Just posted my third post in this series, about Curse of the Pharoah.
And while I’ve been doing that, some awesome contributions to discussion here. A couple one-liner quotes while I’m online:
Hell yes. I couldn’t agree any more without doing myself an injury.
My perception of the game was that you were a hugely important leader for all the other players as players. Your relative confidence in some aspects of Maori culture gave other people confidence and permission to step up to the plate. I really appreciated having you there and contributing what you did.
(zannii’s racism comment, and Steve’s reply - heeeeaps more I could say about that. See the new post linked above for some more.)
Derek - there’s loads of stuff packed in there. I agree a lot, but there’s other stuff I’d say too. I might get to this in my next couple posts.
Yes! Also, my impression of LARP crowds is that they are more keen to get into this kind of identity/belief play than tabletop crowds; there’s lots of structural reasons why that might be so. Anyway, it’s important and valuable.
Ryan’s letter idea just completely blew my mind. Genius.
What a fantastic account of your experience. I really appreciate you sharing that, and it makes lots of sense to me. And I want to call out the little bit at the end that I quoted, because I wholeheartedly agree, and I don’t think I made enough of that in the Gametime posts.
Argh would love to stay and post more but gotta do some other things. Hopefully more soon.