<![CDATA[Shattered's Social Contract]]>Came across this page on this game today, and I love it.

https://shatteredmu.com/wiki/ooc:policies

The “Social Contract” with tiers of actions and themes is something I very much like. And in fact need in the context of a future game set in the past.

]]>https://brandmu.day/topic/420/shattered-s-social-contractRSS for NodeSat, 04 Apr 2026 15:14:26 GMTWed, 30 Aug 2023 22:28:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Shattered's Social Contract on Sat, 02 Sep 2023 19:49:44 GMT]]>Here’s where we noticed it first:

https://jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2018/11/10/best-practices-for-historical-gaming

I really love the idea, and love that it’s catching on. I think it’s great for keeping players from being blindsided either by something happening in a scene that they weren’t expecting, or from having their characters chewed out ICly for something that’s just part of the game world.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/19167https://brandmu.day/post/19167Sat, 02 Sep 2023 19:49:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shattered's Social Contract on Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:05:06 GMT]]>The earliest mentions of social contract in an RP group is probably from the old IndieRPGs forum in the very late 90’s early 00’s. I think some of the games that came out of that forum ended up with social contract stuff in their texts.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/19102https://brandmu.day/post/19102Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:05:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shattered's Social Contract on Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:40:51 GMT]]>It’s not a wholly original idea (credit iirc to @blu and @Roadspike though I can’t recall where they came across stuff like it). Has clarified some stuff helpfully as things’ve gone on, like it pretty well.

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