#RPG – Five 200 Word RPGs to Help my Cat, Charlie

GET THE PDF HERE

NB: We’re covered at the moment, but if you already helped me out please download this for free. Otherwise, any money raised that exceeds what we need will go to charity, likely either the Zelart Scholarship fund or a no-kill cat shelter.

Games in this booklet:

• Kredya Sociyani – Can you game the social credit system and come out on top?
• One Downmanship – A race to the bottom to take control of the agenda.
• The Great Debate – How extreme are you willing to go to get votes?
• Elder, Could you tell me? – Create a religion, one annoying child’s question at a time.
• Everything is Kung Fu – Solve every problem in the world, with your fists.

I don’t really enter the 200-Word RPG Challenge but I do meet the challenge. I treat it as an exercise, on and off. This year, as once previously, I’m offering up that work for sale, but for a special reason.

My cat, Charlie, has been with me about as long as I’ve been writing games full time. He’s been my companion and my muse, he’s added structure to my day, comfort when I’ve been down, amusing antics and much-needed distractions.

He also saved my life, literally rather than figuratively. At the point of one of my suicide attempts, he interrupted me, practically tearing down the door and making sounds I’ve never heard from a cat before or since. He stopped me, and I owe him.

Before the weekend a neighbour’s dog got out and chased him up a tree. In getting down again he scratched his eye and broke his left rear leg, right behind the knee.

This has meant many vet visits already, with more to come. Medication, X-rays, and may lead to an expensive operation to repair or remove the leg. I want to give him the best possible chance to keep the leg and to survive. I owe him my life.

As such I’m raising money to help cover his vet bills and to keep the options as open as possible. He’s an old boy and likely doesn’t have too many years left, but I love him and want him as fit and comfortable as possible.

This collection of games is Pay-What-You-Want. I’m sick of begging when things like this go wrong, and I do save money as a contingency, but it has been one thing after another this year and it just isn’t doable without help.

Updates can be found on my YouTube channel, ‘PostmortemVideo’.

Thanks,

Grim

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#RPG #200WordRPG – 4 x 200 Word RPGs

I compiled my 200 Word RPGs into a little booklet.

You can download it as a ‘pay what you want’ from RPGNOW.

I hope you actually play them and enjoy them 🙂

#200wordRPG #RPG #TTRPG – Are you not Entertained?

It is the far future. Mankind has spread throughout the stars, mingled with other species, and become part of galactic society. Every planet has its own culture, of course, but some of them resemble ancient Earth history, such as the gladiatorial fights on Cestus-2.

The game is played by two players with internet access and social media accounts, along with a referee to handle disagreements and to interpret what happens.

Find a picture of your sci-fi gladiator, name them and post them to your social media, telling people you’re playing the game and use the tag #RUNOTENTERTAINED in all your posts

The referee now describes entering the arena and facing off, then combat begins.

Each player describes their ‘move’ and posts it as a poll to their social media followers, asking ‘Do I succeed or fail?’

Total up the succeed/fail numbers for each player to determine the winner of each round. You can set a cut-off point of 5/10/15 minutes for voting to end.

Whoever gets the highest vote (Succeed-Fail compared to the other player) wins.

Three victories total and you get to land your death blow – or spare your opponent. Your choice.

Art by Garrett Post

#200wordRPG #RPG #TTRPG – The Body Politic

Body Politic

Something happened in the night and where, before The Event, your body was a whole, obeying your brain, now it is a cacophony of competing voices, a comity of equal limbs and organs. Somehow you have to all work together and find a new way to live.

The game works best with four players (one for each limb) and one referee, though an additional player can act out the actions as directed through the referee.

All you have to do is try to get through your everyday life, doing perfectly normal things.

• Players may not speak with each other.
• Players may nominate a player from amongst them to speak and perform other miscellaneous actions when the game calls for it.
• Players only communicate with the GM in ’rounds’.
• ‘Rounds’ are conducted by writing down what your limb does and passing the note to the GM.
• The GM then interprets the actions and tells you the result – often with hilarious results.

Example Sessions:
Get up, shower, get dressed, clean your teeth, have breakfast and leave the house.
Get into your car, start it, drive to work, park and enter the office.
Complete a day’s work at the office.

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I can’t really enter, because I provided prizes, but you can check out the competition and enter yourself HERE.