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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9337133" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I've bought a bunch of charity RPGs bundles on Itch.io and have finally organized the games I've downloaded neatly into folders--and am now facing the daunting task of actually reading all thousand+ games. In order to make myself do it, I'm writing short reviews for my group's discord, on the grounds that hey, we might want to play them one day. My reviews aren't &quot;professional quality,&quot; but at least they convey what the game is about and how to play it.A lot of the RPGs I got are, IMO, somewhere between what I would consider a typical TTRPG and a board game. There's a fairly narrow purpose and win condition and while there's room for RP within those confines, there's very little to support it outside of them. For instance, I was just looking at one game called <a href="https://ehronlime.itch.io/anotherface" target="_blank">Another Face in the Crowd</a>, a cyberpunk game wherein you have to perform a certain number of actions before the BBEG progresses a certain number of steps on a track. This feels very board-gamey, but you're also supposed to RP the actions you take.Another game I got was called <a href="https://oracle-engine.itch.io/arcane-academia" target="_blank">Arcane Academia</a>--why yes, I am sorting through these games in alphabetical order--which is a &quot;student at a magic boarding school&quot; game. It consists of a series of mini-games, each one representing a class you take or something like mealtimes. Things like &quot;write down your favorite quotes or lyrics or poem on a card, and describe the spell this created based on what you wrote down and the way you recited it&quot; or &quot;open up a real book, pick a specific passage, create a Rumor based on it, and then turn it into a worldbuilding element.&quot; This feels like a solo journaling game, except there's a GM, multiple players, and something akin to leveling up.So, what's the name for games like these?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 9337133, member: 6915329"] I've bought a bunch of charity RPGs bundles on Itch.io and have finally organized the games I've downloaded neatly into folders--and am now facing the daunting task of actually [I]reading [/I]all thousand+ games. In order to make myself do it, I'm writing short reviews for my group's discord, on the grounds that hey, we might want to play them one day. My reviews aren't "professional quality," but at least they convey what the game is about and how to play it. A lot of the RPGs I got are, IMO, somewhere between what I would consider a typical TTRPG and a board game. There's a fairly narrow purpose and win condition and while there's room for RP within those confines, there's very little to support it outside of them. For instance, I was just looking at one game called [URL='https://ehronlime.itch.io/anotherface']Another Face in the Crowd[/URL], a cyberpunk game wherein you have to perform a certain number of actions before the BBEG progresses a certain number of steps on a track. This feels very board-gamey, but you're also supposed to RP the actions you take. Another game I got was called [URL='https://oracle-engine.itch.io/arcane-academia']Arcane Academia[/URL]--why yes, I [I]am [/I]sorting through these games in alphabetical order--which is a "student at a magic boarding school" game. It consists of a series of mini-games, each one representing a class you take or something like mealtimes. Things like "write down your favorite quotes or lyrics or poem on a card, and describe the spell this created based on what you wrote down and the way you recited it" or "open up a real book, pick a specific passage, create a Rumor based on it, and then turn it into a worldbuilding element." This feels like a solo journaling game, except there's a GM, multiple players, and something akin to leveling up. So, what's the name for games like these? [/QUOTE]

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