The ideal hexcrawl map

hard, hard agree with this. people are putting effort into this shared experience, do them the courtesy of taking it seriously and engaging with it sincerely.

Love to make a game where your three classes are entirely randomly selected and the only way you can exert any control over the process is deciding if you want to transition or not when you roll a girl one.

i know this is the lowest hanging curmudgeon fruit possible, but i have developed such a visceral and immediate negative reaction to the word "cozy" wrt literally any media

*Good Idea I think soopersmert should expand on their platforming mechanic on their next lunch break

Has anyone thought about using portal fantasy as a framing device for fantasy adventure games? Would provide a handy explanation for the traditional stranger in a strange land framing and help bridge the gap between player and character knowledge, leading to a higher degree of immersion

“Dearest Beatrice, I miss you deeply as we cross E4. The king has sent a horsie to protect me, but I can’t help but thinking about that large castle on the horizon.”

Take it a step further. After any move which a piece is lost, you and the other player must RP the last conversation between that piece and a loved one. Of course they, don't know it's the last conversation. It could be heartfelt,or it could be "alright, see you tomorrow". Either way, heartbreaking.

Been thinking about this kind of thing, looking at over/under and the cataphracts game I’m a part of. This really interesting space where there are these sparse, strict rules and goals, but where the players have an otherwise infinite canvas for self expression, really interesting to think about

Concept: chess with literally no rules changes but every piece has an elaborate backstory that the player must read before play begins. Sure, it’s easy to sacrifice a faceless nameless pawn, but not so easy when you know about their life story and everything that got them to this war

Man, you're gonna love Castle Automatic, then.

I'd like to make a counter-proposal: TTRPG folx are largely fine at telling stories, because: Tabletop stories should not align to the (western-centric, specific-to-linear-forms, already-conservative-even-in-discussions-of-linear-forms) "traditional" shape of stories.

No everyone is wrong, the story is stored in the balls

We have no life and no one is interested in our death

To me it'll always be "games are about play from which stories can emerge" not "games are about telling a story." As someone who has worked in collaborative writing rooms for both stage and film, I'd say play made me a better writer, not the other way around.

i think its really funny how many people tell me to my face that wanderhome is a storytelling game when it says, right there in the first 10 pages, that it's not

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