re: this post and this comment from @sarahawke
Interesting approach!! Really looking forward to hearing more about how this goes ☺️
As I mentioned in a prior post (buried somewhere in this past week's avalanche of tumblring, live and queued) I have been meaning to play with a pile of e-zines I found in a massive itch.io charity bundle I originally purchased a year or two ago.
I had never heard of solo table top rpgs much less journaling ttrpgs until I looked through that massive game bundle and found these zines mixed in with digital/computer-based games.
Immediately, I WAS INTRIGUED!!!! (★^O^★)
But it took me a long while to get around to actually using any of them.
I love prompt-based writing. Better yet, I love the synergy that occurs when I need to combine a couple of prompts. Add a picture to the prompt mix and even better. Songs/poetry are also excellent too. (Actually I need to remember that last one as it is something missing from this solo journaling rpgs).
I also like mixing an element of surprise/randomness with an element of choice. Roll the dice or pick a card provides useful randomness so long as the interpretation of the associated prompts gives me choices across multiple pathways of exploration.
For quite a while (before finding these solo journaling RPGs) I have been thinking about how to use tarot cards for a system for prompting creativity. Or a "creative person's tarot of muse energy."
As of this week, my thinking is becoming broader and deeper.
Thinking about how to create many different things, all based on a similar idea: this idea of randomly selecting a series of prompts in combination that allow for choice in interpretation (choice also includes discards/re-rolls).
In a sense, this is my response to what I don't really like about bingo card challenges. For some reason, bingo cards have always fascinated me but when I get my bingo card, 80% of the time it fails to inspire me. Obviously, I could just generate my own bingo cards and create a self-challenge but ... I think the problem is deeper. I want something with a little more structure which is what these solo journalling TTRPGs provide -- you are given a format via the TTRPG's rules that allow you to structure a series of prompts that play off of each other, that connect. But it isn't overly structured. These TTRPG rule sets are always flexible on purpose. Thus, flexible structure for telling a story rather than, say, my stack of incomplete bingo cards over the years.
Have been thinking about making a few of these rule sets myself.
It is always easiest to start off with something designed to be used by fandom for fannish storytelling because that is --- well, interesting to me and guaranteed feedback. ;)
Honestly, I have many other thoughts but I am not quite ready/capable of stringing words together.
But, fwiw, the first solo storytelling/storywriting experimental "tool" in the form of one of these ttrpgs I want create will be for use with DA2 for a variety of reasons-of-convenience.
Perhaps it might shape itself into something that can be run as a fandom challenge and/or as an ongoing prompt-set that people make fanfic for and add to an AO3 collection.
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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS
Too many beds
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss
Really nice guy who hates only you
Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class
Divorce of convenience
Too much communication
True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)
Dating your enemy’s sibling
Lovers to enemies
Hate at first sight
Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead
Fake amnesia
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other
Strangers to enemies
Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating
Too hot to cuddle
Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground
Nursing home au
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Two lovers have reincarnated throughout history, destined to find each other and fall in love all over again. There’s also this third guy that reincarnates alongside them… we don’t really know what he does.
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a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town
academy
adventurer's guild
alchemist
apiary
apothecary
aquarium
armory
art gallery
bakery
bank
barber
barracks
bathhouse
blacksmith
boathouse
book store
bookbinder
botanical garden
brothel
butcher
carpenter
cartographer
casino
castle
cobbler
coffee shop
council chamber
court house
crypt for the noble family
dentist
distillery
docks
dovecot
dyer
embassy
farmer's market
fighting pit
fishmonger
fortune teller
gallows
gatehouse
general store
graveyard
greenhouses
guard post
guildhall
gymnasium
haberdashery
haunted house
hedge maze
herbalist
hospice
hospital
house for sale
inn
jail
jeweller
kindergarten
leatherworker
library
locksmith
mail courier
manor house
market
mayor's house
monastery
morgue
museum
music shop
observatory
orchard
orphanage
outhouse
paper maker
pawnshop
pet shop
potion shop
potter
printmaker
quest board
residence
restricted zone
sawmill
school
scribe
sewer entrance
sheriff's office
shrine
silversmith
spa
speakeasy
spice merchant
sports stadium
stables
street market
tailor
tannery
tavern
tax collector
tea house
temple
textile shop
theatre
thieves guild
thrift store
tinker's workshop
town crier post
town square
townhall
toy store
trinket shop
warehouse
watchtower
water mill
weaver
well
windmill
wishing well
wizard tower
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What was considered peak masculinity back in the 2000s is now considered as little meow meow energy in 2024
This clearly shows how far we've progressed and become even more improved versions of ourselves.
As for this godly man, he's still as fiery and yet so sweet even two decades later, if not more, as he was all those years ago.
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They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven't had your "third" death. You decide to find out why.
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How to show emotions
Part V
How to show grief
a vacant look
slack facial expressions
shaky hands
trembling lips
swallowing
struggling to breathe
tears rolling down their cheeks
How to show fondness
smiling with their mouth and their eyes
softening their features
cannot keep their eyes off of the object of their fondness
sometimes pouting the lips a bit
reaching out, wanting to touch them
How to show envy
narrowing their eyes
rolling their eyes
raising their eyebrows
grinding their teeth
tightening jaw
chin poking out
pouting their lips
forced smiling
crossing arms
shifting their gaze
clenching their fists
tensing their muscles
then becoming restless/fidgeting
swallowing hard
stiffening
holding their breath
blinking rapidly
exhaling sharply
How to show regret
scrubbing a hand over the face
sighing heavily
downturned mouth
slightly bending over
shoulders hanging low
hands falling to the sides
a pained expression
heavy eyes
staring down at their feet
Part I + Part II + Part III + Part IV + Part VI
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time travel fanfic idea where Jason comes back to before he was adopted, him and Batman still meet and he still ends up being adopted by Bruce Wayne, but he just refuses to acknowledge Batman and Robin, he acts like a civilian boy, he has over thirteen extracurriculars that Bruce does his best to keep up with. He regularly works out and trains all the fighting he's learned over the years, he goes on a gap year before college to recuperate the all blades and pretends to be the civilian in a family of crime fighting vigilantes.
He's doing pre-med and keeps nagging his siblings to go to college too (Cass, Tim), Duke is the one who spends more time with him bc everyone else is nocturnal and sleep through the day, but Jason likes to drive Duke to his classes and pick him up so they can have lunch together, Damian had a hard time at first, because Jason speaks every language that he speaks and all bat related things have to stay at the cave, his league training didn't prepare him for a civilian brother.
During an attempted kidnapping during one of the Wayne galas, Jason's whole plan almost gets blow up because one of the guys has taken a woman hostage and his Red Hood fried brain just pounced on the dude with all his might, wrestled him for the gun and kept him stuck under his boot with the gun pointed between the guys brows.
He had to pretend to be scared when Batman came to the rescue and act like he didn't know how to handle a gun.
+ Alfred 100% thinks Jason was on a children gang and that's why he's so good with knives, guns and rifles, but who's he to say anything about people's past
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