Guards At The Nexus Of All Worlds
A downloadable game
The Nexus Of All Worlds is a bustling junction of portals leading to all realms of reality. People come and go between these portals, yet administrative order must be maintained by the guards of the Nexus.
Guards At The Nexus Of All Worlds (GATNOAW) is a one-page fully cooperative tabletop RPG/improv game, kind of Planescape meets Taboo meets Whose Line Is It Anyway?
GATNOAW is for two or more players, split into two teams (one player per team works fine, though two or three is probably ideal), who will alternate between being travellers between worlds and guards at the Nexus. You can theme it as fantasy or science fiction (or pretty much any genre).
There's no GM, no stats, and no dice used during gameplay, but there is some structure and focus to the play.
It's played in short rounds; several rounds can comfortably be played in under 30 minutes.
All you need is a timer of some sort. Paper and writing implements may also be useful. D20 and D10 dice (or a random number generator) can optionally be used to generate randomised prompts.
The mechanics are mostly about trying to succinctly communicate complex or ridiculous concepts under restrictions whilst also staying in character; it's generally pretty light and silly - though, depending on your group, not exclusively so.
Originally made for One-Page RPG Jam 2021 in August 2021, inspired by the theme of the jam, 'Borders'.
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Yeah, certainly! Game Lampshade looks interesting and fun (and a really innovative way of combining elements of two quite different games!)
Cool! thanks for the kind words. I mean, literally:
Thanks to your words I realize innovation is my creative motor. I guess that makes me avant-garde ;p
I love your World Randomizer <3
Thanks! :) Went through several iterations on the fantasy one (though hard to test all combinations, I'm sure some don't really make sense - though sometimes that's funniest/most interesting!), the SF one could be more polished - I might try and expand and polish it up for a later edition of the game!
If anyone plays and enjoys this, do consider posting your best world ideas (with reference numbers, of course!) here in the comments so other folks can use them. If, by any chance, at some point we get a lot, I'll compile them into some kind of 'Directory Of All Worlds' official supplement! Cheers :)