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I wrote a guide on how to teach Root! (or at least how I teach it) (teachroot.yay.boo)

submitted 9 months ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/boardgames@feddit.de

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I've taught Root to people a bunch of times. This was supposed to be a quick dump of my mental notes, but I ended up putting in so much effort that I decided I might as well publish it. Maybe it will help someone.

I include teaching tips, explain how I deliver the teach, and outline rough talking points in each section. How is everyone else teaching games?

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[–] spunkycomics@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks for writing all this up! I have a friend group of mixed attention spans and this will be invaluable for next time. Asymmetric instruction is always such an uphill battle

[–] calculuschild@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This is really cool! My teach is usually a very similar order to what you list, but its nice to have something like this written down. I will probably steal this.

For the Woodland Alliance, I usually deacribe them as "playing Pandemic, as the disease". You are spreading around everywhere, and can pop up suddenly to devastate someone's clearing if they aren't keeping you in check.

[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Oh, that's a good example. I could never think of one.

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

That's great! Since most of the people I play with are scattered geographically we play with the app and I actually learned via the app before getting a chance to play it on the table. It's definitely a game where a lot of thought has been put into the tutorials