I was thinking I must have missed something because I feel the same way. If a dice-rolling machine can play the game then what’s the point (I’m looking at you, snakes + ladders)
Comment on Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron - A One Page RPG
auroz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I’ve never understood these 1-page RPGs that just involve rolling a die to determine an event from a list that modifies scores, over and over. Where’s the roleplaying? Where’s the agency? I love a good short RPG but this just feels like a number generator with no story attached.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency” which is the woke point of RPGs.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency”
And now you know what it was like to be one of Lord Byron’s ladyfriends.
snooggums@midwest.social 2 months ago
Randomness is the opposite of player agency, yet is still a core part of most RPGs.
This one pager has zero role playing though, and is barely a game.
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d disagree with that. Randomness is orthogonal to player agency. Both can exist at once.
Donkter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Seems like a fun tongue-in-cheek thing to give one of your players inside another campaign to determine how their time with lors Byron went.
snooggums@midwest.social 2 months ago
Which is something different than a RPG…