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TTRPG Tuesday: Analog Cousin of Marginalia

Hiya, welcome back to another TTRPG Tuesday! A brief one today, as I just had the barebones of an idea pop into my head and I wanted to gently fan that spark.  One trend in games that I haven’t attempted yet is the journaling form of the solo TTRPG.  I’ve purchased a few, started one, never actually gotten all the way through any.  But I think it’d be fun to do one that has accounting/ledgers as the premise:

  • Perhaps the game is an ledger for a business, and the further into the game you go, the more pages reference previous pages; so the direction of the business is influenced by how faithful the accounting is

  • There are a couple of supplemental materials, mostly brochures; some are referenced by the Ledger, as the prices of products for the business

  • But some of the brochures are costs for various niceties - luxuries, vacations, escort services, offshore accounts, all the big and little things people embezzle for

  • Part of the game is crunching the numbers for the business, but part of the game is squirreling away money and writing or drawing memories after spending it

  • The title of the game: Legerdemain

So yeah, that’s what I’ve got so far.  It feels thematically very close to my long-unrealized WIP Marginalia (right down to the overly fussy name), but analogue, but I like that - I also think that this should be a little more petty and selfish and mean-spirited, as opposed to Marginalia, which more literally involves mean spirits.  Maybe working on one would inspire me to work on the other.  I need to get my hands moving on some kind of design work again soon, those muscles are quite atrophied.

Anyhow, that’s it for this week - as promised, short and sweet.  Til next time.

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