Hammers and Sickles -- Alpha
A downloadable game
Hammers and Sickles is a quickly made, minimalist RPG SRD (set of rules) for games focused on class strugle. It's my entry to One Page RPG Jam 2021.
In this game, one player takes the role of the oppressive social-economic system (referred forwards as the System), they are the narrator and referee of all non-player aspects of the world.
The other players must create mostly poor and oppressed characters fighting for their lives in a world made against them.
It's only the beginning of something larger: A fuller version of this game is coming soon with lists of archetypes, items, enemies and more. All text still need to be improved, and new mechanics and rulings are needed to make to game more cohesive.
It's my first rules-design and I'm not a "rules-guy". I have no idea if it's balanced or good (probably not).
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This is really great. it's an SRD and a full game. Lovely stuff.
how do we make a game with this? Can i just put your name in the text somewhere?
sorry, I didn't get your meaning. I mean, you can easily make a game with this, just imagine and create rulings over what's unfinished/unpolished. And I didn't get that about puting my name on - what? - text.
You can talk with me better over discord too: it's " Maik BR#9772 "
Can't wait for a full version
Great critique, comrade.
I am not still satisfacted with the game as it is, I know it can be improved and I truly appreciate the criticism. I have to research more GMless, oracle based games, as I'm not familiar with them.
A great detriment to this game was the quickness of it's making; how I had a lot of stuff I could not make fit in a two-pager; and how it's my first time doing rules-design.
These ideas - playing as a collective of characters, as a class, and having the System be an automaton - are great and I want to put them in the "advanced edition." Thanks for the criticism and sugestions!
Thank you for the gracious response—I realized after posting that dropping unsolicited criticism like that was pretty inconsiderate. I got ahead of myself in my excitement to discuss the topic. I'm sorry for not asking if you were open to it.
There's a tag here on Itch for the GM-less thing, though I'd specifically suggest the IronSworn and Beak, Feather, & Bone systems as things you might find interesting or useful.
On the flipside regarding quickness, it did prompt you to get your work done and published. Personally I find that to be the hardest part of any project in a new format, even if I've done work in the larger space (as you have in the TT space with your other work—I really enjoyed the elf youth manifesto). I look forward to your updates, wherever you take the system.