Heya all, I wrote a (tentative) framework to help support solo play in a shared world. Nominally based on Stranger Things, which is derived from Trollbabe, but the framework is system agnostic other than some examples of how you'd use the mechanical benefits.
Essentially, it works on the idea that the stuff that happens to your character in your game is your Truth, and the stuff that happens to him in other peoples' games is part of his Legend (which you can choose to incorporate as Truth if you want).
So yes, you too can have a character who people think is eight feet tall and shoots flames from his, er, eyes, but is really quite mild-mannered in reality. All it takes is another author asking you if it's okay and then running a solo involving that character in some way (and letting you know at least the gist of what's happened).
More a crystallization of thought than a framework, now that I think of it. But the inspiration bug bit.
https://exposit.github.io/katamoiran/solo%20frameworks/2016/11/26/legend-and-truth.html
Alto Dizi did you see the post I shared with you?
ReplyDeleteI did not but I will look for it!
ReplyDeleteAlex Yari I have never seen Chinatown, just a few classics like Double Indemnity and The Maltese Falcon. But I feel confident I've read enough derived stuff to do a really good (or at least amusing) pastiche, haha.
I think baseline points would be very useful too, but not entirely necessary -- if you don't like someone's "Fact" you just say "that's superstition and Legend!". Kind of how I might not believe in astrology but someone else might live their life by it.
But I might be overly optimistic.
Alto Dizi for sure! Part of the fun is seeing the divergent details in vision.
ReplyDeleteThe reason I like baselines is that sometimes I don't like my own differing detours from a source, so I like to have them as boundaries for myself.
It's cool, though, I'm not stuck on that and if I am, I'll shout out for help.