I played a cool little game, First Ride/Last Ride, by Jason Morningstar. It's built as a solo game from the ground up, so no need to graft a GM emulator onto it or anything. How cool is that?
http://adoptedbymentor.blogspot.com/2017/05/1st-ride-last.html
Thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteCool.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't get the mechanisms. For example, "We note that Dan half-asses things."
And then? What does that mean for the game? And how do you come up with new scenes?
Sophia Brandt yeah, that's difficult to answer without giving the game away. I know that's a frustrating answer, but I'll give it a go.
ReplyDeleteEach of the two parts of the text is divided into 6 chapters. Each chapter details a vignette of Dan's life, a situation he's confronted with. These are pre-written, you don't come up with scenes yourself.
At the end of each vignette, the text asks you to write about a memory that it triggers for Dan. After you write that, it gives you multiple choice answers of how you deal with that chapters situation. Based on your answer, Dan has a tag assigned to him.
At the end of the game, you review the tags and write a little thing about what kind of man Dan is, based on them. If you give a certain type of answer more than twice, then you have to add some negative things that the text prescribes.
The author has written a few LARP games in the past that are more similar to improv theatre exercises than D&D, and I think that influence shows strongly here.