Topic: UNY-Con Seminar: Understanding Roleplaying
Started by: lumpley
Started on: 10/1/2004
Board: Conventions
On 10/1/2004 at 2:27pm, lumpley wrote:
UNY-Con Seminar: Understanding Roleplaying
I'm running a seminar at UNY-Con this fall. "Understanding Roleplaying," and here's the description:
Lets open role-playing up and muck around in its guts. I'll lay out a state-of-the-art description of what really happens when you role-play, and we'll go from there. We can dig into the nitty gritty of RPG design, playing and GMing, dealing with dysfunction, choosing and adapting rules, or even take on the biggie: creative agenda and social dynamics. Whatever way we go, we'll always fall back on the gold standard of RPG theory: actual play.
Guaranteed to kick conventional wisdom down and take its lunch money.
I'm envisioning it as a short, live version of what we do here, is all. I think I've got a pretty good handle, but if anybody has advice, lay it on me!
-Vincent