{"id":268,"date":"2018-12-10T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2018-12-09T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T20:07:36","slug":"metatopia-2018-report-part-2-robot-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/10\/metatopia-2018-report-part-2-robot-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Metatopia 2018 Report – Part 2: Robot Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Per usual with all Metatopia recaps, everything presented here is based on playtest material and not final published versions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1, continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Robot Cities<\/em> by Melissa Lewis-Gentry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Melissa Lewis-Gentry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around the table: Rob, Kate, Glenn, Melissa, and the back of Steven's head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glenn sketched some of our characters<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robot Cities<\/em> is a game about artificially intelligent robots living in a society without the humans that constructed them. The system is largely Fate<\/em>-inspired, and the game seems to be geared toward mystery-type stories. Largely, though, the game is about making your way through a robotic world and coming to terms with your own sapience and (illegal) emotions and not freaking out the robots around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This game approaches some deep questions, issues, and themes, but the tone can definitely head to the goofy. One of the characters in our party was an automated breakfast-serving trolley! It was a fun time, but I think this is going to be one of those games that will need tone discussion and player buy-in beforehand to really come together. I think it's also geared toward longer-term play, as it's largely driven by discovery, both about the world and the characters themselves, and I think that's the kind of theme that benefits from multiple buildups and reveals. Also there's a lot of pre-built setting, so being able to explore that in campaign play would also be rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Per usual with all Metatopia recaps, everything presented here is based on playtest material and not final published versions. Day 1, continued Robot Cities by Melissa Lewis-Gentry Presented by Melissa Lewis-Gentry Robot Cities is a game about artificially intelligent robots living … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,6,66],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-con-report","tag-melissa-lewis-gentry","tag-metatopia-2","tag-robot-cities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/robot-cities-players.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92GDP-4k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}