We are adventurers.

into every place anywhere in the world.

We are adventuring.

We are adventurers.

Hello heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot. I'm James Damato, your host in GameMaster.

This week we are finally bringing you one of the winners of the 200 Word RPG Challenge.

For those who don't know, the 200 word RPG challenge is an annual game design contest

where designers are challenged with making a game in 200 words or less.

In a sense, this contest makes some of the designs severely limited cutting down on what designers are allowed to explain and elaborate on.

However, it's been my experience reading the designs that come out of this challenge that limiting the amount of actual writing that a designer has to do to create a game

frees them to engage their creativity in other ways.

Winners and finalists typically have some of the most surprising resolution mechanics and themes of any games out there.

Also, a 200 word role-playing game is a really inviting prospect for someone who's never designed before.

And many entries to the 200 word RPG challenge are people putting

pen to paper to design for the first time. This year, the One Shot Podcast was actually involved in one of the prizes

for the 200 word challenge. We agreed to feature one of the

winners on our program. The only problem is the three winners that came out this year

weren't exactly well suited for podcasting. Although the challenge concluded months ago,

we had to spend a long time figuring out

exactly what we were going to do for this episode.

I think what we ended up doing is great,

and I'm really proud of it.

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