In search of rampant competition

[radiantfracture]

Does anyone know a fun indie TTRPG with competitive elements? All the ones I know are delightfully co-operative...

It doesn't actually have to be super indie, but it does have to be something a student could read and come to grips with over a couple of weeks, so not all of D&D for example. (Though D&D isn't actually competitive, now that I think of it -- combative but collaborative.)

So let's say the main criteria are that it is a game with story and/or character, but also there are competitive elements between the players.

I found an intriguing list of just such games, but it's from 2006 and all the links are dead.

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Comments

[yhlee]

Not 100% competitive but Emily Care Boss's Shooting the Moon (PDF) has two Suitors competing to win the heart of a Beloved. (I think you can modify it for more than three players.) I've played it once and had a blast. Alas, my character's accordion-playing just wasn't romantic enough. ;)

[radiantfracture]

Thank you! But not being won by accordion? Madness. What was the gameplay like?

That reminds me of a TTRPG review I heard not that long ago onnn... (frantic googling) The Farrier's Bellows, a very good but short-lived podcast.

It was a game callllleed (scramble scramble) Kagematsu that did a thing with gender that sounded interesting though super binary... a village is confronted by a threat that a wandering warrior might be able to deal with, so all the women are vying to make him fall in love with them -- and the idea is that a woman plays the male character and men play the other characters.

Sounds like it would yield much analysis of various kinds.