Let’s talk about correcting mistakes in a game today. And why, while I learn the game and often play a hand or minor part of the game I don’t try and play too much before I stream. If you watch the second game play of The Isofarian Guard, you find that I correct a big mistake. What mistake is that, you’ll have to see.

The Isofarian Guard – The Mistake

So let’s talk about why I’m fine making mistakes when I stream a game like The Isofarian Guard. There is a perception among viewers of larger board game channels, I’m probably too small still, that if you make a mistake it’s because you don’t care. That you just rush to get content out. But that is not the case. And it is why I play games the way that I do.

Honesty of Playing Style

Firstly, it’s a more natural way to play games. I dislike playing the first scenario of a game five times to make sure I have everything perfect. That removes the fun of gaming from me. You could even see as I played through this combat the more I did it, the less fun I had, until I noticed my mistake. Why, because it’s the same thing over and over again. There should have been a fail forward mechanic or something.

Everyone Makes Mistakes

And the other reason is while you might not think you make mistakes in games, you do. You just don’t have an audience to catch those mistakes. Making mistakes, learning the mistakes in the rules that you made, questioning stuff as you learn a game are natural parts of playing a game. There is nothing wrong with making a mistake in the rules of a game. And it’s up to you if you even correct it or not when you realize. If it’s more fun with that mistake, keep it in there for you. Warn people, but keep it in.

The issue that can arise with this is when comments are made disparaging content creators, people putting themselves out there. That is something that those people are not doing. Perfection in rules is strived for by all content creators. But, like your own game, it won’t be achieved, so correct out of kindness is helpful and appreciated.

How You Play It

The final reason is that this is how you play it and how I play games that aren’t on streams. Again, no one intentionally makes mistakes. And everyone corrects them when they find them as they go along. But it’s really a better representation of what Nerdologists.com is. It’s about trying new things and seeing what happens. That’s how everyone plays games in real life, so I try and demonstrate real life and real learning curve.

Upcoming Streams

So streaming next week will be different. The 4th of July is going to mess up streaming on Monday because I will be out of town. So no stream on Monday.

Then on Wednesday, I plan on streaming more Isofarian Guard. I say I plan on it because it might not happen. I need to time up getting somethings for streaming because I need to change up my set-up. With a new character being added to the group, how it’s set-up now just isn’t going to work. So I need to create combat zone and map zones for this game to show it off properly which requires a bit more equipment. Upside, that might mean that Chronicles of Drunagor could come back to the table, we’ll see.

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