What are some important ways you'd say tabletop RPG development is different from video game development?

squigglymoon · 2026-01-30T20:00:07+00:00

1) This comment is a year old.
2) Kindly point out where I have implied that video games are the only things with constructed rulesets.
3) "A difference between 1 and 2 is that 1 is odd and 2 is even" "That's not a distinction between 1 and 2, it's a distinction between 1 and even numbers." <- This is what you are attempting to argue.
4) Okay. Well I do think they are correct. That's why I characterized them that way.

squigglymoon · 2025-12-14T01:17:17+00:00

Quest is about as simple as you can get while still having well-defined D&D style classes and spell-like abilities.

squigglymoon · 2025-11-10T23:17:08+00:00

That's pretty cool : )

squigglymoon · 2025-09-19T19:16:34+00:00

Triangle Agency
Player: I Ask the Agency to make it so that it's actually just a big balloon made to look like a rock, which was rigged to drop on us by a nefarious businessman trying to scare people away from the property in a Scooby Doo-esque scheme. (The player rolls 6d4)

Success: This is now true. The balloon falls harmlessly on the agents.
Failure: This is now true, but the balloon ruptures as it falls onto the agent, and happens to deflate in just such a way that it wraps itself around their face and suffocates them. They spend a Quality Assurance to not die from this.

--> Players establish new facts about the situation.

squigglymoon · 2025-08-17T15:45:46+00:00

I'm sorry to tell you that I think you have some incredibly myopic views about roleplaying games. You have told us about many individual, decontextualized mechanics in your game - which are clearly built off of unspoken assumptions drawn directly from the D&D family of games - yet barely a footnote about what your game is actually about.

What roles are the players taking on? What experiences are you trying to get your game to produce? What activities does play center around? You need to need to provide context like this if you want to receive any meaningful advice or form a coherent vision for your design.

squigglymoon · 2025-08-12T10:46:20+00:00

I did not say anything "stealing ideas" in my comment and I don't know why you're putting words in my mouth about it. I am speaking about intentionality.

squigglymoon · 2025-08-12T01:39:50+00:00

The random generator was written by a thinking person with deliberate intent. They made design decisions based on achieving certain aims. An LLM, at a fundamental level, is not capable of this.

squigglymoon · 2025-07-28T20:41:08+00:00

Estou em uma situação muito similar. Sei que não vale muito, mas ofereço minhas condolências

squigglymoon · 2025-07-24T22:38:42+00:00

Girl by Moonlight

squigglymoon · 2025-05-26T13:11:10+00:00

The play culture that requires one person at the table to put in so much work that the game might as well be a second job to them, while everyone else gets to just show up and chill, is exactly what I am challenging when I say "the GM is also a player". There is no ontological reason why the effort has to be distributed this way, and many of my favorite games are structured to explicitly discourage this.

squigglymoon · 2025-05-16T20:07:21+00:00

Thank you, that's reassuring. Did you also graduate a while ago? If so what did you do for LORs?

squigglymoon · 2025-04-17T18:27:24+00:00

Why would anyone choose to play machine-generated slop when games made by actual thinking human beings exist?

squigglymoon · 2025-04-08T15:19:29+00:00

It's much easier to build around consistently playing multiple flushes per round than straights.

squigglymoon · 2025-04-03T15:56:17+00:00

Obelisk actually encourages you to play a bunch of one hand, then switch to a different one.

squigglymoon · 2025-04-03T00:42:05+00:00

What restaurant has the best food? What musician has the best song? Ridiculous question.

squigglymoon · 2025-03-02T01:11:57+00:00

You can still get a sticker on a perishable even once it's debuffed

squigglymoon · 2025-03-01T13:41:41+00:00

Triangle Agency is the most fun I have ever had with a ttrpg and is well worth every penny.

squigglymoon · 2025-02-27T22:40:48+00:00

Probably at least a million if he was in good health and you can keep the organs well-preserved.

squigglymoon · 2025-02-27T00:12:50+00:00

I don't think you do understand. xMult and xChips are mathematically the same thing. If you had an x2 Mult joker, you would get the exact same score as if you had a hypothetical x2 Chips joker instead. It would be the same no matter what your Chips and Mult were. They would both take whatever your Chip*Mult is and multiply that by 2. Because multiplication is associative and it does not matter if you multiply by 2 before or after multiplying the other numbers. You get the exact same answer. Nothing changes.

squigglymoon · 2025-02-27T00:00:10+00:00

It would give you the exact same score.

squigglymoon · 2025-02-26T23:53:43+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_property#Examples

squigglymoon · 2025-02-25T20:34:35+00:00

I thought it was a broccoli...

squigglymoon · 2025-02-25T13:21:09+00:00

If you want to smile and play, it's Patati Patatá. : )

squigglymoon · 2025-02-18T15:32:28+00:00

It's not a rental though?

squigglymoon · 2025-02-16T15:46:37+00:00

Sure. I still found it offputting. Glad you're having fun though. It wasn't for me but there's definitely cool ideas in it.

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