A game about mapmaking & world building. In it you describe a community that has just experienced an apocalypse & you frame the struggles of the year that follows.
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In The Quiet Year you define the struggles of a post-apocalyptic community, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every action is set against a backdrop of dwindling time and rising concern.
The game is played using a deck of cards – each of the 52 cards corresponds to a week during the quiet year. Each card triggers certain events – bringing bad news, good omens, project delays and sudden changes in luck. At the end of the quiet year, the Frost Shepherds will come, ending the game.
The true story of 7 strangers picked to live in a house, have their lives taped, & survive the zombie apocalypse - see what happens when zombies stop being polite & start getting real.
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if zombies were actually real? How would you survive? Dread system asks players to reveal their characters' abilities, shortcomings, personalities, and fears. Bring your imagination and Jenga skills to this years's 50th anniversary of Gen Con.
Your team has been sent to recover the Star of Wyndover, a relic to determine the fate of the land. It lies hidden in a forgotten monastery full of danger while another team races you to the prize.
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The queen is dying and war looms as she refuses to choose an heir. Instead, she has declared that the heir will be chosen by the Star of Wyndover, a lost relic once used to choose the wisest of leaders. You and your companions have been tasked with recovering the relic and given the Star’s last known location, a forgotten monastery once tasked with keeping it safe. Unfortunately, nothing can be simple and you have learned that the queen’s treasonous, exiled son has also hired a team to recover the relic. Can you recover the relic before the evil Prince’s team does? What dangers lie in wait within the dusty halls of the forgotten monastery? Can it even be recovered before the queen succumbs to her illness?
Over a century ago, the disgraced imperial apothecary settled in the badlands, where local villagers still talk about him in hushed tones. It's rumored his old tower has been found again.
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Among the alchemists of the university, some say that Kranis completed the magnum opus, but others insist he was banished for taking dark and terrible shortcuts in his search for the secrets of immortality. What are you seeking in this old tower?
Keep the curious creatures content at the Zilly Zoo of Zo. For kids & children's literature fans.
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The Zookeeper of Zo has disappeared, and the heroes must keep her creatures from running wild before the Granite King intervenes and freezes the menagerie into a sculpture garden.... The world of The Zorcerer of Zo is a mixture of classic children's literature, like The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. The simple PDQ system lets you play anything, from talking toys to tooth-fairies. This is a game suitable for kids of all ages and kids-at-heart.
Strange sounds of a player piano have been heard echoing from the ruins of the old campus library. You have all been sent in by the local paranormal investigator's guild to figure out what's going on.
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Strange sounds of a player piano have been heard echoing from the ruins of the old campus library. You have all been sent in by the local paranormal investigator's guild to figure out what's going on. Think Ghostbusters meets Shaun of the Dead. Chances of your character dying and coming back as a zombie or a ghost: likely.
You know Thornburg, right? The mayor said she's having some trouble with - I dunno, I'm guessing it's orcs. It's always orcs, init? Go there & see if there's any trouble what needs slaying.
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You know Thornburg, right? That village on the edge of the kingdom? (Well, I say “village.” More of a hamlet, really. But my knowledge of medieval urban nomenclature is a bit rusty.) Anyway, the mayor there said she’s having some trouble with ... I dunno, I’m guessing it’s orcs. It’s always orcs, init? Go there and see if there’s any trouble what needs slaying. And keep what you steal off corp... er, what you find just lying about in dusty dungeons and all that.
Dungeon World is the award-winning game that takes old-style D&D and updates it with a fresh outlook. Powered by the Apocalypse World engine, the rules are more simple and include bonds to foster cooperation and roleplaying between players. But don’t worry, you’ll still be crawling through a dungeon. Well, most likely walking with occasional running. Oh, and stopping to loot bodies.
You control the powers of creation & destruction. Zoom out to watch the majestic tide of history wash across empires, then zoom in and explore the lives of the people who endured it.
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You have vast power to create...and to destroy. Build beautiful, tranquil jewels of civilization and then consume them with nuclear fire. Zoom out to watch the majestic tide of history wash across empires, then zoom in and explore the lives of the people who endured it. Mock chronological order. Defy time and space. Build worlds and destroy them. An RPG in a class of its own. Players create the setting and timeline on down to role playing the characters living in the story. Prepare yourself to be the author of existence. Keywords: Rules light, creation/roleplaying heavy, story RPG, no dice, no stats, no GM, rules taught, mature teens+, role playing or creative writing experience strongly preferred.