Character March 2025: Rolling with It

I guess I could say I'm on a roll. I'm skipping Watch Your Time because it doesn't even have character creation rules.

On an unrelated note, guess who figured out after 8 years of running a blog how to schedule their posts for the future?

My ratings will be done on four scales, each ranging from 1 to 5:

• RPG: How much does this feel like an RPG to me, as opposed to a board game?
• Soup Stone: How little content does the game expect you to add? For this scale, 0 is a complete Soup Stone since I'd like to sum the scores to see the game's total score.
• Would I Play: If I were given a chance to, would I play this game?
• Would I Write: If I were inspired enough and had time/energy for it, would I get back to working on this game?

Rolling with It

Magister Kyrillos Stauffheimer (don't consider this kind of name canonical for the setting yet) was a respected member of the orb programming community. He was about to present his grandest invention yet to the world, a vehicle that would run on four bowling-ball-sized orbs (or perhaps larger). Things went wrong when he got murdered while programming the wheels, resulting in his consciousness now being trapped inside one of them. Now he has to find out who murdered him while he's stuck in this orb body.

His orb's size is d12, which means he could be fairly strong, but he'd also have a harder time acting and reacting quickly. It also means he has the capacity for 12 units of alcohol, which would allow him to roll around for 48 hours at most, assuming he wouldn't be heating up his surface or creating matter around him. Who knows how far Magister Kyrillos will go... or should I say, roll?

Ratings

4/5 RPG. It has rules for how to play an orb, not much else. That being said, I think it's got potential to work as a TTRPG.

2/5 Soup Stone. At least the game tells you what are the limitations and capabilities of being an orb.

2/5 Would I Play. I feel more drawn to this than to most of my 200-word TTRPG experiments. That being said, I have games I wrote that I'd prefer a lot more.

5/5 Would I Write. For now, this is one of those ideas waiting in my brain cabinet to be uncovered when the need for it arises. Until then, I don't really feel a need to work on it.

13/20 Total Rating