Is There a “Right Way” to Game..?
This article from The Black Campbell arose from my recent post entitled, Charting a Spectrum of Play, but with 140% more useful examples. My response to this response will follow~
This post came about from my thoughts on the graph in Runeslinger’s Spectrum of Play article, as well as his Right Way to Game posts. The first has been reblogged here on The Black Campbell, but you can pop over to his Casting Shadows page to read more. His YouTube channel is probably even more useful.
There’s a lot of thought and opinion spilled into the series of tubes on how to play role playing games. The main point of contention is between those who like a game with a defined plot versus the “sandbox”, or a style of play in which the environment and the players’ actions (hopefully) give rise to some kind of adventure.
“…we each will have our favorite ways to go about [gaming], and among the voices talking about them there may be some strident calls for one way over an other…The next step was…
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