a moment with Lou (Lulu - Louis Louise Theatrix Gregory-Gibbs)
November 13, 2024 at 3:22 AM
a moment with Lou (Lulu - Louis Louise Theatrix Gregory-Gibbs)
Fudge #ttrpg is the first game which changed my perspective on what tabletop RPGs could be. Then I discovered games like Amber, Theatrix, Aria, Fiasco, Bluebeard’s Bride, For the Queen, etc.
September 24, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Fudge #ttrpg is the first game which changed my perspective on what tabletop RPGs could be. Then I discovered games like Amber, Theatrix, Aria, Fiasco, Bluebeard’s Bride, For the Queen, etc.
latest Mercari score: MÖRK BÖRG rulebook, Theatrix core rulebook, and the Theatrix sourcebook for Bill "Fables" Willingham's high fantasy sex farce comic IRONWOOD, which i swear i only bought for the articles. $30 shipped, which is miraculous, given that IRONWOOD on its own is around $125 on ebay.
November 13, 2024 at 1:02 PM
latest Mercari score: MÖRK BÖRG rulebook, Theatrix core rulebook, and the Theatrix sourcebook for Bill "Fables" Willingham's high fantasy sex farce comic IRONWOOD, which i swear i only bought for the articles. $30 shipped, which is miraculous, given that IRONWOOD on its own is around $125 on ebay.
Theatrix Interactive - Sammy's Science House - 1994 youtu.be/1nBz8bGfyTM via @napostriouf.com #gaming #retrogaming #GamersUnite
Theatrix Interactive - Sammy's Science House - 1994
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January 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Theatrix Interactive - Sammy's Science House - 1994 youtu.be/1nBz8bGfyTM via @napostriouf.com #gaming #retrogaming #GamersUnite
Theatrix thread has me thinking:
In terms of game books that helped us learn valuable lessons via *negative* examples, I swear, nothing beats World Of Darkness: Gypsies.
It was, 100%, the cleanest exemplar for hammering "Sympathetic racism is still racism, you fucking idiots" into the hobby.
In terms of game books that helped us learn valuable lessons via *negative* examples, I swear, nothing beats World Of Darkness: Gypsies.
It was, 100%, the cleanest exemplar for hammering "Sympathetic racism is still racism, you fucking idiots" into the hobby.
December 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Theatrix thread has me thinking:
In terms of game books that helped us learn valuable lessons via *negative* examples, I swear, nothing beats World Of Darkness: Gypsies.
It was, 100%, the cleanest exemplar for hammering "Sympathetic racism is still racism, you fucking idiots" into the hobby.
In terms of game books that helped us learn valuable lessons via *negative* examples, I swear, nothing beats World Of Darkness: Gypsies.
It was, 100%, the cleanest exemplar for hammering "Sympathetic racism is still racism, you fucking idiots" into the hobby.
Theatrix Interactive - Trudy's Time & Place House - 1995 youtu.be/qkUPDZBP8b4 via @napostriouf.com #gaming #retrogaming #GamersUnite
Theatrix Interactive - Trudy's Time & Place House - 1995
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September 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Theatrix Interactive - Trudy's Time & Place House - 1995 youtu.be/qkUPDZBP8b4 via @napostriouf.com #gaming #retrogaming #GamersUnite
Para quem conhecia os esquemas do Theatrix, na Sá da Bandeira, isto constitui zero surpresa.
September 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Para quem conhecia os esquemas do Theatrix, na Sá da Bandeira, isto constitui zero surpresa.
History moment:
I always feel like Theatrix is a clear precursor of the modern "indie RPG". I wanna explain why, so here's a thread...
(Note: I said precursor, not ancestor. It had an influence, but it was as much "Let's not do that" as "let's do that".)
I always feel like Theatrix is a clear precursor of the modern "indie RPG". I wanna explain why, so here's a thread...
(Note: I said precursor, not ancestor. It had an influence, but it was as much "Let's not do that" as "let's do that".)
December 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
History moment:
I always feel like Theatrix is a clear precursor of the modern "indie RPG". I wanna explain why, so here's a thread...
(Note: I said precursor, not ancestor. It had an influence, but it was as much "Let's not do that" as "let's do that".)
I always feel like Theatrix is a clear precursor of the modern "indie RPG". I wanna explain why, so here's a thread...
(Note: I said precursor, not ancestor. It had an influence, but it was as much "Let's not do that" as "let's do that".)
Trudy's Time & Place House by Theatrix Interactive (1995 - Windows 3.1) is an educative game, in which we learn about the concept of time, geography, and images association with common sense by playing mini-games with a gentle and cute crocodile girl.
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/qkUPDZBP8b4
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/qkUPDZBP8b4
Theatrix Interactive - Trudy's Time & Place House - 1995
YouTube video by Nap'n'Retrogaming
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September 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Trudy's Time & Place House by Theatrix Interactive (1995 - Windows 3.1) is an educative game, in which we learn about the concept of time, geography, and images association with common sense by playing mini-games with a gentle and cute crocodile girl.
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/qkUPDZBP8b4
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/qkUPDZBP8b4
true .....but optics Matter ... remember that oversized white Plaster
Lots of People believed the Theatrix
Lots of People believed the Theatrix
August 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
true .....but optics Matter ... remember that oversized white Plaster
Lots of People believed the Theatrix
Lots of People believed the Theatrix
Seed Amber, Ars Magica, Prince Valiant, Pendragon, Theatrix, Everway.
Then start theory discussion on rec-games-frp-advocacy.
Continue much of the same discussion on the Forge, adding in a huge heap of DIY that meant more games, really fast.
Explode the DIY everywhere, touched by that flavour.
Then start theory discussion on rec-games-frp-advocacy.
Continue much of the same discussion on the Forge, adding in a huge heap of DIY that meant more games, really fast.
Explode the DIY everywhere, touched by that flavour.
January 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Seed Amber, Ars Magica, Prince Valiant, Pendragon, Theatrix, Everway.
Then start theory discussion on rec-games-frp-advocacy.
Continue much of the same discussion on the Forge, adding in a huge heap of DIY that meant more games, really fast.
Explode the DIY everywhere, touched by that flavour.
Then start theory discussion on rec-games-frp-advocacy.
Continue much of the same discussion on the Forge, adding in a huge heap of DIY that meant more games, really fast.
Explode the DIY everywhere, touched by that flavour.
Excel wouldn’t help much for descriptive games like Koriko: A Magical Year, Fudge, Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple, Fate, Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Theatrix, etc.
September 23, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Excel wouldn’t help much for descriptive games like Koriko: A Magical Year, Fudge, Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple, Fate, Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Theatrix, etc.
There is no object of meditation that shake you out of imagining RPG design has developed in a neat progressive fashion like the Theatrix Flowchart will. It (the whole game, but especially it) is one of those wild branches of design that time wants to forget.
March 2, 2024 at 12:39 AM
There is no object of meditation that shake you out of imagining RPG design has developed in a neat progressive fashion like the Theatrix Flowchart will. It (the whole game, but especially it) is one of those wild branches of design that time wants to forget.
#40
Theatrix
A diceless RPG from 1996 that frames the game session as like directing a movie. Behind it is the Ironwood supplement, based on Bill Willingham's erotic comic. Predictably, it is one of the least sexy RPG books I own. Found these in an Edinburgh game store in 2013.
Theatrix
A diceless RPG from 1996 that frames the game session as like directing a movie. Behind it is the Ironwood supplement, based on Bill Willingham's erotic comic. Predictably, it is one of the least sexy RPG books I own. Found these in an Edinburgh game store in 2013.
January 26, 2026 at 11:16 AM
#40
Theatrix
A diceless RPG from 1996 that frames the game session as like directing a movie. Behind it is the Ironwood supplement, based on Bill Willingham's erotic comic. Predictably, it is one of the least sexy RPG books I own. Found these in an Edinburgh game store in 2013.
Theatrix
A diceless RPG from 1996 that frames the game session as like directing a movie. Behind it is the Ironwood supplement, based on Bill Willingham's erotic comic. Predictably, it is one of the least sexy RPG books I own. Found these in an Edinburgh game store in 2013.
Pushing design further:
1991: Amber
1992: Fudge
1993: Risus (and Theatrix, a dead end)
1994: Castle Falkenstein (and Aria, ditto)
1995: Everway
1996: -
1997: Puppetland
1998: Baron Munchausen, Unknown Armies
1999: Nobilis
1991: Amber
1992: Fudge
1993: Risus (and Theatrix, a dead end)
1994: Castle Falkenstein (and Aria, ditto)
1995: Everway
1996: -
1997: Puppetland
1998: Baron Munchausen, Unknown Armies
1999: Nobilis
August 29, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Pushing design further:
1991: Amber
1992: Fudge
1993: Risus (and Theatrix, a dead end)
1994: Castle Falkenstein (and Aria, ditto)
1995: Everway
1996: -
1997: Puppetland
1998: Baron Munchausen, Unknown Armies
1999: Nobilis
1991: Amber
1992: Fudge
1993: Risus (and Theatrix, a dead end)
1994: Castle Falkenstein (and Aria, ditto)
1995: Everway
1996: -
1997: Puppetland
1998: Baron Munchausen, Unknown Armies
1999: Nobilis
Theatrix came out in 1993, and it's... still odd. Flowchart resolution, running metaphor where everything's named after film ideas, direct "Just grab a board game that simulates a thing to be your subsystem for that thing", all sorts of stuff. One main author, who was Saying Some Shit About RPGs.
December 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Theatrix came out in 1993, and it's... still odd. Flowchart resolution, running metaphor where everything's named after film ideas, direct "Just grab a board game that simulates a thing to be your subsystem for that thing", all sorts of stuff. One main author, who was Saying Some Shit About RPGs.
"You will manage fiction (setting or story)"
- Storyteller (WoD)
- Director (Theatrix, Dungeoneer)
- Architect (Voidheart Symphony)
(4/6)
- Storyteller (WoD)
- Director (Theatrix, Dungeoneer)
- Architect (Voidheart Symphony)
(4/6)
July 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"You will manage fiction (setting or story)"
- Storyteller (WoD)
- Director (Theatrix, Dungeoneer)
- Architect (Voidheart Symphony)
(4/6)
- Storyteller (WoD)
- Director (Theatrix, Dungeoneer)
- Architect (Voidheart Symphony)
(4/6)
2. Castle Falkenstein. Up there with Theatrix as my first exposure to storygame themes. I played this a bunch when I was in college, and I still think of it fondly.
October 22, 2024 at 12:32 AM
2. Castle Falkenstein. Up there with Theatrix as my first exposure to storygame themes. I played this a bunch when I was in college, and I still think of it fondly.
Bluebeard's Bride.
(Also, I cannot stop myself from saying, Theatrix)
(Also, I cannot stop myself from saying, Theatrix)
February 17, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Bluebeard's Bride.
(Also, I cannot stop myself from saying, Theatrix)
(Also, I cannot stop myself from saying, Theatrix)
This act of performative politics is so much better than the crazy Kabuki Theatrix of the fELON 47 cast.
April 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This act of performative politics is so much better than the crazy Kabuki Theatrix of the fELON 47 cast.
Theatrix Interactive - Bailey's Book House - 1993 youtu.be/rJOMSgogMHw via @napostriouf.com #gaming #retrogaming #GamersUnite
Theatrix Interactive - Bailey's Book House - 1993
YouTube video by Nap'n'Retrogaming
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April 23, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Theatrix Interactive - Bailey's Book House - 1993 youtu.be/rJOMSgogMHw via @napostriouf.com #gaming #retrogaming #GamersUnite
Bailey's Book House by Theatrix Interactive (1993 - MS-DOS) is an educative with a full mental universe around a cat who is presenting several mini-games all around words, spelling and grammatical!
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/rJOMSgogMHw
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/rJOMSgogMHw
Theatrix Interactive - Bailey's Book House - 1993
YouTube video by Nap'n'Retrogaming
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April 23, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Bailey's Book House by Theatrix Interactive (1993 - MS-DOS) is an educative with a full mental universe around a cat who is presenting several mini-games all around words, spelling and grammatical!
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/rJOMSgogMHw
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/rJOMSgogMHw
Millie's Math House by Theatrix Interactive (1992 - Windows 3.1) is a cute educative where we learn mathematics through mini-games inside the imagination of Millie's a little horse fuel by her toys in the playroom!
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/cp2ZBpFvpHw
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/cp2ZBpFvpHw
Theatrix Interactive - Millie's Math House - 1992
YouTube video by Nap'n'Retrogaming
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February 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Millie's Math House by Theatrix Interactive (1992 - Windows 3.1) is a cute educative where we learn mathematics through mini-games inside the imagination of Millie's a little horse fuel by her toys in the playroom!
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/cp2ZBpFvpHw
#gaming #retrogaming
youtu.be/cp2ZBpFvpHw
6. A favorite TTRPG character you’ve played?
My psychotherapist-to-superheroes No Appetite For Pain in a Theatrix game in the early 2000s. His powers were a warehouse of gadgets acquired from various past patients and the ability to slow everything down during stressful situations.
My psychotherapist-to-superheroes No Appetite For Pain in a Theatrix game in the early 2000s. His powers were a warehouse of gadgets acquired from various past patients and the ability to slow everything down during stressful situations.
August 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
6. A favorite TTRPG character you’ve played?
My psychotherapist-to-superheroes No Appetite For Pain in a Theatrix game in the early 2000s. His powers were a warehouse of gadgets acquired from various past patients and the ability to slow everything down during stressful situations.
My psychotherapist-to-superheroes No Appetite For Pain in a Theatrix game in the early 2000s. His powers were a warehouse of gadgets acquired from various past patients and the ability to slow everything down during stressful situations.