{"id":278,"date":"2018-12-11T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2018-12-09T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T20:17:34","slug":"metatopia-2018-report-part-3-fractured-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/metatopia-2018-report-part-3-fractured-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Metatopia 2018 Report &#8211; Part 3: Fractured Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>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<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Day 1, continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Fractured Identity<\/em> by Dana Cameron\/Ardens Ludere<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented by Dana Cameron<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this was the most intense session I played at this con, made all the more sad because I forgot to take a group photo! Before playing this game, I was familiar with the designer mostly for putting cats in cyberpunk games&nbsp;(for example like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"I think this was the most intense session I played at this con; so much so that I forgot to take a group photo! Before playing this game, I was familiar with the designer mostly for inserting cats into cyberpunk games&nbsp;(for example like this). (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/179572\/CyberKittens-Project-Bakeneko\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>).&nbsp;<strong>This game is not like that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This game is about collectively trying to navigate a broken dreamscape of memory and imagination. It's a card-based game involving the construction of common tableaus to play from, and it's GMless in that the players take on a rotating configuration of roles over the course of the game. Everyone plays an aspect of one central protagonist, and everyone also contributes to the environment and NPCs and so forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There's in-fiction confusion about what is dream or hallucination or reality, and the game fosters imaginative surrealism and emotional exploration. There's also a lot of first-person questioning of reality, and between that and the strong emotional themes, this is a pretty heavy game for me! But I love it. The card-based mechanics mean a very straightforward prompt-and-interpret mechanic for generating story, and the surrealist themes really lift a lot of the concern about going \"wrong\" with interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, this game will need a lot of pregame tone discussion, and this one doesn't strike me as leaning in a goofy or zany direction. This one seems to invite a more...troubling?...kind of surrealism. As with others, I'm quite looking forward to this game's development. To also keep up with this game, I imagine you should keep an eye on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Again, this game will need a lot of pregame tone discussion. This doesn't strike me as one that will lean in a goofy or zany direction. This one seems to invite a more...troubling?...kind of surrealism. As with others, I'm quite looking forward to this game's development. To keep up with this one also, I imagine keep an eye on Ardens Ludere. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ardens.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ardens Ludere<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per usual with all Metatopia recaps, everything presented here is based on playtest material and not final published versions. Day 1, continued Fractured Identity by Dana Cameron\/Ardens Ludere Presented by Dana Cameron I think this was the most intense session &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/metatopia-2018-report-part-3-fractured-identity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[70,68,69,6],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-con-report","tag-ardens-ludere","tag-dana-cameron","tag-fractured-identity","tag-metatopia-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92GDP-4u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}