Comment on “The Limit”

Please excuse typos as I use my voice to write.

I have been doing self play to practice combat as you have recommended a few times in the past. The exercise is very effective. At pulling me out of the torpor of not having run games in a couple years.

What I have been wondering is what techniques might be useful for practicing other parts of the game where the rules are not sort of a an environment unto them selves as combat is. Any thoughts?

For instants I was thinking that one might be able to practice player management by creating a deck of cards for emotions or for types of action within a given play style like cautious or aggressive and dealing those out to myself to indicate general thrust is what the player characters decide to do as I control them during self play. As when running the game for real it is beyond valuable to have part of the action “out of my hands”, subjecting me to constraints.