#I just thought my guy being created by the reality warper for the purpose of the game and being like five minutes old while he saved the wo | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tmae3114 · 11 months

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the other day, a friend of mine invited me over to testplay a paper-and-pencil storytelling game he's been working on for a while and feels like he's finally got a workable version of and one of his mentioned reasons was that "you're a fellow storyteller, I want to see what you'll do with it"

I promptly created a character which violated exactly zero (0) rules but nonetheless obliterated one of the core intended mechanical limitations of the game and I didn't even do that on purpose

after the game, when we were laughing about this, he admitted that one of his other reasons for asking me specifically to testplay was because he knew that "if there was anything that could be broken, you would find it and break it"

#me #so basically there are two categories of player character that you either control both of #or you play as a team of two and control one each #one character exists within the context of the setting and the other is a reality warper #the rules for these characters are very very simple. the in-context character MUST exist within the setting and understand it to be reality #and the reality warper can do whatever they want to the setting SO LONG AS it does not break the in-universe character's understanding of i #you are. to borrow my friends' phrasing. not allowed to break the fourth wall for the in-context character #how did I completely break this situation without actually violating any rules you may ask?#I made my in-context character be a random guy that my reality warper zapped into existence at the start of the game #thus. his understanding of reality was still forming.#and reality warpers could interact with him at will because HE DOESN'T KNOW THEY'RE /NOT/ SUPPOSED TO BE THERE #again. I did not do this on purpose. I wouldn't even have realised it if he hadn't pointed it out #I just thought my guy being created by the reality warper for the purpose of the game and being like five minutes old while he saved the wo #*world #was REALLY funny

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