{"id":9628,"date":"2013-11-09T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T13:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T13:15:55","slug":"de-profundis-2nd-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/11\/09\/de-profundis-2nd-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"De Profundis 2nd ed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found an interesting literary\/Lovecraft RPG.  It&#8217;s based on writing fictional letters to the other players, as if from a set of Lovecraftian characters in a common scenario.  <a href=\"http:\/\/rpg.drivethrustuff.com\/product\/84298\/De-Profundis-Second-Edition\"><em>De Profundis<\/em> (Second Edition)<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Diana Jones 2002 Award Nominated game of psychological horror returns in an all new, and expanded, 2nd Edition. [&#8230;] De Profundis is a correspondence-based story-telling game that can be played from the point of view of participants from a variety of eras. [&#8230;] Not requiring the usual face-to-face aspect of most traditional RPGs, the game caters for people who find it hard to maintain a regular gaming group due to time commitments, or for those who don&#8217;t have any fellow gamers in their neighbourhood. Utilising a mix of letter writing, email and text-based gaming &#8211; depending on your chosen era of play &#8211; it&#8217;s a perfect game for the modern time-strapped gamer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/prof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/prof.jpg\" alt=\"prof\" width=\"220\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9629\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing it might need one player nominated as &#8220;the summariser&#8221;. After each round of letter-writing, he would summarise the plot developments so far, and at the same time imaginatively smooth out any glaring plot inconsistencies that one or more of the players might have introduced.<\/p>\n<p>At perhaps 800 to 1,000 words per letter it would also leave a group text, of a kind, which the group could later hire a novelist to work up into a novelisation.  Or which they could synopsise and then offer as a free Creative Commons licensed plot for graphic novel artists, audio staging, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found an interesting literary\/Lovecraft RPG. It&#8217;s based on writing fictional letters to the other players, as if from a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/11\/09\/de-profundis-2nd-ed\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}