Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron - A One Page RPG

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ITT: People who don’t understand that this is a joke and not a game anyone is expected to actually play.

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  • blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well I thought it looked rather interesting and fun. The role playing comes from someone agreeing to take the role of Byron and acting things out with the group.

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    • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can see this being the framework of a great drinking game

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is something different than a RPG…

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  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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)

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency” which is the woke point of RPGs.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I dunno about a fun game to play, but it’s a really neat way to explore Markov chains!

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• snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This needs some role playing decisions added to be a role playing game. Like adding a first step of the player choosing something that has a small chance of adding +1 to a category and then doing the listed tables if it isn’t successful.

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