. It’s also an important anniversary for me, in two ways. First, Spelens Hus began participating…
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Rat’s Nest: One-on-One play of Burning Wheel with Roden
Restarting GM-ing My child, Tabitha, expressed an interest in gaming after having gone to the Phantasm convention in Peterborough, Ontario. She played in a Bushido game I ran, and in a Mouse Guard game run by anyone else. She was leafing through the Monster Burner supplement to Burning Wheel and saw the really cool images…
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Närcon 2023
I’ve attended the third and last of the primary Swedish conventions for me this year, excluding the big one, Nordsken, which I might consider next year. Närcon is not specifically about games as such, being, simply, all about the fun, emphasizing cosplay and music. Spelens Hus Norrköping has an ongoing presence there, recently under review…
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Can’t escape the zombies
Among several quick-play games or play-materials we brought to Närcon, I made sure to include Zombie Cinema. Different people find different games to ideal for introducing play, and for me, this is among my top three. It uses a board, but you don’t play on it in an ordinary board game sense. It’s a content-device.…
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Where are you now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
A lot of things came together last month in a fortuitous way. One of them concerns a social gathering for the local and state branch of the Miljöpartiet (Swedish Green Party; link includes language options), right where I play at Spelens Hus. It wasn’t a promotional event; in fact, it’s useful to understand that a…
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There goes my hero
It seems that in this last period I can’t help but look back to the distant past and re-examine some gaming experiences never exactly explored. In particular, I have realized that I have never properly put in writing what I consider to be the best experience with a twosie I have ever had, a fantastic…
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New Players and Humanity Rolls
I have been playing an in person game of Sorcerer with some of the players that I posted about in my most recent post talking about new players. One of them, Laura, only played a single session of a roleplaying game before–the session of The Pool I talked about in that post. We finally worked…
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The best RPG is the one you have on you
There’s an adage in photography that goes “the best camera is the one you have on you.” I had a good experience recently where I could apply this adage to role-playing games. I was with some friends at a local board game pub and after playing a few rounds of a card game, someone asked…
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The opposite of subtle
This is the second adventure in the “big group” Tunnels & Trolls game, which acquired another player along the way for a total of five in addition to me. For the two additions, this was their first role-playing experience, so certain points and topics about new players apply. Although I don’t have much to add…