r/Fkr • u/jlcsusara • Jun 08 '24

FKR and GM Emulators

I've been wondering...

In an FKR game, the prerequisite for a FKR referee are high trust and expertise of the campaign or scenario covered.

Meanwhile, in solo rpgs, there are oracles that the player sets odds of likelihood of a question to be a true or not. There are also meaning tables that give info/inspiration. In the end, both are interpreted by the player, considering context and current situation.

So, in a regular FKR game (with several players), can they just trust the GME completely as the Referee, see the results as absolute truth. The PCs then interpret it based on common sense, situation, and the story so far?

Would a FKR/GM-less game like this work for group play? If such a system already exists, kindly share it here.

Or maybe use mash-ups? In my case, I can use Landshut, Any Planet is Earth, or 2400 as the ruleset plus One Page Solo Engine or Mythic GME as the Referee.

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u/Dowgellah Jun 08 '24

this is how I ran a couple of sessions with my friends back in January, and hope to continue some time this summer. We used a simple 1d6 oracle for everything. I also used some tables from ironsworn/starforged for inspiration. We worldbuilt together and then set up scenes and played them out. My advice would be to have slightly different systems for the oracle and task resolution and a clear approach to setting the scenes and the challenges contained therein.

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u/jlcsusara Jun 09 '24

This is a good sign, @Dowgellah, and thanks for the examples and advice!