#the ground itself

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played THE GROUND ITSELF ?

By Everest Pipkin

A GM-less narrative game for 2-5 players about what happens in a single place across time, scope ranging from days to thousands of years. It's played with a deck of cards, a six sided die and a coin

[indiepressrevolution]

Now at IPR: The Ground Itself

The Ground Itself is a one-session storytelling game for 2-5 players, played with a coin, a six-sided die, and a deck of cards.

Focusing on place- one specific place, chosen by the group - The Ground Itself unfolds over radically disparate time periods that may range from 4 days to 18,000 years. By casting wildly into time, it considers how places both change and remember themselves. Fundamentally, The Ground Itself is about the echoes and traces we leave for others after we are gone.

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/The-Ground-Itself-Print-PDF.html

[aoifereal]

Very excited to be playing the ground itself in run up to a monsterhearts campaign two extremely fun games that will link together so well. Pumped innit

[literarywizard]

We're Finally Starting Heart: The City Beneath Next Session

This is the last time I'm going to write about preparing to play Heart: The City Beneath. Next time I write about it, I'll have finally played it and I cannot contain how excited I am to finally be playing a non Pathfinder/D&D game. I can't wait.

We finally finished The Ground Itself. Our final ten showed up as our second draw and then, as we wrapped up the game, I moved us into talking about what our first session of Heart: The City Beneath would look like. I checked in with my players, asked about some thematic stuff, and then pushed us into talking about characters and how to tie all the excellent worldbuilding we’d done to the systems…

[wheelie-butch]

due to scheduling I couldn't get my whole monsterhearts group together for a worldbuilding session but I really wanted to play The Ground Itself to set up the town so what we're actually doing is I'm playing the game in 3 segments instead of the usual 4 and doing each segment with one person individually. I'm letting them know what happened in the last one and the time skips are several decades so hopefully it can work out okay. I'm not sure it'll be quite as good as being all together would be but I think it's going to be the best compromise we can manage. Did the first one today, excited to see how it turns out :)

[theoldkyokodied]

Daywoman. Fighter of the Nightwoman!! (more genderbend screenshot redraws + an outfit design for charlie's and denise's short-lived glam rock band + guest appearance of THE duster. Because i love that thing.)

[blaiddraws]

dragon based on the theoretical Lockheed CL-1201. giant cryptid in the sky

[beatriceportinari]

[video description: a striped blue dice is thrown and becomes transparent as it reaches and rolls on the ground. a dark blue octopus is slowly revealed inside. the environments are decorated with motifs inspired by cretan murals.]

Trapped in a dice for quite a while, the cretan octopus contents itself by influencing the throws

[drakkonyan]

The future never forgets the events that shaped it The past awaits for better times to come

[ariadne-mouse]

In all this C3 discourse about what the main themes are I have seen viewpoints all over the board. I have also noticed some posts/tags/replies are particularly fired up saying that those who disagree with them are ignoring or putting down the perspectives of people of color. I have also watched some of these same users dunk on posts that are written by people of color, some of whom are sharing their family's irl experience under imperialism/colonialism, or why they either don't think that theme fits in C3 in the ways proposed by fandom or that it would have poor implications if it did, or even just saying that it's way more complicated than how the theme is being presented in these arguments - and then lump them into the complaint of "people ignoring perspectives of POC". Like, yes, it is absolutely a fandom issue that perspectives of people of color get ignored, shut down, or undervalued. But these perspectives are not a monolith and to pretend that they are - or that they must clearly be aligned with a specific view - is reductive and presumptuous, and indeed contributes to that very fandom issue. So in the fervor to decry those ignoring perspectives of POC, perhaps pause to consider - regardless of your own identity but especially if you are white - whether you might be doing that yourself in the exact same breath.

[nostalgebraist]

Due to recent experiences, I am feeling an urge to make an anti-drug-style PSA except it's warning impressionable machine-learning-curious teens to never, ever try a thing called "Huggingface transformers Trainer"

Not. Even. Once.

[mayasaura]

I don't really know where this lands on the scale of basic to hot take, but I don't see the locked tomb as a very overtly political series. Like yeah, it has a lot of subtext you can interpret politically, obviously, if that's your jam. but to me, the series has always been an intimate exploration of existing as a badly uncomfortable and isolated person. there are a lot of different reasons people in the series are fucked up, but the important thing to me is that they are. and that they're being witnessed. To me it's a love letter to all the deeply fucked up people out there (esp the deeply fucked up lesbians) saying "you exist, and someone sees you"

Edit: Since apparently people are linking to this post to interpret and argue with it indirectly, let me clarify. I don't mean the story is apolitical. I mean that as I see the story unfolding, the central narrative is focused on the characters, and the heart of the narrative is human connection and character exploration. Of course there are political themes being explored—I've posted a lot about them myself—but that exploration is about asking a lot of questions I don't expect the series to necessarily answer.

Tamsyn Muir doesn't have the answer to colonialism. She does have the answer as to what will happen to two mentally unwell painfully lonely girls I suspect we've all grown quite attached to.

[serpentface]

Another Whitecalf tarot card image- (reversed) temperance

[yoosung-ah]

a brief summary of Mystic Messenger (OG edition) x

[literarywizard]

Going Off The Rails After Adding Trains

I wouldn't have guessed that a collaborative storytelling game could feel like it's gone off the rails, but this one certainly has. I'm just wowed by the work my players are doing and too excited to play in this space to be patient for our next session.

I genuinely did not think that I’d ever look at a game of The Ground Itself that I’m using as a means of doing collaborative worldbuilding for a different game and think “this has clearly gone off the rails,” but that’s what I’ve found myself doing as I review the notes from my Sunday group’s latest session. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, mind you, just something that has gone far beyond all…

[wheelie-butch]

heheheh making plays to hack The Ground Itself to prep for monsterhearts season babyyyyy