My recent love for Nichijou has made me wonder: has there been any successful attempts at slice of life RPGs at all? Like they don't even have to be set in a present day like setting, but just be slice of life. Also thanks to the anon here on /tg/ who recommended I watch the show a few days back.
>>43597035
MAID?
Monster Hearts?
Panty Explosion?
>>43597035
You're playing one right now
>>43597062
This. If slice of life is escapism for you I dare say /tg may be unhealthy for your mental well being
>>43597056
Will check them out once I return from the gym.
>>43597088
Slice Of Life often shows life as more simple and cute as opposed to IRL that's so busy and hectic. Don't see anything wrong with SoL being escapism. Nothing better than popping open a beer and watching Nichijou after a hard day at work.
>>43597056
Forgot to say thanks in my previous post
>>43597196
>Slice Of Life often shows life as more simple and cute as opposed to IRL that's so busy and hectic. Don't see anything wrong with SoL being escapism. Nothing better than popping open a beer and watching Nichijou after a hard day at work.
>Nichijou
>simple
Nigga, I'll give you cute, but if your life is more chaotic than the average episode of Nichijou, I'm not sure whether to pity you or envy you.also how are you watching this? I cannot get any of the torrents to seed; North American DVD release never
>>43597035
Golden sky stories.
OVA the rpg.
>>43597035
Golden Sky Stories and Ryuutama. Also MAID I guess?
>>43597427
Maids not so much, try high schoolers the rpg (runs of maids and is free.)
>>43597307
streaming is an option with a decent connection. Not an ideal one, but if you really want to see the series just find a site and hope for 1080p.
>>43597035
you're gonna call me crazy, but my dm ran a rogue trader game like a slice of life anime once. it was all about the basic running of the ship, or keeping the astropath from freaking out at the sight of every new group aboard, or stopping the enginseer prime and arch militant from adding seven more turrets to the command deck. playing the trader myself, I ended up in the straight-man role to everyone else's antics. 10/10 run, would play again.
>>43597936
>you're gonna call me crazy, but my dm ran a rogue trader game like a slice of life anime once. it was all about the basic running of the ship, or keeping the astropath from freaking out at the sight of every new group aboard, or stopping the enginseer prime and arch militant from adding seven more turrets to the command deck. playing the trader myself, I ended up in the straight-man role to everyone else's antics. 10/10 run, would play again.
Would watch, anime of the season confirmed.
>>43597307
>North American DVD release never
Pray for it, 4chan. I want you all to pray for this with all your hearts.
>>43598893
Sorry man, I'm on 4chan. I ain't got no heart
>>43599411
Then pray with your dick.
>>43599424
>sexualising the nichijous
>>43597307
I just use KissAnime cuz I don't have much time to find things these days.
And well, I am a guy recovering from major depression/anxiety orders and alcohol/drug addiction who got himself a neat network security job which finally lets be able to buy himself some miniatures for himself. Life's like a combination of Neuromancer and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Take that as you may.
>>43599681
>“We have sealed ourselves away behind our AT Fields, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.”
>>43597307
>I cannot get any of the torrents to seed; North American DVD release never
https://bakabt.me/163275-nichijou-my-ordinary-life-underwater-commie.html
Have you tried this release? 66 seeds at the moment
Try Everyone Is John. It's all about guiding a semi-ordinary man through the trials of daily life.
>>43600162
Arigatou gozaimasu anon-san
>>43599681
>a combination of Neuromancer and Neon Genesis Evangelion
Is it bad that I want this
In fictional form, not IRL
>>43601134
Nah. Fiction's got good stories with peeps that have depression/addictions and technology wars from all over the place. The depression/addiction and the stress/pressure involved in work isn't as much fun IRL though.
>>43600165
>>43597427
>>43597457
Thanks for the suggestions I'll def check them out!
>>43597936
>Rogue Trader Slice Of Life
/tg/ what the fuck are you doing get on it! Cute art and fanfiction this shit it sounds awesome.
>>43601358
Everyone is John was a troll recommendation. It's a fun game, but not for Slice of Life.
In the vein of Golden Sky Stories, there's also Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine. Although I guess it is more(?) geared toward running Hayao Miyazaki-syle SoL than Nichijou-style SoL. But that's just my opinion.
>>43597056
Well, there goes the answer I was gonna give. Nothing else needs to be said here.
>>43601400
Bullshit. Everyone is John is for EVERYTHING.
>>43597035
Chuubo's Marvellous Wish Granting Engine
>>43597307
https://bakabt.me/torrent/170362/nichijou-my-ordinary-life-bd-1080p-dess
141 seeds
>>43601462
>>43601807
What's this like? This sounds interesting.
>>43597035
How WOULD you do Nichijou with standard SoL stuff? There's crazy shit going on all the time everywhere.
>>43603002
>no mention of the Mio's ancient elven weapon
I'm unsure if I would put Nichijou firmly into SoL slot. Anyone who's seen it knows there's a strong vein of absurd humor running through it.
But as for running SoL adventures, I'll second/third/etc Golden Sky Stories and Chuubo's.
>>43602846
It's a weird one, at first.
It's a very versatile game for telling stories about people through some form of growth/change. Gaining XP necessarily involves pursuing that personal evolution/revolution within the context of the kind of game the characters take part in. There are many feedback loops in the game, where one thing builds into another which escalates the first, and so on. Play momentum flows from the mechanics eventually even with inexpert play.
I wish I could remember where the examples of play went...
>>43603267
>>43603267
Found the first one, at least. It deals with some pretty down to earth characters. I'll try to find the second tomorrow, which is less down to earth. Sleep, now, though.
>>43603180
It's what I call "Slice of Larger-Than-Life."
>>43598021
>>43601358
I guess I can pastebin a favorite adventure from this later. will put it up when I've got the time.
>>43603333
Oh cool. I've had some middling interest in the system, would be interesting to see
>It knew it was coming. The people had been expecting their world to die for quite some time. It was an article of faith for them. Some left. Most drowned. And now the young head priestess of their death cult and a couple of the knights that had sworn to serve, defend, and eventually kill her catch the last ship out to Town.
That's... Not a tone I was expecting given the snippets I heard about it. Like, at all.
This is going to be interesting, in part because suicidal cult priestess is muh fetish
>>43604004
Hah! Yes.
The game's "pastoral genre" isn't as limiting as it can at first seem. It just means that, generally, and *especially* while everyone's still getting used to the game, the big moments in every segment of play are going to be about:
having someone (ideally another PC) come by while you're tidying up, or making a dream catcher, or gutting some fish or something (or the other way around), and maybe deciding to do it together, or maybe there's some teaching going on, or maybe one party's just watching because it's neat. And you connect over it.
Or... Expressing thoughts and feelings about WHATEVER to someone, ideally making yourself a little vulnerable (or, again, the reverse).
Or just being in the world, and experiencing it, and emoting a response and holding that moment in your mind/heart, and letting that feeling colour your world for a little while.
And these are the moments that play structures itself around, even if you are doing such ridiculous things as, e.g. standing trial for the crimes of the Is against the Is Not, or doing battle with a god, or freeing a child from being consumed by his own nightmares.
>>43597936
>it was all about the basic running of the ship, or keeping the astropath from freaking out at stopping the enginseer prime and arch militant from adding seven more turrets to the command deck. playing the trader myself, I ended up in the straight-man role to everyone else's antics. 10/10 run, would play again.
>>43598021
>Would watch, anime of the season confirmed.
A slice of life space anime would be awesome.
>Protagonist is a bartender on a space ship
>Just spends every night serving drinks to the crew
>Every night/episode, one character in particular adresses the bartender and tells him what happened to him that day
>Cue story-within-story sequence that takes up most of the episode
>A few of the characters are recurring, such as the female marine, the captain, the gunner etc.
>Over time these stories reveal more and more about these recurring characters
>The captain is battling severe depression, the gunner is worried about whether or not he can send his sone to college, the female marine often exaggerates her exploits to impress the bartender
KyoAni will make it happen and save anime once again.
>>43605150
Look up Mouretsu Pirates.
I want to fuck Mai.
>>43605122
Yeah it's quite interesting.
>>43605150
Then the season finale is the ship gets into real trouble and shit goes down the bartender has to nut up and help.
>>43597307
>>43600162
>also how are you watching this? I cannot get any of the torrents to seed; North American DVD release never
>https://bakabt.me/163275-nichijou-my-ordinary-life-underwater-commie.html
I'm not getting an peers on that one.
However, individual episodes here http://www.nyaa.se/?page=search&cats=0_0&filter=0&term=underwater+nichijou+720 work fine
>>43605399
Turns out you were fucking some kind of toy that was between her legs, and not Mai herself.
>>43606286
Still not trolly enough.
>>43597056
>using a Maid mod to emulate Nichijou
I can really see this working. The only problem is that, for the most part, Nichijou is about relatively normal people going about their highly abnormal daily lives, and Maid RPG is not designed for you to use "normal people" as PCs.
>>43609631
>Nichijou is about relatively normal people
The main trio maybe, but there's a robot, a child scientist, and a girl with an fps protagonist inventory
>>43609631
You forgot your gif, dummy.
>>43608492
What would be trolly enough then?
>>43609903
The Shinonome crew is the exception to the rule, and Misato's FPS inventory and the facets of her personality that FPS inventory is supposed to represent is really the only weird thing about her.
>>43609903
Don't forget the talking cat and the goat-riding senpai
>>43611780
>there's nothing weird about the guy that flies to school in a jet when he's too late to take the helicopter
>or the guy who rides a goat to school and has an ex-merc follow him around to do up his pants
>or the Elvish Princess who lives in an airship in the sky, has at least a hundred identical-looking clones with numbers for names
>or the fact that Mio wears those cubes in her hair all the time even though they apparently have no holes in them
>there's nothing weird about the Chess-Go club
>>43611762
>>43606286
>feel something rough and hard on your dick
>look down
>Maitreya statue
>>43597035
While we're talking slice of life, anyone have good recommendations for manga or anime? I feel like I've hit all the low hanging fruit. Genshiken, Nichijou, etc.
>>43612196
K-ON, Lucky Star, Gochiusa, YuruYuri?
>>43612196
WataMote, Ika Musume
>>43612419
>>43612405
Which of these are more absurd vs. more down to earth?
>>43612196
Also: Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
>>43612432
WataMote has absolutely nothing absurd. It's 100% reality, which is the real absurdity when it comes to anime.
That said, you'll probably get feels watching it.
>>43612016
>this how I run a cute shadowrun
>>43612016
Other than the Elvish princess, those are all examples of normal people with weird lives. Remember, we're talking about Maid RPG here.
I guess what I should be saying is that Maid RPG chargen is too consistently weird for Nichijou, and that the random events mechanics are not consistently weird enough.
>>43612432
Only Ika Musume could classify as "absurd".
The main character is a humanoid squid. Secondary characters include a team of American scientists that, amongst other stuff, cured cancer and developed an universal translator... and promptly discarded all that because it doesn't help them hunt aliens.
>>43613481
>Secondary characters include a team of American scientists that, amongst other stuff, cured cancer and developed an universal translator... and promptly discarded all that because it doesn't help them hunt aliens.
Can confirm for real world accuracy, am American.
>>43613481
>universal translator
>doesn't help with the alien hunt
They obviously haven't read their Douglas Adams.
>>43615153
Americans don't give a shit about reading, even our scientists.
>>43605122
Found it. Come on, upload!
>>43615274
Man just give up. Nobody cared about your stupid storygame when you spammed it on release, which HASN'T been forgotten, and nobody will care about it now.
>>43615429
Not that guy, but what exactly happened with Chuubo's that got people sour about it?
>>43615429
Congratulations, you've just made me more interested. Nothing /tg/ slams this much can be bad.
>>43615274
Oohthanks.
>>43615429
Well I am clearly interested in all three of these posts.
Also wow you salty.
>>43615616
Huh, I'm curious too.
Is it just the same "rules lite REEEEE" crowd that calls *world systems "not real games"?
>>43611762
something on the order of magnitude of the tonarino seki-kun foreplay copypasta
>>43617137
Can you post that shit? It sounds interesting.
My homebrew (3 years old) is slice of life in a mythological high school.
>>43617365
Hell if I can find it. Maybe it was a screencap and not a copypasta, or maybe it was just a one-time-post that caught my eye, but it involved a newlywed Seki and Rumi consummating while Seki was... well... being Seki and goofing off with something stupid and irrelevant.
Doing things like playing tic-tac-toe with himself on her stomach in magic marker.
Then it said that he kept doing that sort of shit every time they had sex, and then she got used to it until playing a stupid game like that eventually became equivalent to foreplay.
Heck, maybe I dreamt it. I don't know.
>>43605122
Do you have any experiences of your own to share, anon? I'm hoping to rope in a few friends during winter break.
>>43597035
buping for nichijew
>>43597035
Yaruki zero's been working on that raspberry heaven thing. Not sure if it's finished.
>>43615429
Anon asked about it. I had some of the files scattered about on my phone. So, no.
>>43615616
When the game was being Kickstartered, there was an enthusiastic post put on /tg/ which came across as some serious shilling, as they clearly had little experience with /tg/ culture.. I'm not sure whether further posts were made by the same person (I quite doubt it), but the original OP was copy-pasted many times over the following month-(ish) period, rarely with any more detailed discussion, description, explanation, or what have you being provided by the person starting the thread.
Regardless, ill will was spread. Some of it was "rules lite reeee" (which is funny, since I don't think I know of a "storygame" heavier than Chuubo's), but the posts were no fiction and did not help one bit.
>>43617914
I'll try to find some time to post some stories when I'm on break later today, sure.
>>43618929
It is. I have the pdf if anyone is interested
>>43615274
>>43605122
>>43603333
Damn, I can't even imagine random online groups being ever as fun as these writeups.
>>43620537
The game highly incentivizes that kind of play, and some of the mechanics are designed to help the players to actively engage with one-another.
Quests, by their nature, demand that you play in a very particular way in order to further your character's story, which plays an essential role in forming the events of the game everyone interfaces with. Attached is certainly the most eccentric Quest I've seen (and the only one I can find online with a fully-prepared Quest Card). Even more normal Quests make characters heavily proactive even if all their Players do is consult their Quest Cards for clues on what to do next.
>>43620956
It's not just that.
Liike, in >>43615274 how the characters play off one another, the whole "opening credits" sequence. This is just much more engaged than what I've seen in my online games. A part of it is shorter and thus faster back and forth - all online I've played tended towards more elaborate and longer posts, but ended kinda stand-offish towards the actions of others due to that length.
>>43597035
It's like Everyone is John, except it's called Everyone is Friends with Keiko
>>43620533
Huh, why haven't I heard of this before? Do I hang in the wrong parts of the internet? How is the gameplay organized in that?
>>43621545
The gameplay is pretty light. It feels more like a way of writing a collaborative story than anything else. Honestly, I'd struggle to call it a "game", but it could work pretty well for slice of life stuff.
>>43621002
Oh! I see what you mean. I guess that comes down to understanding the medium better. Short, evocative description and snappy dialog are virtues little-known in much of our modern written media.
>>43619216
Let's see...
In one game of the "soon"-to-be-released campaign that I was in, the Best Friend was helping a large sheepdog to live its dream of riding down a hill on a bike by carrying it on his back. The Wishing Boy was helping out with steadying the bike while the Best Friend climbed on. He then did the opposite of helping by jumping on after, earning him a head-desk XP while the two boys and dog careened rapidly and uncontrollably toward the docks.
In another scene, on the docks, the Child of the Sun and the Nightmare Scientist had met up early, the one Because she was wandering, lonely, and being upset at the new sun in its rise, and the other because he's too mature to sleep in on a day where he technically has work to do. The two of them had a bit of a moment while the Child of the Sun expressed her bitterness at the cold of the world below the sky, and the impertinence of the new sun. The Nightmare Scientist, compassionately, restrained his bombast and did not explain his hand in that sun's presence.
Both scenes ended as one, with all parties tumbling into the lake except for the dog, who wisely evacuated the bicycle before it went off the docks.
This marked the second time in a week that the Nightmare Scientist nearly drowned in Big Lake.
In the same game, the same week, I believe, the cast were watching and cheering on as the sun set at their back, a giant Nightmare robot fighting some other giant monster. Enjoying the leisure time with friends, the Wishing Boy wished that things could be like this forever.
>>43621573
> a giant Nightmare robot fighting some other giant monster
>the Wishing Boy wished that things could be like this forever.
Oh shit.
>>43621573
The next week consisted of the Dream Witch's tea shop suffering from the sun not having succeeded at setting for several days (which no proper sun woulddo, per her house mate's faux-old-person stodginess), while the Wishing Boy learned how to be a good waitress.
The Nightmare Scientist, the Child of the Sun, and the Best Friend instead took a ride aboard the scientist's Nightmare Catamaran on a metaphysical journey that transformed the vehicle into the Barque of the Sun, in order to see the sun set and make a non-horrific resolution to the Wishing Boy's wish.
I'll see if I can remember any other fun stories later.
>>43621566
Oh, I see. Looks like a freeform game since the only dice-related elements are scene selection and the, uh, special move selection.
>>43597196
>once I return from the gym.
Nice cover, Anon
>>43621805
>not grinding for STR and CON IRL
>>43612559
I was so sad he dropped the manga. This thing was way too good and way too short while bullshit generic harem romcom 4-koma #2343245345 gets to continue indefinitely.Yanagin best girl.
>>43624013
Didn't the artist do a number of Touhou doujins?
Golden Sky Stories is in no way SoL, it relies far too much on accomplishing objectives. SoL by its nature has no topic other than "something which is part of the more or less daily life of the characters involved".
By the way, Nichijou is awful garbage.
>>43624085
Thanks for letting people know they didn't actually enjoy a thing they thought they liked! I bethink people thank you a lot for being right all the time.
>>43624111
I said it is awful garbage, not that it can't be enjoyed.
How can SoLs even be, for lack of a better term, "gamed"?
I mean, I look at a typical episode of, say, Gochiusa and don't see how could you make that a game.
>>43624222
Delinquent manga could perhaps be gamed, since fighting and factionism and such is more or less part of the daily lives of delinquents. Someone gives you lip so you decide to bust it, then you have to run away so no teacher catches you in the act. Shit like that. Days ends, you go home, tomorrow is a new day with new "objectives". Could perhaps work with the right people, but it sounds difficult.
>>43624054
That image is from one of them.
>>43624222
You reward things other than fighting or getting money or whatever. Maybe you get XP for helping ducklings cross a road, maybe you get XP for seducing your master, maybe you get XP for making another player smile.
For instance, take a glance at >>43620956 for some pretty unorthodox stuff.
You need the right group for it, though.
>>43597056
>Monster Hearts
monster hearts is not a slice of life game, it is not really a game at all. it is a "being a faggot simulator". The mechanics of monster hearts is that you get to experience the awful experience of coming out of the closet, repeatedly, over and over again. How it works is that you start off not knowing your gender orientation. Other players then need to seduce you, to do that they "turn" you to their orientation. So the guy to my left is playing a werewolf faggot and I am a straight vampire, he rolls to turn me gay. he succeeds, now i get to come out of the closet. Now the faggot to my right is playing a female gorgon, she rolls to turn straight again. She succeeds, now I am straight again.
The goal of the game is to "explore" alternative sexuality and become a more tolerant SJW
>>43625119
You've never actually played that game, have you?
>>43625321
>You've never actually played that game, have you?
Listen faggot, some of us have this amazing power called reading, which allows to read a game's rules without playing it.
I never played fatal either but I read parts of its rulebook for a laugh. The monster hearts rulebook says you are not allowed to determine your own sexual orientation and flat out decline faggotry. Instead your fellow faggots roll to turn you. It is the dumbest most retarded faggot simulator ever
>>43625521
Oh, thanks for explaining what reading is! I'd heard about it but didn't think it wa's really worth learning more about. If such an obviously well-balanced and smart person such as you recommends it I'll find some books about it.
But then...wait, to use the books, I need to already....aw, shit.
>>43624222
See the Chuubos up there
>>43615274 >>43605122 >>43603333
They are about death cultists leaving after their world ended and another is about two gods possessing their priests to go have shenanigans, but are really about activities they do and things they feel rather than overcoming monsters and junk, so it's slice of life.
They get XP for evoking feelings in scenes, for evoking characteristic reactions from other players, for completing goals that aren't overcoming some villain out there.
Does anyone have a Chuubo PDF they could share? It looks like an interesting game.
>>43625119
That's not how the Turn Someone On move works at all. It's also not how Monsterhearts works at all, but you've already established that reading comprehension is not one of your strengths.
>>43626163
The pdf is huge so it can't be attached, being nearly 600 pages, but this is the link I believe I got it from:
www.mediafire.com/download/bu8q776hy25rlv3/Chuubos_Marvelous_Wish-Granting_Engine.pdf
>>43625119
>it is a "being a faggot simulator"
Sounds like you're quite good at Monsterhearts.
>>43617588
>Doing things like playing tic-tac-toe with himself on her stomach in magic marker.
This is both hot and especially if it was during the actual act.Stomach bulging is my fetish.
>>43625321
>>43625677
>>43626312
>>43626341
Don't respond to bait.
>>43615177
I guess that confirms that growing up raised by American parents living abroad makes me not an American. I'm okay with this.
>>43615177
it's one of those self sustaining problems.
I have nobody to reccomend me HYPE ASS BOOKS, so I have no hype ass books to reccomend.
I mean, when I find something good, I devour the entire series in short order.
>>43629680
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Approved_literature
Take badwiki's recommendations with a grain of salt, but all those examples are probably from people with the same interests, so there's no harm in givan 'em a try.
>>43630578
well, let's hope I can get my hands on 'em.last time I got interested in a book series, the library was never able to ship the copy all the way from central to my public so I could check it out
>>43630710
For a personal, Anon-to-Anon recommendation, I'd recommend starting with the Earthsea books.
>>43625983
>>43626163
Seriously, Chuubo's writing is incredible. Jenna Moran is ridiculously underrated.
You expect one thing from her and get another. It's a game about slice-of-life stuff, and it advertises itself like that, but like most things in her writing there's a lot about death and nonexistence and horror. Seriously, the setting starts off by the brutal murder of the Angel of the sun (who is the sun itself, too), and the main antagonist is Death.
Town (particularly Fortitude) is way too good a setting. Where else are you going to get a culture of dramatic swashbuckling adventurer rats that fight against weird and wicked god-monsters?
>>43597936
That sounds hilarious, please pastebin or storytime some of it.
>>43624013
What's he doing now?
>>43598893
Never happening, it flopped in Japan
You can thank the nips and their godawful dogshit taste for that
>>43597035
I tend to like games that have a mix of slice of life and drama/plot/combat. The slice of life makes the combat and drama feel all the more impactful, and the dangerous stuff makes the character's normal lives feel all the more precious.
>>43633858
It's not (just) a matter of taste. It was in the wrong place at the wrong time -- it started airing literally a day after the Tohoku earthquake. Then when the DVDs came out, they were ridiculously overpriced because of a weird experimental format. I think KyoAni being on their post-K-ON!! power trip may have had something to do with the marketing failure, too.
Because it flopped in Japan, I can imagine licensing fees would be less for a publishing company over here in the US. All it needs for an NA release is for somebody to realize that people want it.
>>43634123
Bandai Entertainment licensed it actually, but their operations folded before release.
No one wants to play a slice of life game for 4 hours a week when they're eating a whole fucking pie every other hour of every other day.
>>43635338
wait, who is eating a whole fucking pie every other hour of every day
Where do I go to get that many pie
>>43635338
Ehh, playing a lifestyle different from yours is legit.
Even then, SoL generally means focusing on emotions of every moment rather than just murderhoboing.
You may SoL dungeon crawl.
>>43635338
This pie is shit though, give me a better one
