Continuing With My First Attempt At Learning 'Little Town'...
Warning: As I have noted in my videos journaling my experience in learning how to play this solo RPG game I am very unsure of myself as I try to play one of these 'story telling' games for the very first time. Therefore there is a LOT of umming and ahhing and stopping and starting as I try to make sense of this unfamiliar type of gaming.
Trying New Thing - Failures & Successes
I did wonder whether I should be documenting my faltering experience in learning to play this game for the first time at all! But, from my point of view, this is exactly the sort of videos that I would have appreciated while coming into a completely new style of solo role playing.
It is completely unvarnished and has all my mistakes and rambling attempts at 'story telling'!
BUT... This is the only way I am going to learn and get better at it as I find out what works and what doesn't. So, in their unedited and unexpiated whole here are my bumbling efforts!
Episode #3 - 'The Diner'
Episode #4 - 'The Coach'
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Conclusions...
As I point out, my 'scene notes' idea seems to be a good idea for me BUT I do need to watch how much exposition and detail that I try to squeeze into this guide for my session. It's far to easy for me (see Episode #3) for me to get too carries away and forget that the important part of the adventure is the investigation and not atmospheric detail (which is probably more use in a multiplayer RPG where I might be the GM).
I also have to remind myself to remember that the game's mechanism is a big part of the play and not to overlook adding random events by means to ROLLS of CARD DRAWS in. It was too tempting to use the scene note as a SCRIPT for what was going to happen, this turns what is supposed to be a GAME into nothing more than me telling a STORY that I made up...
The random events are there to provide narrative surprises and twists which you then have to be inventive in the way in which you - the story teller - then counter-react to these and drive the plot and investigation forward!
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