Characters March 2025: Play It by Cheer!

Those of you who know where to see my releases might be wondering why I skipped Gon' Click. Well, in retrospect, you can't really make a character for that game. Sure, I could write up a description and all that, but at the end of the day, there's no mechanical substance that would make them different from other characters. This might complicate my challenge a little, seeing how I have roughly 30 TTRPGs out there, and not all of them might include some character creation rules. I'll worry about resolving that at the end of the month.

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?

Play It by Cheer!

Scarlet Matters is a guitarist in the girl pop band called Peak Chic and the Babes. Let's first talk about her qualities and what they represent.

• Tempo 13. She can act really fast, but she has a hard time being careful.
• Intensity 12. She can be quite forceful and loud, but she has a hard time being subtle or unseen.
• Authenticity 7. She can raise people's spirits easily, but she has a harder time being empathetic to their troubles.
• Creativity 6. Her methods are simple and straightforward instead of unconventional.

She has good relationships with her band members. The keyboard player could be way more creative, the drummer could be even more intense, and the singer could be quite authentic, though all this depends on the other players.

Ratings

2/5 RPG. There was a music band system. It worked, kind of. Not sure if I'd say it was good, or much of an RPG on its own.

1/5 Soup Stone. It doesn't even have a core resolution mechanic written beyond the words "Use common sense". It's been almost two years, and I forgot what I meant - was the core resolution the same as rolling for the musical performance? Perhaps it was. At least the music playing was sorted out already.

0/5 Would I Play. Did you see that dice-rolling mechanic?? Roll d6+d12 and d8+d10, and keep the sum further from 10. That alone feels like it would take forever to get used to, and you'd have to do that a lot.

0/5 Would I Write. I already did. This system has been reworked and included in the Runehack RPG as the Seeker minigame. This was a fine start and an introduction of a cool probability curve I had never thought possible, but at the same time, that dice-rolling mechanic was really impractical, and the Qualities took me some time to fix. Not sure if I'll ever publish the newer music game as a standalone.

3/20 Total Rating