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[kmusser]

Thanks to telarus there is now a Discordian RPG.

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[rikchik.livejournal.com]

You mean besides John Wick's "Discordia!"? Or besides any of the many Discordian-influenced games such as GURPS Illuminati?

[kmusser]

Not sure how I missed John Wick's game, will have to get that. GURPS Illuminati isn't especially Discordian - more of a conspiracy theories sourcebook. I think the most Discordian of the GURPS books is the Discworld one. You could argue that all things are Discordian-influenced, but it is fun to have something that is more explicitly so.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

True - it just bothered me to see this presented as some sort of breakthrough, when it seems like "RPG Game Designers" is one of the demographics that Discordianism has very strong influence in already. I mean, even the "Good/Evil/Lawful/Chaotic" matrix in D&D is an almost exact match to the "Constructive/Destructive/Aneristic/Eristic" matrix in the Principia.

[kmusser]

Didn't mean to imply that at all - in fact Discordian (and more generally, Pagan) influence on RPGs is part of one of the workshop/seminars we have planned for the upcoming Pagan festival I've mentioned.

While there are lots of RPGs with Discordian elements, telarus's game was the first I'd seen that describes itself a Discordian RPG and it looks fun so I wanted to promote it. I suspect that there are other self-published Discordian RPGs that have been done in the past as well, but if so they've been lost to obscurity.

Looks like Wick's game hasn't been formally released yet, so I don't feel too bad about not knowing about it, sorry I missed the promotion though - it does look cool.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Your seminar sounds interesting - let us know what you come up with :)

[drjon.livejournal.com]

That makes the second one...

[wylddelirium.livejournal.com]

Do you think we should plan an impromptu session? :)

[kmusser]

I thought about that - whether we'd want to include some RPing of some sort as part of our workshop, will chat with divalion and see what she thinks.

Or if not could do so as its own thing.

[klyf23.livejournal.com]

So I don't have to resort to LARP Solitaire anymore?

[telarus.livejournal.com]

HAH! I remember LARP Solitaire...wasn't that on the origional 23AE site? Prince Mu-Chao also has a Discordian Tool-set for RISUS over @ http://www.23ae.com. Just an update: LIMBO! is still in a state of flux in my pineal gland. It may re-manifest at some point as a wildly different entity. (Or, it's progenitor, an online multi-user 3d bar with interactive avatar-bots and a storyline in Flash-Comic format, that Eris put in my head years ago, may show itself within the forsee-able future.)