A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG

What's this? WUAT'S This?!

A play anything/everywhere diceless RPG where you always succeed at doing a thing but something wonderful, unexpected or terrible also occurs when you do the thing. 

Fitting onto both sides of a business card, this is a distillation of the character creation from Cælia & The Malfeasant Mushroom (released Summer 2024) combined with a guess-the-number resolution mechanic I've been noodling around with for a while.

Perfect for car journeys and long walks!

Story Guide

The first expansion is a story guide to help you build up an adventure, story arc, or even a single area or room from a few keywords.

Relationship Map

The second expansion is a simple method to build relationships between NPCs and identify their wants & obstructions, a small evolution on the ideas set out in A Small Collection of Flowers & Entanglements.

Solo RPG

Intended to be used with an oracle of some sort; think of your number then roll the appropriate die (d4, d6, or d8) for the GM's number. 

Can also be used with a GM if they don't want to think of a number.  You miss out on the psychic connection to another player but gain a psychic connection to your dice.

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Support, Mine & Yours

Speaking of oracles, I'm working on a thing to accompany A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG to make it a fuller, better supported system with character/NPC and adventure creation so please do purchase a copy or leave a star rating if you're interested in seeing this project expand. 

All purchases will also get access to a handful of differently themed version when I release them, eg Christmas, Halloween, fantasy, robots, etc.

Currently we have:

• Original
• Ice Cream Edition 2025
• Leaf Litter Edition 2025
• Snow Edition 2025

Thank You for Your Interest!

This may be terribly small but hopefully you find it unexpectedly wonderful. 

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Inspiration

A polite hat tip to Amazing Tales for its use of differently sized dice to differentiate how good a character is at something!

PHYSICAL VERSIONS AVAILABLE WITH EVERY PURCHASE AT aethercorpgames.etsy.com