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<blockquote data-quote="Unpossible E" data-source="post: 7652201" data-attributes="member: 6706267">You actually learned how to play from Wes Ives? That's awesome. I was big into FGU games back in the day.Like many here, I learn best by way of a brief introduction, followed by a lot of experimentation. I find I'm a &quot;just in time&quot; learner, meaning that for me the material has to have some bearing on a goal I'm trying to reach. In the case of gaming, the goal is understanding the game well enough to play (and frequently GM). The topic of how people learn to play tabletop RPGs is near and dear to my heart. I recently overhauled my site, Learn Tabletop RPGs which is designed with the goal of introducing would-be gamers to the hobby. While it isn't possible to &quot;learn by doing&quot; with the site, I've tried to make it easy for someone to enter the site, orient themselves to what tabletop RPGs are all about, download one of several starter game PDFs, then come back and explore more in-depth topics as they please. I've also augmented this approach by including links to a few videos that (hopefully) effectively demonstrate how tabletop RPGs are played. It's difficult to tell whether the site is useful to newcomers because they don't typically hang out in tabletop forums and the like. Unfortunately I haven't had an EN World account long enough to post a link to the site (learntabletoprpgs.com), but I'd appreciate any constructive feedback that you think might help make the site more useful to newcomers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Unpossible E, post: 7652201, member: 6706267"] You actually learned how to play from Wes Ives? That's awesome. I was big into FGU games back in the day. Like many here, I learn best by way of a brief introduction, followed by a lot of experimentation. I find I'm a "just in time" learner, meaning that for me the material has to have some bearing on a goal I'm trying to reach. In the case of gaming, the goal is understanding the game well enough to play (and frequently GM). The topic of how people learn to play tabletop RPGs is near and dear to my heart. I recently overhauled my site, Learn Tabletop RPGs which is designed with the goal of introducing would-be gamers to the hobby. While it isn't possible to "learn by doing" with the site, I've tried to make it easy for someone to enter the site, orient themselves to what tabletop RPGs are all about, download one of several starter game PDFs, then come back and explore more in-depth topics as they please. I've also augmented this approach by including links to a few videos that (hopefully) effectively demonstrate how tabletop RPGs are played. It's difficult to tell whether the site is useful to newcomers because they don't typically hang out in tabletop forums and the like. Unfortunately I haven't had an EN World account long enough to post a link to the site (learntabletoprpgs.com), but I'd appreciate any constructive feedback that you think might help make the site more useful to newcomers. [/QUOTE]

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