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De Profundis
Jun. 14th, 2011 04:58 pmSo I ended up getting my hands on a copy of De Profundis a while ago. Wasn't really sure what to expect, but the bit about being good for people with minimal time appealed.
It's basically a guidebook for writing in-character documents in a Lovecraft horror setting, how to organize people to play that kind of... I'm not sure I'd even call it a game. Collaborative story-telling with integrated prop-making, maybe. Still working through it; they've got a couple of suggestions for how to set up a group (e.g.; people who signed a pact with the devil several years ago at a party and are now realizing that they really signed a pact with the devil and would like to break it), and suggested random events or useful items that you can weave into the background for your various characters.
I'm not sure how to balance the interaction as more than one-on-one. I have been rather spoilt by the facility of adding names to the "To:" field, not to mention the "Cc:" and "Bcc:" options, but you could try simply writing to more than one person. Not hard, just unusual.
And, of course, I am getting my interest in this sparked while we are having rolling postal strikes. Can't win for losing, I guess.
'd anyone be interested?
It's basically a guidebook for writing in-character documents in a Lovecraft horror setting, how to organize people to play that kind of... I'm not sure I'd even call it a game. Collaborative story-telling with integrated prop-making, maybe. Still working through it; they've got a couple of suggestions for how to set up a group (e.g.; people who signed a pact with the devil several years ago at a party and are now realizing that they really signed a pact with the devil and would like to break it), and suggested random events or useful items that you can weave into the background for your various characters.
I'm not sure how to balance the interaction as more than one-on-one. I have been rather spoilt by the facility of adding names to the "To:" field, not to mention the "Cc:" and "Bcc:" options, but you could try simply writing to more than one person. Not hard, just unusual.
And, of course, I am getting my interest in this sparked while we are having rolling postal strikes. Can't win for losing, I guess.
'd anyone be interested?
