A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG

What's this? WUAT'S this?!

A play anything/everywhere diceless RPG where you always succeed at doing a thing but something wonderful, unexpected or terrible also occurs when you do the thing. 

The core rules and character sheet fit on both sides of a business card with a guess-the-number resolution mechanic. The remaining cards in this ever-expanding series build out on that initial card, adding definitions, rules and tools.

Perfect for car journeys and long walks!

Currently includes:

• Story Guide — A guide to help you build up an adventure, story arc, or area from a few keywords.

• Guide to Somewhere — A method to create somewhere where things happen.

• **Relationship Map —**The second expansion is a simple method to build relationships between NPCs and identify their wants & obstructions, a small evolution on the ideas set out in A Small Collection of Flowers & Entanglements.

• Thing Tally— When someone does a thing, something else happens. This tool helps you track those somethings and gives you a gentle nudge towards what that something should be, whether it's wonderful, unexpected or terrible.

• Solo RPG (Dice-ful Version)— Intended to be used with an oracle of some sort; think of your number then roll the appropriate die (d4, d6, or d8) for the GM's number. Can also be used with a GM if they don't want to think of a number.  You miss out on the psychic connection to another player but gain a psychic connection to your dice.

Physical cards are available to collect with random cards dropped in with all purchases from my Etsy or online shop (and also soon from Patreon).

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Support, Mine & Yours

Speaking of oracles, I'm concurrently working on a thing to accompany A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG to make it a fuller, better supported system so please purchase a copy & leave a star rating if you're interested in seeing this project expand. 

You can currently download a plain version of the cards for $1 while $2.50+ downloads also get access to a themed/collectors version of the cards. My aim is to help expand the reach of the game while also giving those who'd like to (and are in a position to) support its production a little something alongsides.

Themed cards so far include:

• Original (Basic Rules)

• Ice Cream Edition 2025 (Story Guide)

• Leaf Litter Edition 2025 (Relationship Map)

• Snow Edition 2025 (Solo Rules)

• Cathode-Ray Edtn'26 (Thing Tally)

• Pond Life (A Guide to Somewhere)

Thank You for Your Interest!

This may be terribly small but hopefully you find it unexpectedly wonderful. 

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Inspiration

A polite hat tip to Amazing Tales for its use of differently sized dice to differentiate how good a character is at something!