Game Design Contest

[benlehman]

I have two entries thus far in my game design contest. Anyone else?

I'm very happy with the two.

Edit: found another stashed away somewhere. Three is a good number.

Comments

[yeloson.livejournal.com]

Clearly, love is not AWESOME enough for folks, huh?

You needed to add a stipulation of Flying Monkeys, Narration Trading based on the Lunar Calendar, and custom made cards or something.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Two is two more than I expected.

[benhimself.livejournal.com]

The idea I was working on I decided to scrap because I realized it could be pretty trivially replaced by about a paragraph of setting/color detail, a paragraph of advice to the GM, and any basic fantasy boilerplate game. And that kind of made me feel Eh about it for some reason.

So here's a short but hopefully sweet little thing I just whipped up when I noticed the sun hadn't risen yet on Monday morning for me and I felt bad about not actually finishing anything, brought to you by a very loose interpretation of the wikipedia article on greek words for love (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love):

Each character starts with five traits, rated from 1 to 5, with each value being used once and only once.

Agape - Roll Agape whenever you're trying to do something that would inflict suffering or badness onto yourself, for another person's benefit. The GM rolls your Agape whenever you're inflicting suffering or badness on another for your own benefit.
Eros - Roll Eros whenever you are acting on romantic love, or sensual desire. The GM rolls Eros whenever you are acting against someone you find beautiful, or sexually attractive, or doing something extremely unpleasant.
Philia - Roll Philia whenever you are acting to benefit your friends, or community. The GM rolls your Philia when you're acting against friends or community.
Storge - Roll Eros whenever you are acting to benefit somebody in your family. The GM rolls your Storge whenever you are acting against someone in your family.
Thelema - Roll when none of the above apply. The GM rolls when none of the above apply.

Roll means roll a number of d6s equal to the applicable trait, find the sum, and compare to what your opponent rolled.

(If more than one attribute would be applicable, use the highest of those attributes which isn't Thelema.)

Collaboratively decide upon a setting, an initial situation, and a GM. The GM decides what everyone who isn't a PC does, and is the ultimate authority regarding disputes on the rules. Go play!

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Four.

Ish.