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Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron - A One Page RPG

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I've never understood these 1-page RPGs that just involve rolling a die to determine an event from a list that modifies scores, over and over. Where's the roleplaying? Where's the agency? I love a good short RPG but this just feels like a number generator with no story attached.

Donkter

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Seems like a fun tongue-in-cheek thing to give one of your players inside another campaign to determine how their time with lors Byron went.

snooggums

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Which is something different than a RPG...

Worx

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I was thinking I must have missed something because I feel the same way. If a dice-rolling machine can play the game then what's the point (I'm looking at you, snakes + ladders)

pennomi

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Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency” which is the whole point of RPGs.

FlyingSquid

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Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency”

And now you know what it was like to be one of Lord Byron's ladyfriends.

snooggums

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Randomness is the opposite of player agency, yet is still a core part of most RPGs.

This one pager has zero role playing though, and is barely a game. It is clever and funny as a concept though.

pennomi

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I’d disagree with that. Randomness is orthogonal to player agency. Both can exist at once.