RPGNET Tro Challenge 3

These are the results of the third challenge on RPGnet, the first one initiated by Gene Freak to design a new roleplaying game in 1 week based on a set of ingredients. This challenge had just over two weeks to do the design over Christmas 2008 and the thread on RPGnet containing the challenge and the judges comments is at:-

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=428933.

Entries must choose at least five ingredients from the list of  ingredients below with at least one from each category:-

Ingedients

• This is the highest technology has ever been.
• The people are heavily divided into 3 tiers: rulers, enforcers, and citizens.
• Hope, as a physical element
• A huge empire in decline
• A school.
• A superhero game set in the past
• The world is primarily constructed of one type of terrain, be it desert, islands, forest, tundra, mountains, caverns, etc.
• All life is mechanical.

Mechanics:

• An original advantages system that is not pick and buy using a number of points.
• Something totally unrelated to the game, and entirely outside the control of the players, is used for all resolution requirements.
• Players choose which phase to excel in, and only those phases selected occur.
• Dice are not used in the game.
• Powers available to the characters vary by the location they are in.
• Has a Fate/Karma/Bennie reward pool that can only be spent on others.
• No character advancement, just enhancement. A system where you have to build your power in ways that go beyond the sheet, but still feels meaningful. (I don't understand this either, but would like to see it.)
• A mechanism where the other players have some input on the design of your character.
• At least two dice are rolled for every roll made in the game.

• A candle lights others, but is itself consumed.
• War and Peace.
• Redemption.
• Present, past or future?
• Technology gone wrong
• Become something greater.
• Obedience and freedom.
• How long can you hold out?
• Wanting and having.
• Exploration.
• Symmetry.

Between 0-20 marks will be awarded in each of five categories giving a total score for each entry out of 100. The judging categories are

1) Character Options (including both system elements and setting elements - meaning that it doesn't just produce mechanically sound characters but also characters that would be fun to play)

2) Mechanics (the task resolution and, if there is one, conflict resolution mechanic of the game)

3) Setting

4) Integration

5) Creative Use of Ingredients