I particularly love games that have areas to explore the bizarre, but how to present those things in new and strange ways? How we present information goes a long way to emphasising the strange, differentiating things from the mundane. For games that are inherently strange, the peculiar can become mundane, because so much is weird; the classic advice of juxtaposing the strange with the mundane is something I find useful. Consider how time and space is a strange thing, and how our brains interpret them to make sense of all the noise, which is partly why it is easy for people to miss an anomaly when one occurs. Here is a great exploration of how film can explore the strange, Tony Zhou’s Every Frame a Painting video about Satoshi Kon and his strange use of editing:
Street Fighter RPG
Street Fighter has a strange setting, on the one hand it seems to be almost the real world, but then there are a few people using mystical abilities to hit each other!? So far the designing of my adventure Game of Death meets Twin Peaks has been a fun and strange experience, but I’m also aware I need to be careful in regards to not overwhelming things. The setting of Kabuki Town, presented in Punho do Guerreiro (Warrior’s Fist), is already an interesting place, so adding the Red Room from Twin Peaks might be a step too far for some. I’ll not put any spoilers here, but I wanted to highlight that Twin Peaks itself includes the idea of punching a supernatural entity, so why not take it a step further and make it a Dragon Punch?!
The Red Room as an arena?! Just think of the strange arena effects that could be in play. Can mortals even fight in that place?
Other Peoples’ Answers
Bob Freeman @OccultDetective
Craig Oxbrow @CraigOxbrow
Geek-Life Balance @cybogoblin
Charles Etheridge-Nunn @charlie_en
Insomniac @1nsomniac13
Anthony Boyd @Runeslinger
Sue Savage @SavageSpiel
John M. Kahane @jkahane1
Melestrua @Melestrua
Kehaar @DissectingWrlds
This is a non-exhaustive list; I still have many posts to read today, so I might be adding more links. I’d recommend searching the hashtag and judge those great answers for yourself: #RPGaDay2020, some people use #RPGaDay.
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