The Farm
An electronically-published game of hunger and horror¸ previewed in the Halloween 2004 issue of Daedalus magazine. The PCs were captured and brought to a place called only The Farm so they may eventually be slaughtered and eaten by a mysterious group of people called the Headmasters. They are trying to escape¸ obviously. It uses a simple dice-pool system which allows pooling and sharing of dice. There are two stats (Stamina and Psyche) which average 4 and determine the number of six-sided dice you roll. There are six skills¸ each of which has an individually-assigned number. Rolling a number of d6s equal to your stat¸ you get successes equal to those which roll exactly the assigned skill number. An assigned leader may be given dice¸ and hand out appropriate numbers to those who need them within certain limits. There are rules for strain and torture as well as combat. - A description fromdarkshire.netwith kind permission of John H. Kim