Anstett
Emperor Mongoose
My final wrap up report for the games I ran over the summer.
We had one group of mixed teenagers and an adult with two young kids. When they got through the first part and we talked about impressions and how things were I mentioned they were the first group to not try to steal a car instead of just renting. The teens were like "we can do that?!?"
The same group fought off the hijackers, got to the system to deliver the respirators. The teens were ambivalent about how much they should sell them for, the adult was "wait is this a moral question now?"
One of the groups decided that during the hijacking attempt to switch sides and join in. They ended up taking over the ship from the crew.
In another session a 6 year old girl, playing with teens along with her sister and brother, decided she would join in with the hijackers. When she grabbed a dinner knife from the buffet and threatened one of the Stewards she looked at me and said, "It says here on my sheet that I make bad decisions and get in trouble". I could not control myself laughing so hard. Six years old!
With her being our youngest the age range from all the groups ended up being a an over 50 year spread across a wide demographic.
One thing that made me proud was a young man at the end of a session saying, "this is boring". He felt safe at the table to express his feelings, was not disruptive to others who were enjoying themselves, and still said thank you in the end. That and having several people email me saying thank you for the Explorer ruleset made this a great experience for the summer of Adventures in Space.
If you are interested, you can do this at your library too. Or game store, or just with friends. Hangout and play.
We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.
We had one group of mixed teenagers and an adult with two young kids. When they got through the first part and we talked about impressions and how things were I mentioned they were the first group to not try to steal a car instead of just renting. The teens were like "we can do that?!?"
The same group fought off the hijackers, got to the system to deliver the respirators. The teens were ambivalent about how much they should sell them for, the adult was "wait is this a moral question now?"
One of the groups decided that during the hijacking attempt to switch sides and join in. They ended up taking over the ship from the crew.
In another session a 6 year old girl, playing with teens along with her sister and brother, decided she would join in with the hijackers. When she grabbed a dinner knife from the buffet and threatened one of the Stewards she looked at me and said, "It says here on my sheet that I make bad decisions and get in trouble". I could not control myself laughing so hard. Six years old!
With her being our youngest the age range from all the groups ended up being a an over 50 year spread across a wide demographic.
One thing that made me proud was a young man at the end of a session saying, "this is boring". He felt safe at the table to express his feelings, was not disruptive to others who were enjoying themselves, and still said thank you in the end. That and having several people email me saying thank you for the Explorer ruleset made this a great experience for the summer of Adventures in Space.
If you are interested, you can do this at your library too. Or game store, or just with friends. Hangout and play.
We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.