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Game: The Quiet Year: Bleeds the Sky System: The Quiet Year Format: PbP Players: Description: Our community has just driven off the Jackals and now hopes for a year of relative peace – a quiet year – but little do they know that in Winter the Frost Shepherds will arrive... This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we guide the actions of a community that lives in a post-collapse world after our civilisation has fallen. Maybe they'll build something new; maybe we'll find out why the world changed. We'll play to find out. EDIT: Enough players now. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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System: Everyone Is John Format: PbP Players: 6 Description: Diamond Joe is a man of many drives, drives that get him into all kindsa trouble with all kindsa hombres. EDIT: Joe is Go! UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Game: A ship. A crew. And a signal. System: Pocket Geiger Counter Format: PbP Players: Description: Come and make a survival horror movie in the vein of Alien, Pitch Black or Night of the Living Dead! Make sure almost all of the characters die horribly, punished for humanity's hubris! EDIT: Got enough players. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 12:15 on May 22, 2015 |
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Game: The Quiet Year: Drowns the Sky System: The Quiet Year Format: PbP Players: Description: Our community has just driven off the Jackals and now hopes for a year of relative peace – a quiet year – but little do they know that in Winter the Frost Shepherds will arrive... This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we guide the actions of a community that lives in a post-collapse world some time after the fall of our civilisation. Maybe they'll build something new; maybe we'll find out why the world changed. We'll play to find out. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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Game: The Quiet Year: Asks the Earth System: The Quiet Year Format: PbP Players: 3-4 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: Our community has just driven off the Jackals and now hopes for a year of relative peace – a quiet year – but little do they know that in Autumn the Mist Shepherds will arrive... This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we guide the actions of a community that lives in a post-collapse world some time after the fall of our civilisation. Maybe they'll build something new; maybe we'll find out why the world changed. We'll play to find out. This time around is a bit experimental, as instead of starting in Spring and ending in Winter, we'll be starting in Winter and ending in Autumn.
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May 20, 2016 18:19
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Game: Humanity is Obsolete System: Gamma Patrol Format: PbP Players: 3-5 Description: A quick, Nihei-esque, sci-fi game. Come defend a remnant of humanity from a world that's left it by the wayside.
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UnCO3 posted:Game: Humanity is Obsolete
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Jul 5, 2016 01:29
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Game: No Gods Watch Over Me System: The Sundered Land: A Doomed Pilgrim in the Ruins of the Future Format: PbP Players: Any – I ask questions, and anyone can answer Description: A game designed for online play, where I, a pilgrim travelling the Sundered Land, must try to escape danger while everyone else tries to see me dead.
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Jul 25, 2016 17:36
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Game: Caravan Guards in the Ruins of the Future System: The Sundered Land: Caravan Guards in the Ruins of the Future Format: PbP Players: Any – up to 4 will be caravan guards, but anyone can join in as a nameless, restless shade Description: Four guards defend a caravan from a deadly hazard as it traverses the Burnt Road to reach the City of Gulls. Perhaps they will succeed; perhaps the vultures will pick at their bones while their shades curse the sky.  There is a 24 hour application window before I roll to see who the guards are (if I get more than 4 apps)! After that, anyone who starts posting (and anyone who isn't a guard) is a shade. This will be a quick, short game, probably a week at most.
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Jul 29, 2016 11:42
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Game: Tomb Robbing in the Cancerous City System: The Sundered Land: Tomb Robbers in the Ruins of the Future Format: PbP Players: Any – I and my co-players ask questions, and anyone can answer Description: A game designed for online play, where I and several fellow tomb robbers seek wealth beyond measure in unhallowed halls while everyone else tries to send us to our dooms. This is a homebrew follow-up to the Doomed Pilgrim game I recently ran.
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Aug 5, 2016 03:36
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Game: The Quiet Year: Aches the Earth System: The Quiet Year Format: PbP Players: 3-4 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: Our community has just driven off the Jackals and now hopes for a year of relative peace – a quiet year – but little do they know that in Winter the Frost Shepherds will arrive... This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we guide the actions of a community that lives in a post-collapse world some time after the fall of our civilisation. Maybe they'll build something new; maybe we'll find out why the world changed. We'll play to find out.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:42
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Game: Godgame: Five Centuries of Flux System: PDQ Format: PbP Players: 6 Description: Be a god! Rebuild the world in your image! Smite the unworthy! Do it all before something big happens in 6 weeks/5 centuries' time! Apps close at 11pm (GMT), 05/11/16. I'll be taking 6 people (unless I get fewer apps than that).
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Nov 1, 2016 01:06
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Game: The Quiet Year: Swallows the Sea System: The Quiet Year Format: PbP Players: 3-4 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: Our community was once near the battle lines of a great war, but since the lines have shifted they now hope for a year of relative peace – a quiet year. Little do they know that in Winter the Frost Shepherds will arrive... This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we guide the actions of a community that lives on the edge of a war-torn world. Maybe they'll build something new; maybe we'll discover why the war is fought. We'll play to find out.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:00
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System: The Quiet Year Format: PbP Players: 3-4 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: Our community has just driven off the Jackals and now hopes for a year of relative peace – a quiet year – but little do they know that in Winter the Frost Shepherds will arrive... This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we guide the actions of a community that lives in a post-collapse world some time after the fall of our civilisation. Maybe they'll build something new; maybe we'll find out why the world changed. We'll play to find out. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Apr 29, 2018 |
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Apr 25, 2018 00:33
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Game: No Gods Watch Over Me System: The Sundered Land: A Doomed Pilgrim in the Ruins of the Future Format: PbP Players: Any – I ask questions, and anyone can answer Description: A game designed for online play, where I, a pilgrim travelling the Sundered Land, must try to escape danger while everyone else tries to see me dead.
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May 4, 2018 08:56
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Game: Caravan Guards in the Ruins of the Future System: The Sundered Land: Caravan Guards in the Ruins of the Future Format: PbP Players: Any – up to 4 will be caravan guards, but anyone can join in as a nameless, restless shade Description: Four guards defend a caravan from a deadly hazard as it traverses the Burnt Road to reach the City of Gulls. Perhaps they will succeed; perhaps the vultures will pick at their bones while their shades curse the sky. There is a 24 hour application window before I roll to see who the guards are! After that, anyone who starts posting (and anyone who isn't a guard) is a shade, with a minor influence over the story. This will be a quick, short game, probably a week at most.
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May 7, 2018 11:32
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Game: The Plant System: The Plant Format: PbP Players: Any – I ask questions, and anyone can answer Description: Your daughter is in the plant. You are going to find her. A collaborative game where we explore past and present to piece together the future.
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May 21, 2018 12:30
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Game: Militaires Sans Frontieres System: Pocket Geiger Counter Format: PbP Players: up to 7 (plus me for 8 total) Description: Let’s be renegade superhuman soldiers who get killed by Solid Snake.
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May 27, 2018 22:17
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Game: Reefer… Madness! System: Everyone Is John Format: PbP Players: However many (but probably not more than 7-8) Description: Everyone Is John through the medium of horrifically outdated anti-drug propaganda.
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Jun 9, 2018 16:46
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Game: The Fall of Magic System: Fall of Magic Format: PbP Players: 3-5, including me Description: Magic is dying and the Magus is dying with it. We travel together to the realm of Umbra where magic was born. A storytelling game of fantasy and melancholy where we travel through a map that opens before us and closes behind, making our way from the Magus’ home at Ravenhall to Umbra, the birthplace of magic, and find out who we are, who we were, and who we will become along the way. EDIT: Initial signups are over, but there'll be opportunities for people to get involved later. I'll update this post with more details when that becomes relevant. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Nov 8, 2018 |
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Nov 4, 2018 13:43
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Game: With strange aeons, even death may die System: The Skeletons Format: PbP Players: 2-4 Description: A rules-light inversion of a dungeon crawl, where you play skeletons guarding a tomb from intruders. As time passes, you regain lost memories, but all the while the tomb slowly crumbles around you. The game also involves drawing and altering a map of the tomb, and days or weeks of downtime in the thread to represent the months, years, decades and more of terrible, unconscious darkness between invasions.
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Nov 8, 2018 13:32
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 Game: The Quiet Year: Seasons Unknown System: The Quiet Year Format: PbP Players: 3-4 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: Our community has just driven off the Jackals and now hopes for a year of relative peace – a quiet year – but little do they know that in Winter the Frost Shepherds will arrive... This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we guide the actions of a community that lives in a post-collapse world some time after the fall of our civilisation. Maybe they'll build something new; maybe we'll find out why the world changed. We'll play to find out. Note: This game is a minor variation on the original rules, but not one to worry about if you haven’t played before. For those that have, there are a number of extra cards per season, but we’ll only be drawing up to 13 as normal. This introduces more randomness into the oracle, which, if you’ve played several times, starts to become a little predictable.
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Feb 26, 2019 16:25
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Game: No Gods Watch Over Me System: The Sundered Land: A Doomed Pilgrim in the Ruins of the Future Format: PbP Players: Any – I ask questions, and anyone can answer Description: A game designed for online play, where I, a pilgrim travelling the Sundered Land, must try to escape danger while everyone else tries to see me dead.
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Mar 8, 2019 11:09
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 Game: The Quiet Year: Twilight Song System: The Quiet Year (hack) Format: PbP Players: 3-4 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: Our narrator lives in a world where humanity is in decline, but people accept this change and explore the new world that’s rising rather than struggle violently against the changing of the tides. This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we play a single person and follow a broader community as years and decades pass. Humanity is in its twilight. How does someone live well, even as things slowly fall away? Will we discover what could emerge to succeed us? We’ll play to find out. Note: This game is an extensive, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou-inspired hack of The Quiet Year by Avery Alder – so extensive, in fact, that you don’t need to worry if you haven’t played before, because it’s almost a completely different (but somewhat similar) game. Every player will get access to the full rules.
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Apr 16, 2019 13:50
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 Game: AFTER KAIJU System: After Kaiju (playtest) Format: PbP Players: 3-5 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: A rules-light cinematic storygame where we make a documentary that tells the true story of a kaiju attack.
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May 2, 2019 17:22
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Game: Dead Air System: Geiger Counter Gamma Format: PbP Players: up to 7 (plus me for 8 total) Description: Survival horror film RPG set in a dying gimmick radio station in a rust belt ghost town. Freakish spectres, rising terror, approaching slaughter.
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Jun 5, 2019 19:05
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Game: Drowns the Sky System: homebrew Format: PbP or live (text) on my discord server (link will be valid for 24 hours - ask me if you need a new one) Players: 3-5, including me Description: We’re space colonists on an alien world. The End is coming. We can’t stop it, but we can choose what we remember, how we’re remembered, and what we do with these final days or hours. Drowns the Sky is a short 1-page map-game played with coinflips, originally an entry into an SA game design contest back in 2014, and I’m finally getting around to playtesting it (so I can build a better, more developed version of the game).
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Aug 1, 2019 18:38
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Game: AFTER KAIJU System: After Kaiju (playtest) Format: PbP Players: 3-5 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: A rules-light cinematic storygame about a kaiju attack, the stories people tell in the aftermath, and the impact they have on the world - and the fractalic spread of stories inspiring stories inspiring stories with the rise of each new generation.
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Sep 14, 2019 23:50
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quote:A lonely golem. System: several, see recruit thread OP Format: PbP and/or discord (live text) depending on the game Players: some are 2-player, most can run with 3-4, 3-5, or 3-6 Description: Short RPGs with short runtimes that made it to the finals of the 2019 200-word RPG Challenge, including my own game. I'm looking to play any or all of this selection of 12 out of the 40 finalists.
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Oct 29, 2019 02:22
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I've added 3 more 200-word RPGs to the thread here - one's a game of weird eldritch comedy horror(?) called The boys are back in town, one's a game of dice-stacking/wizard-tower-building where we write the histories of the wizards who live there called Manus artificis in caelis: WIZARD EDITION, and one's a coin-based story-telling game about the life and times of a family pet called Building the Rainbow Bridge.
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Nov 8, 2019 17:22
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 Game: The Quiet Year: Seasons Unknown II System: The Quiet Year Format: PbP Players: 3-4 per game, and as many games as there are players for Description: Our community has just driven off the Jackals and now hopes for a year of relative peace – a quiet year – but little do they know that in Winter the Frost Shepherds will arrive... This is a birds-eye view, map-making game where we guide the actions of a community that lives in a post-collapse world some time after the fall of our civilisation. Maybe they'll build something new; maybe we'll find out why the world changed. We'll play to find out. Note: This game is a minor variation of the original rules, but not one to worry about if you haven’t played before. In the original game you draw from a deck of playing cards to create random events and choices that the community faces; this version just has more cards, to boost the replayability of the game.
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Jan 18, 2020 11:06
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Game: Fall into Legend System: Apotheosis Format: PbP Players: looking for 4 total, including me, but I could go with 2-5 total Description: Stories are not immutable. Legends are not fixed in time and space. They change in the telling and re-telling, winding around obstacles and voids like the roots and branches of a tree, accommodating the changing ways of the people who tell them. This is a game about telling the dominant myth of a society, and exploring how it changes across the generations. This game is similar to Microscope, in that it’s a GMless game where you add and change details of a story, but in this case it’s a legend growing, splitting, and decaying over time rather than a record of history.
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Mar 25, 2020 14:07
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Game: Godgame: Best-laid Plans of Gods and Men System: homebrew, simple dice pool stuff Format: PbP Description: A godgame! We’ve already got players, but anyone can submit mortal prayers to be delivered to the gods. Check the first few posts in the thread for details (you’ll need PMs or discord). There’s also a good chance I’ll add a fifth god-player a week from now at the start of the second 'Age' of the game (if you're interested in that, check the discord link in the first post to join the OOC channel and stay updated).
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Game: No Gods Watch Over Me System: The Sundered Land: A Doomed Pilgrim in the Ruins of the Future Format: PbP Players: Any – I ask questions, and anyone can answer Description: A game designed for online play, where I, a pilgrim travelling the Sundered Land, must try to escape danger while everyone else tries to see me dead.
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