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HeroQuest sucks

Too number driven but the numbers don’t even mean much
Extended contests suck

Different goals and agendas may be causing a set of problems (talk about entry behaviors some more in a post).

Disconnect between the players on what it means to initiate in the Sephiroth

What does it mean to initiate in the higher ones?
Entry behaviors and knowledge causing difficulty here
Working through the sephiroths as ambitious it is too ambitious for the pacing

General technique of non-scene framing games is throwing lots of stuff at players and seeing what sticks. But that seems to be causing difficulty here.

Possible fragmentation here from entry behaviors and knowledge on goals and settings

What exactly is required for player prior knowledge? Do we have a failure in communication of the rich setting?

Sephiroth for dummies? Was the wiki utilized successfully?
What has been presented in game has been presented in a codified jargon laden way that has been easy for trying to say one thing and being heard by different flavors by the people hearing it.
Jere’s technique here was to set a baseline and allow personal interpretations to drive new complexities. This seems to be happening but not necessarily in a constructive group fashion.
Emily feels that it’s too difficult to determine what her character is supposed to do.
Harmonization of group goals was never successful.

Never successfully integrated vision on the player and character level.
Perhaps this game required more out of session stuff than folks bought into social contract wise.

Conclusion: The mechanics don’t work and there is no sensecontinuing to try to get them to fit our objectives with the combination ofsocial contract unable to pick up the slack.

General feeling was that this was not a failure in the group (players or gms) but more a failure of the chosen rules to expressively match the objectives and that several of the objectives were difficult to achieve with the chosen communication tools.

Immediate thoughts: Consensus and communication as tools of the system.