Continuing the theme of re-asking the questions I’ve come to a revisit of this post on where to play games. I focussed a bit too heavily on the FLGS side in that earlier post and I think in this post I want to focus on the majority of gamers that are...
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Questions – How do you play RPGs?
In the last post I talked about how to play tabletop games in general and I made reference at the end of the post that RPGs are a little bit different. RPGs have the same “Action & Outcome” element in the main particularly in relation to conflict resolution but they...
Continue reading...Questions – How do you play?
This question came up in a conversation with a non-gamer recently and it reminded me of the chat I had with my “nearly gamer” work colleague. The mainstream board game that is played by families across the world isn’t that far removed from the hobby game scene. Sure the games...
Continue reading...Questions – Who to play with?
This goes back to my previous posts about community and how you find other like minded gamers. If your search for people who play the same games as you is starting completely from scratch then the best routes that I’ve found are – Internet search for clubs – you shouldn’t...
Continue reading...Revisiting the questions – Why should I buy Game X?
Back at the end of July I asked the question Why Play Tabletop Games? and a few others too. I’m going to revisit each of these over the next few days and ask them in a different sort of way. Why should I buy Game X? Let’s assume for a moment...
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- 08/11/2013
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Long November
November looks like being a long month for me for a variety of reasons. My day job as a Project Manager is something that keeps me very busy. In November I am changing role and moving from 1 large financial services institution to another and that will likely detract from...
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- 06/11/2013
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Cheating in games…
I’m kinda surprised that it’s taken me so long to cover this topic but then again it’s not something I’ve encountered (to my knowledge) recently. One of my hobby principles is to have fun when playing games and I’ve also touched on how unimportant winning is in achieving that fun....
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- 29/10/2013
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100 Days and Counting
Without letting this turn into one of those Oscar speeches where there are tears and lots of meaningless thank yous. I wanted to talk a little more about how I got this 2nd Chapter up and running and to thank those who’ve helped me to rediscover the fun. Before I...
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- 24/10/2013
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That 100th Post
100th Post but not 100th Day as there were 2 on my birthday. So to do this properly I’ll be be splitting this into a duologue on the 100th post and 100th day. This post is more of an overall status check of how things are going in the world...
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One of the things that tends to come up in modern day games or more precisely any game where the environment is borderline “normal” is whether science works the same as it does in the real world. This is usually something I gloss over as part of the “suspension of...
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