This week, we continued playing the role player game which is called Fiasco. Last week, our group just finished the setup, so this week we begin to create several scenes, and we just get to the tilt.

During the class session, we have only 4 players which we normally have 5. So, we decided to skip the person’s role who is not here. And we started to make scenes, which I think is the hardest part for me, because in this part, you need to be creative so that the whole story can be interesting and making sense. However, I am not a very creativity person and English is not my first language, so this part is the hardest for me. After we finished this part, we decided to stop because we want to wait for the person who was not here to caught up.

For the leadership during this week, I think it is about tolerance and being helpful. For example, when I could not figure out what should I say to create my scene, my group members helped me a lot, they give me some good advice. And we decided not to end the game because we want to wait the last member who was not here. And I think this is relevant to the leadership.

After this week’s class session, I think I dislike this game a little bit, because there are some parts that make me feel awkward. Hopefully the situation will be changed next week!

This week we continued to play the role-playing game of Fiasco again and this time my team got through the tilt and next week we will be wrapping up with the aftermath. We were kind of thrown off track but the loss of one player who was absent this week and the inclusion of a new player. However, it was kind of a blessing in disguise because the new player transitioned into the group without a problem and really developed the character assigned to them. The tilt is the part in the game halfway through where the players with the most dice so far in the game get to add another category and make the game even crazier.

We decided to add two new tilt categories just because and they included role reversal and someone panics. I’d say that once again the hardest part of the game is being creative and coming up with an exciting plotline on the fly. There were moments where I felt inadequate because I thought the other players had much more fun things to say than I did. But we did hit our stride as a team and concluded the tilt with a dramatic flair.

I’d say empathy and the ability to inspire and convince others were the biggest leadership ties this week. Empathy played a key role in this week’s game because the reason we had a new player was that they did not feel welcome in their last group based upon the different identities they hold. So we as a group listened to this person, affirmed them, and then adjusted our RPG consent form so that everyone was felt safe and comfortable. The ability to inspire and convince others was the other leadership skill because those players that had that ability were able to take over the story so that it kept developing and moving forward, we were all able to inspire each other’s scenes, and that lead to quite a Fiasco. I can’t way to see how it all gets resolved and ends in the Aftermath next week!

This week, we played another game called Fiasco, which is also a roll player game. In this game, we need to create and define our own relationships, needs, objects, locations and so on. And we need to make all of these into a story, which is fun. However, the hardest part for me is also to make a story by this information, I am not a very creative person, so it was very difficult for me to put all this information together and make up a story that worked.

I think for the leadership in this game, the most important is every player should actively communicate their ideas, because every choice they make affects not just them but everyone else, and every decision affects the direction of our own story. I think me and my roommates might be able to enjoy this game because we always play other games together, so it is easy and comfortable for us to communicate our ideas.

During the session, there were 4 group members besides me. After we all connected in, we chose Boomtown and set the boundaries which we did not remove anything actually, and we just finished chose and defined our relationships, needs, locations and objects. The session went pretty good since all my group members actively communicated our ideas. I like this game because I never played this kind of game before, it requires people to exchange their ideas to others so that they can make their own story which is cool. Since I am not a creative person, my personal value in this game is to take note so that things will no mess up which is also very important. Because if people do not remember what they chose, they will waste time to redo it, and it will cause us to fall behind schedule.

This week in class we played another role-playing game called Fiasco. In our first session, we set up the game in Boom Boomtown and established boundaries that we were not comfortable crossing with the consent checklist. I really liked the fact that this game required us to have an open dialogue to express things we did not want to see play out in the game, I think this is an important aspect that should be included in all types of games. Our group was pretty open to anything with a rated R rating but we would not allow things like sexual assault, self-harm, etc. Once we completed the checklist, we rolled dice and took turns picking aspects like relationships, needs, locations, and objects.

Compared to last week’s game of Roll Player, I greatly enjoyed Fiasco more. Since the players have such a large degree of freedom in determining the course of the game the plot twists are both unexpected and humorous. I think that’s what I liked the most, never knowing what to expect next and laughing at whoever is currently establishing a scene. The only thing I struggled with the most was definitely the creativity aspect of the game. It is harder than you think to come up with ways to both keep the plot interesting but also ensure that it makes sense.

I think the most important leadership aspects in this game were trust, creativity, and active listening. Trust because you have to believe the other players won’t violate the consent checklist. Creativity and active listening because most of the game is playing off of what the other players do or say so you have to be present and engaged to help steer the narrative. It can also be argued that another leadership element is the fact that players get to decide who they want their characters to be in the beginning so free will is present. I would recommend this game to both friends and family because it seems like a game that could function as a fun night in or at a party.