WUAT'S This? A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG
A downloadable game
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!
Dice/Solo Variant
Think of your number then roll the appropriate die (d4, d6, or d8) for the GM's number. You miss out on the psychic connection to another player but gain a psychic connection to your dice.
Using dice also enables solo play if you have an oracle of some sort.
Support, Mine & Yours
Speaking of oracles, I'm working on a thing to accompany 'Wuat'sThis?' to make it a fuller, better supported RPG with character 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 (hypothetically) get access to a handful of differently themed version if/when I get around to making them, eg Christmas, Halloween, fantasy, robots, etc.
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
Updated | 22 days ago |
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Release date | Nov 28, 2024 |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (14 total ratings) |
Author | Luke / Æther Corp |
Genre | Adventure |
Tags | business-card, micro-rpg, Multiplayer, Narrative, Solo RPG, storygame, Story Rich, Tabletop, Tabletop role-playing game |
Average session | A few seconds |
Purchase
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I enjoy minimalism more and more in TTRPGs as time goes by, and this is by far the most elegant, compact version of a minimalist set of rules I've seen in a long time. Hats off to you!
Ahh, thanks Côme! :D
Hopefully will be testing the adventure creation part this weekend.
WUAOW! this is REAL cool
Thuanks Sean! :)