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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (8 children)

How many existing game system families are there? E.g. grouping broadly similar systems.. I'm pretty new, but the ones I see are maybe:

  • D&D-like (stats and crunch)
  • PbtA (more narrative driven)
  • Fate style? Attribute driven?
  • Card-prompts (For the Queen, The Quiet Year)

Might be grouping them wrong, I haven't played all of them..

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You'd pick up group theory and see how many are there actually

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Eh? I did a group theory (topology) course at Uni, I dont see how it's related? You'd need a categorisation system before you can do treat anything meaningful with groups, and there are hundreds of plausible orthogonal ways to divide up the space of all TTRPGs

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