{"id":15256,"date":"2025-12-01T19:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=15256"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:40:30","slug":"game-response-the-bear-dd-story-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=15256","title":{"rendered":"Game Response &#8211; The Bear &#8220;D&amp;D&#8221; Story Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was it fun? Yes it was, a bit chaotic which made it enjoyable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What were the player interactions? The whole game was based off of player interactions &#8211; each player creates the personality of the game basically by how they decide to react to the  storyline the &#8220;dungeon master&#8221; creates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How long did it take to learn? Not too long, as you sort of make it up as you go<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was the most frustrating moment or aspect of what you just played? We didn&#8217;t thoroughly establish each players roles so it was a little it clunky in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was your favorite moment or aspect of what you just played? Being able to make up a story and do whatever you want under a loose structure was enjoyable &#8211; we also had good luck with the dice roll so it made it pace well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was there anything you wanted to do that you couldn\u2019t? Be able to tell the dungeon master not to do dumb things at times that didn&#8217;t really make sense<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you had a magic wand to wave, and you could change, add, or remove anything from the experience, what would it be? A little bit more direction for the story master to help them with the story theme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this a game you would play again? Maybe, it&#8217;s a bit chaotic so with the right crowd it could be more fun but it&#8217;s also a little mentally taxing and i prefer a little more mechanics and &#8220;gameplay&#8221; per say in my games<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analyze the game using the 3 act structure: Act 1 was determining each bears&#8217; role in the game and making it out of &#8220;the forest&#8221;. Act 2 was healing some people from injuries and infiltrating Comic-Con and the guarded room (with lots of dice-rolling). Act 3 was then getting home where it all went downhill and our dungeon master called the whole military on us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the collaborative and or competitive aspects of the game? Very collaborative, everyone is working together to complete the story, almost no competitiveness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the game\u2019s metaphor and which of the game\u2019s mechanics standout? Metaphor was a family of bears and you come up with the context, ours became a mafia gang &#8211; having very little mechanics was the most unique mechanic because the players determined what you actually had to do in the game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Describe the game in 3 sentences or in the form of a haiku:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear gangs fighting crime<br>Infiltrating Comic-Con<br>Betrayal and chaos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251009_120901-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251009_120901-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251009_120901-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251009_120901-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251009_120901-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251009_120901-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251009_120901-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it fun? Yes it was, a bit chaotic which made it enjoyable What were the player interactions? The whole game was based off of player interactions &#8211; each player creates the personality of the game basically by how they decide to react to the storyline the &#8220;dungeon master&#8221; creates How long did it take &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=15256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Response &#8211; The Bear &#8220;D&amp;D&#8221; Story Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,64],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-15256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-game-reviews","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15260,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions\/15260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}