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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlightCrawler" data-source="post: 4917192" data-attributes="member: 4931">You just described <a href="http://www.lumpley.com/wicked.html" target="_blank">In A Wicked Age</a>.Seriously, the game is awesome for this.  You start by drawing cards and consulting a list (the Oracle) which gives you four situations with potential characters. From that you determine PCs (the rest are NPCs). You make PCs, and then play.  Everything moves very quick and is designed to get to a climax in short order. Part of the mechanic involves the "We Owe" list, which you get onto when you face against threats tougher than yourself (e.g. like a proper protagonist). When you end up on the list, you can gain extra dice, and you also can esnure your character will end up in the next chapter. If your character is not in the next chapter, you have many options to try and work them in, or play a new character, depending entirely on your preference.Each chapter plays like a Conan short story (mostly because the setting is very swords and sorcery).  And it takes about two hours to finish. Actually, it can take longer but it works best when you limit the time to two hours, this includes character creation and all that (it's very fast).  So, in a single sitting of four hours (the amount of time I set aside for this at cons), you can easily do two chapters. That second chapter is always better, too.There are other great pick up games (A Penny for My Thoughts to name another, Spirit of the Century as well) But I think IAWA is the best that also resembles a traditional RPG. Penny plays more like an improv exercise. It's very accessible to non-roleplayers as a result, something you could easily play after Thanksgiving dinner or a party, but not great if you want action and adventure. SotC is almost as good as IAWA for a pick up game, except that it takes about 2.5 hours to make characters. Once you have characters, you are golden, but that first time can be a doozy (and making characters as a group is too much fun to push off entirely to pre-gens).</blockquote>

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