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''[http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/normality Normality]'' is a tabletop roleplaying game by Hugh Dingwall and Vishãla Jekic. |
'''''[http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/normality Normality]''''' is a tabletop roleplaying game by Hugh Dingwall and Vishãla Jekic. |
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It is unique among roleplaying games in that, instead of trying to describe its setting, it presents itself as an artifact from said setting. (One edition of Tribe8 was written in-character, but it wasn't actually assembled from scraps and oddities as Normality was.) In this, it has more in common with [[wikipedia:Ergodic literature|ergodic literature]] (like [[House of Leaves]]) than with traditional roleplaying games like ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' and ''[[The World of Darkness]]''. |
It is unique among roleplaying games in that, instead of trying to describe its setting, it presents itself as an artifact from said setting. (One edition of Tribe8 was written in-character, but it wasn't actually assembled from scraps and oddities as Normality was.) In this, it has more in common with [[wikipedia:Ergodic literature|ergodic literature]] (like [[House of Leaves]]) than with traditional roleplaying games like ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' and ''[[The World of Darkness]]''. |
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* General Motors, General Motors Institute, and his Skills are called |
* General Motors, General Motors Institute, and his Skills are called |
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* and raise their level of Playing. |
* and raise their level of Playing. |
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This game embodies the following tropes: |
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* [[Alternate Universe]]: The setting takes place in an alternate universe where America completely SNAPS after 9.11. Things go [[It Got Worse|in the worst way possible]] from then on. |
* [[Alternate Universe]]: The setting takes place in an alternate universe where America completely SNAPS after 9.11. Things go [[It Got Worse|in the worst way possible]] from then on. |
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* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Part of the...erm...narrative describes the downfall of the world's ecosystem and government. |
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Part of the...erm...narrative describes the downfall of the world's ecosystem and government. |