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[The Strange] Odd thought: Tvtropes as Recursion building aid

Started by Nexus, March 11, 2016, 08:07:55 AM

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Nexus

#15
March 20, 2016, 11:30:06 AM
Thanks!

And the tropes don't have to have mechanical representation or directly role playing. Some might just be descriptive or set dressing. A Recursion seeded from US movies might only have phone numbers with 555-, the classic L shaped sheets or apparently no unattractive people. Visual short hand might be a reality like XXX brand booze being the only thing sold or anime based Recursion might actually have actual pixelation whenever someone took off their clothes.

Seeing if these things strike someone  as odd could be a simple test to see if a local has the Spark.

Some of the character tropes could provide some inspirations for new Foci even descriptors specific to the Recursion.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

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Nexus

#16
March 20, 2016, 01:15:11 PM
Here's a more instructional video. Its a two parter and its long.l

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NcanVthL8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aD1fOU2LpM
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

Mostlyjoe

#17
March 20, 2016, 11:46:52 PM
I find TVTropes a useful setting seed idea, but it's also a trap. One of the problem with TVTropes layout is it's an onion of sub-sub-sub variations of a theme. You could almost get a better idea from Story Dice, etc.

The way to use TVTropes without it turning into Russian nesting dolls is to pick a 'layer' of narrative complexity. Just how many tropes down the hole do you want to go, etc.

Nexus

#18
March 25, 2016, 01:12:51 PM
Quote from: Mostlyjoe;886263I find TVTropes a useful setting seed idea, but it's also a trap. One of the problem with TVTropes layout is it's an onion of sub-sub-sub variations of a theme. You could almost get a better idea from Story Dice, etc.

The way to use TVTropes without it turning into Russian nesting dolls is to pick a 'layer' of narrative complexity. Just how many tropes down the hole do you want to go, etc.

Not a bad idea. That site, pompous and over thought as it is sometimes can be a real black hole.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

Maese Mateo

#19
March 25, 2016, 06:31:35 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;885509Without actually  having read The Strange, it does sound like a sound and clever idea to me (from what I know of the gist of it).
The Strange is an awesome game, indeed. The Cypher System really adapts to the concept and makes it easy to handle in game.

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