This post is a part of the #RPGaDAY series for 2024. For more information, see this post at AUTOCRATIK.
"RPG with great writing" is also often difficult for me (like yesterday's "great art" prompt), but for a different reason. Much of the time, I'm using an RPG book more like a reference text than anything else. As a younger man, I had much more time to devote to reading RPG books cover to cover, and while it's still a great joy of mine to do so, I find myself with fewer opportunities for that in recent years. With that, I'm going to reach into the past for this one, but I do have two answers. For one, I hugely enjoyed the writing in Underground (Ray Winninger/Mayfair Games), but my memories of that enjoyment are almost entirely about the lore. Which isn't to say the rest of the writing wasn't good...just that I don't particularly recall it as much as I recall poring over all the worldbuilding. For both lore and rules text, the standout for me is the first edition of Unknown Armies (John Scott Tynes and Greg Stolze/Atlas Games). I appreciate the (much) more recent (and wildly different) third edition, but for me, the writing in the first edition lays down the definitive "feel" of the game that I always try to capture.
Today's alternate theme is "Fairies," and I rolled a 9 for...what I believe is supposed to be "Write an eavesdroppable dialogue, but even if not, I'm going to take it that way. Frankly, neither one of those elements is my strong suit, so I'm not sure I'll get the assignment on this one.
"I'faith, liege mine, the dusk doth wane.
Shan't we alight this mortal plane?"
"Patience, Nettle. Our departure is soon enough forthcoming. Yet, can We not tarry still, for Our appetite is not yet sated. One more, perhaps, before We take Our leave. Two, if providence is generous this day."
"Should providence be miserly
Or generous even as thee,
Your Majesty's desires abide
Unheeding of what may betide."
"You may be right, of course, you contemptible wretch, but take heart. Whether Our final indulgence for the day or no, a morsel even now lies in wait, easily within reach. Go, then, and fetch for Us the one that overhears Our colloquy."
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