Claire on her ideal gaming group…
- Aims and attitudes:
- Meet to play and try new games
- Willingness to try games and concepts that don’t immediately appeal.
- Short run games of 3-6 sessions only, so if we try something and it sucks, not too much is lost. I hope this will encourage willingness to try things that players are not dead keen on. It’s ok to take a risk on something that wouldn’t be your cup of tea if it went for 20 sessions, because it’s only going to last 4, and you might have fun doing something different in the mean time.
- Willingness to play in different styles in different games.
- Willingness to take on different roles, maybe try GMing for the first time ever if you’ve never done that, or be a player if you’re used to GMing, within your comfort zone, but looking to maybe stretch it a bit.
Sounds pretty good to me.
January 11th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
It’s worth noting that interest in trying many different things, rather just deeply exploring a couple things, is in itself a taste that appeals more to certain personalities than others.
Also, pretty humorous to hear 3-6 sessions described as dipping your toe in the pool.
January 11th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
“Also, pretty humorous to hear 3-6 sessions described as dipping your toe in the pool.”
Well, see also my previous” aside on shorter games. Many people tend to play RPGs for a much longer time period than we’ve had much occaision for.
January 11th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Sure, hence it’s humorousity.
January 12th, 2006 at 12:27 am
If you want a real giggle, the main game I’m playing is coming up to it’s 170th session soon. And the ’short, just for fun’ game I’m in has had 18 sessions. One of the people I play those with has said she’s not interested in starting a game unless she’s got some confidence it will go for at least 20 sessions.
It’s quite a different style, but you can do some cool things with a long running game. But experimenting with lots of different things is a better fit elsewhere.