"In sostanza, l'emulatore di game master aiuta i giocatori a gestire e guidare la fiction quando giocano in solitario o quando non hanno un master umano per condurre la partita." - Roberto Bisceglie, FASER
Recently I've come across a number of polyglots who recommend journaling in the language you're trying to learn; those who are especially gung-ho about this recommend reading it back to yourself aloud, marking up errors, and so on.
Now, I've tried journaling before and it doesn't work for me, but I do like solo roleplaying. So, I thought, what if I did that in Italian? If nothing else, it should give me some entertaining vocabulary. Maybe if I git gud I can join an Italian game online?
Once this idea struck I took stock and did a quick search of the net. I'm not ready to spend any serious money on this until I'm sure it'll work long-term, but I found I already had Italian rulebooks for Labyrinth Lord, Outgunned and SWADE. Itch.io has a range of free Italian products, including the GM emulator FASER (yoink!), and the Italian Translation Alliance works on translating games from English, including Cepheus Engine and White Box D&D (double yoink!).
I'm now playing a very slow-moving, pencil-and-paper SWADE/Cepheus Engine/FASER hybrid off-screen, and enjoying the linguistic challenge and the lack of pressure.
Currently, I don't intend to share my Italian solo play on the blog - for one thing, my lack of mastery of the subjunctive makes me sound embarrassingly uneducated in Italian - but I did want to share the idea in case it helps anyone else who's studying a language. The Italian resources are likely only useful for that language, but there's probably something similar for whatever interests you; I've seen original RPGs and translations in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish, and I haven't really been looking.
GDRS? Giochi Di Ruolo Solitario, o in inglese "Solo RPGs".
In bocca al lupo, ragazzi!
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