Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you
I say shitty not to demean the quality of my work but because it’s less an exercise in good game design and more an attempt to induce paranoid internal conflict that turns into murder (in game of course). It has like three mechanics and one of them actively encourages you to murder the other PCs
Great news!
It’s done
I put like three braincells into this, so if there’s anything about it that outright sucks, uh. Sorry not sorry, L + ratio + let’s use the 1-page restriction as an excuse for any unfun mechanics
“What if there was a game about being a genre-savvy slasher protagonist murdering their way to the role of Final Girl?”
“Sounds cool when exactly does the PvP start”
“character creation”
With 10 point font I can fit the last mechanic I want to include, Gear, adding another layer to the backstabbing and manipulating mess that is character creation.
honestly a solid one-page RPG, and it isn’t another Lasers and Feelings hack, so points for that as well! I like the gradually ratcheting up difficulty, it is reminiscent of Pandemic.
the only point that feels like it needs elaboration is “multiple people can win by teaming up to defeat the Killer”. is this the same is the Final Stand mechanic, a skill check for each player? and is there a limit to when it can be triggered? otherwise the winning strat is blatantly to team up and attack the Killer as soon as possible while their power is low. horror-movie narrative logic says premature attempts to attack the killer should fail, but reveal something important about the nature of the threat. I suppose the narrator’s job is to forestall such an attempt by inserting as many skill checks as possible and offering bad decisions.
Yeah attempts to attack the Killer only truly work during the Final Stand. Notably, that’s also when throwing your buddy to the killer is a wayyyy easier option than making those checks
I can’t promise that the system math, like, works. I didn’t test it at all. For a more drawn-out and difficult experience you could switch to 3d6 + bonuses, keeping the three highest, have the Killer’s power range from 4 to 18, the difficulty of killing an ally be 11 (or 12 if you want to discourage infighting a little more, and the number the Final Stand begins at be 18. That’ll usually result in longer games with probably only one winner.
@that-house I could not stop thinking about this all day
As a country we need to be doing more for poor people, but the south in particular is being hit hard
ETA: if I see any specious red versus blue political party stuff in the notes I will single you out PERSONALLY
Something you should always do with these kinds of maps is look at a population density map to make sure the map isn’t just showing you where people live.
Population map:
Good, we can see there’s not just a correlation between where people are dying and where people live. In fact, in some cases, places with cities can actually have a higher life expectancy! So the correlation clearly isn’t “more people = more death”. In the north, the city-to-longer-life correlation is likely caused by those cities being more liberal and having better healthcare policies.
But that trend only seems to work for cities in the north and for California. For the south and the Midwest, there isn’t much of a correlation at all.
Now let’s look at a poverty map.
There’s a correlation. Notice the poverty map includes regions that correlate with lower life expectancy that the racial map does not, like Kentucky, West Virginia, and Alaska. No clear explanation for why the life expectancy in Nevada is so low, though.
That doesn’t mean race has nothing to do with this or that there isn’t a correlation between race and life expectancy - there are a few parts on the racial map that correspond to the life expectancy map that don’t show up on the poverty map, too!
It’s clear that both race and poverty, both combined and independently, play a role in lower life expectancy.
When looking at these maps for correlations. You don’t just look at Black American population. You look at Native American population because an overwhelming percent of the Native American population in the United States lives in poverty. Plus the government has a habit of polluting their water source.
Nevada and Alaska specifically have really high indigenous populations.
But the south western states are also where tribal lands are.
That shows the correlations that the Black and poverty maps don’t show.
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today the girl ringing me up at the gas station said “ok, have a nice day. i love you” and i said “what” and she repeated “i love you” with better diction
Blah blah “it’s all my interests” that’s the boring answer, I mean ask yourself: is your tumblr predominately a fandom blog with personal anecdotes or is your tumblr predominately a personal blog that also shows your interests?
Like… You live like this? You write like this? You think like this??
I want to be absolutely clear that, when I write an alcoholic character, it’s because I think that alcohol addiction and drinking to excess are cool. Just like when I write a criminal, I’m trying to persuade you, the reader, to take up a life of larceny and murder. Just so long as that’s understood.
Oh good, because that’s 100% the message I take from fictional media. For instance, I watched Hannibal for recipes and relationship advice.
and then there would have passed a pleasant slash fanfiction, had the authors misogyny not been immediately unveiled
in our rush for “he would not fucking say that” how we forget the all too common: She Is Not Fucking Like That
good morning, the likes on this post now outnumber the hit count of the fanfiction on which this was based and with your help we can make that true of the reblogs amen
I feel like you could take this exchange between Quark and Odo out of context and type it up in a word document and format it just right and it would fit right in with any gay yearning quote compilation post on this website
Harvey, Adult™, garbage enthusiast. mortuary science student. i like aquariums, plants, fibercraft, and vulture culture. sometimes i draw
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