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Pitching TTRPGs to students: what I pack for show and tell.
I’m asked to speak to classes elsewhere in the university about my research, and bringing games is always a good idea! Today I’m visiting the Honors Lyceum, and am unpacking my tote bags in this quick-and-dirty video.
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Please help spread the word: we are collecting data about attitudes around labor, ownership, & authorship in TTRPG and Actual Play. This 10-15 minute survey is totally anonymous. Aggregated data will be shared with the community! More details: aub.ie/ttrpgworksurvey
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @aavoigt
    @aavoigt 3 дні тому

    Everyone is talking about Seven Part Pact, would love to hear your thoughts

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 3 дні тому

      I know Jay revised the role I played (Sorcerer) almost as soon as we finished our playthrough, so I'm excited to play again. It was a landmark experience, I don't think I'd want to try to play it as a campaign but instead as an Event, LARP-style. It's a game for advanced nerds, and I love it for that. It's the Twilight Imperium of TTRPGs.

  • @PeggyLynch-c8x
    @PeggyLynch-c8x 4 дні тому

    There is also a journal that is sold as an extension of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire and it can work for Thousand Year Old Vampire too.

  • @jasoncox4338
    @jasoncox4338 4 дні тому

    Hi! I wrote Five-Hundred-Year-Old Vampire, and I'm thrilled to hear you talking about it! Did you also get the curriculum guide or Beguiling Whispers?

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 3 дні тому

      I did, though for today we focused on the box. I'm excited for showing it to my EnglishEd students (who take my undergrad TTRPG course) and seeing what they do.

  • @aavoigt
    @aavoigt 18 днів тому

    Wishing the best for you and your students Dr. Friedman.

  • @meander112
    @meander112 Місяць тому

    Engagement for the engagement god!

  • @aavoigt
    @aavoigt Місяць тому

    Looking forward to hearing about your conversation with Quinns! I’d be very curious to hear what your students think about the state of games journalism, especially as we hit the 10 year anniversary of gamergate

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf Місяць тому

      Still figuring out what a recap might look like -- if Q had been in-person we might not have had time to record a synopsis, or it might have been a collab. Or we would have recorded the public conversation that was also scheduled. But I'm usually able to at least share the shape of the questions and the expertise involved.

  • @meander112
    @meander112 Місяць тому

    Zong for the zong god!

  • @xDianaMoonx
    @xDianaMoonx Місяць тому

    I am curious, were any of your students ESL students? Or at least could speak another language? I think that would have brought some interesting dynamics for a culture or peoples who've just been freed to wrestle with. I'm always bringing into my games and stories, what it means to use Spanish. Especially considering after my grandmother died, how less Spanish I use in my everyday. But it's a colonizer language too, since my family is from Central America. How do we utilize the power of other languages to make sense of ourselves. So was there anything like that with dual meanings for different languages in this world? I backed Dialect back in the day cause I *love* language even if I'm not good at grokking it haha. But have yet had a chance to play. I'm the type of person that reading instructions doesn't make me understand, so with TTRPGs (and boardgames), I need to play it to really understand.

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf Місяць тому

      I would have to ask about additional home languages, but I believe the players were all speakers of English from childhood in this class. The game is about players coining and transforming words, with a lot of recommendations based in linguistics if folks *choose* to read that part of the book (along with a robust discussion of languages that is very cool). What was notable was that the connotations of words chosen were very presentist in this playthrough.

  • @aavoigt
    @aavoigt Місяць тому

    Very much looking forward to the debrief on Dialect. Thanks for keeping these logs, your class sounds fascinating.

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf Місяць тому

      Thank you! You can also see a recap of Dialect for undergraduates here: ua-cam.com/video/SVScbLfC1Z4/v-deo.html

  • @richardmullens4707
    @richardmullens4707 Місяць тому

    Are most of these journaling type games rather than dice driven RPGs? I'm only familiar with D&D and OSR RPGs.

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf Місяць тому

      Great question! While students really love solo journaling games (so I have a lot of them in my teaching collection!), a lot of these are indie games that draw from gamemaking traditions like Belonging Outside Belonging (famously "no dice, no masters" but told collaboratively with other kinds of elements of chance and/or prompts), Powered by the Apocalypse (which is actually a really vast set of games that take different inspirations from Apocalypse World), as well as ideas like "keepsake" or "lyric" games. A lot of them still use some kind of dice system, though others (like Quiet Year, A Mending, For The Queen, etc) use decks of cards for the element of chance.

    • @richardmullens4707
      @richardmullens4707 Місяць тому

      ​@@CriticalProfThank you! I will look into these games in more detail, thanks for introducing me to them!

  • @pidj.
    @pidj. 2 місяці тому

    Very interesting, thank you for sharing! I think you’re right that games presented similar to other media (dvd cases, board game boxes) are probably more approachable to students. Love following along with your courses and work!

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf Місяць тому

      Thank you so much! It's really fun to bring out the pretty stuff -- and then once they're hooked show them all the amazing things that don't quite have the visual razzle dazzle, but rock your socks off in other ways.

  • @meander112
    @meander112 2 місяці тому

    Five for the five god!

  • @xDianaMoonx
    @xDianaMoonx 2 місяці тому

    Oh, never heard of Kagematsu before or the hack, and am definitely intrigued by it! As someone who's never read Emma, only watched various adaptations (and my preferred Austen story), I didn't realize of course the extra depth that'd be in the original material. Like, obviously, a movie or miniseries can only do so much and there's always creative license, but it's definitely fascinating to think about in terms of what was allowed at the time, and what was acknowledged in fiction. Very excited to see what your students do next week~!

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 2 місяці тому

      Thank you for your kind words!

  • @xDianaMoonx
    @xDianaMoonx 2 місяці тому

    I grew up with watching all kinds of horror, so I'm a bit more immune of playing BB with strangers. Though, I've always been a little guarded when I'm around male presenting players for it. Now, running the game? I don't think I 'd feel comfortable UNLESS it was a table I knew and knew me and felt comfortable with. While I do know enough people for that, not all of them would be interested in such a game, which valid. So, yeah, I never actually shiver from fear or get creeped out from the few times I've been a player. Mainly cause the few things that would actually work, we have as a line (one regarding eyes to be vague but also as an example). So I think it's okay if someone plays and doesn't get the actual visceral reactions that's intended, but still understand or empathize how horrific some of these encounters can be. On the flip side, I could never play Ten Candles, and the one time I watched a brilliant AP of it, could not sleep... Because existentialism and being literally the only person alive and dying alone is what scares me, and I don't think there's any way I could navigate around that to play Ten Candles. But yes, I love horror in general, and I love playing in historical settings to see what ways I can buck the system, or queer or punk it up within confines of the system/setting. I like with BB that like most horror games, you're not meant to win, but to get that sliver is as satisfying as when losing. The dynamics of the "sisters" of this game is so good. Also, I didn't know that aspect about Project Gutenburg! Makes some of the editions I read on there make more sense.

  • @JimRossignol
    @JimRossignol 2 місяці тому

    "Several students did grabby hands" is one of the greatest of compliments i can imagine.

  • @TDM101994
    @TDM101994 2 місяці тому

    I wonder what DnD would look like today if people had been playing it back in the 18th century

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 2 місяці тому

      Strategic war games were already being played by then (as well as story games), though research in the latter is fairly early. Can’t provide a window to that but can show how I ran D&D for 18th century scholars in an 18th century setting: ua-cam.com/video/fTiw3oTBhJ4/v-deo.htmlsi=iGoJdDF67G2r1_TD

    • @TDM101994
      @TDM101994 2 місяці тому

      @@CriticalProf 👀👀👀👀👀

  • @xDianaMoonx
    @xDianaMoonx 3 місяці тому

    Loved this, just discovered you through blusky. Good Society does have a supplemental book with an Emma expansion. I'm definitely adding the non-game books you mentioned to my TBR. Thank you for doing a walkthrough of your first day with your students! I'll never be a graduate student sadly, but love a lot of the interesting classes there are out there.

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 3 місяці тому

      Oh yes, the tricky thing about Good Society expansions is that they have very loose connection to the novels they invoke, if memory serves. Definitely something that will come up in class!

  • @onlyplaywizards
    @onlyplaywizards 3 місяці тому

    And now you know why I do all my actual play/video stuff live: knock it out, go on with your day.

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 3 місяці тому

      I DID IT LIVE. THEN THE AUDIO DIDN'T RECORDDDDDD

    • @onlyplaywizards
      @onlyplaywizards 3 місяці тому

      @@CriticalProf I meant more your end statement about scripting, overthinking. But yeah, the live tech stuff can be wild. I maintain a checklist to test my system before a stream, does wonders.

  • @alunr2963
    @alunr2963 6 місяців тому

    Completed ... though I wonder whetehr the use of 'Actual Play' in the States is different to the way I use it over here in the UK. I got the feeling you mean AP as the 'professional' products on twitch etc. (Critical Roll is I suppose typical), while I count '"any game I run or play in online with ... anyone", as AP.

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 6 місяців тому

      There's multiple meanings for AP, all connected to recorded play or play reports (at least as far as I know) -- thank you for this interesting data point!

  • @Toporshik
    @Toporshik 7 місяців тому

    The algorithm sent me here. Completed the review, all support for RPG researh

  • @RIVERSRPGChannel
    @RIVERSRPGChannel 7 місяців тому

    Way less than 15 minutes. Interesting survey. Good luck

  • @dimdive7997
    @dimdive7997 7 місяців тому

    Also pointed to the survey by Map crow and just completed it, interesting questions! Was introduced to the concept by a number of online plays which I still watch with great joy, which led to me GMing for friend groups, but I've always had a knack for making up my own worlds and rules, so hearing about all those different technicalities and rulebooks and types of games out there is always a lot of fun :) I hope you'll get lots of participation! I'll definitely send this to everyone who could be interested

  • @innocentBystander19
    @innocentBystander19 7 місяців тому

    Took WAY less than 15 minutes. Not a large interruption to your day at all, everyone should click the link and share!

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 7 місяців тому

      Thank you for your support!

  • @paid.intern
    @paid.intern 7 місяців тому

    Sent here from map crow :) I gm for my friend group (dnd, knave, quiet year, exquisite biome, pbta games etc) buy books, and consume loads of media in the actual play space, design games in my free time- am i someone who should take the survey?

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf 7 місяців тому

      Yes please! We flow relevant questions to you based on your answers so that we gather a broad sample of folks in the hobby as a bit of a control.

    • @paid.intern
      @paid.intern 7 місяців тому

      @@CriticalProf copy that! Will do.

  • @meander112
    @meander112 Рік тому

    Boundaries are so important.

  • @jidoty
    @jidoty Рік тому

    Really enjoyed this. Will be listening to more of the playlist. Have you considered recording and sharing actual play of your students?

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf Рік тому

      The short answer is that it’s a real challenge from a privacy standpoint - and as we talk about in class, the act of being observed (particularly recorded) does alter the experience, even if I had their consent. The other practical consideration is that we have one camera in the room, & 3-4 tables of play. It would be (well, is) controlled chaos to observe!

  • @meander112
    @meander112 Рік тому

    I love that language game!

  • @PyrotechNick77
    @PyrotechNick77 Рік тому

    Have you seen their work for their on game Candela Obscura?

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf Рік тому

      I was one of the screener recipients for the first episode and wrote about it and the QuickStart guide for Polygon, and I have a video on teaching Candela alongside Brindlewood Bay a few weeks ago in this fall’s class!

    • @PyrotechNick77
      @PyrotechNick77 Рік тому

      @@CriticalProf OOOOH Congrats!! I didnt know that!. I was just recommended this channel after rewatching the Oneshot and i saw your video of it. I am definetly subscribing

  • @AskShea
    @AskShea Рік тому

    Didnt know that about Actual Play1

  • @TheLibGamer
    @TheLibGamer Рік тому

    If your live participants are willing, I would love to see the live chat. I watch many content creators after the fact (mostly board game playthroughs) and many have the live chat available (not sure if that takes anything special or different on the back end) to follow along. Thank you for all you are doing!

    • @CriticalProf
      @CriticalProf Рік тому

      Live chat should be set to replay - will take a look at settings to see what has borked. Many thanks!

  • @meander112
    @meander112 Рік тому

    Greetings! Thanks for sharing this with the broader internet. I'm from there. Don't mind me...

  • @ThrowBack-pk1wo
    @ThrowBack-pk1wo Рік тому

    What is 12 louisuNs

  • @VancouverbyNight
    @VancouverbyNight Рік тому

    Missed this, checking the VoD

  • @jamesonstalanthasyu
    @jamesonstalanthasyu Рік тому

    wonderful presentation and followup.

  • @ceciliusbellas8114
    @ceciliusbellas8114 Рік тому

    🙌 "promosm"

  • @pmcgee003
    @pmcgee003 2 роки тому

    He's a force of nature.

  • @qwe1231
    @qwe1231 2 роки тому

    'Austen-Industrial Complex" lol

  • @tymanung6382
    @tymanung6382 2 роки тому

    Do you investigate women authors and activists at same time in rest of W Europe, E Europe, N and S America?

  • @qwe1231
    @qwe1231 2 роки тому

    'Video' starts at 3:35

  • @meander112
    @meander112 2 роки тому

    Thank you for sharing this with the world!

  • @meander112
    @meander112 2 роки тому

    That silent "I love you" from Liam...

  • @maxren1329
    @maxren1329 3 роки тому

    Great content! I’d recommend checking out promosm.! ! You could use it to grow your channel!!

  • @emilymnkugler
    @emilymnkugler 3 роки тому

    This is amazing!!

  • @emilymnkugler
    @emilymnkugler 3 роки тому

    "Sassy bitch" is how I view (and teach) Austen.

  • @emilymnkugler
    @emilymnkugler 3 роки тому

    Looking forward to the day when we can play 10 candles in person.

  • @emilymnkugler
    @emilymnkugler 3 роки тому

    Also, I am still really excited about our non-linear project, in part because that is how my brain works.

  • @emilymnkugler
    @emilymnkugler 3 роки тому

    I really liked how you differentiated between Narratology and Ludology, while keeping away from false binaries.

  • @brianwhite3086
    @brianwhite3086 3 роки тому

    "There's an imagined interlocutor, as well, who is the person who is thinking about teaching this class." Me. It's me. I'm the one thinking about teaching this class. (≧▽≦) These videos have been so helpful as I mull over what a TRPG class that I teach within my own discipline would look like, and you have my utmost gratitude for creating these invaluable resources and walking us through your thought processes!

  • @AnMadadh
    @AnMadadh 3 роки тому

    Happy belated. So glad I found this "campaign diary!" As someone who is interested in RPGs, Education and who dearly misses being in class, this has been fantastic!

  • @emilymnkugler
    @emilymnkugler 3 роки тому

    Zombie Fanny Burney is always welcome.