Frankengame.pdf

a 24-hour role-playing gam e

Table of Contents

Introduction

pg 1

Y our Inner Frank

pg 2

(character creation)

Franks G one W ild

pg 4

(gam e m echanics)

Frank's H ouse

pg 7

(settings)

D r. Frankenstein, I Presum e pg 10

(G M ing Frankengam e)

Frank's A ppendices

pg 12

D esigner N otes

C haracter Sheet

Important Note

If you are going to be playing Frankengam e, now is a good tim e to stop reading. Your G am em aster

(G M ) should read the entirety of this docum ent and then decide how m uch they w ill let you peruse.

Its entirely possible to play this gam e w ithout reading any further, as long as you have an

experienced G M capable of guiding the players.

Frankengam e is a 24-hour role-playing

gam e. It w as conceived, designed,

developed and published in a single

24-hour tim efram e.

The players w ill create horrible

m utants, or fiendishly w arped dem ons,

or corpses stitched together and given

life by electricity. The point is that all

the player characters w ill have traits

and characteristics from several

different sources.

The G M w ill describe the setting.

There are several rough suggestions

for a setting in the Franks House

section (see below ). But the G M w ill

need to flesh out the setting as

necessary.

Frankengam e is best used for a "one-

off" gam e session instead of a

cam paign, but you can m ake of it w hat

you w ill.

W hat is a role-playing gam e?

If youre reading this, you probably

know w hat a role-playing gam e (RPG )

is. If you dont know , then w e highly

suggest a gam e called D ungeons &

D ragons. You can find D & D at m ost

large bookstores and alm ost all

hobbyist gam e stores.

Player characters are know n as

"Franks", for obvious reasons. Each

player w ill create and control one

Frank. The G M and all players should

be present for character creation.

Players start by determ ining their initial

statistics: Physical , M ental and Social .

Each Stat starts at 1. Players have five

extra bonus points to distribute. They

m ay only add +2 to any one Stat.

R equirem ents

You w ill need one person to be the

G am em aster, tw o or m ore players,

som e regular dice (d6s, in the parlance

of gam ers) in tw o colors, pencils,

papers and a place to play. Each

player w ill need a sm all handful

(around 10 is good, but you m ay need

12 in rare cases) of dice, split in tw o

different colors. Since players w ill

rarely roll m ore than 6 dice at a tim e,

you can easily share dice am ongst all

the players. The G M should get all the

really lucky dice.

The Physical Stat covers how strong,

fast, tough, and agile the Frank is.

Basically, if requires the use of the

body to accom plish, this is the Stat to

use.

The M ental Stat covers how

intelligent, w ise, quick to react,

know ledgeable and perceptive of the

natural w orld the Frank is. If it can be

done w ithout interacting w ith another

person and w ithout lifting a m uscle,

this is the Stat to use.

U nlike m any RPG s, Frankengam e

does not play w ell w ith just one player.

You m ust have a m inim um of tw o

players and m ore is better, if your

group can handle it.

The Social Stat is the m ost difficult to

define. This is how charism atic,

intim idating, perceptive of other

people and em pathetic the Frank is. If

it has to be done by interacting w ith

others, this is the Stat to use.

Example

Sue is creating her Frank. She starts

w ith Physical 1, M ental 1 and Social 1.

She adds three points to Physical, and

tw o points to M ental. Her new statistics

are Physical 4, M ental 3 and Social 1.

Players now need three slips of paper

each to w rite dow n three Traits. These

are special abilities or talents that a

Frank possesses. W rite one Trait per

slip of paper. Each Trait m ust list w hen

the Trait is used, the Statistic

associated w ith the Trait and the

Bonus. Every player m ust m ake a +1,

+2 and +3 Trait, but they can be

associated w ith any Stat.

O nce the players have com pleted

w riting all the Traits, and the G M has

approved them , then place them all

into a pot (or other convenient

container.) The G M w ill pick a player

to start and m ix the traits in the pot.

O ne at a tim e, players w ill draw a trait

from the pot until all Franks have three

Traits.

Traits cannot be com pletely generic,

but m ust cover som e specific ability.

Sam ple Physical Traits

Running w hen chased

C arrying large am ounts of stuff

D odging sticks and stones

Example

Sue draw s H itting sm all things w ith big

things (Physical +1), w hich w as one of

the Traits she w rote, and Blocking

m elee attacks w ith big fat arm s

(Physical +3) and, finally, M aking

people laugh by falling over things

(Social +2), w hich w ere tw o Traits that

she did not.

Sam ple M ental Traits

Playing card gam es

Solving puzzles

Resisting the tem ptation of others

Sam ple Social Traits

Public speaking

Intim idation of W eak M inded Fools

Bluffing at Poker

Tip!

O nce you know the Stats and Traits of

your Frank, go ahead and nam e him

(or her or it) according to the setting. A

physical description or draw ing (it does

not have to be a w ell done draw ing)

w ill help settle the nature of your Frank

in your m ind. Rem em ber, that w ith

rare exceptions, m ost Franks are ugly,

hideous creatures that cannot begin to

pass for w hat is norm al.

Example

Sue now w rites dow n three Traits. She

decides on: H itting sm all things w ith

big things (Physical +1), Exam ination

of cluttered areas (M ental +3), and

C ause Fear and Terror in C hildren

(Social +2).

All players should then discuss

am ongst them selves, and w ith the help

of the G M , decide on a com m on

background. All the Franks m ust have

som e sort of relation w ith each other.

D epending on the background, this

could be that all the Franks w ere

sum m oned by the sam e m agician,

w ere created by the sam e M ad

Scientist or grow n in the sam e vat of

m utated super-goo.

The G M gets to review each Trait. If

the G M decides that the Trait is w eak

and useless, she m ay m ake you

rew rite the Trait or even require that

you take it (and you w ill draw one less

Trait for each Trait forced on you for

being a naughty Frank.) If the G M

decides that the Trait is too pow erful,

they should m ake you rew rite it or

throw it aw ay.

The final, and only, value that m ust be

calculated is Health . This is the

Physical Stat plus the value of all

Physical Traits plus 1d6.

Frankengam e is played out through a

series of scenes. A scene takes as

m uch tim e as needed to be a com plete

scene, as determ ined by the G M . A

chase scene could take a few m inutes

of gam e tim e, w here a filibuster speech

could take all night. The G M should

give characters the ability to act

w henever it is them atically im portant.

For the chase scene, this w ould be

w henever an im portant decision w ould

m ake a difference, so it w ould depend

on traffic, the num ber of choices along

the chase path and if there is any sort

of fighting along the w ay. A filibuster

w ould probably only have a couple of

action sequences, and they w ould be

set hours apart.

Example

Sue m ust now calculate her Franks

Health. She has Physical 2, plus 4

from the tw o Traits (1+3), plus she

rolls a 6! Her total Health is 12. Sue

has one m onster of a Frank!

Tim e is an illusion, and Frankengam e

tim e doubly so.

The G M should describe the scene

and let the players decide on a course

of action. D epending on the

granularity of detail needed, the G M

can just describe the results of an

action, or they can call for a test. A test

is a roll of the dice to determ ine if the

G M or the player w as able to

accom plish their stated task. There are

tw o types of tests: action tests and

opposed tests.

O nce all characters have had a chance

to act, the next round of actions can

begin.

The Action Test

If a character attem pts an action that

no other character can try to stop, then

use the norm al Action Test. The player

rolls a num ber of dice equal to the

appropriate Stat plus one appropriate

Trait (if any). The G M w ill determ ine

w hen a player can use a Trait, if there

is any controversy.

O pposed M ental Tests, like C hess, and

O pposed Social Tests, like scaring the

village headsm an.

The player can divide the Stat + Trait

dice into tw o pools: action pool and

quality pool.

Both characters w ill roll their

appropriate Stat + relevant Trait. The

opponent decides on how they w ill

separate their dice pools before the

aggressor.

The action pool determ ines if the

player actual succeeds at their desired

action. The quality pool determ ines the

quality of the success, assum ing the

action succeeds.

For each successful action die roll of

the opponent, reduce the num ber of

successful action die rolls of the

aggressor by one.

A n easy test requires a roll of 4 on

one of the action dice.

A normal test requires a roll of 5 on

one of the action dice.

And, as expected, a difficult test

requires a roll of 6 on one of the

action dice.

Example

Sue attacks a villager. The villager

attem pts to block the attack. Sue has

Physical 4 and a +1 Trait. The villager

has Physical 2. Sue is the aggressor.

The villager decides on 1 action die

and 1 quality die. She decides on 2

action dice and 3 quality dice. This is a

norm al test for Sue and a difficult test

for the villager. Sue rolls a 3, 5 on her

action dice. The villager rolls a 5. Sues

attack w ill hit, since she rolled at least

one successful action die. Sues quality

dice roll a 4, 5, and 6, and the villager

rolls a 4. Sue generates 3 qualities of

success and the villager reduces this to

2. Sue has a typical result, w hich is 4

Health w orth of dam age.

Each quality die requires a roll of 4

or greater.

If the player rolls no successful action

dice, the action failed.

If the action w as successful, the quality

of success w ill depend on the num ber

of quality dice rolled. If no quality dice

are rolled, or none of the quality dice

roll a 4 or higher, then the action

barely succeeded.

Each quality die result of 4 or higher

m oves the quality of success up one

rank.

If both characters fail, then the

aggressors action fails.

If the aggressor succeeds, and the

opponent fails, then the aggressors

action succeeds as if it w ere a regular

action test.

If both characters succeed, then you

need to com pare the total num ber of

success dice. Subtract the opponents

success dice from the aggressors. If the

aggressor has 0 or m ore success dice

The O pposed Test

If one character attem pts to stop

another character from succeeding,

then you need to use an O pposed

Test. The player attem pting the action

is the aggressor. O pposed Tests do not

have to be Physical. There are

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