Disaster Wizards
Mar. 17th, 2022 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radiantfractureToday I underwent an RPG design rite of passage. At last I, too, have made a Honey Heist hack.
It's also a wizarding tournament game because why not.
The game was inspired by an observation fromsabotabby in the context of writing queer characters that the protagonists of her Sleep of Reason series were "disaster wizards."
The game is free on Itch.io. Honey Heist is free, so the hack is free.
...If "Honey Heist hack" just sounds like a coughing fit to you, all you need to know is that Honey Heist is a dead simple yet ludicrously playable two-page TTRPG that Grant Howitt created for a con in 2017. It mixes an absurd premise (you are real bears trying to commit a heist) with simple yet compelling mechanics. The usual outcome is to fail hilariously.
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The central bit of Howitt's genius is that you have only two stats, which are both dynamic (they change based on your rolls) and reciprocal -- when one goes up, the other goes down.
So in the original game, your stats are BEAR and CRIMINAL. In Disaster Wizards, your stats are -- you called it -- DISASTER and WIZARD.
There are, I don't know, one million hacks of it out there. And now there are one million and one.
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It's also a wizarding tournament game because why not.
The game was inspired by an observation from
sabotabby in the context of writing queer characters that the protagonists of her Sleep of Reason series were "disaster wizards."The game is free on Itch.io. Honey Heist is free, so the hack is free.
...If "Honey Heist hack" just sounds like a coughing fit to you, all you need to know is that Honey Heist is a dead simple yet ludicrously playable two-page TTRPG that Grant Howitt created for a con in 2017. It mixes an absurd premise (you are real bears trying to commit a heist) with simple yet compelling mechanics. The usual outcome is to fail hilariously.
[eta]
The central bit of Howitt's genius is that you have only two stats, which are both dynamic (they change based on your rolls) and reciprocal -- when one goes up, the other goes down.
So in the original game, your stats are BEAR and CRIMINAL. In Disaster Wizards, your stats are -- you called it -- DISASTER and WIZARD.
There are, I don't know, one million hacks of it out there. And now there are one million and one.
{rf}
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Date: 2022-03-18 02:42 am (UTC)(I haven't yet gotten my family to play Honey Heist OR any of its hacks because they are addicted to high-crunch games like Pathfinder or D&D, but one of these days...)
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Date: 2022-03-18 03:02 am (UTC)I love that your family plays TTRPGs together.
This game is wholly untested, naturally, so I have no idea what would happen if anyone actually tried to play it.
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Date: 2022-03-18 11:49 am (UTC)