Wednesday, November 8, 2023

200 Word RPG: They Said It Couldn't be Done

It's really more of a 50-word RPG with some complementary tables.


They Said It Couldn't be Done

You are MAD ACADEMICS. Roll d66 on the following tables for your EXPERTISE. Interpret it expansively.

The GM instead generates an ADVERSARY. Players must SAVE THE WOLRD by FOILING their DASTARDLY PLAN.



Resolve actions by rolling d6:

1: Catastrophe
2: Failure
3: Mixed Success
4-5: Success
6: Catastrophic Success


11. Stellar
12. Pyrotechnic
13. Mycological
14. Psychedelic
15. Eschatological
16. Blasphemous
21. Ectoplasmic
22. High-Energy
23. Pneumatic
24. Non-Euclidian
25. Antediluvian
26. Extraterrestrial
31. Neural
32. Controversial
33. Cybernetic
34. Meta-
35. Galvanic
36. Occult
41. Gladiatorial
42. Inexpensive
43. Counterfactual
44. Immoral
45. Olfactory
46. Oracular
51. Particle
52. Machiavellian
53. Subliminal
54. Clandestine
55. Necromantic
56. Autonomous
61. Quantum
62. Surgical
63. Gustatory
64. Unobservable
65. Accidental
66. Speculative


11. Engineering
12. History
13. Architecture
14. Criminology
15. Music
16. Psychology
21. Linguistics
22. Sculpture
23. Theology
24. Biology
25. Philosophy
26. Economics
31. Litigation
32. Diplomacy
33. Pedagogy
34. Cartography
35. Literature
36. Zoology
41. Dance
42. Botany
43. Finance
44. Pharmacology
45. Marketing
46. Photography
51. Archaeology
52. Mathematics
53. Theater
54. Mythology
55. Horology
56. Meteorology
61. Geology
62. Statistics
63. Journalism
64. Programming
65. Logistics
66. Sociology

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Notes:

Inspired by this event, posted here because I don't feel like interacting with tumblr.

You may wish to consult Wikipedia's Index of Branches of Science in place of the second table.

The action resolution rules are an old standby, originally lifted from the standard "roll to dodge" rules on this subforum. It's as lightweight as I could make it, but realistically, my typical rulesets aren't much larger.

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