Fluxx is loads of fun! And if you mean “story games” I’ve got FATE, Spark (and its descendants) and StoryEngine on my shelf (some of the very few games that I have physical copies of).
Fate was what I was thinking of using to GM with! Reading about Spark, that sounds like it would work too … does it have a different emphasis?
After September I’ve made it a mission to go to some of the language exchange social groups near where I live, and if I can find some like-minded people at one of them I was thinking of starting that sort if game to help people with B1 or higher English level improve their language while playing :-)
I don’t have any formal qualifications, but my mother was always very strict with elocution and correct English*, so I can help with pronounciation and grammar.
Last time I tried going to an RPG group I did one evening of Pathfinder, and that really wasn’t my thing - hence the emphasis on storytelling
Spark is like collaborative story-telling where the dice come out when people disagree on what happens. It focuses on characters having their beliefs challenged and either confirmed or altered. It’s one of my absolute favourite games. It’s currently available for free (Genesis of Legend puts their games into the public domain after a decade).
I’m split down the middle between fairly crunchy trad games and games that are effectively improv with dice (or in their solo incarnations, writing with dice).
For the first variety, the golden king of all my games remains Chivalry & Sorcery (currently in its fifth edition; I primarily played second). I was also a big fan of a game called Rolemaster, though a later spin-off of it called HARP was more my speed later on (and, in fact, is one of the few games that I brought with me when moving to China).
For the second variety, I love Spark and its offshoots, especially Sig: Manual of the Primes. And I adore FATE, but specifically the Accelerated Edition.
I guess that finding people to play either sort of game with is tricky in China, with the rules all being in English? Do you play any of them online?
I can’t say I’d know what a crunchy trade game is like … I only ever did the one session of Pathfinder, and watched Stranger Things, lol
I love the idea of doing improv-style games, and I want to use them to try and make new friends. It seems like a repeating pattern that every time I make a friend they have to move away for some external reason, and we drift apart :-/
So … that’s a maybe?
Well, SO and I have very strict rules about bringing new people into the relationship.
Do you play tabletop games? RPGs, board games, card games?
I play a lot of Fluxx, and I love Tue gentler end of TTRPGs like Last Night on Earth. I do silly voices for it.
I have a dream for GMIng the casual TTRPGs that are collaborative storytelling over maths. I’m not competitive.
Thay being said, I’m usually in Europe most of the time :-/
Fluxx is loads of fun! And if you mean “story games” I’ve got FATE, Spark (and its descendants) and StoryEngine on my shelf (some of the very few games that I have physical copies of).
Fate was what I was thinking of using to GM with! Reading about Spark, that sounds like it would work too … does it have a different emphasis?
After September I’ve made it a mission to go to some of the language exchange social groups near where I live, and if I can find some like-minded people at one of them I was thinking of starting that sort if game to help people with B1 or higher English level improve their language while playing :-)
I don’t have any formal qualifications, but my mother was always very strict with elocution and correct English*, so I can help with pronounciation and grammar.
Last time I tried going to an RPG group I did one evening of Pathfinder, and that really wasn’t my thing - hence the emphasis on storytelling
Spark is like collaborative story-telling where the dice come out when people disagree on what happens. It focuses on characters having their beliefs challenged and either confirmed or altered. It’s one of my absolute favourite games. It’s currently available for free (Genesis of Legend puts their games into the public domain after a decade).
Oh wow, that sounds perfect!
What are your favourite games?
I’m split down the middle between fairly crunchy trad games and games that are effectively improv with dice (or in their solo incarnations, writing with dice).
For the first variety, the golden king of all my games remains Chivalry & Sorcery (currently in its fifth edition; I primarily played second). I was also a big fan of a game called Rolemaster, though a later spin-off of it called HARP was more my speed later on (and, in fact, is one of the few games that I brought with me when moving to China).
For the second variety, I love Spark and its offshoots, especially Sig: Manual of the Primes. And I adore FATE, but specifically the Accelerated Edition.
I guess that finding people to play either sort of game with is tricky in China, with the rules all being in English? Do you play any of them online?
I can’t say I’d know what a crunchy trade game is like … I only ever did the one session of Pathfinder, and watched Stranger Things, lol
I love the idea of doing improv-style games, and I want to use them to try and make new friends. It seems like a repeating pattern that every time I make a friend they have to move away for some external reason, and we drift apart :-/