Kill puppies for satan
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kill puppies for satan is an indie role-playing game
designed by author D. Vincent Baker and published by Lumpley Games (also owned by D. Vincent Baker). Players portray people who do evil things (like killing puppies
) so that Satan
will give them supernatural
powers.
The manual is flippant, full of swearing
, and bereft of both capitalization and art. Character generation takes about two minutes, and includes scores such as how many people hate your character. The manual suggests a way to start that avoid the storyteller having to come up with a creative way to force the players to cooperate. It is only available online as a PDF
.
The author gets hate mail from people who care and posts all of it.
Indie role-playing game
An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the game should just be produced outside of a corporate...
designed by author D. Vincent Baker and published by Lumpley Games (also owned by D. Vincent Baker). Players portray people who do evil things (like killing puppies
Puppy
A puppy is a juvenile dog. Some puppies may weigh , while larger ones can weigh up to . All healthy puppies grow quickly after birth. A puppy's coat color may change as the puppy grows older, as is commonly seen in breeds such as the Yorkshire Terrier...
) so that Satan
Satan
Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
will give them supernatural
Supernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...
powers.
The manual is flippant, full of swearing
Profanity
Profanity is a show of disrespect, or a desecration or debasement of someone or something. Profanity can take the form of words, expressions, gestures, or other social behaviors that are socially constructed or interpreted as insulting, rude, vulgar, obscene, desecrating, or other forms.The...
, and bereft of both capitalization and art. Character generation takes about two minutes, and includes scores such as how many people hate your character. The manual suggests a way to start that avoid the storyteller having to come up with a creative way to force the players to cooperate. It is only available online as a PDF
Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
.
The author gets hate mail from people who care and posts all of it.
External links
- kill puppies for satan on Lumpley Games' website.
- "kill puppies for satan (an unfunny roleplaying game)", RPGnet Capsule Review by Jonathan Walton on 23/10/02.
- "Review of Kill Puppies for Satan", RPGnet Playtest Review, by Lev Lafayette, January 21, 2008.
- "The Forge: kill puppies for satan", Reviewed by: Ron Edwards.
- "kill puppies for satan", session description by Maurice Forrester, The Forge, October 24, 2002.
- "kill puppies for satan", RPGnet Playtest Review by Neel Krishnaswami on 16/02/03
- "we killed puppies for satan", session description, The Forge, by Clinton R. Nixon, September 12, 2002.