when teaching a game, where do you start?

This came up after a messy teach of Dune: Imperium where three people looked possessed by turn two.

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Theme first for light games, win condition first for heavier stuff.

Explain while playing unless the game can punish a bad first round too hard.

We absolutely punished three bad first rounds, so maybe that was the issue

Ananya Rao · 2 likes

How to win first. Give my brain a shelf to put everything on.

My friend opens every teach with lore and I can feel my soul leaving my body.

Turn structure first makes me glaze over unless I already know the goal.