Tabletop Office Hours with Dr. Emily Friedman - Week 5: The Quiet Year
Channel: Critical Prof
Date: 2023-09-13

This fall, as I have for the last several years, I am teaching a college course on Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Narratives. www.ecfriedman.com/gamecourse  My students play games in and out of class, watch Actual Plays, do scholarly reading and research, talk to all kind of folks involved in TTRPGs, and ultimately, get to design their own final "UnEssays."

It's an active learning classroom, so when students are absent, there's no lecture to go back and watch. So in the past, I've come home, recorded short recaps, & posted them on this channel. My students didn't use them much, but many of my fellow educators (and awesome TTRPG nerds) did.

This time, I'm trying something a little different: I'll be recording my recaps live (usually about 15-20 minutes), and answering any questions I've gotten on my socials, in comments, or from chat.

In this Office Hour I'll be recapping our first day playing The Quiet Year, which we'll play in-class while students prepare to play their adopted games outside of class. I'll also talk about last week's visitor Ned Donovan (Encounter Party)

You can check out my syllabus here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:58941/