But what I've found playing journaling games is that I don't need to swap a world of toxic rewards for prosocial ones. What I need, what's immersive and affirming for me as a player, is to see who I am, who I would be, without control systems of contrived rewards and punishments at all. What choices would I make. What would my life be like.

#JournalGaming #ttrpg

You've played to the last prompt of @armandahaller's journaling game The Ferryman. You're a woman who entered a world you made and who it killed. Now you're supposed drink from the River Lethe and forget life and it's all over.

You flip your obol and what to have in your last entry is "something that smells like seeds"
And what plays in your head is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3I1fzZ6mOA

So of course you're not dead. How could you be after that? Three days and you're alive again.

#JournalGaming #ttrpg

What are your odds I'd walk into the Denver Zine Fest today and someone would be selling a journaling game?

It's by @michaelputlack.

#JournalGaming #ttrpg #zine #zines #DenverZineFest

This one's the big moment in The Ink That Bleeds.

#JournalGaming #ttrpg

#QT - https://botsin.space/@PaulCzegeQuotebot/110871172859476549

People were so tired of talking endlessly about the Czege Principle for twenty years I finally just had to coin a bunch of other jargon to talk about.

#JournalGaming #ttrpg

I've designed a few things to use as fun moves or self care or house rules within the play of a journaling game and I've been looking for similar things by other designers. So I just got Dana's Relic and 'this summer will never end as long as the cicadas sing' by @junkfood_games.

Not sure how I'll end up using Dana's Relic, but 'as long as the cicadas sing' feels super straightforward and fun. And I'm excited to see what my unconscious comes up with for the Relic.

#JournalGaming #ttrpg

We all find ways to talk about stuff that's important to us. People tell me all sorts of crap when I'm waiting for the bus, or at the store. "My mother got the Covid shot and it killed her." I'm encouraging of people talking about play of journaling games in The Ink That Bleeds. I think narratives running in us are important to who we are. I think we make the world what it is with those narratives, and I think people who feel I'm right will find ways to talk about their play.

#JournalGaming

A journaling game on...

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First RPG played this year?
I finished playing Thru-hiker in my journal on December 31st last year, and started playing the South Elk Path cards as a journaling game the same day. So on January 1st I was one turn into the South Elk Path cards.

http://www.southelk.com/

#RPGaDAY2023 #JournalGaming #ttrpg

There are photographers that construct their subjects, and use them for their own expressive outcomes. And their are photographers who are part of the self-expression of their subjects, who help us perceive them how they've made themselves.

Great journaling games are like the latter photographers, revealing of their players, part of their self-expression, embodying of them.

#JournalGaming #ttrpg #SelfExpression

This game!
One of the chargen prompts is "What is something you desire, however grand or petty?"
I wrote half a page.
Now a seller at the market has twelve alternate major arcana cards the goblin cartomancer Robinette Bis commissioned from Pamela Colman Smith a century ago that I've never seen before. They tell the alternate lifepath to the hidden world.
And like, is any price too high for something like that?
There's no way I can walk away without them.
No
way

#JournalGaming #ttrpg #tarot

I'm at the goblin market. Which journaling prompt should I pick?

#JournalGaming

Hear me out.
It's a tarot card...

... with a journaling game on the back. 😯

(Art by Pamela Colman Smith, who isn't on Mastodon; colored by @annabelle_lee, who is.)

#tarot #JournalGaming

#bookqw is totally a suppressed hashtag on Twitter these days, but not on Mastodon 🙂Today's word is *since*.

Here it is in The Ink That Bleeds, my zine about playing immersive journaling games:

#JournalGaming #TheInkThatBleeds #ttrpg

Okay let's do some #JournalGaming!

The difference between journaling gamers on Twitter vs Mastodon.

#ttrpg #JournalGaming

I guess I picked a Source

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@PaulCzege

Hi Paul, The story game that I'm working on at the moment (The Long Road Home) is going to have a journalling option for solo play. Is there a good journalling game community that I ought to reach out to in order to understand what kind of things people like to see? #JournalGaming

I don't really need horror journaling games. My brain brings horror elements into cozy beekeeping, romantic weekend, and regency tea party journaling games just fine.

#JournalGaming

You know how cottagecore is basically the same as "A man's home is his castle"? It's your home as an enclave separate from the interests of the outer world.
Give me your journaling games about a home as part of a home town — life entwined with neighbors, human connections, relationships.

#JournalGaming #ttrpg