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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Collected entries for 2024-11-14:

Previous summaries: 2024-11-01, 2024-11-02, 2024-11-03, 2024-11-04, 2024-11-05, 2024-11-06, 2024-11-07, 2024-11-08, 2024-11-09/10, 2024-11-11/12, 2024-11-13

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This isn't actually the largest single-day batch of entries, though it's certainly the longest, for reasons which I trust are readily apparent.

(Technically there's actually one more, but they submitted their entry as a bare offsite link, and I really do need it in the form of a Tumblr post for this to work. If you're reading this, you know who you are!)

In any case, though we're not quite to the midpoint of the month, we've just crossed a halfway mark of sorts: these eleven entries bring us to 119 in total, which is just over halfway to last year's total of 233. I wasn't sure how much participation we'd see this time around without the same aggressive promotion as last year, but it doesn't look like that's going to be a problem after all!

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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  1. 200
  2. WORD
  3. BACKSTORY
  4. Begin:
  5. Roll
  6. one
  7. d100.
  8. Find
  9. that
  10. number
  11. on
  12. this
  13. page.
  14. Note
  15. down
  16. that
  17. word.
  18. Re-roll,
  19. add
  20. to
  21. the
  22. previous
  23. number
  24. for
  25. another
  26. word.
  27. Repeat
  28. twenty
  29. times
  30. total.
  31. Wrap
  32. back
  33. if
  34. you
  35. go
  36. beyond
  37. the
  38. last
  39. number.
  40. This
  41. list
  42. forms
  43. one
  44. tenth
  45. of
  46. your
  47. backstory.
  48. Your
  49. complete
  50. tale
  51. must
  52. be
  53. exactly
  54. 200
  55. words
  56. long.
  57. Play
  58. with
  59. friends
  60. or
  61. solo.
  62. Regardless,
  63. generate
  64. three
  65. lists
  66. minimum.
  67. Intertwine
  68. story
  69. threads
  70. between
  71. characters.
  72. Entangle
  73. everyone.
  74. Utilise
  75. one
  76. another's
  77. key
  78. words.
  79. Alternatively
  80. antonyms,
  81. synonyms,
  82. homonyms,
  83. even
  84. slant
  85. rhymes.
  86. Now,
  87. deep,
  88. emotional
  89. concise
  90. tales
  91. of
  92. history
  93. are
  94. ready
  95. to
  96. deploy
  97. in
  98. any
  99. character
  100. creation
  101. system.
  102. Extra
  103. space:
  104. Litigious.
  105. Stoic.
  106. Detective.
  107. Angst.
  108. Ennui.
  109. Banana.
  110. Unbearable.
  111. Bear.
  112. Friend
  113. Fiend
  114. Fend
  115. Fen
  116. Ontologically
  117. Unusable.
  118. Unusual
  119. Usury.
  120. Animate.
  121. Untoward.
  122. Magical.
  123. Ancient
  124. Playful
  125. Sword
  126. Mystic
  127. Fast
  128. Fastidious
  129. Foretold
  130. Forewarned
  131. Long
  132. Beautiful
  133. Dream
  134. Challenge
  135. Fear
  136. Deep
  137. Edge
  138. Range
  139. Fashionista
  140. Fly
  141. Peace
  142. War
  143. Warren
  144. Treat
  145. Trick
  146. Brat
  147. Beat
  148. Influence
  149. Infect
  150. Infest
  151. Home
  152. Away
  153. Night
  154. Day
  155. Weapon
  156. Tool
  157. Toy
  158. Impact
  159. Effect
  160. Affect
  161. Defect
  162. Twist
  163. Turn
  164. Swift
  165. Swerve
  166. Avoid
  167. Evade
  168. Escape
  169. Return
  170. Never
  171. Always
  172. Once
  173. Twice
  174. Thrice
  175. Rare
  176. Regular
  177. Popular
  178. Hermetic
  179. Eccentric
  180. Eclectic
  181. Ball
  182. Kid
  183. Cat
  184. Dog
  185. Soft
  186. Firm
  187. Strong
  188. Flexible
  189. Memory
  190. Cold.
  191. Hot.
  192. Warm
  193. Cool.
  194. Near
  195. Far
  196. Wherever
  197. Live
  198. Laugh
  199. Love
  200. End.

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I've long been a proponent of big stupid dice tables, but I think this might actually be the first short-form RPG I've ever seen where the entire game is one big table.

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Another brisk day, bringing us to 108 entries in total. A couple of items on this list have received a lot of attention today; hopefully this will inspire at least few readers to toss their hats into the ring!

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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When All You Have is a Gun Everything Looks [Verb]able

Requires several players and a GM

Players:

Before the GM tells you what the plot/tone/setting/etc of the game is going to be, make the most Rule of Cool DeviantArt-OC-ass character you can think of and give them a revolver with six chambers. They should be named something like Saint Vermillion Dragongod or some dope shit like that.

Load this revolver with six actions, things like “kill someone” or “schmooze” or “teleport behind ‘em.” Besides moving around, talking, and breathing, these are the ONLY actions you can take, and you can only take them in the order they fill the chambers. When you’ve taken all six actions, you can reload your actions in any order you’d like, but you CANNOT change the actions themselves.

Do not coordinate your action choices with other players.

GM:

Once everyone has made their characters, throw them into a heist or a dungeon crawl or whatever you think will be funny. Their specific actions always succeed, but they can do literally nothing but those things in that order. If no one can do anything, you all lose and a big snake eats the sun or something. Rinse and repeat.

Good fucking luck.

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I think this might actually be the funniest party-game heist caper RPG I've seen since Honey Heist. Bravo.

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Les Femmes Damnées: Fuck! Marry! Kill!

Invent a lesbian. Roll 4d6 or pick:

Invent 1-3 more. Relationships between every pair start with 1d6 passion and 1d6 trust. 

Each turn, roll 2d6 for each woman's behavior(see table). Pick who she impacts, adjust their relationship stats accordingly. (Or spend 1 trust to reroll.) Journal the results.

At 15+ Passion: If Trust is 0 or less: Murder Attempt. Whoever has more trusted allies survives & gets -2d6 trust with the other’s allies. If Trust is greater than 0: Marriage. When one cheats, she gets -1d6 trust with her wife. Play until everyone’s dead or married.

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I'm contractually obligated to put this on my personal blog as well the game jam blog, both for the virtuoso use of big stupid dice tables and for the phrase "invent a lesbian".

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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A slow Monday followed by an exceptionally brisk Tuesday add up to one of the larger batches so far (albeit not one of the larger single day batches, since some of these are from yesterday), putting us at one hundred entries on the button to close out day twelve.

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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There weren't enough entries on Saturday to warrant an update, so you get a double-header today. That makes 89 in total.

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Eight entries for day eight, and 81 in total. I expect things to slow down a bit from here; these sorts of events usually have a marked slump in the middle, then pick up sharply in the last few days as folks realise that they've been procrastinating. Let's see if the pattern holds!

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computationalcalculator asked:

just for absolute clarity, does 766502126807580672 mean you're archiving the RPGs in whatever state they exist in on December 1st, from the authors' reblogs? or in whatever state they exist in on the day you reblog them, from the @200-word-rpgs sideblog? the wording makes me think the former, but the effort part makes me think the latter

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(With reference to this post here.)

It's actually less effort to scrape them from their original URLs; that way I can use the Tumblr API to grab the post content directly, without needing to piss around with reblog chain.

(I had to learn Node.js for this stupid project because server-side Javascript is literally the only dialect in which tools for converting Tumblr's proprietary NPF markup to basic HTML seem to exist, for some fucking reason. I hope you all appreciate it!)

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Twelve entries and another strong day to close out the first week, bringing us to 73 in total.

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strixludica asked:

Trying to make an entry for the jam made me confront a question: how does one inject flavour and evocative writing in an RPG when there is little to no space for flavour text?

I ended up unable to add any writing that wasn't rules without going over the 200 word limit, outside of maybe the naming of some mechanics, but I went in thinking that being able to provoke the imagination would be the difference between an ok entry and a really good one.

How would you do it?

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(With reference to this post here.)

The customary answer in the one-page-RPG sphere is graphic design, but here you can't do much of that, so you need to rely on phrasing, rhythm, register, word choice, and yes, game-mechanical jargon. Indie RPGs are often mocked for using their own idiosyncratic terminology rather using the "standard" jargon developed by Dungeons & Dragons and its various direct imitators, but there really is a point: even something as simple as the level of formality of the mechanical text can have a huge impact on how a game comes across.

Let's look at an extreme example – my own recent experiment in fitting a complete game into a single Bluesky post:

CREATURES Need: 3d6 Character * Skills: Hands, Feet, Mouth, Guts; assign 3, 2, 2, 1 * Traits: claws, fangs, fins, horns, shell, slime, tail, tentacles, trunk, wings; pick 2 Conflict * Roll dice=skill * Highest: * 6: Yay * 4–5: Okay * 1–3: Uh-oh Scenario * escape maze * eat wizard * profit!

This one only has three hundred characters to work with, and consists almost entirely of rules text, yet the structure and word choice convey a very clear idea of who the player characters are and what they do!

It can be helpful to bear in mind that the separation of rules text and flavour text is an artificial one, adopted by long-form games where mixing mechanics with microfiction can make the former difficult to when there's three hundred pages of the latter to comb through. You don't really need to worry about that in a very short game, so you're free to have the same text play both roles.

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yaldabaothadeez asked:

Is there a policy on editing or otherwise modifying submitted 200 word rpgs? I spent like 10 minutes bashing mine out and have since been plagued with Better Ideas.

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(With reference to this post here.)

Like I've said previously, we don't really have submission rules so much as submission polite suggestions, so "am I allowed?" isn't really the right question to ask.

A better question would be: am I, the guy who's organising this thing, inclined to put forth the effort to go and check whether what each entry looks like when I scrape them all for archiving at the end of the month is the same as what it looked like at the time of submission?

I invite you to guess what the answer to this question is.

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Nine for today, including two in one go by one very enthusiastic participant, bringing us up to 61 entries in total.

(As a reminder, folks, if you want your entry to be included in the off-site archives like we've done for previous years, you have to say that in the post itself; not in the tags, not in the replies, not in a DM to me, not in a separate post that you tagged me in. I cannot emphasise strongly enough how little interest I have in playing detective for each of several hundred submissions.)

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friendstastegood asked:

I decided to try to make something for the 200-word ttrpg thing, and settled on using a deck of cards, but it turns out that you can do a lot of interesting things with a deck of cards that doesn't easily fit into 200-words and I am spending way too much time and effort on this and I just wanted you to know that this is entirely your fault.

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(With reference to this post here.)

That's kind of the whole point. A one-page RPG really "wants" to be 300–400 words; fitting one into 200 words and having it still be complete and playable is hard, at least if you want to do a good job. To the extent that the 200-word RPG challenge has any purpose beyond fun, it's to give you the chance to exercise your skills as an editor and technical writer, which are areas where a lot of folks in the indie RPG sphere could use the practice!

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Thirteen new entries for today, plus one that was posted a few days ago but didn't show up on my feed until just now, presumably due to a technical issue on Tumblr's end, bringing us to 52 in total.

That's about the same as we had in the first 24 hours last year; at the same time, however, I'm not seeing the huge dropoff in participation after the first couple of days that last year's event exhibited. If anything, this one seems to be gaining momentum instead.

(If you don't see yours, check your timestamp – there was a flurry of submissions around midnight UTC, and several just missed the cutoff; if yours is one of those, it'll be in tomorrow's post!)

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nyalaholic asked:

I forget, are we allowed to submit multiple entries to the 200-word rpg jam?

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(With reference to this post here.)

We don't have submission rules so much as submission polite suggestions, so "allowed" isn't exactly the word for it. Certainly, if you did submit multiple entries, you wouldn't be the only one to have done so. Heck, I think there was at least one person who submitted multiple entries on the first day!

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200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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I was going to remark that seven entries for today brings ups to 37 in total, which is of course my second-favourite number, but then a certain party who shall remain nameless submitted their entry literally one minute before midnight UTC, so we actually have 38.

Hmph.

On an unrelated note, I've decided that, while I'll continue to respect folks' request not to blow up their dashes by reblogging every single entry on main, I will be reblogging selected favourites going forward. If you don't want to see even a selected subset of entries on your dash, I'll be using the tag "200 word reblogs" for your blocking convenience.

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