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Category Archives: Politics of Gaming

Politics of Gaming – Barrier to Entry

July 24, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

A little while ago a friend of mine linked me to an article about the issues that many new players face when trying to get into gaming. The focus was […]

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Politics of Gaming – For Matures Only

May 7, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

The topic of “mature” games and their place has been one that has been stewing in my brain for a while now. As gamers have grown up over the years, […]

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Politics of Gaming – The Role of Random in Games

March 12, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

One of the core elements that goes into so many games is random chance. Whether it is a roll of the die, the drawing of a card, or even the […]

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Politics of Gaming – When to Roleplay and When to Roll

February 26, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

This week’s article is going to be dealing with the idea of role playing and when you should be relying on the acting ability of the player and when you […]

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Politics of Gaming – Soothing the Sore Loser

February 12, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

Everyone likes to win when you’re playing a game. It’s gratifying to feel that either you played well or that luck was one your side. The only downside to winning […]

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Politics of Gaming – House of Rules: When to Change Things Up

February 5, 2014by jonmastery 1 Comment

It’s probably safe to say that anyone that has played any standard games has encountered some house rules, where the play of the game is changed in some way to […]

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Politics of Gaming – Calling It Quits

January 22, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

Since we covered the various problems and obstacles that come with trying to get into a new gaming group last week, this week we are going to look at the […]

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Politics of Gaming – Getting a Group Together

January 15, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

So far we’ve talked about how people game and the various reasons for why they are playing. However, none of that is going to matter if you don’t actually have […]

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Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: Final Thoughts

January 9, 2014by jonmastery 1 Comment

Now that we’ve looked at the various types of players that you are likely to see, I figured it would be good to explain a bit in the more general […]

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Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Casual Gamer

December 18, 2013by jonmastery Leave a comment

This week we are wrapping up the Know Your Player Type series with the oft maligned category of the Casual Gamer. The term “Casual Gamer” gets thrown around a lot […]

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Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Controller

December 11, 2013by jonmastery Leave a comment

To be honest, I wasn’t entirely certain I was going to include this in the list at all. Part of me feels like you can roll the Controller into a […]

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Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Mechanics Gamer

December 4, 2013by jonmastery Leave a comment

This week we talk about the player that plays the game just for the joy of playing the game. This might seem a bit strange if I had led the […]

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Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Immersion Gamer

November 27, 2013by jonmastery Leave a comment

Know Your Player Type continues on during the holiday season as we look at the opposite end of the spectrum from the Power Gamer, The Immersion Gamer. This is the […]

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Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Power Gamer

November 20, 2013by jonmastery Leave a comment

Last week we talked about getting to know the group dynamic of the people you play with and finding out how to make even a group with diverse desires from […]

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Politics of Gaming – The Group Dynamic

November 13, 2013by jonmastery 1 Comment

There are a lot of reasons why we play games. When we sit down to play a game it can be to lose ourselves in the fantasy of being someone […]

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Politics of Gaming – Player Knowledge and Elitism

November 6, 2013by jonmastery 1 Comment

Hello and welcome to the newest column on the System Mastery website, Politics of Gaming. Instead of looking at the game itself, we will be looking at the people sitting […]

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