RPGNET Tro Challenge 6

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

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=468595&page=1

These are the results of the sixth 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 August 2009.

Contestants should choose five ingredients from the three categories below with at least one from each category. You should also indicate your RPGnet username on their entry.

• There is a goal based system that gives experience for character improvement

• Characters' skills are generated / recorded using a mind map with their placement affecting their value

• Characters draw from a common pool of skills/traits that they must share.

• Character creation is based on archetypes, but characters may change archetypes during downtime.

• Rules must enforce a character life expectancy of 1 to 3 play sessions and must include an inheritance system.

• Game must allow that any skill can be used as a combat skill.

• Physical and emotional recovery/healing occurs only through alignment/code of conduct based deeds.

• Damage in combat is not random.

• A world filled with Shapeshifters

• "Monsters" are not real life forms. They condense out of the air / some other medium to attack people when it is disturbed.

• Insanity is a viral-like disease that is spreading like a plague.

• Mercantilism, Political intrigue, and War are bound within the rules of "the Game".

• A world where "counting coup" has deep meaning and tangible rewards, both physically and spiritually.

• A world where mana can be gleaned / mined from some natural resource

• Caste structure. Does not need to be linear, with someone on top and someone on bottom, just division of roles / identities / expectations.

• All life, good and bad, occurs only in contained, isolated zones separated by vast areas inhabitable only by those with great power.

• Technology drives progress

• Renewal of the World

• Nightmares of the mind

• Too much to handle

• Bliss is killing the World

• Secrets and lies

• Legends return

• The False Prophecy

• One step forwards, two steps back

• 8 days to live

• Brave new world

• Choose your Fate

• Death before dishonor

• Evolution through suffering

• Flesh is obsolete

• Honor is dead

• Light vs. Darkness

• Nature over all

• Order Vs. Chaos

• Reclaim the lost

• The end is nigh

• The many become one

• The night beckons

• The stars are right

• What am I?

• What is Evil?

• Who do you serve?