RPGNET Tro Challenge 4

The content was held on the following thread on RPGnet where you can find the judges comments:-

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=440895&page=1

These are the results of the fourth 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 a week to do the design in March 2009.

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

Ingedients

• Ten statistics. (Skills/Attributes/wounds/whatever.)
• Multiple Characters per Player.
• The game must use colors (as a mechanic).
• Players create their own playable race.
• Must allow for random character creation.
• Characters with changing characteristics.
• Mechanics use some form of a draft.

Genre:  Must include the elements of the genre given without being in that genre

• Sentai team. (Super Mode, Attack of the Fifty Foot Whatever, Conservation of Ninjutsu)
• British Conspiracy Thriller(omnious form of transport, Conspiracy, Public Security)
• Pirates (Parrots, Jolly Roger, Safe Port, Swashbuckling)
• Noir (Murder Mystery, Dame in Red, Object of Desire)
• Superhero (Secret Identities, Flying, Capes)
• The Pulp Space Opera set: Cosmic Scale, Individuals Against an Empire, Common Fantastic Technology
• The Police Procedural set: Murder Is a Puzzle, Rules/Law Over All, Mostly Methodical with a Touch of Luck

• Board game. (I moved this out of rules, because put here it could be a setting element instead.)
• Family.
• Angst.
• Obscure words. (Sorry, I couldn't stand the huge list of obscure words. But this way you can still use them.)
• "Nature always takes back what was hers."
• Family Trees
• Hope, as a physical element that is as essential for existence as water, oxygen, and fire.

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