RPGNET Tro Challenge 7
The content was held on the following thread on RPGnet where you can find the judges comments:-
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=486553
These are the results of the seventh challenge on RPGnet, the first one initiated by Gene Freak to design a new roleplaying game in 2 weeks based on a set of ingredients. This challenge had just over two weeks to do the design in December 2009.
Each entry into the competition must utilize at least 5 ingredients and
must have at least one System Constraint, one Genre Blend, and one
Image Hunt. Also, entries must include a title page with the following
clearly stated: Author's name, Ingredients used, and Images cited with
artist credits and links.
SYSTEM
- All characters are designed by committee.
- All statistics (Skills/Attributes/whatever) must be phrased as Haiku or other form of short poetic prose.
- Character creation does not allow characters to have access to all
attributes. They must choose which ones not to have values in.
- Characters are composed of a core that is augmented by templates that can be swapped.
- Characters belong to a shared pool rather than individual players.
- Characters' skills / abilities are generated / recorded using a Sudoku or Magic Square style grid.
- Does not use numbers to represent skills or attributes in any way.
- Game requires making sketches as a mechanic for task resolution, character creation, or whatever.
- Mechanics must use different die types for specific action types. (e.g. d6 for social, d8 for combat, d10 for magic)
- Must include an emotional connection mechanic binding characters together.
- Must use non-traditional randomizers (no dice or poker/playing cards)
- Players control character advancement
- Resolution system must involve a bidding mechanic with a risk of loss.
- Reverse dice pool resolution, where all dice in a pool have to succeed. Penalties add dice, bonuses remove dice.
GENRE BLEND
You must pick two of the following genres and combine the tropes listed
to create your game. Picking additional ingredients from this category
means adding an additional genre, and its tropes, to your setting (i.e.
two ingredients from this category means three genres combined).
- Brave New World (Exploration of exotic locals, Mysterious discoveries, Unexplained phenomena)
- Conspiracy Thriller (Secret agencies/societies, Hidden agendas, Trust no one)
- Invasion (Overcoming a superior force, Searching for weaknesses, Discovering hidden strengths)
- Military (Warfare, Fighting as a unit, What is the price of victory?)
- Modern Occult (Magic is real but veiled from the mundanes, Magic equals power, Power corrupts the unwary)
- Mythos (Elder gods, Secrets man was not meant to know, Tentacled horrors)
- Noir (Mysterious happenings, Temptation, Object(s) of desire)
- Pirates (Live free or die trying, Swashbuckling, morality is in the eye of the beholder)
- Post-apocalypse (Scarce resources, Fractured civilization, Survival of the fittest)
- Punk (Dystopian society, Body modification/implants, lack of moral center)
- Sentai team (Color defines you, Victory through teamwork, Power through transformation)
- Space Opera (Grand Cosmic Scale, Individuals Against an Empire, Common Fantastic Technology)
- Superhero (Secret Identities, Superhuman abilities, Power equals responsibility)
- Survival Horror (Civilization has fallen, They are coming to get you, Think fast or die faster)
- Western (Harsh life on the lawless frontier, Shoot or give up the gun, A man lives or dies by his word)
- Wuxia (Enlightenment through training, Fantastic martial arts, Eternal search for secret techniques)
IMAGE HUNT
Instead of picking an image from a list presented here, you must go
forth upon the interweb and hunt down images that best fit your game.
Each ingredient from this category must include three images that adhere to the following rules:
- The image cannot have been used in any published game. This includes RPGs, board games, trading/collectable card games, video games, etc.
- You must email the artist and ask for permission to use their
image(s) in a document that is not intended for sale or mass
reproduction/distribution. I'm not going to police this but I'd rather
not get any nasty messages about using art without permission. Of course, public domain images, royalty-free stock art, & creative commons images are fair game.
- You must cite the artist for each image you use and cite the website where you got it from.
- Please, no pornographic material. Nudity is fine if you feel it is
pertinent but let's keep this competition relatively family safe and
well within the forum rules.
MISCELLANEOUS
- Game allows for inheritance between characters.
- Game contains no random element of any kind.
- Game includes detailed rules for enemy/item/etc generation and other such expansion guidelines.
- Game is both Class Based and uses Point buy generation.
- Game requires the use of pieces from a traditional board game, other than dice.
- Mechanically involves Anagrams. (Automatic Anagram Generator)
- The entire game, sans title page, must fit onto a 3 page document (letter sized, minimum font size of 10pts).
RPGNet Author
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Game Link
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Description
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Reidzilla Marking
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SrGrvsalot Marking
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Gavken
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Flooded Isles
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A game set in a future Britain that has been flooded by rising sea levels.
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66
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62
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Grymm the Pleasant
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Circles of the Seventh Mask Screen
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Specially attuned servants of the secret Court Magistrates wage their secret war
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57
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39
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Devlin1
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Leftovers
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Post-apocalyptic survival in a horrific world – but with a heart
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87
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79
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PeskyTiger
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One Hell of a Night
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The interactions of a team of soldiers on their way back from a mission and to the extraction point, survivors off an attack of alien creatures.
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61
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62
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Sabermane
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Pirates of Leng.pdf
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An alternate world where, instead of the Americas, an Elder world of creatures based off of H.P. Lovecraft’s was discovered in 1600's.
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83
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79
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Corvus
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Qiangdo - the Way of the Gun
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A game of Western Shaman cleaning up the wild west
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72
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60
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Tungsten
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Wardens
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A Game of Terrible Perfection
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50
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42
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