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A jam submission

Alphabet Soup Universal Roleplaying SystemView project page

Simple system using alphabet dice
Submitted by Mitchell Daily (@mitchelldaily) — 94 days, 16 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Anticipation: How excited are you to play this game?#153.3333.333
Theme: How well does the game capture the theme?#183.6673.667
Format and Grammar: Does it look like a finished product?#442.6672.667

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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Submitted(+1)

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.

DeveloperSubmitted

Thanks for the comment!

Submitted

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.

DeveloperSubmitted

Thanks for commenting!