#TTRPG Twitter, what are some of your favorite one-page/micro RPGs that can be looked at online? This is a request for any and all recommendations. I am particularly but not exclusively interested in ones with very collaborative storytelling and quantifiable goals/win conditions.
If you're asking how I'm defining "micro RPGs"... I'm not. I'm thinking "maybe the author was aiming for a one page RPG and missed" but I'm not going to be picky or prickly about this.
Also, a lot of the great one page RPGs I've seen before, I saw as Twitter posts by the person who made them, so if you're wondering if it's cool to just boost your own... yes, yes, it's very cool. I hope you do and will.
And this is not for a round-up post or anything. I am trying to acquire the skills of brevity, clarity, and simplicity and I would like to see how a variety of other people do it.
Please do not be constrained by assumptions about what you're sure I've seen. The thing is I have discovered I don't actually remember what of the micro RPGs I enjoyed reading/learning about were, or what they were called, or where I saw them.
This thing I think is at the root of a lot of cis gender ideology and how they tie it in with sexuality: to ciscentric society, gender is waaaay more about sorting people for sexual relations than it is for anything else.
They can't imagine someone having the conviction that they are a particular gender unless there was some sexual reason because that (to them) is what gender is for.
Like, whatever reason it is that I say I'm a woman... if I'm not being motivated by a gendered sexual desire, it's unfathomable to them that I could care that much for it to be worth saying so or throwing my life into upheaval over it.
I'm working on a micro RPG (not a one pager, for more reasons than just "I'm so verbose it should be verboten") where the players are a group of ghosts awakened by an (unwittingly) psychic family moving into the house they haunt.
The game's setting lore assumes that ghosts are dormant most of the time because psychic energy leaking from the living is what animates them and this energy is most available when humans are afraid of ghosts without being confident ghosts exist.
Fear activates the psychic energy, but fear of ghosts specifically directs it towards the ghosts. If the humans are certain that the ghosts are real, though, their energy redirects inward as they attempt to deal rationally with the situation.
This is a fun warm-up exercise meant to help writers write with fewer inhibitions and hesitations. It's open to anybody who wants to join in.
You can participate on Twitter or off, even just out loud or in your head.
Today we're using the random animal list generator at randomlists.com/random-animals. When you click that link, you should get a list of six different animals with pictures. You can refresh to get others if you're not feeling the first mix.
One of your six animals has just announced something. Who is it, and what do they say? (You can decide based on the pictures, or the order of the list, or whatever makes sense to you.)
It was the bathtub running at odd hours of the night. It's not unusual for someone to have insomnia and take a bath at three in the morning in our house, but when we heard the water running when we were all awake downstairs, we knew something was up.
The footprints were a big clue, and so were the glimpses of a spectral tail whipping around a corner, but of course we couldn't confirm it was an alligator until we got a good look at the snout... at the cost of a rotisserie chicken. #NiNoBilMa#GhostGator
When we were getting glimpses of it, it was hard to be sure of what we were seeing... but when we saw it going through the locked door up into the attic as though the door wasn't there, we knew the gator wasn't.
Okay, time for another #NiNoBilMa game! Today I'm going to tweet the questions all at once, like yesterday, but I'm going to spread my own answers out for reasons of greater visibility/exposure in the algorithm.
Yesterday's game is here. It's still 100% doable if you're interested in it, there's no expiration date on these.
Today's #NiNoBilMa game is: There's An Alligator In The House! Anybody who wants a fun creative writing warm-up and mental icebreaker is welcome to participate.
I'm beginning to realize the extent to which reactionary Christian conservatives need to make bad things *worse*, because they don't want us thinking that burning a religious symbol is itself inherently bad, in case they see a chance to do it to someone themselves.
Like, they would all cheerfully wipe their backsides with anyone else's flag. We have seen via terrorist intimidation displays by police that they will applaud someone who hauls down the flag of the United States itself if it's replaced with one more to their liking.
So when somebody comes for one of their symbols... it can't just be enough that the symbol mattered to them and it can't just be enough that the symbol was physically their property, because they don't want those things to be seen as inherently protecting a symbol.