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.
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.
Which is something different than a RPG…
Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency” which is the whole point of RPGs.
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. It is clever and funny as a concept though.
Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency”
And now you know what it was like to be one of Lord Byron’s ladyfriends.
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)
I dunno about a fun game to play, but it’s a really neat way to explore Markov chains!
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.
ITT: People who don’t understand that this is a joke and not a game anyone is expected to actually play.
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.
I can see this being the framework of a great drinking game
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