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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Drowning and Falling: The Game 

I'm quite late in hearing of this game -- it's hard keeping up with the ever-jumping indie press roleplaying scene -- but here's another entry in the growing list of roleplaying games that, like PARANOIA, set player characters at each others' throats.

Designer Jason Morningstar, who runs Bully Pulpit Games, of Carrboro, North Carolina, will soon start selling his lighthearted fantasy RPG called Drowning and Falling. "The Drowning and Falling roleplaying game is filled with challenges. Every challenge poses the risk of drowning or falling -- you will fall, you will drown, or you will triumph. This means that all challenges take place near things to fall off of or things to drown in, or perhaps both."

Power 19 questions for Drowning and Falling; actual play thread. Note the references to PARANOIA toward the bottom of the actual-play page.

Drowning and Falling is a charity project. "All proceeds from sales of this game, after taxes and production costs, will be donated to ORBIS International," Morningstar writes. "The mission of ORBIS is to eliminate avoidable blindness and restore sight in the developing world, where 90% of the world's blind live. They do this in part by operating a completely awesome flying eye hospital in a converted DC-10. Visit ORBIS to learn more!" Morningstar already offers a free text version of Drowning and Falling under a Creative Commons license.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 12:15 AM

Comments:
Drowning and Falling looks great. It started as a forum joke, over on the Story Games website, and snowballed.

The art looks fantastic, especially the cover art: it looks exactly like a 1980s D&D book.

Graham
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 22, 2006 1:40 PM
 
"[The skill] Observant is all about being observant, and observing things."

I don't have a lot of experience with roleplaying games - are they all like this?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 22, 2006 3:33 PM
 
Drowning & Falling is a parody of traditional (read: Dungeons and Dragons) role-playing games, and the stereotype of gamers who play them. The writing is meant to evoke the style of an enthusiastic 13-year old who thinks the game he's writing is the best ever.

So to answer your question, no, not all roleplaying games are this intentionally corny (but some of them can take themselves a little too seriously...).
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 23, 2006 1:45 PM
 
Thanks for the shout-out, Allen. Drowning and Falling just arrived at Indie Press Revolution, so it should be available for purchase soon. It's already been repurposed as restructured text and HTML as well.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 25, 2006 6:48 PM
 
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