HARROWING

HARROWING is a diceless Micro RPG about a group of people having a really bad day. Whether locked on a spaceship with an alien, attempting a prison break, or forced to attend an uncomfortable dinner party, HARROWING provides a simple framework built for expression, tight resources, and difficult choices.

KEY FEATURES

• No dice or luck! Instead, you are making tough choices on how to spend your very limited resources.
• Wordplay is a skill! The more cleverly worded your Resources are, the more options you will have during play.
• Extremely flexible! Can be used to run games in almost every genre from slasher to period drama.
• Easy to run! Requires very little prep work. Set the scene and let the players loose!

RHYTHM OF PLAY

• A typical game lasts between 5-7 scenes.
• The narrator sets a scene and establishes the stakes. Within that scene is at least one obstacle that needs to be overcome.
• Players spend will to take actions. Bold actions give the narrator doom.
• The narrator spends doom to take moves. Players have the opportunity to resist soft moves. Hard moves cannot be resisted.
• When there is a major change or a natural break point, the narrator starts a new scene.

If playing on Roll20,  you can download clocks, as well as stakes and doom trackers.