#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 – De-Escalation

A game for two players, which uses dominoes. The aim is to negotiate an agreement between South Hanguk and Best Hanguk.

The game’s played in rounds, over issues determined by the first tile laid out each round. The game ends when you run out of tiles.

Play rock-paper-scissors to determine first player.

Rounds:

1. Fill your hand to 5 tiles.

2. The first player lays a tile and announces the issue.

3. The opposite player plays a tile that matches a number on the laid out tiles, and describes a demand (if played on the side facing you) or a concession (if on the opposing side). You can also ‘give’. If you can’t come up with a description or play a tile, you ‘give’.

4. The other player can now play a tile, and play continues until someone ‘gives’.

5. Whoever doesn’t ‘give’ scores the points.

6. Change first player and go to 1.

Tile Total/Points & Issue

0: The border.
1: Disputed region of Noot.
2: Diplomatic presence.
3: Hotline.
4: Prisoner exchange.
5: Agriculture.
6: Infrastructure.
7: Defectors.
8: Immigration.
9: Fishing rights.
10: Human rights.
11: Conventional Militaries.
12: Nuclear Program.

#200wordRPG #RPG #TTRPG – Martha

This is a game for two players. Each player describes a superhero in broad, general terms such as ‘I dress up as a bat and punch people, with gadgets’. They then describe three key events from their character’s past.

For example:

• My parents are dead, murdered in a mugging.

• A superpowered drug addict broke my back.

• I was born into wealth and privilege. I never wanted for anything.

Each player then takes it, in turn, to present the opposite hero with a heroic dilemma, such as a choice between saving the woman he loves, or a bus-load of nuns.

For example:

“I spend many nights praying for a just, benevolent god to bring back my parents, or to reveal who it was that murdered them. My prayers went unanswered. Fuck those nuns. Fuck them in their stupid arses.”

Using the engine of a flashback, that fits a key event, the player must describe something related to it, that informs their decision upon how to act. Play continues until both players have made three dilemma decisions, no key event may be used for a flashback more than once. This ramps up the challenge as play continues.

#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