Player: Sean Nittner
System: 15 Minute Futures by Quinn Murphy
If you’ve ever wanted to build the framework for an interesting sci-fi setting quickly with your friends or by yourself, 15 Minute Futures is the TTRPG tool for you! The simple 3-step procedure of Elimination, Innovation and Fracture combine to build interesting worlds you use in your TTRPG games or in your fiction. All you need besides this PDF are some friends, index cards, and your imagination!
Solo Run
These aren’t complete futures, but ideas to spin futures out of. I enjoyed the exercise. What has been eliminated in the future:
- Hunger, eliminated by development of nutra-pills (incomplete)
- Fame, eliminated by uniform crypto-identities that cycle every 15 seconds (complete)
- Writing, eliminated by thought probe technology that stores all knowledge in mentation silos (incomplete)
In the utopian version (hard to imagine, but I’m rolling with it) I think these would be threatened by thought marauders that could conscript memories and identity. (Thoughtcrimes, heh heh heh)
In the dystopian version (at lot easer to fathom), hunger is still experienced, it is just no longer reported or recorded in mentation silos. The lack of writing has allowed the powerful to play by different rules even more than before
