#normality

[prokopetz]

Go home, itch, you're drunk.

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played Normality ?

By Hugh Dingwall, Vishãla Jekic

Normality – the world’s first Dada/ergodic (like House of Leaves) roleplaying game.

The best way to use the book is to consider it as a) a product of the setting it attempts to describe, warped by the twisted nature of the world that produced it or b) the way an actor considers a mask – looking for the shards of meaning that will tie the whole thing together. Certainly, read it all (at least twice) before you dismiss it as mere rambling. Take the introduction seriously. We did.

To make a character, copy the headings we used on our sheets (“Name” “Hit” “Historia” “Good thing/Bad thing” and “Stuff”) then fill them in using the first sentences you see every time you open a book from your bookshelf at random. Look carefully at the resultant sheet, and you will see quite clearly the kind of character you have just created.

This "ergodic" tendency is borne out in the fact that:

The character sheets are more or less total gibberish, requiring players to interpret them to understand their characters. There is no resolution mechanic, in fact the GM is encouraged to actively lie to the players about their characters' perceptions and capabilities.

Because of its status as a Dadaist, ergodic game, trying to "play" it goes somewhat against the point - if you can even understand the rules in the first place.

Have you played ?

Yes I have played it

No but I've read it

No but I've heard of it

Never heard of it

Voting ended onDec 19, 2025

[spltlvlhous]

fuck taylor swift fuck her billionaire ass global polluting ass and fuck every celebrity and publication for sucking her dick why is the most famous woman in the world SO FUCKING BORING. fuck you fyuc k you fuck you dan and phil deserve so much more than her. we need to bring freaks back in to the zietguist. i will do it myself. mirrorverse doofenshmirtz, anti taylor swift. FUCK NORMALITY. FUCK SOCIETAL NORMS. FUCK NORMATIVITY. FUCK NORMIES. FUCK THOSE WHO HOLD UP SOCIETAL NORMS. IM COMING FOR YOU! TAYLOR SWIFT DOESNT KNOW IT! BUT IM COMING FOR EVERY FUCKING BILLIONAIRE. EAT THE FUCKING RICH. it's for world peace.

[marejadilla]

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” ― Vincent van Gogh

[eyeofwitness]

THE INSANITY OF NORMALITY: TOWARD UNDERSTANDING HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS by ARNO GRUEN According to Sigmund Freud, man is born with an innate tendency to destruction and violence; in THE INSANITY OF NORMALITY, the psychoanalyst Arno Gruen challenges that assumption, arguing instead that at the root of evil lies self-hatred, a rage originating in a self-betrayal that begins in childhood, when autonomy is surrendered in exchange for the "love" of those who wield power over us. To share in that subjugating power, we create a false self, an image of ourselves that springs from a powerful and deep-seated sense of fear. Gruen traces this pattern of adaptation and smoldering rebellion through a number of case studies, sociological phenomena - from Nazism to Reaganomics - and literary works. The insanity this attitude produces, unfortunately, goes widely unrecognized precisely because it has become the "realism" that modern society inculcates into its members. Gruen warns, however, that escape from this pattern lies not simply in rebellion, for the rebel remains emotionally tied to the object of his rebellion, but in the development of a personal autonomy. His elegant and far-reaching conclusion is that while autonomy is not easily attained, its absence proves catastrophic to both individual and society. "With compassion and conviction Dr. Gruen carefully exposes the undiagnosed and undisclosed insanity unwittingly accepted as normality... This is a text for leaders and followers, for conformists and rebels alike, for members of the healing professions who seek to repair the destructive fallout from our pursuit of normality and for all who strive for a more compassionate and saner social order."

[cannibalcaprine]

can someone for the love of god please tell me they know what "normality" is. the ttrpg. with the incomprehensible booklets. and the really really shitty printer. and the torture of innocent people that upholds the american empire. and the psychics i think

like

all the source material, the rulebook, the character sheets, they're all presented as artifacts from the setting itself instead of an actual thing to explain things

it's the ttrpg equivalent of house of leaves

it looks like this

i can't find anyone who knows about it besides the people who i already know knows about it

[randomly-generated-posts-machine]

normalize decriminalizing things denormalize silver the hedgehog