games within games
How does Dear_Multiverse feel about games within games? A simple example would be Badge's excellent Nintendo LOL, or several characters playing cards.
A more complicated example would be several characters playing the party game Werewolf (also known as Mafia).
This could be done in one of three ways:
A more complicated example would be several characters playing the party game Werewolf (also known as Mafia).
This could be done in one of three ways:
- the characters are, themselves, knowingly participating in Game A, in which they are assigned certain roles and there are no consequences beyond that of winning/losing the game.
- the characters are unknowingly participating in a events that have loosely the same structure as Game A, not unlike Battle Royale
- forget it, let's just play Game A ourselves, as players.
- let's create characters to RP within the structure of Game A.