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Rolltop Indigo
Personal blog · rolltop-indigo.blogspot.comgamesculture
Rolltop Indigo is a personal blog at rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com about games and culture. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post listing abstract story forms for RPG plots. One commenter cites it while discussing a study that reduced novels to six story types.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Blue Room Blog: RPGs, Fantasy Cartography, Cooking, Fonts, Stuff.
What Hacker News says?
This reminds me strongly of a blog post [1] I read recently (probably on HN!) that listed an abstract form for 'all' the RPG plots. The list is unfortunately much than the six given in the bbc article, but the feeling I got from reading it is the same. [1] http://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-big-list-of-r...
Comment linking /2018/10/the-big-list-of-rpg-plots.html
on “Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six story types”Submitted The Big List of RPG Plots as a story · 191 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fantasy Cartography: Just Add Something Blotchy as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Dice Games Acquires Risus: The Anything RPG as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Invisible Rulebooks as a story · 42 points
HN discussion