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Sources: The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 8 (SPOILERS) + Asdf Movie 16Original by: MattFrequenciesRemix by: Femcel Bassment Dweller (Me)V
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Remix of @mattfrequencies https://soundcloud.com/mattfrequency/cheesestealer GO LISTEN TO IT !!! Matt's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WUr8QKHYCQ GO WATCH IT! And here's mine: https://soundcloud.com/femcelbassmentdweller/i-steal-cheese
Been tucking into Rave RPG redesign this year. It's a big job.
First cab off the rank was deciding what songs to include or exclude on the basis of them being danceable or not (and does an emo singalong count as danceable!?)
Thankfully Hazbin Rave answered a lot of those questions and I now have a structure.
2-3 "level songs" - crowd picks the level from a choice of 2. These are mood setters or resetters. Establish the locale, let me tell some story. Let people grab a drink and recharge a bit.
1-2 "boss songs" - mechanics time! Each boss song has its own set of mechanics. Maybe you need to roll a total of 20. Maybe you need to roll three sevens! Maybe you need to roll 9 times for a total of less than 100 so you don't overload the system!
1 "reward phase" - a singalong, a well known track, Rave music, whatever. Something celebratory while I toss an item cube out. Item cubes will have either a macguffin to collect (think chaos emeralds, dragon balls) or an item of power - red star ring, "P" block - mode switch stuff. Plus some smaller cosmetic stuff like keychains and coins.
1 regroup song - something related but chill to recharge with, so the crowd can choose the next area, and the power item can be used to change the *theme*. For the chiptune RPG it's past/present/future, for Sonic its Sonic/Shadow/Silver. For the general Rave RPG it'll be party/rave/grunge.
Then the loop repeats until all the Plot-items (yeah I haven't sorted this bit out. Fragments of divergence maybe?) are out - then it's time to kick off the Final Boss! Bring all the fragments to the stage and the ultimate power will unleash, time for the Power Stage!
Power Stage - back to back big ticket Singalongs and well known big vibe instrumentals. During instrumentals, roll a total of 50 to keep the stage going. This can go as long as it needs to or I run out of time!
Afterwards, recap during an epilogue song and open the shop - people can buy some of the items used in the show using coins collected (not super open to using cash, I don't want this to be pay for reward stuff).
Cosplay encouraged, and in-game reactions for certain cosplay types etc - all very flexible. But so far so good! Also super themeable. Pokemon version? Easy. Hazbin option? Sure why not. The core version is rooted in gaming music, but it's easy to adjust it!
Something else I do is shove tiny speakers and amplifiers into weird places. I may have peaked here though...
Absolutely gigantic weekend at PAX that's been a long time in the making - to the point it had a huge rejig of the Divergence show between applying and being accepted, which was a "fun" challenge to deal with!
Last year it was "the book of divergence", this year it was "Divergence: can you save the Rave?"
Maybe next year we can finally just list it as "Divergence: The Rave RPG"?
Hundreds of hours of designing playlists, creating systems that let me be freeform but structured, designing methods of play that suit my ADHD, bringing the crowd in as much as possible, really redefining it to not be about ME, but about the Rave itself and the people within, absolutely paid off!
I'm so grateful for the people that came, supported, danced their hearts out, and connected with each other while smashing a giant inflatable rave dice off the roof (thank god for durability testing!)
It was a hell of an awesome time and you did in fact save the Rave! Well done 😁
Oh yeah so what does that actually look like? Here's a clip of the Rave rolling 19 on dealing with the bouncer at the inn, a man named Dan Andrews, who claimed the pub is shut due to plague.
So for the last 2 years I've been making a system that lets me play a rave as an RPG. I call it Divergence. It started as a 25 minute story in a DJ competition, and from there became a branching 1 hour set where people could pick from a couple of binary choices every 20 minutes.
I got to the point of integrating characters and theatre performance type stuff into it and had vote boards and tokens I designed with the story but the problem I had was... It just wasn't interesting people enough. What they thought it was, and what it actually was, were too different. What I'd created was Goosebumps when what they wanted was D&D.
So after performing it at PAX and Fringe in 2024 and finding it struggling to get traction every time, or people tuning out partway because the gap between choices was too long, I rejigged it in entirety.
I had an opportunity to play a D&D themed rave and I decided to rebuild Divergence as a truly interactive RPG. The shift? I wasn't putting the focus on me and my characters telling a story that demanded people's attention for 20 minutes between choices - instead, I put the focus on the environment the music said we were in. And then I built a choice point into EVERY SINGLE SONG.
There's about 400 songs in the playlist I use to run a 2 hour rave campaign. It's a one-shot system, and I won't play all of those songs - instead there's multiple tracks for each biome/region that I can pick from depending on the mood. There's some sequences that I enjoy playing so they're a bit easier to get to, but mostly it's freeform.
An example - I've got a beach, where there's a merchant, and the sandman is whipping up a storm. Give you two guesses what one of the songs is there! But will you stand and face the storm? Or will you seek shelter with the merchant? Hiding with the merchant gives options for trade to help you in your travels...
Or in the tower of psy, dark forces stir - and the cat of the tower may find you if you fail to navigate quietly!
But how would the cat know? Oh! Dice rolls!
Yeah, I built an inflatable rave dice. And made a map, to help orient myself (my partner is digitising it currently)
Had to make my own dice as the ones you can get on Amazon suck. One broke in 10 seconds at the D&D rave.
Anyway yeah so I made a Rave RPG System. It's fun, chaotic and I'm playing it at PAX Australia and supporting Dubtendo at their Halloween party in Bristol with it. Ask me anything!
Hey Tumblr. Been a while. I've got some bloggy type stuff to get off my chest while we sort out the website, and my various personas are itching to chat at the keyboard. Sooo it might get a bit silly up in here while we figure that out.
"The ADHD world is curvilinear. Past, present, and future are never separate and distinct. Everything is now." And that can complicate every
Individuals with ADHD don't know where and how to start, since they can't find the beginning. They jump into the middle of a task and work in all directions at once. Organization becomes an unsustainable task because organizational systems work on linearity, importance, and time.
Just shank me next time, ADDitude Magazine.
holy crap this explains it all now i'm mad
This is also accurate to how I mix music and write stories. Jump in at the middle and go back to the start to get context later!
https://on.soundcloud.com/qYVKo
So I've been DJing lately and this was my first paid gig. I've been working on something of a unique style, and a new approach to DJing that offers the crowd more control over the course of the evening.
Of course... Its a lot more WORK, but fuck if it doesn't seem to be worth it!
Hello Tumblr, I exist! Given the cesspool that is Twitter and the insular nature of Facebook plus everything just being really bloody hard on content creators at the moment, I thought I'd wade into the pool.
I'm not sure how this is going to go but let's give it a bash anyway. More to come real soon!
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