[HN Gopher] Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for...
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Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more
people
Author : doener
Score : 106 points
Date : 2024-03-25 09:10 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (rtwolf.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (rtwolf.github.io)
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| I've played this and it's a fun one-shot.
|
| Along the same lines, I recommend Mentopolis[1][2]. It has the
| same, "everyone is trapped in here with me"-vibe that EiJ has but
| it expounds on the idea with a more internal family systems[3]
| conception of the mind, one that naturally lends itself to great
| roleplaying. If you need any more of a selling point, it features
| the loveable Hank Green.
|
| 1. https://dimension20.fandom.com/wiki/Mentopolis
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| 2. I'd be surprised if Everyone is John(EiJ) wasn't (in part)
| inspiration for Mentopolis.
|
| 3. https://ifs-institute.com/resources/articles/internal-
| family...
| sdiupIGPWEfh wrote:
| I've played Everyone is John for years now, and groups of friends
| I've played with have gone on to play with even more groups of
| friends. It's been a fantastic middle ground between role playing
| and party game, with no preplanning required and very little
| prep.
|
| I was surprised to find that how I've interpreted and run the
| game differs from videos I've seen of others' games. Not to
| suggest there's a right way or a wrong way, but this seems to
| strongly impact the flavor of gameplay.
|
| The way I've run it is guided by this paragraph:
|
| > Everyone is John is a humorous, competitive roleplaying game
| about playing the various personalities of John, an insane man
| from Minneapolis. One participant is the GM, or, in Everyone is
| John lingo, "Everyone Else." All of the other players are Voices
| in John's head.
|
| Hence, the Voices _are_ John, directly making choices and taking
| actions. The GM, despite the name of the game, is not John. The
| GM handles all other characters, describes the world, calls for
| rolls, adjudicates, and does the usual GM stuff.
|
| However, in videos of games I've seen online, players will act
| only as literal Voices in John's head, while the GM plays the
| voice of "sane" John, whom the other players get to boss around.
|
| IMHO, I'm running it correctly, and the results speak for
| themselves, with tales of misadventures told and retold years
| later. The other version, to me, is more one-note and less worthy
| of replay. To each their own, of course.
| sdiupIGPWEfh wrote:
| I suppose I did just suggest there's a right way and a wrong
| way, didn't I. Oops.
| rkagerer wrote:
| Is there a good video you can recommend with a quick example of
| a group playing it?
| m0d0nne11 wrote:
| Not sure why, but I was surprised to see Baidu involved in
| serving the EiJ page...
|
| # curl http://www.everyoneisjohn.com/
|
| <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head>
| <script>document.title='tha[?][?][?]';</script> <meta http-
| equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312" />
| <script> (function(){ var bp = document.createElement('script');
| var curProtocol = window.location.protocol.split(':')[0]; if
| (curProtocol === 'https') { bp.src =
| 'https://zz.bdstatic.com/linksubmit/push.js'; } else { bp.src =
| 'http://push.zhanzhang.baidu.com/push.js'; } var s =
| document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];
| s.parentNode.insertBefore(bp, s); })(); </script> </head> <script
| language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
| src="/common.js"></script> <script language="javascript"
| type="text/javascript" src="/tj.js"></script> </body> </html>
|
| curl http://push.zhanzhang.baidu.com/push.js NO RESPONSE TO THAT
| URL
|
| curl https://zz.bdstatic.com/linksubmit/push.js
|
| !function(){var e=/([http|https]:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\\_\\.]+\\.baidu\\
| .com)/gi,r=window.location.href,t=document.referrer;if(!e.test(r)
| ){var o="https://sp0.baidu.com/9_Q4simg2RQJ8t7jm9iCKT-
| xh_/s.gif";t?(o... i=new Image;i.src=o}}(window);
| progval wrote:
| Parked domain?
| https://web.archive.org/web/20160212215909/http://www.everyo...
| looks more like it's the right website
| totetsu wrote:
| It's like 3 goblins in a trench coat.
|
| https://fandible.itch.io/three-goblins-in-a-trenchcoat
| spencerflem wrote:
| Everyone is John is great, but if you want something just as
| silly but cooperative, Roll For Shoes is (IMO) a perfect game.
|
| https://rollforshoes.com/
| imzadi wrote:
| One of my DND groups did an EIJ session when we had some absent
| members. It was a lot of fun. We ended up discovering that
| Canadian McDonalds was a cover for a human meat smuggling racket
| to supply Canadian cannibals. Fun times.
| TOMDM wrote:
| Reminds me of the book "Crystal Society" by Max Harms.
|
| It's about a number of AI's sharing the same compute crystal that
| are forced to compete and collaborate in order to fulfill their
| differing goals.
|
| I love it; it's one of my favorite books. Just don't talk to me
| about the end of the trilogy.
| lovegrenoble wrote:
| And in case you want to bring some ambience to your role-playing
| games,
|
| I recently created this web-based tool: https://tabletopy.com
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