#inthisworld — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inthisworld, aggregated by home.social.
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There is nothing sadder than feeling like you have no energy to game, but nothing nicer than when the game does its job and gently draws you into the fun
https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/4046/meet-me-where-the-music-blooms/
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CW: ttrpg, request for recommendations
@titania However, if we're going further afield in the #TTRPG lexicon, how about EVERYTHING by Ben Robbins, from #Microscope to #Kingdom, to Follow (which you can have for free now), to #InThisWorld – all of which are GMless games and all of which are fantastic that your defined player numbers.
If you haven't experienced anything by Ben Robbins before, I would suggest starting with Kingdom, because it's going to be the closest to the expected RPG format, but my favorite is definitely Microscope because being able to zoom in and out of entire histories is incredibly fun.
There is literally nothing on this page that you would not enjoy if you are looking for GMless games.
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CW: ttrpg, request for recommendations
@titania However, if we're going further afield in the #TTRPG lexicon, how about EVERYTHING by Ben Robbins, from #Microscope to #Kingdom, to Follow (which you can have for free now), to #InThisWorld – all of which are GMless games and all of which are fantastic that your defined player numbers.
If you haven't experienced anything by Ben Robbins before, I would suggest starting with Kingdom, because it's going to be the closest to the expected RPG format, but my favorite is definitely Microscope because being able to zoom in and out of entire histories is incredibly fun.
There is literally nothing on this page that you would not enjoy if you are looking for GMless games.
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You know you've made some questionable game decisions when you arrive at "in this world, writing a song is a morally questionable act"
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@benrobbins - _Finally_ In This World made it to this playtester in Austria. 🤓
I love my physical copy, and I hope it will in time see so much play that it will look like my copy of Microscope, my favorite story game. 🔬
If you haven't seen it, it's a neat and tight little world-building game, where you build a world out of statements that are true about the world you know. 🫴🌍📖
Give it a try, and let me know how it goes!
#StoryGames #InThisWorld #GMlessGames #MicroscopeRPG #TTRPG #GameDesign
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@benrobbins - _Finally_ In This World made it to this playtester in Austria. 🤓
I love my physical copy, and I hope it will in time see so much play that it will look like my copy of Microscope, my favorite story game. 🔬
If you haven't seen it, it's a neat and tight little world-building game, where you build a world out of statements that are true about the world you know. 🫴🌍📖
Give it a try, and let me know how it goes!
#StoryGames #InThisWorld #GMlessGames #MicroscopeRPG #TTRPG #GameDesign
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“Let’s pick a light topic, like Holidays. Or maybe… MURRRRDEERRR????”
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Want to watch us invent whole new worlds of DATING??? Today is your day!
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Played In This World last night, using the "combine two topics" variant:
Taxes + Fighting
The number of statements that applied perfectly to both was fascinating 😆
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@chobbs omg you had me at summertime watermelon jack-o-lanterns!
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@Yohann Nice! I'm using Lord of the Rings as the example for the "alternate history" rules option. So good!
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This evening I got to moderate and play @benrobbins's #InThisWorld and it was entertaining, interesting and thought-provoking.
We agreed on not using our actual world and settled on Middle Earth.
That pushed us to think hard on some very interesting topics, and as a result, we ended up with some very satisfying alternate worlds.
Now I look forward to playing this game again soon. #ttrpg #rpg #worldbuilding -
Usually I find writing examples for games rather hard, because doing the game as a solo thought-experiment is not the same as playing with other people. But with In This World I start off slow and then have these big "a ha!" moments if I just follow the rules step-by-step
For example, what technology has a big impact on religion? Internet, TV, and radio sure, but let's not forget the printing press…
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Usually I find writing examples for games rather hard, because doing the game as a solo thought-experiment is not the same as playing with other people. But with In This World I start off slow and then have these big "a ha!" moments if I just follow the rules step-by-step
For example, what technology has a big impact on religion? Internet, TV, and radio sure, but let's not forget the printing press…
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… and being the total nerds we are, the history we used was our long-running Kingdom witches campaign.
Yes, we played a game to explore and revise the history of another game.
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We're playtesting the alternate history variant of In This World, right now…
Which I guess makes that the "alternate history alternate rules"?
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Using In This World to make people instead of worlds, create interesting characters, and tear up stereotypes
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Just released the early access version of In This World to backers, because the weekend is coming and there is no time to game like the present.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lamemage/in-this-world/posts/3830660
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In This World: Toys
In our world, toys are objects
But in this world, toys are in your head. You are told to imagine a detailed fire truck, and you play pretend with that specific fire truck, even imagining it changing over time or losing a wheel
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We also did five worlds in 1 hour and 36 minutes, which has to be a new record.
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Oh boy. In This World: Education. We swung for the fences.
What could be a more basic than "teachers teach students"?
But in this world, kids are thrown together and have to figure out *everything* themselves, starting from first principles.
The result is a world with diverse systems for just about everything: multiple approaches to math, physics, literature. Whole new schools of thought are accidentally invented precisely because the kids aren't taught what we already know.
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Can you play In This World solo? No and yes and I'm doing it right now.
"Like just now, after dealing with social media, I imagined an alternate world where people leave each other secret notes in the woods. The most adorable social media!!!"
https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/2931/in-this-world-in-your-head/
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Hey! @benrobbins, one of the most consistently inventive creators of lightweight GM-less tabletop games that also work wonderfully as world-building seeds for other tabletop games, just launched the campaign for his new book, In This World.
I pledged immediately and then read the description.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lamemage/in-this-world/
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Hey! @benrobbins, one of the most consistently inventive creators of lightweight GM-less tabletop games that also work wonderfully as world-building seeds for other tabletop games, just launched the campaign for his new book, In This World.
I pledged immediately and then read the description.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lamemage/in-this-world/
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I've got that "just pressed the button" feeling. The kickstarter for In This World is live.
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We just played an In This World game about vacations and oh, so adorable. These are worlds I want!
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I'm rewriting my entire kickstarter for maybe the fifteenth time, but this time I think I'm finally nailing it 😆
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Had a great time last night talking with @randylubin and the Foresight Games crew about In This World.
Very insightful discussion about games shaping our future!
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(Can I post this faster than @chobbs ? We'll see)
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Sent out the new playtest draft of In This World today.
I'm still having surprising amounts of hassle-free fun every time I play this game. Like, uh, where are the problems???
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"All restaurants serve only the same plain loaf of bread as a remembrance of past cultural genocides and beauty of diversity. This one hit hard."
Playtesters rock