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 […]
Category Archives: Politics of Gaming
Politics of Gaming – For Matures Only
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, […]
Politics of Gaming – The Role of Random in Games
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – When to Roleplay and When to Roll
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Soothing the Sore Loser
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – House of Rules: When to Change Things Up
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Calling It Quits
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Getting a Group Together
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: Final Thoughts
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Casual Gamer
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Controller
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Mechanics Gamer
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Immersion Gamer
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Power Gamer
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – The Group Dynamic
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 […]
Politics of Gaming – Player Knowledge and Elitism
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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