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[monk12]

Oh, I nearly forgot my other idea. It's a sort-of Memento-RTD. You'll see why.

That's Not How It Happened: A Randomized Story Of Your Life!

I would definitely play that.

Same here.
Sounds like a novel idea. And I love novel ideas. :v

[Fniff]

Psh, there's no pun there. You're telling tales!

[Xantalos]

I'd play.

[Persus13]

I'd play too.

Speaking of memento, I'd like to see an Inception style RTD.

[Fniff]

Okay, so. Need some help with the system I've come up with for truth rolls. Here's the rolls for the answer of "I was forced to dig my own grave by bandits and then shot in the back of the head." Would these suit it?

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1: The exact opposite is true. You forced a man to dig his own grave, but he stabbed you in the leg, you bled out slowly, and then he buried you.
2: It's simply untrue. The bandits buried you after they killed you.
3: The details are off. You were digging it up with another person and you were shot facing down the barrel.
4: Yes, it's all true, but the spirit of it isn't carried through. Bandits shot you, dug grave, yep yep. But, even if you were implying that you were innocent, it turns out you betrayed them and they were punishing you.
5: It's true, spirit and all. The bandits robbed you, forced you to dig your own grave, then shot you.
6: All true and it has the spirit, except it's taken in a weird direction that complicates things. The bandits were your brother and sister.

[Unholy_Pariah]

Looks good to me.

Rolling a 4-6 at the start could lead your rtd in some pretty wacky directions but isnt that the point?

[Fniff]

I'm going to make sure it stays within the realm of realism, though. It'd help not to complicate things. Though the format would lend itself excellently to a cosmic horor setup.

[Xantalos]

I'm going to make sure it stays within the realm of realism, though. It'd help not to complicate things. Though the format would lend itself excellently to a cosmic horor setup.

[Unholy_Pariah]

I was thinking more along the lines of your trying to keep it in the realm of our physical reality and someone says they were escaping an "alien abduction"

As a gm you physically cannot prevent them doing this as people IRL believe this has hapenned to them so the character would be a drunk guy running from comicon chased by nerds dressed as roswell greys, a government abduction utilising hallucinagens gone wrong, or an actual alien abduction which could lead to an interplanetary adventure that ends/begins with the character being thrown into the ditch when the ship is torn in half mid flight after the cia hits it with a missile.

[Fniff]

Or I could just say "This is meant to be realistic, no aliens allowed."

[Unholy_Pariah]

The alien abduction is a starting scenario but does not explicitly imply real aliens, after all these "abductions" are  just attention seeking or hallucinations not extraterrestrial encounters.

The roll of 6 creates the weirdness by making them real, or you know.. mutants/deformed people.

[Kadzar]

Something about this conversation made me think of an alternate game where everyone is in a police holding cell in various ridiculous states of dress and whatnot, explaining how they got there. But the story doesn't unfold linearly either backward or forward, everyone is just explaining the story at various points as it comes up.

[Greenstarfanatic]

Something about this conversation made me think of an alternate game where everyone is in a police holding cell in various ridiculous states of dress and whatnot, explaining how they got there. But the story doesn't unfold linearly either backward or forward, everyone is just explaining the story at various points as it comes up.

That would make a great movie.

[Persus13]

Something about this conversation made me think of an alternate game where everyone is in a police holding cell in various ridiculous states of dress and whatnot, explaining how they got there. But the story doesn't unfold linearly either backward or forward, everyone is just explaining the story at various points as it comes up.

That would make a great movie.

It's probably been done before.

[monk12]

Something about this conversation made me think of an alternate game where everyone is in a police holding cell in various ridiculous states of dress and whatnot, explaining how they got there. But the story doesn't unfold linearly either backward or forward, everyone is just explaining the story at various points as it comes up.

That would make a great movie.

It's probably been done before.

I think Gatleos suggested that as an RTD a while back