Art history, Things that will never happen, and One Shot games:
Art history, Things that will never happen, and One Shot games: One of the guys in our group has been floating playing the “Red Dwarf” role playing game. This will happen, we have some characters and it’s going to go down eventually. Red Dwarf the game, and more to the point the setting got me thinking. I found myself musing in my head about an absurdist RPGs. The thing about Red Dwarf the RPG is that it’s OLD, and being old it is written in an old RPG style. It’s written for the players to write a character and play that character for a while, over the course of several games even. The player gets to know the character and how he/she/bot/it/space slug interacts with the absurd Red Dwarf universe. Why is that important? You'll see by the end. Now, The things that will never happen… I have been kicking around an idea for a short one off game called “Yeah it‘s Like That!” The player first starts out describing their characters actions and the other players can the interrupt the curre