Contingency RPG

Early Playtest

Introduction

Early Playtest

Contingency RPG is a tabletop role playing game about storytelling within worlds crafted by your imagination. You, the players, develop unique characters and set off upon adventures full of perilous dangers, colorful inhabitants, unearthed dungeons and dragons to be vanquished, befriend ...or seduced?

Introduction

Contingency RPG is a table-top role playing game (TTRPG), similar in nature to other popular games such as Pathfinder, Dungeons & Dragons etc, with a focus on collaborative storytelling. In this game you and your friends (or maybe even you by yourself) will craft a party of character and embark on a narrative-based adventure.

The system mechanics outlined within this document are designed to be setting agnostic and can be integrated into various genres including, but not limited to, gothic, horror, science fiction and fantasy.

Guiding Principles

Accessible to Everyone

All the rule and core game content, should be made accessible to everyone, without the need for payment or be locked behind needing an account.

All the rules and core game content, should be printable in a clear, player-friendly format that anyone can print at home on a standard printer. Once printed, the entirety of Contingency should be playable without the need of online or digital tools.

Playtest v0.1

The v0.1 playtest material begins to expand upon the Character Archetypes, that are available to players, and start to look at how character progression is going to function.

What you need to play

Dice

At a minimum will need a single set of polyhedral dice, or an equivalent digital dice roller to play Contingency RPG, consisting of a four-sided die (d4), a six-sided die (d6), an eight-sided die (d8), a ten-sided die (d10) and a twelve-sided die (d12). If you are intending to act as the Game Moderator, then you should also have a twenty-sided dice (d20) and a percentile dice (a d10 with an extra zero added to each of the die faces) available to use.

Since Contingency RPG is a dice-pool rolling system, will may be required to roll up to four dice of the same face-value. Because of this, we recommend having three sets of polyhedral dice available. Although, it is possible to play Contingency RPG with only a single set of dice, they may be an additional cognitive load when determining the results from a dice pool.

Character Sheets

You can download a copy of the blank PDF files that you may need for managing your characters. These files have been designed to be printed double-sided in a landscape orientation, allowing them to be then folded into thirds.