What Scraps Are Left

A one-page TTRPG from the Copper Compendium. Originally published for the One-Page RPG Jam 2024.

You are a necromancer, or perhaps a mad scientist. You have an idea, a passion project, a great mission. You will create life, LIFE, from whatever you can get your hands on. Ideally that would be people but... y'know... Victor-something raided the graveyard last week, some mad mage stole all the bears and owls from the forest, and the last you heard of dragons was that they'd been hunted to extinction.

Oh well. Guess you'll have to make do with whatever you can get your hands on. And if it was never alive in the first place, so what? You're meant to be creating life, that's the whole point. Otherwise you'd just use a defibrillator.

What Scraps Are Left is a one page game about making chimeras and surviving the angry mob that results, pitting the combined creations of you and your friends against the pitchforks and torches of the local village. The game has no need for dice - instead, you'll need 10 or so pages of written text per player to cut to pieces and stitch back together into your horrific amalgam.

So what are you waiting for? Grab some friends, some scissors and a fistful of useless documents and create LIFE!

I'd love to hear about your monstrosities, so if you play, please tell me about it!

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