Dan Maruschak
The #PrompterHawk may be showing signs of fatigue, but this majestic yet terrifying beast will continue to hunt the area for at least four more days! #TTRPG
Aug 10, 2022 at 3:30pmWeb
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11. Have you ever played an RPG character that was different enough that it felt truly other than human, beyond just wearing virtual SFX makeup? If you haven’t, do you think it’s possible and do you want to? #NonhumanRPG
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12. Have you ever participated in a game jam or design contest? Why or why not? #LogJam
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13. Is there a game or other topic that used to seem like a big deal in gaming discussions that you’ve noticed nobody seems to talk about anymore? #WhatEverHappenedTo
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14. Have you ever been completely sure about an RPG rule only to discover you were wrong after looking it up? What was the rule and what prompted looking it up? #IWasWrongRPG
Show threadThorAug 13, 2022
@DanMaruschak Everything from the forge. IAWA, MLWM, DITV all the four letter games.
Show threadTabletop HotdishAug 11, 2022

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Oh yeah, I've participated in both. I think around 2015 my thinking was "i'm not a game designer but i'd like to be, so let's do this for practice". So I did Avery Alder's rentpunk challenge, and @PaulCzege 's Threeforged. And those were fun, and I felt like "real games" resulted from them, so I did a few more. 200 word rpg competition, some others. Golden cobra. Idk. At some point it started to feel like an exercise for scene cred, which I no longer cared about, so I stopped

Show threadCyanCqueakAug 11, 2022

@DanMaruschak I've submitted to the 200 Word RPG contest and participated in Three forged.

I've always enjoyed the challenge of coming up with a game idea that can be concisely expressed.

Show threadCyanCqueakAug 11, 2022

@DanMaruschak With beyond SFX, you mean doesn't think or behave as a human would? That's tricky, as 1) human behaviour varies a lot and 2)it's quite easy to connect a behaviour to a human behaviour.

Does it require an entirely new behaviour? Does that behaviour require a logic or emotion behind it that a human could not resolve or feel?

If I perturbate my frjonds when I'm hungry, is that beyond human? Is it different from licking lips?

A puzzle indeed.

Show threadDan MaruschakAug 11, 2022
@cyancqueak I think the question invites considering both what it means to be nonhuman and what it means to roleplay someone/something. Can we use roleplaying to attempt to better understand something unlike ourselves? Or would the fact that we believe we could roleplay something call into question whether we're truly conceptualizing it as other?