Roll Pig Game (RPG)

Create a Pig

Roll Your Stats

Roll d4 for each stat. Higher is better.

Roll Your Class

Roll d4 to determine what type of pig you are.

Roll Your Traits

Roll 4d4 or make these up.

Roll Your Pig Points (PP)

Roll 2d4.The result is your Pig Points (PP).If you fail a roll that risks damage, lose one Pig Point.At zero Pig Points, you have no more Pig Points and are probably(?) dead or at least No Longer Pig.You can regain Pig Points by eating slop, rooting for vegetables, sitting fancy, rolling in mud, basking in the sun, I don’t know, shit pigs like to do.

Give Yourself a Cool Name

Like Wilbur, or Babe, or Miss Piggy, or Hamlet, or Spamlet, or whatever.Or roll d44.

Pig Pronouns?

If pigs use pronouns, chose them, use them, respect them.

Do Cool Shit

Doing Stuff and Rolling Dice

When you want to do something and the outcome is risky or interesting, roll a number of d4s corresponding to the relevant stat.Take the highest result.d4 result:

Damage & Recovery

If you fail a roll that risks damage, lose one Pig Point.At zero Pig Points, you have no more Pig Points and are probably(?) dead or at least No Longer Pig.You can regain Pig Points by eating slop, rooting for vegetables, sitting fancy, rolling in mud, basking in the sun, I don’t know, shit pigs like to do.

Running a Session

Game Structure

Each session of Roll Pig Game is the equivalent of a 20-minute Saturday Morning Cartoon, with 10 minutes of incongruous advertising.Each session has 4 scenes.
Because 4.

First Scene

The session opens.
The pigs are (roll 4d4).

The players get 1d4 minutes of roleplay before, abruptly ...

Second Scene

A problem disturbs everything (roll d44 two or three times).Characters (roll here first):

Action (then roll here and a third time on the previous table as required):

This continues for 10 minutes of roleplay.

Ad Break

Exquisite corpse advertisements.

The winner by popular acclaim gets to use a random advertised product or service in the next scene of the roll pig game. It is an automatic success.

Third Scene

In a jarring cut, the roleplay jumps to the climax of the session. The pigs face this session’s nemesis.Roll d44 twice.

Location

Complication

The characters get eight minutes of roleplay.Each pig gets at least one moment to shine.When they seize their moment to shine, they take one mandatory forward failure, then pass the scene along.After eight minutes, there is a sudden cliffhanger.As the camera zooms in on the situation, the pigs’ distress, and the nemesis’ laughter, there is a sudden second ad break.

Ad Break - 2

Pick a random ad from the first commercial break.Each player gets 10 seconds to pitch another stupid use for the advertised product.Roll d100. That’s how many dollars $x.99.It’s available while stocks last. Or something.

Scene 4 - Finale

A random player must use a random stat to try and stop the nemesis.If the pigs fail three times, the nemesis wins and the episode ends on a cliffhanger. The next session is part two.If one of the pigs wins, then they get to deliver a random piece of good advice or another concealed pitch for one of the advertised products.

Optional Stuff

It’s optional because you can use it if you want to.Added when we think of it or do little micro-jams about it on Discord or whatever.Some of it is placeholder until we fuck around and find out.

Spiders

Maybe you want a spider as a companion to weave messages into webs saying how great you are or agitating for revolution?[8’s and d8’s here because arachnids: spider names, spider body types, spider abilities, i dunno spider stuff]

Catch Phrases

Cute, weird, ominous or folksy shit your pig says.

Hamlets

Detail little pig towns here.

Classes

For when you want more specific types of pig.

Pass the Pigs - Alternate Resolution Mechanic

Use Pass the Pigs instead of d4s.Probably just convert score combinations to 1 to 4 outcomes?