A new adventure

Getting into gaming isn't really that difficult. It's socializing with a point. You don't just hang out, you hang out with a theme, a focus. It can be a really in depth game like a huge Dungeons and Dragons campaign or it can be something simple like Trouble or Sorry. 

I love games. Role Playing Games, board games both traditional (Monopoly) and non-traditional (Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan) and a side note to that ... non-traditional board games have been around so long they are what I would consider traditional. I like video games, too. My creative mind revels inside these games and I create universes. 

My fervor for these games is great but also a fault. I love the creative process, I love building things up but once built I tend to get bored. I know the world, I built it. I want to build something again. I want to make a character and see how they will fair in a different world. I think that's why I like Science Fiction and especially far future SciFi because the character can just go to a different planet and boom, it's new. 

The point is that last night I played a new game called Weave. It is a storytelling RPG where one person is the storyteller. They build the world using a mobile app and a deck of cards resembling a Tarot deck. The players (up to four) build their characters the same way. Draw a card, scan the card, and it gives you a few options based on that card. You choose from the list and build your character. The deck also gives you the challenges, the theme, everything else in the story. The storyteller fleshes it out, creates details, works with the players to WEAVE it all together. There is some dice rolling but don't be intimidated at all. This works like the lightest weight RPG I've ever seen in over 22 years. This is much more about the story. The progression of the story is even set up like a TV series. You start out and choose your theme, then you start a new Season. Each season is built from several Episodes, and each Episode is built from several Scenes, and Scenes are built from Encounters. Your progression is all saved in the mobile app. 

This game is all about the story. The four main themes (called Playsets) are a cyberpunk thriller, a young teenager adventure in a small town with mysterious supernatural happenings, a far future space epic with starships and new planets and alien races, and finally a teen drama about being part of a clique in high school. 

Weave was created by Monocle Society and they have been busting their butts over the last year to bring new ideas and keep the game fresh. They love their players and support the game actively. 

I know this game isn't for everyone, but for anyone that is looking to get into Role Playing I highly recommend it. For anyone with an imagination that likes to write short stories I highly recommend it. For anyone that likes games and wants to see something really different I highly recommend it. 

I'll be blogging our adventures here with this game.