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ECH0 Postmortem
Jan. 29th, 2022 06:09 pmECH0 is a short storytelling TTRPG by Role Over Play Dead originally created for the 2019 Emotional Mecha Jam - and now I've played it! It's melancholy, bittersweet, encourages gesture- and detail-based worldbuilding on the fly, and is ultimately all about getting invested in the particulars of a story with an already-fated ending: all things I love in a story and in a game.
We ended up playing out a sad, lonely set of vignettes about a dead soldier who comes face to face with some harsh things about death, war, and fragile existence through her brief connection to a living child—and a living child who learns something about the past, and also about the value of his own one human life. The story spanned just a few nights in-game, and about six hours of play out of it: taking Carlo and the Gorgon/Alice between a construction site, a gorge and underground stream, and a city choked with barbed wire and civil unrest.
( ECH0 Postmortem )
We ended up playing out a sad, lonely set of vignettes about a dead soldier who comes face to face with some harsh things about death, war, and fragile existence through her brief connection to a living child—and a living child who learns something about the past, and also about the value of his own one human life. The story spanned just a few nights in-game, and about six hours of play out of it: taking Carlo and the Gorgon/Alice between a construction site, a gorge and underground stream, and a city choked with barbed wire and civil unrest.
( ECH0 Postmortem )
