Greater Fantasia vs. Fantastecha™

"The role-playing game of Greater Fantasia" is an informal Role-playing game which as far as we know, is played all over Greater Fantasia. It has many variations, interpretations, derivatives (including Dungeons & Dragons, Dolls/action figures’ play and "compose a story word-by-word" ) - even parodies.

Basically, the players just imagine what their characters do, and the gamemasters (who may be the same as the players) tell them what happens.

While it is one of the first games that wizard children are taught, many vampires have played it by instinct:

  1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon

  2. Sesame Street's skits

  3. Shlomi Fish's screenplays

  4. Entertaining online chat logs

  5. Disney's films

  6. Aesop's Fables, the Biblical stories, the Greek mythology.

The game can often be phrased like:

Instances of "the game" may be layered, nested, or even circular / self-referential. They also may contain mini-games, sub-quests, and side-quests..

TheGame™ of Fantastecha™ adds 3 sets of two concepts each:

    • Time

    • Soul

    • Network

    • Mind

    • Love

    • Knowledge

Sample session of "the game of Greater Fantasia"

One day, Mr. Linea takes a break from walking along his line, and posts a comedic story that takes place in an absurd 3D1T universe he conceived called "The Selinaverse", on his blog. However, his long-time associate "/bin/true" v2.0 "The Strong AI Edition" claims he came up with The Selinaverse first.

As the two argue in the blog post's comments, Discord (from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) notes that "Advanced Selinaverse Geeks" has been a popular fantasy role-playing games' franchise in Equestria for years.

The three go to judge Fluttershy (also from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) who sighs and invites them for lunch. She opens a gateway to Rabin Square in the Tel Aviv of the Selinaverse (yes! The same universe that the plaintiffs are arguing about), they agree on a restaurant, and order food.

While they wait for their order to arrive, Fluttershy explains that copyrights' battles are rarely constructive, and that they should just share the Selinaverse. The plaintiffs agree, drop the case, and discuss ideas they had in mind for the Selinaverse. However, while they wait for the desserts to arrive, Discord suggests they write and record a parodical courtcase as a spin-off franchise. The others agree.

After they record the pilot episode of "The copyrights' battle for the Selinaverse" and publicise it on their blogs and social media, it proves to be popular and profitable. Thus, the quartet donate part of the profits to charities (while giving them publicity), and decide to go to a vacation in the Selinaverse's Caribbean Islands, to calculate their next steps.

However, after checking into their hotel, they meet Marilyn Monroe in the lobby (who, for the sake of this story, is alive, kicking, and kicking ass). After being a little star-struck and 'geeking out', they decide to play some games together.

They play ball games, board/card games, and League of Legends. Then they decide to play "The game of Greater Fantasia" with the classic, possibly cliché, campaign setting of the Muppeteers in 1969 with Fluttershy and Monroe as gamemasters/arbiters, thus starting the cycle again.

Yes, it is fanfiction, crossover, parody, Real Person Fan Fiction (RPFs), circularly referential; hopefully good stuff.

Now, if the players are playful, and the gamemasters are jerks we can imagine stuff like:

  1. Arnold Schwarzenegger convinces a U.S. military combat unit to storm Washington D. C. with him in order to legalise/decriminalise commercial fan-art, only to get the red carpet, a hero's welcome, and a personal invitation from the U.S. president to host a press conference.

  2. Richard Stallman writes a script to broadcast the Muppeteers' screenplays to all ~65,536 hosts in the nascent ARPANET, only to get a visit from the director of the NSA, who informs him that the Muppeteers' screenplays' GitHub repository has exceeded 10 million GitHub stars (= "likes") and a million forks.

  3. Jim Henson travels to Los Angeles to pitch the Muppets franchise to Hollywood executives, only to see The Muppet Show being broadcast on the moon, on the way.

In TheGame™ of Fantastecha™, The Three Muppeteers all started as law-abiding men of great integrity, who were playful mostly only when joking or doing make-believe. Furthermore, not only were the gamemasters jerks, but they were - to use the technical term - fuckers!

Moreover, our naïve assumption that "the network" (= reality) was perceived by the player-characters in an absolute and objective manner was wrong.