Making Games

Challenge: Making a Smol TTRPG, 2.1

Our goal in this challenge is to create a smol TTRPG, where "smol" is defined as "more or less 25 pages or 7,500 words."

My experience is that most people who want to create a TTRPG want to make a bigger game, but smol TTRPGs are a great way to get your feet wet, and can often be expanded to that fantasy heartbreaker (definition of "fantasy heartbreaker") bigger game.

We're going to start with:
- What is a TTRPG?
- business card/index card smol TTRPG as a warm-up (Exercise 2.1).

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Exercise 2.1
(a) Take a look at some "card-sized" TTRPGs for inspiration. I've linked some above if this isn't a form you've seen before, but if you find some that are particularly interesting, please (optionally) report back in comments!
(b) Then design your own! It's okay for the game to be janky; it's more important to do the thing. :)
(c) OPTIONAL: share with a friend or post it here for preliminary testing and/or feedback. :)

Next up:
- 2.2 creating a one-page TTRPG that has a GM (forthcoming)