Tabletop Office Hours with Dr. Emily Friedman - Week 3: What IS an TTRPG?
Channel: Critical Prof
Date: 2023-08-30

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 discussing the "Adopt a TTRPG" assignment that runs through much of the semester. Students will pick a TTRPG and together we will ask different questions about it in-class as they read and play it outside of class. This way, we can learn about a much richer set of games than we could otherwise.

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