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Alphabet Soup Universal Roleplaying System's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Anticipation: How excited are you to play this game? | #15 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
Theme: How well does the game capture the theme? | #18 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
Format and Grammar: Does it look like a finished product? | #44 | 2.667 | 2.667 |
Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Which die/dice is at the core of the game?
Scattergories alphabet dice
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I got so excitied to see your submission here, I've been a fan of your work since Where Crimson Flowers Bloom!
Sadly I can only rate this based on reading, not by playing it within the rating period.
This is one of the most imaginative games I've seen in this jam! I love a good freeform interpretation mechanic and it reads like it can be quite interesting. Although tbh I am not sure how well it ultimately fits the theme? A d26 / alphabet dice is way more out there than a d4/d8/d12/d100, which seemed to me to be the core idea of the jam. But other than that, this already feels well-polished in terms of presentation as a very lightweight rpg system.
One thing I would have liked to see were more examples. I needed several passes on the Playing the Game section to finally understand how everthing worked, and having examples on character creation and ineffective actions was greatly appreciated. Speaking of characters, a little more elaboration on what a Calling is (or can be) would have been cool. Because even just confirmation that it can be whatever a player wants is helpful, or if it's supposed to be a more defining character aspect
Overall though, this seems stupidly fun and I'll try to chuck it at a playgroup eventually.
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This is an interesting system! It's like a ttrpg and a word game in one. I'd be interested to see how it feels in play. I'd also like to see a system like this expanded upon into a larger game.
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