#texts based rpg

[worldofmetahumans]

A status competition? Yes yes, this is a very special event on World of MetaHumans! You better check it out right now. :wink: :tada:

[marblesstorystudio]

❀ Revamp Coming in January! ❀ Itch ❀ Official Spotify Playlist

❀ Will you embrace your destiny or choose to avert your gaze?

Betrayed by your mothers and sent away to become a prophet, loneliness became an old friend, and an intense longing for connection stirs deep within you.

Hoping to escape the monotony of your life—training to become a Living Prophet and delivering parcels all over the Southern Territories isn’t as fun as it sounds—you seek solace in the nightflowers that grow in Caligo. 

It’s not like you have a choice, anyway, considering your dwindling medication and the irritating withdrawal symptoms (you've blown up one too many dormitories). Maybe you shouldn’t have put this off for so long, but the thought of being in your parents’ old home … well, let’s just say you aren’t ready to revisit their memory.

❀ Welcome to Caligo. Our Sovereign is pleased with your interest.

Caligo exists in the Dark Realm, home to the Sovereign and her Crimson Court. Famous for its nightflowers, Caligo is the place to go if you want medicine, poisons, glamours, or even cures.

Twin moons cast an ethereal glow upon you, illuminating the blue haze that swirls through the land. 

Unclimbable mountains overlook lush, fertile land that covers Insomnium, Umbra, Tenebrae, and the Crimson Court in nightflowers.

Though wet, chilly, and sunless, the beauty of this ancient place still prevails.

❀ choose your name; select your gender & pronoun ❀ customize your character's face & body; choose an outfit ❀ select 1 of 4 unique belief systems ❀ romance 1 of 2 male love interests or focus on creating deep bonds of friendship ❀ guide your character's decisions & determine their fate

[starbase777]

When you have the desire to write four paragraphs of deep lore about your OC's history including a fine combination of angst and character progression but have no energy to do it

[larkingame]

a sneak peak at the new larkin...

[voidwarlock-studios]

My interpretations of a few of @within-your-eyes-if 's characters! I gave Leese some eye bags because of all the inner turmoil he has to deal with. Lyth's design was heavily influenced by Heaven Official's Blessing. I kept imagining both him and Xiang as if they were in that universe.

I'm excited to see how the story progresses!!

[enchi-elm]

Right, gonna drop this into the ether just before bed and maybe someone'll see it who can solve this for me.

I swear--I have this in firm memory--that floating around the internet somewhere is a beautifully scripted text-based RPG called some variant of Guinevere where you play as Guinevere. (a few years ago, I dunno, 2019? Earlier?)

It is only text. It is the most lo-fi production ever, it is text on a slightly off-white background, and it was utterly transporting. There were paths that turned you into a powerful sorceress. You could be into Arthur or not, into anyone or not, you could go a magic route or a political power route or a "I just want to love someone and have fun" route, it was exquisitely done. 10/10 storytelling. It starts off the day you get married and follows your early life at Camelot.

And I bookmarked it because I got through two chapters of it and it was still under construction or something and I have lost the bookmark and both DuckDuckGo and the tumblr search engine are determined to keep me in the dark and to make matters worse, somehow there's now a Choices story about Guinevere and the only thing that's even remotely relevant that comes up as results are related to that app. But it wasn't an app! It was a browser-based text-based RPG and it was beautiful and I can't find it.

[barracuda-shark-games]

Interactive Fiction Poll

Example for Option 1:

First Page has a series of answers for what gender(s) your character experiences attraction to, if any. Second page allows you to specify whether that attraction is only romantic, only sexual, or both. Et cetera.

[thescrump]

I really wanna do a sort of.. text based rpg, or choose your own adventure book, where the desicions of the main character are entirely controlled by whatever people on tumblr say.

what do you think?

[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

[worldofmetahumans]

An underrated hero, but still an amazing one! Share your opinion on Black Canary today on https://worldofmetahumans.com/ !!

[falloutnewnobody]

you know the computer game gonna be good when it got 400,000+ words to read with your own eyes, many of which will make you stare out the window for fourty miniutes contemplating everything youve ever done

[rottenzombrainz]

God damn my girl is going through some shit....

[signalhill-if]

Psst. I'm planning to run a game of Apocalypse World in the Signal Hill universe on Fridays. It's a narrative-heavy TTRPG, and the one that directly inspired Signal Hill. And obviously it'll have, y'know, all of the stuff from the actual game in it. It will be over Discord voice chat, and either in the afternoon or later EST.

You can check out the playbooks and basic rules here. I'll be homebrewing some changes to fit with the universe, and I may also do some homebrew modifications to the playbooks if people have killer ideas. The overarching political story will be the same as the plot of Signal Hill, but instead of playing the lone survivor hunting for answers, you can play... basically anyone you want. Go wild, if I get a lot of submissions I will probably pick based on who gives me the coolest character concept haha.

I've got a basic form up that you can submit to if you're interested, and if I get enough interest and can arrange something, I'll get in contact.

If you've got any questions, feel free to send me an ask or DM!

(Also I feel like I gotta clarify because this is prominently a game with romance and sexuality, I will not be doing any NPC romances because you are fans of my game and I would find that morally questionable 😎 So please do not sign up because you want to date Doc. You can hang out with him though)

[larkingame]

Engage in an exclusively sapphic romance with the town's resident heiress, Celina Sokolova in Larkin! Demo out now!

[dungeonofthedragon]

TTRPGs suitable for: Play by Post!

My first ten or so years of role-playing were purely play-by-post: warrior cats and dragons adventuring on online forums and message boards (shout out to Darkflame the dragon and Coldstone the kitty.) There was one very memorable Fallen London role-play over email too!

I suppose the modern equivalent would be a game in DMs, or maybe a discord text channel. In any case, for various reasons, many people prefer to play games in written form! However, some game systems are difficult to utilise in this format.

Here are some games that make for wonderful text-based adventures. All are GMless and/or diceless, so there's no awkward halt while you wait for a GM's roll.

Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine is a diceless game I've been waiting to get my greedy little hands on for some time. It focuses on fantastical slice-of-life stories. This reddit thread has great advice for running it as a play-by-post game!

There are plenty of available adventures for this system too! Adventures such as To Rob Death's Dominion, A Pawn's Gambit and the creator's own Halloween Special.

For the Grail is a GMless and diceless game of Arthurian knights on a grand quest. While it was designed for physical play, I've been playing it online with a group of friends and it's a lot of fun!

Law Bringers is a diceless game designed for space fantasy adventures such as Star Wars, but which works well for pseudo-medieval fantasy as well. It's also completely free!

Lordsworn is a GMless rpg of tragic, broken warriors struggling to survive after the destruction of their god in a cataclysmic war. It uses 4-sided dice. When a player rolls these dice, they keep their results secret from the other players, making it perfect for this style of play. Each player controls three Lordsworn, providing a good variety of dynamics to explore during their travels.

Magica is a one-page rpg about magical girls. It is GMless but players use six-sided dice to resolve events. Also, each magical girl is secretly in love with one of the others. Messy fun indeed!

Feel free to reblog with examples of your own!

[goofballproximitysurveyor]

I kind of want to make a poll about your parents also being nerds bc i think it’s funny a lot of my friends either have at least one parent with more or less the same interests or they have extremely “normie” parents meanwhile I do have incredibly nerdy parents but they both have honestly pretty different interests from me we never have much to talk about in terms of that.