I wish all my work meetings got cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.

GM/DM/Ref'ing makes you think about everybody's experience at the table. Are they engaged? Having fun? Invested? Getting to do the stuff they're here for? Feel safe and able to talk freely? It should be the same for the chair of work meeting.

This whole campaign could have just been an email.

Most of the time in meetings I think, "this should've been an email..."

I like to think this meeting could’ve been a fist fight.

Well that had a surprise ending.

"Can I use my Sick Day to take a half day Friday to start my 24 hour Star Wars marathon this weekend?" "So, Rules as Written, absolutely not. But.... we're gonna go with the Rule of Cool on this one. See you Monday."

Running games has definitely helped me run meetings. - Establish turn order. - let people finish their thought instead of immediately following some dumbass tangent - take notes

Fun comes from overcoming challenges which imply problems existed which implies inefficiency at turning money into more money. … Huh. Capitalism is just letting money munchkins min/max society for their own personal benefit.

In my domain (IT, with On-Call), there's a practice called "Wheel of Misfortunes" or "Game hour". This is in fact a short TTRPG session to simulate incident. This works very well. I am a paid DM 1h per week for my colleagues

Only if you include the holiday special. ...looks like I'll be here until 5.

I would love to hear more about this if you can go in to more details?

Please share more. Sounds like a mini war game?

Since we all went remote, my job has been holding different virtual events we can join like a book club, cooking club, and some other stuff I can’t remember but this makes me wish we held a tabletop game now! I’m picturing how it would go based on this, but safe for work lol

- [Managing Misfortune for Best Results](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxaFkLKxPTI) - [Disaster Role Playing](https://sre.google/sre-book/accelerating-sre-on-call/#xref_training_disaster-rpg)

I don't like the concept of wargames. We don't need war to do this, nor conflict. I see this more as an astronaut training: it has to be a solution, at least in the mind of the person proposing the situation. It also cultivate a spirit to always search for a way out of the invident. One rule we adopted is that when the responder doesn't know, they have to say it. Once this said, they need to say outloud what do they search. They the focus shift to the audience, they have to find 3 different ways to respond to what the responder is searching (to know or to do). It is hard and so far it balances well the dynamic (it is OK to not know, it is important to recognise we don't know, and it is funny to share how we can havk our way through the system (the 3rd way is pretty hard and is in general a hack)). I know realize that perhaps I could write a blog post on this. For links, see my response to the other comment.

I mean, they'd have to. There's six movies, each a little over two hours long. Let's say that gets you up to 14 hours. Then there's the two Ewok movies. Assuming that they're each two hours long (I can't be bothered to check) that gets you to 18 hours. The Holiday Special is 98 minutes long, but even rounding that up to two hours that only gets you to 20 in total. Then what? Watch the cutscenes for Dark Forces 2 and Rebel Assault 2? There's only so much Star Wars available.