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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > April Game Design Contest: One-Page RPGs help the environment!
 
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Auralsaurus Flex
Aug 3, 2012
 Twice as Bright
(Dropbox .docx, Kludged together PDF on Drive)



"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
– Dr. Eldon Tyrell

Twice as Bright is a diceless roleplaying game designed for 3 or more players that touches on the themes of finding yourself with dwindling resources and facing the inevitability of irreparable failure, and examines the choices characters make when faced with these facts. A player's character sheet is also the physical manifestation of their character outside the game world; as a character expends resources, they get to rip and tear it up and crumple it into a ball to throw it into the recycling bin as they play.

There is no specified setting for play in Twice as Bright, although its inherent themes make it a good choice for games such as:
  • Being one of several rogue biological androids reaching the culmination of their three-year lifespans in a dystopian-tinted cyberpunk future.
  • Playing a group of warriors who are able to temporarily reach superhuman capabilities by imbibing alchemical concoctions, but those very
    same elixirs are slowly deteriorating their body and killing them from the inside out.
  • Reenacting the Steroid Era of Major League Baseball.
Enjoy!

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Auralsaurus Flex
Aug 3, 2012
 The other submissions for this contest were very strong entries, so I'm incredibly honored that Twice as Bright was selected as a winner. Congratulations to UnCO3, Paolomania, and LordVonEarlDuke as well!

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