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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The Search for Blackbird
For the past year and a half, I’ve been running a meetup group in my town for roleplaying games. Every few weeks, we run one-shot events intended to be accessible for new players. I’ve introduced a few people to roleplaying games, and many people to indie games. My favorite experiences have been seeing people become…
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A little play, a big experience
I’ve mentioned that I’m not skilled in bringing role-playing to kids. I’ve done it a fair amount – for instance, all the way back in 1986, with Mentzer’s D&D, when I was working at a neighborhood center. But I don’t have any special techniques or insights about it as a specific task, and as a…
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Turning Young People to the Dark Side (i.e., introducing them to rpgs)
Ok, so I had the pleasure of introducing my 13 year old niece and her stepsister to rpgs this Christmas, and wanted to describe what I did, with an eye to better understanding things like intuitive continuity and also how to do things like this better in the future. So after some lightsaber practice (Mia,…
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Designing the introductory teaching game
Patrons will recognize Zac Porcu as the instigator and interlocutor in the huge discourse on role-playing that made available to them a few years ago, and viewers here may recall the Sorcerer Musik game that he and Jann played in. He and Jann are now working on a role-plyaing game composed of easily-used cards transported…
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Introducing Role-playing
Ken Oswald is a game and comics retailer in Alabama, who’ll be giving an ambitious introduction to role-playing later this summer, He contacted me for sort of a brainstorm, let’s compare notes session. The question is, how might a non-role-playing, or sorta-semi, heard-about-it audience be best oriented? Without manipulating toward specific products, and without falling…
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My first time roleplaying
When I was a 10 year old child, I tried to gamemaster a few Toon games with my classmates during recess, but I could never get it to work. Barring that, the following is an account of my first time roleplaying, and certainly the first time that I participated as a player. I was 18…