Politics of Gaming – Barrier to Entry
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]