Nathan Treme is a freaking genius and started this magnificent Dungeon Pamphlet Jam over itch.io (although I can’t use it because it does not accept PayPal). He has been created some great small adventures and dungeons in pamphlet format and sending it to backers of his patreon and selling the PDFs over DriveThruRPG.
I, obviously, wanted to join this jam and do something with this charming format. So I did something I’ve been wanting to make for a long time. An RPG inspired by a cartoon that was inspired by an RPG, the classic Dungeons & Dragons series of the 80s! So using the things I was designing for my kid’s RPG and some other gaming influences I made a quick and simple system that offer enough options to be interesting to more mature players but that still fit in a single pamphlet. The game is called Lost in the Fantasy World!
In it, you play as a kid or teenager who was teleported to this fantastic world of adventure and been give a powerful magical artifact by this enigmatic figure called Mentor (who is played by the referee) and now seeks a way back home. The blurb of the game is the following:
Lost in the Fantasy World is an adventure game where players assume the roles of kids from our world who have been magically transported to a fantasy world with magic and monsters. They must now try desperately to get back home. But they did receive these amazing artifacts from a mysterious Mentor. These make them very powerful, but force them to often choose between going home or staying to help the native people with their many plights.
This is an ideal game for when you have a small amount of time to kill and a lot of imagination. All you will need is this pamphlet printed out, some index cards for notes a few D6s a your friends!
I have also created a adventure pamphlet to accompany the game called Maze of the Many Portals, in which the PCs are tricked into going to a sinister maze and open portals to other worlds so they can get back home. Obviously, things don’t go according to their plans, and they will need to make some tough choices in the end.
You can grab the PDF of the RPG Pamphlet as a PWYW product on DriveThruRPG (the adventure isn’t available as PDF yet).
Or you can acquire them both in print, through the mail, sending me your address and 6 dollars through PayPal to diogosnog at gmail dot com!
Some photos below!
