#ongoing ttrpg

AMNESIA is a constantly live game system, something I've been experimenting with (which does mean it is fundamentally incompatible with only irl play) Each session is a mission, and the time in between sessions is used for downtime between characters, played over time at the leisure of the campaign members.

The concept of an always running game can be difficult to grasp for people used to only doing periodic sessions.

Here's how I do it:

It's handled in an in character groupchat with my players. (Ceres and Alice are NPCS, and thus, me).

It's a facsimile of our characters literally having a groupchat. Between sessions, people send messages as their characters.

In world, this conversation took place over about 10 minutes, but the actual conversation stretched over several days, since players were interacting whenever they were free.

Personally, this is one of my favorite parts of AMNESIA.

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Here's a downtime that took place between sessions. As you can see, this single downtime event was added to whenever people were free to do so. (Daedalus is the narrator, or me. There was a bit of a metanarrative in the old OATH campaign)

As you can see, I sent the narration a day after maria @totally-zoe sent her contribution, but it didn't interrupt the flow of the story, because downtime is designed to be played at the leisure of the players and GM, between sessions.

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