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Everybody who played a lot of RPGs as a (pre)teen and turned out okay can tell you how it taught them creativity or self-expression or how to understand other p
by BurritoAlPastor 9y ago
Everybody who played a lot of RPGs as a (pre)teen and turned out okay can tell you how it taught them creativity or self-expression or how to understand other people's ways of life, and that's all good and true. But I'm here to tell you how D&D changed my life: nothing prepared me for a career of navigating extensive, poorly-organized, frequently vague and occasionally contradictory technical documents like the extensive library of D&D rulebooks that I lugged around throughout high school.
- Fomite 9y agoI ended up in a career that I sometimes describe as "rolling dice for a living" - it's entirely gaming that prepared me for working on stochastic simulation.
- munificent 9y agoOh, God, this makes me imagine what it would be like to play a corporate-bureaucracy themed tabletop RPG.
- porker 9y agoBring it on!
- achileas 9y agoThis would be immensely fun to create
- digi_owl 9y agoParanoia?
- dbcurtis 9y agoI can imagine it, but..... I hope the dungeon master has a good sense of humor. I could be hilarious, or it could be very, very dark. The idea makes me recall one day when I was driving with daugher, and I did a "What?? Oh.. chuckle" and she says: "What's up?" -- me: "The sign on that building says 'Realty World', but in a quick glance I misread it as 'Reality World'". Her: "Reality World? The graphics are totally imersive and the physics engine is perfect, but the game play often sucks."
- shabda 9y agoSo Prison Architect? http://store.steampowered.com/app/233450/Prison_Architect/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/233450/Prison_Architect/
- summerdown2 9y agoBrings to mind this cartoon: https://www.shopontheborderlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PP.jpg https://www.shopontheborderlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20... And, of course, the ultimate spirit of a corporate-bureaucracy themed RPG would probably be Paranoia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
- tech2 9y agoOh how I miss that game. Robot Imana 665C, Clones in space, Daisy-R-YLW. Good times (and by that I mean a lot of shouting, name-calling, insinuations about mutant powers and secret affiliations...). Yeah, good times :)
- mcguire 9y agoWho did that cartoon? I recognize the style,....
- thedailymail 9y agoIt's by Will McLean, who did artwork for early AD&D manuals and Dragon magazine.
- harlanlewis 9y agoYou might be interested in the podcast Offices and Bosses, in which fantasy-world characters improv their way through a D&D-style game for our everyday world. (a spin-off of Hello From The Magic Tavern, which is pretty funny itself).
- tvon 9y agoReminds me of this post to r/writingprompts somewhat recently: > [WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7pf9gr/wp_a_barbarian_warlord_a_goblin_king_a_mighty/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7pf9gr/wp_a...
- flyinfungi 9y agoYou're in luck! http://www.earwolf.com/episode/hello-from-the-magic-tavern-presents-offices-and-bosses-ep1-flower-from-i-t/ http://www.earwolf.com/episode/hello-from-the-magic-tavern-p...
- Kostchei 9y agoNope, that's the opposite of luck. Run!
- walshemj 9y agoParanoia would fit the bill
- swombat 9y agoYou could just join a company that runs Holacracy... it’s like a board game for the company rules. Not strictly RPG - but it does have roles...
- Pamar 9y agoHere you go: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1106063658/papers-and-paychecks https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1106063658/papers-and-p... (Backed it and received it but haven't read yet)
- andrewflnr 9y agoA Laundry Files rpg might be fun. Bonus points if the bureaucracy encounters are scarier than the eldritch monsters.
- justinpombrio 9y agoI still get little shivers thinking about paperclip audits.
- jokermatt999 9y agoGood news! http://cubicle7.co.uk/our-games/the-laundry/ http://cubicle7.co.uk/our-games/the-laundry/
- mcguire 9y agoI didn't have anyone to play with until late high school and college. So I collected rule books, figuring out how the systems worked. I laugh in the face of your thousand page interface manual.