Fantasy Games
1. When did Nick get involved in fantasy games?
2. What did he start buying?
3. What can characters do in a fantasy game around a table?
4. What does the storyteller do there?
5. What do players need to act their characters?
6. When did Nick hear of the outside games?
7. Where are they played?
8. What do participants need to act their characters?
9. How long can such a game last?
10. What is it like playing such a game?
11. What kind of characters can you play in a typical fantasy world?
12. What kind of themes do they use?
13. What did they use as a setting last year?
14. What was the story like?
15. What did the participants have to do to prepare for the game?
16. Who did they play?
17. What was different from the historical situation?
18. Who did Nick play?
19. What did the storyteller bring into the story?
20. Why was that game such great fun?
21. What did Nick have to do when he played the storyteller?
22. What was one adventure he created about?
23. What was the setting for that story?
24. What was the moral of that adventure?
25. What is the difference between learning from a book and learning from a fantasy game?
Fantasy Games
Training 1
Nick’s first contact with fantasy role-playing games was in school. He immediately got deeply involved in them. He started off by playing around a table, with one person acting as a storyteller, and the others playing characters in the story. They can change the outcome of the story by their actions. So, all the players interact within the story.
Training 2
Then Nick heard about similar games which are played in some atmospheric places. The participants play the part of their characters, wearing costumes and carrying pieces of equipment and weapons that they might need. You stay in your role for a period of time, and for all of that time you act out your character. It’s like living in another age or another world.
Training 3
The type of characters depends on the setting and the story. You might be a knight, a thief, a magician, an elf, a monster, or a character from Alice in Wonderland. They use many themes, such as space, stories from Tolkien’s world, or various periods in history. When you’re playing a character, you really become him or her, and you feel the consequences of your actions.