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<blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 9251743" data-attributes="member: 7027139">I posted this in other threads more than once, but still:There's an obscure Russian RPG called <a href="https://silverhoofgames.com/mujik-is-dead/" target="_blank">УМЕР МУЖИК (MUJIK IS DEAD for you, westerners)</a>. It's free and short, go read it. Then, play it.In short, it's brilliant.In long, it's weird an innovative. From time to time I think &quot;okay, I've seen everything there is in TTRPGs&quot;, but every time something proves me wrong.This time, it was УМЕР МУЖИК.It's a game without master (though we can roughly call MUJIK a game master, since he sets up the scenes) -- one of them is MUJIK, everyone else are parts of his psyche (pretty close to Bluebeard's Bride or Everyone is John, but not quite) -- the agents of toxic masculinity, trying to destroy his life.Despite kind of goofy looks with a 4Chan meme as its cover, it is very heavy. I suspect that goofines is there to deceive you, so the tragic events unfolding in the game can hit harder.Without fail, it produces a chilling story of a broken man, one that I've seen numerous time in real life -- a story of someone with a troubled childhood, who turns to drugs or bottle or crime, perpetrating the vicious cylce of violence and abuse. It's quite telling that <a href="https://loverdrive.itch.io/lovecraft-is-dead" target="_blank">&quot;the lighter version&quot; I've made</a> is about lovecraftian horrors.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="loverdrive, post: 9251743, member: 7027139"] I posted this in other threads more than once, but still: There's an obscure Russian RPG called [URL='https://silverhoofgames.com/mujik-is-dead/']УМЕР МУЖИК (MUJIK IS DEAD for you, westerners)[/URL]. It's free and short, go read it. Then, play it. In short, it's brilliant. In long, it's weird an innovative. From time to time I think "okay, I've seen everything there is in TTRPGs", but every time something proves me wrong. This time, it was УМЕР МУЖИК. It's a game without master (though we can roughly call MUJIK a game master, since he sets up the scenes) -- one of them is MUJIK, everyone else are parts of his psyche (pretty close to Bluebeard's Bride or Everyone is John, but not quite) -- the agents of toxic masculinity, trying to destroy his life. Despite kind of goofy looks with a 4Chan meme as its cover, it is [I]very heavy[/I]. I suspect that goofines is there to deceive you, so the tragic events unfolding in the game can hit harder. Without fail, it produces a chilling story of a broken man, one that I've seen numerous time in real life -- a story of someone with a troubled childhood, who turns to drugs or bottle or crime, perpetrating the vicious cylce of violence and abuse. It's quite telling that [URL='https://loverdrive.itch.io/lovecraft-is-dead']"the lighter version" I've made[/URL] is about lovecraftian horrors. [/QUOTE]

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