Wordplay

Wordplay is a rules light fun d6 dice pool roleplaying game engine that can be used for any tabletop roleplaying game you’d care to play.

The game does not have complex or intricate game rules. Instead this game focuses on providing a narrative driven light game structure to develop well rounded characters for the players, and an easy and fun to play rule system to resolve game challenges using handfuls of six sided dice. As you will find out, this game really is a six sided dice paradise!

Wordplay games can be set in any shared universe that you and your fellow players wish to develop. It could be our world and time, perhaps our world but at another time, or a completely different and fantastical world and setting. This setting is usually created by the Guide, inspired from any number of sources including novels, films, computer games, and other roleplaying games. Settings can be separate and unconnected, or joined together by time travel, wormholes, dimensional travel or even dream sequences. Settings may be huge sprawling star systems, planets and kingdoms, or claustrophobic and choking cities or shambolic ancient castles. The Wordplay book will have six starter ‘Themes’, prepared examples, to help you develop characters in specific genres and settings. As a Guide or player you may use these as the basis for your own setting, adapting them or creating your own.

Above all, Wordplay is about providing a light and flexible structure to your roleplaying, enabling you to get on with the game, play with words, and throw huge piles of six sided dice onto the game table!