Weekender XLBS: Can Tabletop Games Make Us Feel?
November 18, 2018 by dracs
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Happy Sunday and what a disturbing cover photo of Sam you’ve chosen to use
Just started watching and finding your voice sound to be choppy and not normal buddy during the first segment.
listened to as much of myself as I can stand and I’m not hearing any difference when I was talking about the CoC game, was it then or later?
Just the first minute or so
Interesting advert on the weekender mate. ??
Which one?
Mit der whirlybird ?
Happy Sunday to all!
I had to take a double take on the cover shot. It works and is disturbing all at the same time. 🙂
3rd … YEAH BABY!! …. Oh and Happy Sunday to all and I concur with previous posters … AquaSam is freaky
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!
If it makes you feel better @dracs the forced perspective of you in back and Gerry at front is just you recreating how they made the Hobbit actors look smaller in the LotR films. 😉
Sam’s Scion sounds less Aquaman and more Waterbender to me. ;). As for lacking water, couldn’t he dessicate his allies with water mastery and use the water from their bodies? And of course put it back onto them when he’s done. ?
Or he could make them cry then drown them in their own tears.
Happy Sunday!!
I’ve had several moments while playing Bolt Action where my US Airborne are charging across an open field and I’m reminded of that scene in Band of Brothers where Lt Winters is running alone across an open field during the attack on the crossroads. Certainly close games evoke an emotional response where improbable or incredible things happen, and that can be fun, depending on context. Some of the best emotional moments come from games like Robo Rally or Cards Against Humanity where laughter is a key feature. Cooperative games that are really hard, like Forbidden Desert or Forbidden Skies where… Read more »
Similar here. I have an emotional connection to my WW2 British army from Warlord. I think it’s the faces – they range from young kids to middle-aged men older than me. It’s brought home to me just what a huge section of British and Commonwealth men went out to fight. Both of my grandfathers were in the Home Guard (one was excused service through being the local undertaker, the other failed his medical), living out the war quietly in ruralish Lancashire. Despite this I feel closer to the men who served from creating this army. It’s a strange thing to… Read more »
Sounds perfectly normal to me mate.
Happy Sunday. I’m glad you bought up Knights of the Old Republic @avernos. I must have played both those games a dozen times. Light Side, Dark Side, Male, Female every play through is an emotional roller coaster. Slaughtering the people who ruined your life and took away your lightsaber is as satisfying as trying to rebuild the order from the ground up. As a historical wargamer most of the “emotion”, for lack of a better word, comes from campaigns. Here’s this character you’ve built up for a dozen games and he gets killed by a stray bullet in some pointless… Read more »
KOTOR is an awesome game, I too have played through it many, many times. Even on my Xbox one (dodgy graphics and excessive load times do not take away from it)
Just hoping someone revisits it for the newer consoles.
mmmmmmm Bastilla……….
I do like Cthulhu and we always played in the Green and pleasant land because it had better opportunities for stereotypes from a Jeeves and Wooster type background . I played a butler who never read a naughty book or saw a naughty creature and was constantly checking the drinks cabinet in case the ladies and gentleman had been overindulging. Well you would to going by the stories they most likely were making up about what they’d seen As for emotion in games like @avernos there are games that have annoyed me because of the rules but I did feel… Read more »
Happy Sunday
Good morning All! Got a nice German Apple Danish for breakfast (one of my last before I move) and an XLBS to watch. Life is good! Let the show begin!
When are you back off to the US @silverfox8?
We fly 17 December.
But we will get one more trip to Coleraine N Ireland in for Thanksgiving! Going to swing by and say hi to the BOW crew hopefully.
Well happy thanksgiving and safe travels to you and yours.
Will look forward to seeing you and hope you will like the new visitor centre we are working on.
Looking forward to seeing the changes to the area. By the way based on one of the things I’m dropping off with you guys your definitely not done painting your Hobbit Army.
Well ya know I have to mention Diplomacy when you talk about games that make you ‘feel’.
No question that it evokes emotions of betrayal which of course can lead to anger and sometimes even laughter when you’ve been warning a guy not to trust another player and then he finally backstabs the person you have been warning! Lots of emotions in Diplomacy!
I guess I think most games that have a storyline can evoke all kinds of emotions in the players as you get stuck into the game. Plain points match games of a game like FOW probably don’t evoke feelings as much. Of course they always have the ‘man i’m bummed I lost again’ feeling but not the game itself creating a feeling.
Oh blimey yes! One of the abiding memories of that game is getting regularly betrayed until you trusted no one. Good game but so frustrating sometimes.
Yeah it got to the point that my friends would just gang up on my right at the beginning to take me out. I took it as a compliment!
Morning all
Afternoon ?
“MONOPOLY” enough said!!!!!
Oh ya Happy Sunday to one and all.
Happy Sunday all! Another great watch to hopefully start a productive hobby day!
Fantastic XLBS. Thanks 🙂 As @avernos said, Discord is surprisingly good for playing RPGs across the world. I’m having a grand time in Cthulhu land. And amazed at how well the guys play, specially @laughingboy He’s just rolling with the game so well. To the point where I’m holding a little bit back with my char Mary, cause I just enjoy watching them unfold their characters so much, and don’t want to interfere too much with that. As one who has lived and breathed Lovecrafts world, I’m a bit jealous of the rest of the group though, who has no… Read more »
Is there something we should be worried about @aurorainbag? Gerry said this CoC game was about finding a magical seahorse with sparkling eyes and prettying rainbows for a mane. I’m starting to worry he may have been fibbing.
I’m with you on the single miniature and wanting them to die. I always have a soft spot for the one miniature in a squad that I have painted the best, or has the best pose (proper heroic style). They are always the last on the table if I can help it.
Oh there’s definitely magical seahorses, if by magical you mean mythos and by seahorse you mean a Deep One 🙂 Not too sure if they have rainbow ‘anythings’. But I guess they could have 😀 Don’t you worry about a thing…all is *ahem*…fine 🙂 Looking forward to tomorrow 🙂
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Great discussion
Only game that has really affected me was This War of Mine, to such an extent I wanted to throw it away.
I didn’t, and it will come out again soon, but it puts me in unpleasant situations that luckily have been well outside my comfortable existence
If we set-aside emotions such as happiness and enjoyment or even tension and excitement, which all games will provoke in some way otherwise nobody would really play them, I think games only really provoke a deeper emotional response if the game has an deeply emotive subject. It’s not so much the game as the context of the game that I think provokes the response. For example you could re-skin the Holding On game to be about a car that’s been sent into the garage and just managing the repairs to the point where the car becomes a write off because… Read more »
There’s a small caveat on that; Space Hulk’s “Roll a six or die” mechanic does a good job of making the old sphincter a little twitchy lol
I was truly scared in one game of Call of Cthulhu. It was a split-second of reality falling away, that real vertigo feeling you get from the Mythos. All credit to the author of the scenario and the Keeper for conveying it so well.
Happy Sunday
All I have say this week is…
“They are coming to take me away.. HaHa”
Not if Mary can help it. Pops open that bottle of whisky again
Whack him over the head again!
they took you away already, unfortunately soon after you were returned.
I must admit I lost it completely when @brucelea just downed the whisky I handed to you and continued to slap you around. I wanted to go “How dare you Sir!”, but I had to mute the mic instead, laughing so hard.
It’s how my RPG characters seem to be going recently lol
Wibble
Slightly bemused that @dracs can’t seem to grasp why I can be playing an RPG. Am I being stereotyped? It’s ok for me to go all Hong Kong Phooey on people but I can’t play an overweight, bald, pompous, sexist buffoon who collects antiquities for the British Museum ???
I thought it was more who is Brucelea… lol
Oh………….fair one then,
Like I’m going to believe someone who spends most of his time swaying in the corner of a Library going WIBBLE!
Wibble
I thought it was more “isn’t Bruce Lee dead?”
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Rumours my dear, nothing more than rumours. That Jackie Chan has a lot to answer for. ?
I think rpg’s are amusing and should be taken that way and for people it relax and have a laugh and defeat the bad guys. Cthulhu is certainly one of those and Vampire underneath it all is high comedy fantasy at its best
Well at least ours were and ended up as a cross between Love at first bite and What we do in the shadows ( We played long before this came out) so probably more carry on screaming and hammer horror films and we had a great time
Happy Sunday to all, including the voice hiding behind the microphone. 🙂
When will windows be activated?
Never that’s how they get you!
Play School flashbacks?
Humpty “fell off a wall” they won’t get me the same way!
I never trusted Hamble. I’m sure she was a high priestess of the old ones