thread: 2005-09-02 : Meg on Ritual
On 2005-09-03, Lisa Padol wrote:
We also need a recognition that not everyone wants to play out on the edge, and that that's all right.
I've noticed a couple of ritual elements that are not necessarily obvious when I game: Set up and clean up.
Setting up the gaming space, even when "all" that entails is cleaning up the table and putting out the right number of chairs is ritual preparation of the game space.
A lot of people talking about grounding the energy, and formally ending the ritual. If folks stick around while I do a lot of the clean up, it helps, even if they're talking and I'm putting things away. After I run a session, there's a sort of jittery, bouncing-off-walls feeling. Cleaning and going out for dinner can help me settle down.
-Lisa
