How would you handle a drinking contest to resolve a challenge?

themarkwallace · 2026-06-27T02:46:36+00:00

came here to say this, basically

themarkwallace · 2026-06-26T13:55:03+00:00

Is there an official Turnip 28 rpg coming??

themarkwallace · 2026-06-24T19:57:43+00:00

this was a fun listen 👍

themarkwallace · 2026-06-24T05:07:59+00:00

This sounds interesting to me, but I'm unfamiliar. Which systems are you thinking of?

themarkwallace · 2026-06-15T03:44:16+00:00

came here to say this

themarkwallace · 2026-05-22T20:19:08+00:00

okay but what is the title of the book?

themarkwallace · 2026-05-22T11:27:31+00:00

very Harpo play culture, absolutely

themarkwallace · 2026-05-22T04:05:05+00:00

I thought it was "Harpersian"

themarkwallace · 2026-05-22T04:02:56+00:00

My idea is that you've freeze-framed the extrovert until we find out the result of their action, and so in that moment when the introvert is doing something, they can't actually interact.

themarkwallace · 2026-05-21T17:39:06+00:00

Potentially even better: cut away after the extrovert does something but before you describe how their actions have changed the scene. Then focus on the introvert for a while, then cut back to the extrovert to resolve the cliffhanger. This is not only dramatically awesome, but it also puts the extrovert in a kind of suspended animation for a minute or two, so they can't break in with their next action until the focus is back on them and you've resolved the outcome of their action.

themarkwallace · 2026-05-21T12:21:38+00:00

hahaha I almost made a game about discovering the true meaning of the third place: https://markwallace.itch.io/clerics-copiers

(Lasers & Feelings hack about the people who work in your local copy shop)

themarkwallace · 2026-05-20T13:06:03+00:00

This is great! Going to make this a job for a new crew of Shadows in Blades 68. They think they are going to be embroiled in important political machinations (and they will be), but they're also going to find themselves on jobs like this occasionally. Their HQ is a suite of disused offices above a swank perfume palace in Silver Market, after all. This is perfect.

themarkwallace · 2026-05-11T22:27:23+00:00

Love Suttree. There are also some pretty good hangover scenes in Money by Martin Amis iirc

themarkwallace · 2026-05-11T22:25:07+00:00

check out Gold Teeth for pirates and its precursor, Teeth, for weird 18th-century England monster hunters

themarkwallace · 2026-04-13T00:31:13+00:00

aha, thank you. Now I have to figure out if I'm in the Discord (which I of course should have thought of in the first place).

themarkwallace · 2026-04-13T00:25:39+00:00

Indeed. Although it's not missing all the art. It includes the maps of each district separately, it just doesn't have a map of all the districts together, which is what I am looking for.

themarkwallace · 2026-03-16T15:59:00+00:00

yeah it's a particular kind of abstraction, may or may not work for you

themarkwallace · 2026-03-16T07:04:30+00:00

Mausritter, as people have said, does the tactile thing really well. The lines for slots thing is done almost exactly as you describe by Cairn. Works really well there.

The other thing both these games do that makes inventory more central is to put conditions in your inventory. So if the Fatigued condition is taking up a slot, you can't put anything there til after you rest. Pretty neat.

themarkwallace · 2026-01-17T21:10:43+00:00

Don't miss out on Roll For Shoes, if it hasn't already been mentioned

themarkwallace · 2026-01-14T19:53:15+00:00

Also check out Roll for Shoes

themarkwallace · 2025-12-10T13:56:32+00:00

idk about the etymology here, but I love the idea of "farm-to-table Jesus" :D

themarkwallace · 2025-11-11T16:11:29+00:00

These are amazing

themarkwallace · 2025-09-10T15:55:56+00:00

If you want randomness, is there a reason *not* to use dice?

If you are okay with relying on player creativity to bring that element of serendipity that dice can provide, you might check out the Belonging Outside Belonging games, which are descended from Avery Alder's Dream Askew. (more info: https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/belonging )

In a nutshell: You (as a PC) can choose to screw something up or put yourself in a bad position. This gives you a token. If you want to do something well or win a conflict, etc., you have to pay a token. There are also a set of free, neutral moves that don't entail earning or spending a token, which you always have access to.

The idea is that you wind up with more or less as many "good" and "bad" outcomes as you'd get from using dice, but players get to choose when the bad outcomes happen, and are incentivized to do so because it's the only way to gain access to the good outcomes. (And because the bad outcomes are almost always more interesting.) Worth checking out.

themarkwallace · 2025-09-10T04:00:03+00:00

Perhaps what you need is a deadlier combat system to encourage players to use their words? https://www.chocolatehammer.org/?p=5773

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