Diegetic World 0e

This is a playful thought experiment. It’s about drawing together and synthesising elements of two games from different schools of game design. Maybe we get something playable out of it. Maybe it’s a pseudo-lyric-shitpost game about my RPG preferences. Let’s find out together. Backgrounds, a playbookPasion de las Pasiones by Brandon Leon Gambetta is a PbtA game which removes character Stat (or Attribute) dice roll modifiers from the Playbooks and Moves, asking us instead to “roll with the questions”: gaining a +1 modifier to the standard 2d6 PbtA dice roll for each question you can answer affirmatively about your character’s standing in the established fiction. Each character sheet has a question unique to that character, and each Move has its own small set of true/false questions. In the Mark of the Odd / Oddlike games written by Chris McDowall, the skill checks and proficiencies of more traditional dungeon-dragon design have been removed, and the classic D&D 6 Attributes with their…