Pantheon (role-playing game)
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 Cover of Pantheon, cover art by Frazer Irving | |
| Designers | Robin Laws |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Hogshead Publishing |
| Publication | 2000 |
| Systems | Narrative Cage Match |
Pantheon and other Roleplaying Games is a 24-page book that includes five self-contained role-playing games for 3-6 players and designed to be completed in 1–2 hours.
History
[edit]Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games (2000), by Robin Laws, was published by Hogshead Publishing as one of their New Style role-playing games.[1]
System
[edit]Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games consisted of five separate competitive storytelling role-playing games or scenarios, all with the same "Narrative Cage Match TM" system, in which players engage in storytelling rather than playing their characters. Each player tells one sentence of a story on their turn, and needs to mention their character every turn, while the other players have the opportunity to challenge this sentence with die-rolling and bidding using tokens. When all of the players run out of tokens, they finish the story and tally points on a score sheet.[1]
Pantheon introduced a system called Narrative Cage Match (NCM) that differs from traditional role-playing game systems in that there is no referee or gamemaster. Players control a character that co-operates and competes with other characters to try to steer the course of the story so that their character finishes in a better position than all the others. Players influence the narrative outcomes of the games they are playing using a bidding mechanism that uses beads and traditional six-sided dice.
Games
[edit]Pantheon includes 5 games called:
- Grave and Watery - Action and horror in an undersea base.
- Boardroom Blitz - Players battle for control of a family megacorporation.
- The Big Hole - Modern-day gangsters in a tale of crime, revenge and blackmail.
- Destroy all Buildings - Giant monsters ravage Tokyo.
- Pantheon - Create the universe.
New Style
[edit]Pantheon was one in a series of experimental/alternative role-playing games published by Hogshead Publishing. Other games in the series included the award-nominated The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Münchhausen, Violence, and Puppetland/Powerkill.
Reviews
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "Pyramid: Pyramid Pick: Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games".
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