thread: 2006-03-08 : Between-session Activity
On 2006-03-09, Ben Lehman wrote:
Here is this cause of the question: I was talking to my friend Dave, and we were talking GNS, seeing as the post I just made on my blog. Anyway, he was talking about this decision he made about changing his character in the LARP from a Soldier to a Paladin.
And I was like "hold up a second Dave. So not only LARP, so sketchy in Big Model terms, but also not actually play."
And he was like "wait, between session stuff doesn't count for play? But, that's like all I do. (the providence group is very into between sessions stuff.)
And I'm like "yeah."
Thus: post.
I'm curious about play which happens in a subset of the game (2-3 players) between sessions. This happened all the time in the big games I played in college (hey, you me and Bob are together. Let's do a scene with our characters!)
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—Ben
This makes Chris go "Splinter group = play"
Though, usually with different system. A key thing to watch for if it's pick up play for the hell of it, or if it becomes the place where the real enjoyment is being drawn from...
This makes BL go "But what about the relationship between that play and the "big play?""
This makes Chris go "See response post."
