7) SMARTEST RPG you've played
2014 answer to the most different question yet, Most “Intellectual” RPG Owned: De Profundis
This is the biggest change so far, as smart has different shades of meaning and alternative uses than intellectual. So going for one where I thought the core idea was smart in taking something quite simple that hadn’t been done before.
Dread is a horror RPG that uses Jenga as its mechanic. When you want your character to do something risky you pull a block from the tower. If the tower falls, they are removed from play. So chances are, they die.
Obviously this brings in player skill, requiring manual dexterity. And it’s not a “get out of the way” system, and is good for one-shots. But the use of that simple game’s mechanic to raise tension with every pull works very smartly.
The ready-to-go adventures have characters based on questionnaires with leading questions, which is a clever idea too and possible to swipe for other games. But my “oh, that’s smart” reaction was the tower.
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| Giant Jenga might kill you as well as your character. |
One word prompt
7) SMARTEST
Anthony Boyd suggested smart can mean stylish too. The Camarilla in Vampire: The Masquerade and the overall All Night Society in Vampire: The Requiem are supposed to encourage vampires to blend in, but for the stylised fun of the setting, and especially in courtly social games, they do tend to stand out. V5 devotes a page to vampire fashion with an in-setting rationale for dressing up for Elysium.
Dave Chapman mentions Buffy!
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