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Enziramire played a Stars Without Number game (featuring Jains in space, and inspired by the Malagasy context!) with high-school students.
These kids are the BEST TTRPG PLAYERS IN THE WORLD.
" My attempt to use this game as an experiment in teaching colonialism succeeded ... exquisite blend of cutthroat pragmatism in service to the home power and dreams of uplifting the benighted foreigner ... "
https://majesticflywhisk.blogspot.com/2023/07/spirits-without-number-SWN-in-review.html
(CW: post has heavy intro involving missing family member)
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" Religiosity became a central aspect of the game ... students playing monastic-mediums frequently had to return to their most ancient texts (a diegetic excuse for us to scour the [Jaina] books I assembled in prep as a group) or cautiously borrow aspects of local ritual "
" we played through a hiragasy performance in game, with a player freestyling in place of the kabary "
Hiragasy performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1XVXy8iWlE
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" This was the least violent game I've played ... considering what I thought I knew about the nature of SWN and rambunctious teenagers ... Players displayed an unexpected level of devotion to Jaina nonviolence from 1st session and this was really consistent "
" We just started handling more and more stuff by talking it out, as a way to reduce the amount of recordkeeping I was doing, but it became the norm over time. Barely rolled at all in the last session! "
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