The As If Collective

Apr 17, 2025

The As If Collective is a network of roleplayers, gamers, GMs, Game Designers, artists and neophiles interested in exploring and contributing to experimental applications of narrative engineering. Every month I do 2-4 Releases: each is a minigame, a subsystem, an adventure, a table/chart, a form/sheet, or a web-based tool which will be of interest to Roleplayers, Storygamers and Interactive Fictioneers. As a member of the Collective, you get early access to all of these works in both draft and final form, with the added knowledge that you helped make them happen. Click Here.

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The Difference between Narrative and Story – Pt 3

It has been pointed out that writers and sociologists have different definitions of the word "narrative". But the differences are not as great as we might think, and in the last installment of this series I promised to square that circle. Here we go. From the writerly...

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DayTrippers Planet Generation System

The interstellar destination below was created using the DayTrippers Planet Generation rules (now in beta testing). Click here to generate another one. DayTrippers is a Surreal Science Fiction Reality-Hopping OSR RPG. Now available at RPGnow.com.

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Oracle: The Stone-Drawing Bag

The Stone-Drawing Bag Starting Counts: Black stones White stones Draw Stone Refresh Bag Just a little bit of jQuery and a piece of royalty-free clip art to provide y'all with a random black or white stone. Go ahead. Test the Oracle.

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