#orpa — Public Fediverse posts

https://ethric-t-s.itch.io/vbr-for-orpa-ascii

I've done gone and published an ultra-lite generic rule-system ... again. Clearly the third time means its a compulsion. This one's a expanded iteration of the currently MIA game *Hackmoor*. Its also seeing how far I can go emulating that text's ASCII-only format (pretty far it turns out -- ASCII art is fun to make).

#RPG #TTRPG #FKR #ORPA #ASCII

"Worlds Funsome and Free: Understanding
Open Role-Play Adventure"

You've heard of #FKR? Its like extreme #OSR, but I prefer to call it #ORPA. So many acronyms! Here's a few pages explaining all that, both as various PDFs on my itch.io page and as a good old-fashioned blog post.

https://ethric-t-s.itch.io/worlds-funsome-and-free-understanding-open-role-play-adventure

https://trollbones.blogspot.com/2025/06/worlds-funsome-and-free-understanding.html

#OARP is dead! Long Live #ORPA

They're the same thing, just rearranging the title. In my thoughts, I always sounded the name out as "Oh Aye Are Pea." But after presenting a test session at Forge Midwest last weekend, people who'd read my essay and wanted to talk about it it would pronounce it as a single word -- "oorp," like a burp-belch, which sounds so goofy. Yeah, I conceded it's ridiculous I didn't catch that earlier, but what are playtests for if not discovering the obvious.