Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies

We've all been there.

You come to the table with a brilliant new creation. You sit down with your friends and excitedly tell each other about your characters. The GM sets the stage, reading off an elaborate and frankly a little bit overwrought monologue about the world, but it's enthusiastic and everyone is getting into the spirit of things. And then play begins, you all start getting into character, and a few bad die rolls later the city is on fire and everyone is dead.

Well, no more. "Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies" solves this failure state of roleplaying by pointing the game directly at it and gunning the engine. Join your friends for a complex, engaging group character creation system that will help you to generate your newest darlings, introduce them to one another, and even have control over the world's very magical underpinnings. Then, when you are prepared, set yourselves against the most terrible challenges imaginable, in an attempt to forestall the end that is lurking above you.

You aren't going to. You're going to die.

This 60-page supplement contains everything that you need for a Gamemaster and three to six players to run a game that is likely to be 95% character creation and 5% actual play time. It's an extended joke in the shape of a game, an insight into frustration and ludicrous decision-making. No reasonable person would ever play it.

But then, who among us is reasonable?