After Action Reports vs Let’s Plays
January 15, 2012
I’ve been thinking about the term “Let’s Play” and the term “After Action Report”. I had considered them interchangeable, but I’ve decided there is a difference, and it’s in how the story is delivered. AARs are usually posted on a web page as a story without comment from the audience. Let’s Plays, on the other hand, are usually written up on a forum and often include a lot of reader interaction with the author.
With this handy and sensible definition I’m going to start using the terms on this blog with this distinction in mind.
Categories: News, Ponderings
I’d been wondering much the same thing myself. What helped clear it up for me, actually, was Angie’s thread on Matches & Matrimony — since it’s ongoing, the term “after-action report” didn’t really seem to apply. Perhaps AARs are written in the past tense and LPs in the present tense?
Incidentally, what is the plural of “Let’s Play”?
“Let’s Plays”, duh! 😉
And good point, past/present tense is also a qualifier.