Having Fun Between Delusions

Behind the Bar Thank you for your feedback last week. It was quite valuable.

In exchange, I’m going to let you in on a terrible secret. This is just between you and me, though, because Apathy Games is a game developer first and foremost, and this could destroy us.

The truth is, it doesn’t matter what game you play. You could have just as much fun with your group without every buying another RPG product. This is because roleplaying is just playing make-believe with your friends. Mutual delusion, if you will.

We’ve always made an experience of it. Bad jokes and movie quotes are still the heart of our sessions. At some point we added drinks, flirting, and socio-economic debates, but it’s really just a party we hold every week at the same time.

I’m sure you do the same. Sure, you love your characters. The settings and plots can be imaginitive and gripping. Someone will inevitably start shouting about the rules, or spend their entire turn searching for a dropped die. But it’s a party with lots of pretending.

What We Want From You

Chances are, some of your best gaming moments had little to do with the game, and we ask you to share these in the comments. And to up the stakes, let’s make this competitive. The person with the best story will be featured in next week’s Behind the Bar, along with our accolades on how awesome they are. Also, I live by Mount Rainier, and while I won’t climb it, I will totally roleplay myself shouting your name from the mountain top.

So get commenting. We need those stories for our insidious plans.

http://www.tabletoparmory.com/ Dave Martin

In our current Necessary Evil game I have started a friendly sub-game of playing our action cards at the most inconvenient times for another character or the group as a whole. So far I have played a “Backstab” card to take out another on my omega team just because my character had been knocked out early in the fight and I was bored. It was actually quite funny how I applied it, and the whole group had a great time with what happened because of it.

Later, I played a card that forced the GM to say something along the lines of “$#*% you, Dave!” with a smile on his face and the rest of the group laughing at us because that’s now a phrase that has turned up from the GM to me at most games.

Others have now started saving their action cards for the most inconvenient times for others (especially me), the group as a whole, or the GM. So we have our rpg campaign, and now we have a sub-game using Action Cards that is aimed at a fun, deliberately poking, make each other’s gaming lives harder.

Good fun.
http://www.tabletoparmory.com Dave Martin

In our current Necessary Evil game I have started a friendly sub-game of playing our action cards at the most inconvenient times for another character or the group as a whole. So far I have played a “Backstab” card to take out another on my omega team just because my character had been knocked out early in the fight and I was bored. It was actually quite funny how I applied it, and the whole group had a great time with what happened because of it.

Later, I played a card that forced the GM to say something along the lines of “$#*% you, Dave!” with a smile on his face and the rest of the group laughing at us because that’s now a phrase that has turned up from the GM to me at most games.

Others have now started saving their action cards for the most inconvenient times for others (especially me), the group as a whole, or the GM. So we have our rpg campaign, and now we have a sub-game using Action Cards that is aimed at a fun, deliberately poking, make each other’s gaming lives harder.

Good fun.
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