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== '''On Researching Game Mechanics''' == |
== '''On Researching Game Mechanics''' == |
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A founding emphasis for this site is to collect and study rules for any sort of play capable of being categorized as a tabletop game. Learning more about the process of game play, especially with regards to well established rule-sets, provides insight into the sort of activities people return to time and time again. There's a lot we can do with an improved understanding of the games we play and how we play them: the idea is to draw some of that out here. |
A founding emphasis for this site is to collect and study rules for any sort of play capable of being categorized as a tabletop game. Learning more about the process of game play, especially with regards to well established rule-sets, provides insight into the sort of activities people return to time and time again. There's a lot we can do with an improved understanding of the games we play and how we play them: the idea is to draw some of that out here. |
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| + | == '''A List of Pages So Far''' == |
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| + | ===Card Games=== |
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| + | [[Eights]] - Also known as Crazy Eights, it's a distant relative of Rummy and noted as being a 'stops' game because players can be stopped from discarding for not having a proper card in hand. |
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| + | [[Go Fish]] - A simple card game, also sometimes simply called Fish: collect sets of four-of-a-kind or books, the player with the most books wins. |
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| + | ===Dice Games=== |
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| + | [[Bunco]]Β - 19th century British dice game still broadly played both for money as well as sport. |
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| + | [[Six-Five-Four]] - Six-Five-Four or Ship, Captain and Crew is a classic drinking and gambling game played with five six-sided dice. |
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| + | ===Pen and Paper=== |
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| + | [[2d6 Quick and Dirty]] - 2d6 Q&D is for playing a quick role playing game off the cuff. |
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| + | ===Other Pages=== |
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| + | [[Links]] - A list of helpful resources and notes. |
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== Additional Resources and References == |
== Additional Resources and References == |
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