Brainrotted defect here.I’ve been interested in traditional roleplay games and wargaming with miniatures.How do I readjust to reading books and learning their rules for wargames and ttrpgs?I’m aware of making cheat sheets to remember rules but extra genuine advise is appreciated.
>>98096963literally just sit down and read the fucking books?>how do I learn to read? moron.
>>98096963Lock away your phone for a week.
>>98096963I would suggest three things.>You can look for a youtube video explaining the game. Sometimes it helps just listening to someone explain the game then just trying to read the tome on it's own.>Find a group willing to show you the rope.Sometimes just diving in the deep end with people who know how to play might work better than dipping your toes in.>Bite the bullet and read the fucker cover to cover.Sometimes just get off your phone addiction and read the fucker till you're done is the only way.
>>98096963>how do I studyI'm torn between, "modern education is not fit for purpose" and, "you in particular are an idiot".
Save the reading for the GMYou think those glue sniffing satanist players in the 80's were reading?
>>98096963Cultivate a love for reading and then read the books, focusing on retention over speed. Read the words aloud if you think it'll help.
>>98096963Reading physical books and also reading while taking public transportation helped me when I was youngerNowadays I just take amphetamines thoAlso you should try to apply the rules you have read instead of just reading from the start to the end
>>98096963I too have begun to struggle parsing basic information.So I buy the book, paint the miniatures and just bootstrap somebody with a younger brain age to play a few demo matches with to hash it out.
>>98096963I usually don't have issue reading stuff I'm actually interested in reading, but when I do have to get through something kinda boring it helps me a lot to take the work outside.Take the rulebook to the park, or a cafe, if it's a physical version preferably leave your phone at home, if it's a pdf at least switch your internet off. Just sit there, relax and read
>>98097059>Find a group willing to show you the rope.>the rope.I think you meant "the ropes"; "The rope" implies a lynching.
>>98097638How old are you? I'm 38 and I'm still able to memorize anything I read. My job involves memorizing insurance policies so I guess I get practice every work day.
>>98097832Oh it ain't no mystery to me why I'm creased.I'm a little younger than you, but I smoke a fat joint every morning, and I've been "retired for my health" since I was 20.The only things I care to remember permanently are the advances I make on my bolognese recipie, new reasons to distrust institutions, and things that exist at the confluence of mythology and the anthropology of religion and magic.
>>98097890>mythology and the anthropologySo do you think places like Atlantis, Hyperborea and Thule were real? What makes you think that?
>>98097907No man.That means I read stuff like The Togail Bruidne Da Derga, and Ovid's Metamorphosis, and learn about actual archaeological materials, and the practices of extant cultures, and continuity between the two, and I like collecting traditional folk music, poetry and stories.Comparative mythology, and the study of the evolution of motifs through the arts, and where that intersects with religious and "magical" beliefs comprises a lot of what I think about.
>>98097907>What makes you think that?Drug induced brain damage.
>>98098035Nah, Tiktok videos conflating the annunaki with the nephilim through the common motif of primordial giants is where that comes from.In a vacuum, smoking hella weed does not spontaneously generate visions of Agartha/Lemuria/Portland.Though if it did (it does not) that would be significant in and of itself.There's actual books out there you can read.If your entire reference pool if reduced to schizo edits then you lose all credibility.
>>98098081>Tiktok videosAh, the hard shit.
>>98096963Delete TikTok and Instagram and mobile games from your phone so you stop having a distraction nexus in your pocket begging for your attention 24/7, and watch the world around you get more interesting to your suddenly-bored mind in real time
>>98096963Read rule. Try out scenario with rule. Read more rules. Play game with friend. Check rules if something feels off. If rule not found quickly in the moment, make up something. Check rule later. Play games again.
