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I'm thrilled to announce the release of Void Where Prohibited, a one-page RPG where you're trapped in a research facility with an expanding anomaly that eats reality. The dice pool represents dwindling resources and panic where successful rolls cost you resources permanently while failures make the void grow stronger.

https://joereilly.itch.io/void-where-prohibited

One player runs the void as the Director, everyone else creates a facility employee and tries not to die. Games usually run one hour.

The idea came from seeing the phrase "void where prohibited" in some legalese and taking it way too literally. The game owes debts to Half-Life's resonance cascade, The Expanse's "bullet", The Pool RPG for character creation, and games like Ten Candles where resources disappear as you fight for narrative control.

The whole thing fits on one page. Print it, grab some d6s, and go! Released under CC BY-NC-SA if you want to hack it.

Let me know it goes if you run it! I'm curious how different groups interpret what the void and Protocol 0 are.

This is very cool! So elegant.

Thanks for asking. So tough to explain things clearly in 36 words, but I suppose that's the fun! The intention is that a result of 3 or higher on a d6 roll in the dice pool counts as a success, and that one player's attack successes would be cancelled by the opponent's defense successes. An example makes it clearer but I'll try to reword it to make more sense in the rules:

• Players A and B both start with a 7d6 dice pool. A chooses 4d6 for attack and 3d6 for defense, while B uses only 2d6 for attack and 5d6 for defense.
• Both players roll their attack pools:
  • A: [1, 2, 3, 6], B: [3, 5]
  • This shows two successes for A and two success for B
• Both players roll their defense pools:
  • A: [2, 2, 3] Cleric: [1, 3, 3, 4, 5]
  • This shows one success for A and four successes for B
    
• After cancelling the offsetting attack and defense successes, this yields one harm for A and none for B. The 1’s are lost, while the remaining dice are returned to the player's pools. As a result, they will both only have 6d6 to play with next round.

Hope that helps!

Liches Get Stitches, a one-page one-shot RPG for four necromancers and the God of Death, is now available for the One-Page RPG Jam 2024 #1pRPGjam

Fight with and against your friends for fame, glory, and immortality!

Check it out now! https://joereilly.itch.io/liches-get-stitches