I’ve been thinking about games that are not explicitly competitive but in which each player has their own victory metric. In other words, games that are not zero-sum but in which victory is not necessarily shared.
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Dungeons & Dragons-ish on My Last Day of Work
On my last day of work at Sure, the insurance tech company I’ve worked at for the last year and change, I ran a very impromptu game of Dungeons & Dragons for some people on my team. And by “impromptu,” I mean I had literally nothing prepared save for an idea of how to design a set of rules simple enough to be explained in under ten minutes and some character builds based on those rules. I got that together in roughly thirty minutes before we were scheduled to play.
Read More »Friday on Friday Night: Success
Quick update: I had my first win in Friday, the game I wrote about in my last post. Two things I did differently this time around:
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“Friday” Solo on a Thursday Night
My good friends Ben and Lizzy got me a copy of a game called Friday for my birthday recently. I think it’s my first single player tabletop game aside from the various forms of solitaire you can play with a poker deck. This is a deck building game themed off of Robinson Crusoe, with you as the player trying to toughen up Robinson before he gets himself killed. I’ve played it five times now, and I’ve lost every single time. But I’ve played enough to have some thoughts on the game.
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Supercharging Gaming
I just played a session of Dungeons & Dragons in person with two of my best friends for the first time in nearly two years, and it’s as if all of my burdens have suddenly become a lot lighter.
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Gen Con 2019 Roundup
I spent last weekend at Gen Con, by far my most concentrated days of gaming all year. Even though I forgot my Gen Con hat and neglected to pack any socks at all, it was still another successful convention adventure.Read More »
Miscellany at Gen Con 2018
I decided to break up my thoughts about Gen Con into multiple posts, because I have too many to share in just one. Here are a few final odds and ends from my weekend at Gen Con.Read More »
Shadow of the Demon Lord at Gen Con 2018
Because I have lots to say about the somewhat overwhelming experience that is Gen Con, I have decided to break it up into multiple posts. This post is about Shadow of the Demon Lord.Read More »
Dungeon World at Gen Con 2018
Because I have so much to say about my experience at Gen Con this year, I’ve decided to break it up into multiple posts. This post is about Dungeon World.Read More »
Pathfinder Playtest at Gen Con 2018
I have enough to say about Gen Con that I’ve decided to break it up into multiple posts. I already posted about Iron GM, only because I had a lot I needed to get down while it was swirling in my head. This first post is about the Pathfinder Second Edition Playtest, which debuted on Thursday.Read More »