It's a big time for William Shakespeare, right now.
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All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
erely Players is a theatrical RPG in development for 3-6 players and a Master of Revels, where players take on the role of Shakespearean actors performing a play with life or death stakes for the King and Queen of Fairies and their court.
These intrepid actors are in a struggle for their very livelihood: the best of you will be granted gifts and adulation; the worst actor amongst you will be Queen Titania’s prisoner, trapped in the fairy world until they’re spent. Players will not only be acting through Shakespeare’s classic text, but also role-playing as the actors themselves, entering and exiting, waiting for cues, navigating stage fights, handling props, and trying to remember lines.
To create the tension of live performance, players will use decks of standard playing cards to determine both the difficulty of the performance and their success or failure on stage.
The DEMO focuses on the core loop actually reading of the play, with more setting and character/company creation information to come later.
Okay so listen. We need to teach you about Commuter Combat.
You are part of The Cause. You don’t get to choose that. You just are.
When people get together they make Energy. Lots of people get together to Commute.
Some people in the Cause have more Energy all up inside them than the average. We call them Fully Resonant Energetic NoDes, or F.R.E.N.D.S. That’s you.
Your job as a F.R.E.N.D. is protecting regular folks from the Forces Opposing Energy, or F.O.E.s, who want to vampire them.
Put your asskicking tunes on. You know what I mean. Go ahead. Nice.
COMMUTER COMBAT is a 1 player LARPG created for the Minimalist TTRPG Jam 4 by Binary Star Games and the Chorrijuegos JAM by Asaltadores del Rol.
They say the Lord works in mysterious ways...
The Pope is dead, and they want to make him a saint.
In order to do that, though, the Dead Pope needs to rack up some posthumous miracles. Two, to be exact.
It’s up to you to tell the story of the Dead Pope’s miracles. You’ll relate the tale of the petitioner, praying for the Pope’s intercession, and you’ll tell us what the petitioner recieved. The New Pope will hear your stories and decide whether the miracle is genuine.
Unfortunately, prayers are often answered in mysterious ways, and the Dead Pope was known, even in life, as an eccentric. It may not always be immediately apparent what makes a miracle a miracle, or how it has saved the petitioner’s life.
It’s up to you and 3-9 friends to make the connection. You've done the investigation. Now argue the case.
Et benedictio Dei omnipotentis descendat super vos et maneat semper.
It’s evening. You’re in your apartment. What does your apartment look like? Where is it? Really form a picture of your kitchen. This will be important. What’s the weather like outside? What kind of clutter can you see? How was your day?
You’ve been looking forward to this for a little while. Someone you love (or at least like a whole lot) is coming over for dinner. Who are they to you? Hold them in your mind. Why are they coming over? Is there anything you’re hoping happens? Maybe a conversation you need to have, like an apology or a big question? Or do you just want to impress them? How do they make you feel? How do you hope to make them feel?
Oh, you’re cooking, by the way.
Why didn’t you give yourself more time to get started? You’re really beginning to feel the Heat… and it’s not just from the stove.
Your company of actors smashed a performance, drank to celebrate, and woke up somewhere you didn't recognize. All of a sudden the King and Queen of the Fairies have offered you a deal: put on a show, or be stuck here in their magic kingdom forever.
"For the love of God, Montressor!
Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, AMONTILLADO is a simple, one-page RPG for two players using 3 dice and a block tower.**
The Host (in Poe’s story, a man named Montressor) has made an exciting acquisition (in Poe’s story, a cask of fine Amontillado sherry) and baits the Guest (in Poe’s story, a man named Fortunato) to verify its quality (in Poe’s story, by tasting it). The acquisition is hidden in a secluded place (in Poe’s story, a crypt beneath the Montressor home), where the Host, quite unbeknownst to the Guest, plans to trap the latter and leave them for dead by building a wall to enclose them.
The Guest will probably lose. This game focuses instead on what twists and turns will get you to the end of your story.
Community copies still available!
**Simple substitutions include: dominos, plastic building toys, a dice stack, counters or tokens to indicate levels of the wall. There may be a version of the game where the Host need only rack up 11 wins, subtracting 1 each time the Guest succeeds.
