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That sucks! I don’t drive either but I’m lucky enough to live somewhere pretty walkable.

I moved to a town where I don’t know anyone and I’m very extroverted and also weird, so I had to get really intentional really fast

I genuinely feel like the trick is getting people to a second location as soon as possible 😂 I host game names: chatting with a stranger, they mention they like games, BAM invitation. I go to a community event, it wraps up, I toss out to the group “Anyone want to grab a pint?”.

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An absolutely wonderful idea!

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YAAAAAYYYY this looks like a fun start!

I like the Creature role! Depending on the mechanics, maybe that could be the house itself

I’m always a house, but maybe only haunted sometimes

Yeah, I’ve run haunted houses before, but I don’t wanna GM, I wanna play AS the haunted house

Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 13h

i wanna play a ttrpg where i play a haunted house

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 14h

I just watched The Love Witch (2016), and this might be a perfect film.

A still from The Love Witch (2016) showing the main character, a brunette with 1960's style blue eyeshadow and eyeliner, with her head on a pillow. The sheets and lighting around her are very red.

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 15h

a BOLD and ACCURATE statement

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, that’s why I was being silly saying “every single ttrpg player wants to tell a good story”. Most players probably don’t consciously have that goal in mind. I think, if they did, they might have more fun, but idk to each their own. But thats way less fun as a response to a manifesto.

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For sure, but the ttrpg is generating the story, which is being shared with an audience beyond the table. I know the draw to AP isn’t the same as draw to the story, though. We love a non-fiction AP 🫡

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It’s hard to have these conversations over micro-blog bc I feel like we’d need to define every term and cross-reference game experiences. Listening to your description, I’m thinking of games I’ve played like that and honestly? kinda bland. But idk if thats the kind of game youre referring to.

I always wonder how Canada got a reputation for being polite bc Vancouverites‘ primary character trait is exhaustion

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I just really, really like stories.

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Idk man, that sounds like a bummer to me. you only get the thrill of storytelling afterwards?? That’s skipping the best part! I don’t want to rely on retrospection — I want anticipation, investment, the satisfaction of threads winding together. I want arcs and motifs and callbacks and TWISTS 🤩

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Yeah, I know. I don’t understand that perspective at all, but I’m well aware it exists. I think of ttrpg as storytelling games, and whenever I’m at a table that doesn’t share that perspective I get so bored me teeth hurt 😅

the people long for strategy war games

And if people disagree, thats because they are wrong* Or don’t want games to be story-shaped, which I maintain is truly bizarre bc telling stories seems like the most basic human instinct and main reason to play ttrpg as opposed to like, chess. Also stories are fun! Remember the campfires!

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While you can tell a banger story ~by accident~ from “actor stance” (🤢) or pawn stance (🫳), it requires lighting in a bottle or, more likely, a GM carrying the whole narrative on their back. and I love collaboration that is consistently awesome. So little sprinkles of author stance for all!

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I’ve played a lot of games with a lot of people and everytime people leave the table like “holy shit that was incredible, I am changed”, it’s bc we told a banger story. No one experiences an epiphany from loot! Effective use of game mechanics never made someone gay! which is of course the real goal

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I maintain that micro-dosing author stance is the best path (objectively correct way to play games 😉) since every single ttrpg player wants to tell a good story, finds joy in telling a good story, and can easily get in their own way if they aren’t at least taking homeopathic author stance

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Heh I think that your framing of pawn stance is largely just “remembering that there are real humans at the table, and not sacrificing reality on a diegetic altar”, which I agree with but don’t find useful as a position from which to play a game. I know some ppl need to hear it, though.

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PvP and our pawns are manifestos

(I instantly have the urge to hedge the previous statement and theres my hecking problem)

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Low-key, I’m so exhausted by the constant hedging on social media that having someone share a strong, absolute opinion is actually refreshing. I mean, i disagree, but I am refreshed.

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I also want to emphasize that I don't think cinematic AP is inherently better. Film always prioritizes audio and visual over other senses, glosses over interiority, and struggles with ambiguity in a way that I think novels handle much better -- APs can be more poetry or novel-like. Good soup.

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One thing that hit me about how Cameron produced How's My Driving was the use of jump cuts instead of sticky-cams -- a production decision that instantly made it feel more movie-like. But I think shows can feel cinematic without that level of production.

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The production layer, in my mind, can't make a show cinematic unless the story already is, but it can emphasize the movie-ness through things like scoring, SFX, colour-grading, strong visuals, editing, etc. Moving the show from 'buds playing a game' vibe to 'improvised screenplay' vibe.

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I think the second, broader sense overlaps with theatre, but I haven't seen much theatre so it's not the analogy that comes to mind. I use a lot of screenwriting terms when talking about AP, but I'm not sure to what extent that contrasts with theatre and/or audiodrama.

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AHHHHdam Seats @iknowadamseats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In the most literal sense, it's using film terms in narration. Describing camera movement, cuts, slow motion, colour grading, stuff like that. In the broader sense, it's narratively structuring a game like a movie (as opposed to a dungeon crawl or a novel) + using 3p limited (avoiding interiority).

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Because my brain won't let go of an idea once it starts but I have too many things to do to actually write this in detail: How to Describe Dramatic Failures in Several RPG Systems & Their Story Implications - The Not-Blogpost, Now With Real Life Framing:

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I changed into my 3 wolf moon shirt. That's how you know I mean business.

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

... tonight I'm making tteokbokki, which might be slightly less traditional but is just as wholesome and delicious.

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In Canada, Thanksgiving is a harvest festival with much less colonial connotation than the American one, which is nice. It's also pretty low-key. I'm very excited to buy discount groceries tomorrow and make a belated thanksgiving dinner 💚 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksg...

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🍁 ~ happy thanksgiving ~ 🍂

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think about this all the time. Sometimes finding joy is just getting out of your own way, taking a beat to put aside all the complexities of living, and simply existing, just for a moment.

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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Completely off topic (or maybe not) for OP’s point, but I need to staple this post to everyone’s forehead, b/c too many people get caught up in the format of stories, & don’t realize that it’s all stories all the way down with humans. Literacy is learning to recognize the shape of the stories >

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ive never heard of ppl eating the ink! That would make foraging them much easier 👀