3-8 players

Everyone will take turns playing Melanie as she has the worst day of her life. Answer collectively: What is Melanie’s daily routine? What does she want? What does she fear? What must she get done today?

Each player chooses one color, then adds 10 stones of that color to an opaque bag. Each also describes one terrible thing that might happen to Melanie today. These might be mundane problems (lose her job) or outlandish ones (kidnapped by aliens).

Take turns roleplaying Melanie trying to get through her daily life. Other players describe the scene, roleplay NPCs and ask questions.

When Melanie attempts something uncertain, the other players decide how risky or difficult the task is, from 1 (easy) to 10 (suicidal). Melanie’s player pulls that many stones from the bag. They give the stones to the player of that color, putting their own color stones back in the bag.

If a player ever has stones equal to the number of players in from of them, then their problem happens. They describe how the terrible event affects Melanie. Then they put their stones (and one more) back in the bag and define a new terrible thing that could occur.

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This was just a quick little game I made for the 2019 200 Word RPG Design Challenge.