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millenniumbreak · 9 days ago

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Haven't got through the realis episodes yet but just that the text is meant to be a game written in setting from a single and biased perspective, and Austin saying he'd be interested in doing further stuff from another in-setting perspective.

I am now captivated by the possibility (or impossibility) of Bug Realis. Explicitly how would you rewrite Realis if you were trying to play it as a bug, or even a swarm of bugs, who live under an imperialist state?

Hypercollaborative storytelling? Crowd play? The stronger your sentence the more people have to say it- and the saying of it allows them to change it mid sentence? This is nothing but I'm having fun here.

It's like how you get communist or capitalist rewrites of board games, but the ideology presented is "it's sick as hell to be a ginormous insect and/or multiple large bugs."

#distinctly in my head is the image of like. oh no the imperial swarm is besieging these planets and then resarchers studying the patterns #and its like hang on. the siege isnt even the goal here its a means of communication between multiple swarms #and then rhey decipher it further and its actually these swarms playing a hack of hit moonfolk tabletop game realis adapted for swarm play #and then how would you go about playing the game as a human? You're on an entierly seperate wavelength but you gotta figure it out #and then you translate that into a ttrpg #and thats the game im looking for. realis for bugs for humans #realis #this is also partly inspired by arps post about how it sucks that the setting goes these people are so evil they turned into bugs #and like im not giving them the benefit of the doubt here i do think thats what they were doing but it did lead me down the path of #how would you rewrite this game that exists in setting if you were a bug who got it and wanted to play

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