Quote from: Rob Necronomicon on December 23, 2021, 01:06:30 PM

Quote from: Fighterboy on December 22, 2021, 08:47:51 AM
"a solo game in which you make sandwiches, and the way you make the sandwich determines how you tell a story about visiting a fantasy land."

What type of gonad would actually play such a piece of shit?

Anyone on the clock at Subway?

Quote from: Omega on December 23, 2021, 04:06:57 AM
Some years ago I came across a solo RPG where you advanced through a dungeon based on how many and what type of exercises you performed and how healthy you ate. Actually not a bad little game and a novel way to get people to exercise.

There was another where you were isolated in your room and had to survive by foraging for things around the house.

Yeah. I've played plenty of short party games and/or story games over the years - some were fun, some not. The term "role-playing game" is used for anything from computer games from Nethack to Mass Effect, D&D, live-action games where you swing padded weapons, theater-like games, and eclectic solo games like the ones cited on Itch.

As Fighterboy says, this probably doesn't even belong in this forum, since this is for talking about traditional tabletop RPGs.

I have been watching this, mainly from the old-school end. itch.io has definitely turned into a lab for experimenting with indie lefty weirdo LGBTUIOP games. This branch of "the OSR" has effectively turned itself into a new version of storygames by renouncing the old-school framework and just drifting out into weirdness.

I suspect there is a generational aspect to it; the difference being that the people involved in the Storygames community were theoretically informed (well, not the kind of theory that people here appreciate) and wanted to put that theory into practice, while the itch.io people mostly seem to be ignorant of that stuff, and want to work outwards from aesthetics. The aestheticcc is either tumblr-type cutesy artwork, or 1970s-to-1990s inspired graphic designery.

The supplements I have bought from there have mostly been trying to create or explore new forms and new ideas of gaming, but they just tend to flail around, or do surface-level copies of existing, functional game types. The end result is very cargo cultish in the sense that it is very high on aesthetics and utter incoherent weirdness, but completely lacking in craft. They have no stable, functional framework to carry the high-concept ideas they are supposed to be bringing to the table, so i. Most of them are undercooked thought experiments, and I suspect not many of them get actual play. There are occasional flashes of competence, but they are largely from people who already know what they were doing. The few gems are surrounded

It might work if it were a rpg based on

The Big Purple is a website about Tabletop RPGs (supposedly) that praises a terrorist group in its top line.

I don't know what you're expecting, but if it's sanity you need to lower your expectations.

Quote from: Fighterboy on December 22, 2021, 05:19:42 AM
OK, actually it's old pretentious wankery at the Purple Place which has had new posts to bring it back to life, so if it's been discussed here before please accept my apologies!

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/paul-czege-on-the-wild-energy-of-the-itch-io-ttrpg-scene-or-my-life-with-itch.853603/

There's a post in there praising an "RPG" whose core mechanic is based on making sandwiches. Sandwiches!!!

I no longer have anything in common with the place...

I would seriously eat the hell out of a Pizza RPG