#Dead Spacefarers describe the fallout from their failure to acquire the necessary Provisions.
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Quantum Pulse Drive. Earl Grey. Hot.
One player is Foodinator. All others are Spacefarers.
Foodinator manifests Provisions. Foodinator must abide by its interpretation of the Rules. Rule 1: Provisions must be food or drink.
The Foodinator writes down 2 secret additional Rules.
Spacefarers describe their Needs, then take turns requesting Provisions to meet them.
Foodinator describes the Provision dispensed. Spacefarer rates it +1, +0, or -1. Judgment Computer, represented by rolling 2d6, judges. Add the Spacefarer's rating to the roll to determine Provision's score.
12+: EXEMPLARY. Foodinator adds 1 secret Rule. 7-11: CORRECT. Foodinator gets 1 Positive Feedback. 3-6: NON-COMPLIANT. Provision is destroyed, and the requesting Spacefarer gains 1 Insight. 2-: CONTRABAND. Spacefarer is killed on the spot. The other Spacefarers memorialize them.
On 7+, all players debate whether the Provision meets that Spacefarer's Need, then vote. If a majority agrees the Need is met, the Spacefarer exits.
At any time, The Foodinator may spend 2 Positive Feedbacks to replace 1 word in a Rule with a different word.
At any time, a Spacefarer may spend 2 Insights to have The Foodinator read aloud 1 Rule unknown to the Spacefarers. The Foodinator chooses 1 word to skip when reading the rule aloud.
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Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023
Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.
Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..
If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:
Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.
Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.
Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.
Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".
(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)
#Epilogue:#Successful Spacefarers describe the manner in which they use their Provisions.#Dead Spacefarers describe the fallout from their failure to acquire the necessary Provisions.#The Foodinator describes what it is like to be left alone with Judgment Computer after the Spacefarers are gone.
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