Roskvas

This is a supplement for RAD!  and requires a copy of that game to use.

The Mundane, the Weird, and the Bizarre all meet!

MUNDANE

New occupations, like grave-digger and spy, as well as an expansion of the investigation phase, where you roll for the success of your mission before ever setting out. That's right, we've got some narrative beats in this OSR game!

Stumped for motivation? We've added twenty goals for you to pursue!

WEIRD

People are strange, and you're no different. Have you changed, or were you always this way? And does it make you happy? Does anything make you happy? Clones, mechanical ants, frog-people, and more, all wandering around our perfectly good radioactive wasteland. Bah!

JUST PLAIN BIZARRE!

There are rumors out there, the kind you just need to hear for yourself. I think I heard one about a horse? It's all kind of hazy.

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What is this?

Roskvas is a supplement for the RAD roleplaying game. It adds a new layer of narrative depth to the investigate phase, new items and occupations, mutators, and a table of very strange rumors you can pursue. It also gives motivations and some neat flavor, but the big takeaway is the narrative trick stapled onto the investigative phase.

Tell me about this "narrative magic trick"

Buy the game.

No.

Oookay. Well, it's pretty simple, really. Before you venture out, you pick a quest (find fertile soil to plant a garden, investigate a rumor, or bring a (specific) thief to justice. Then, still before setting out, you roll on a special table to see how much progress you'll make towards that goal.

Now that you know how it ends, you can look for clues and build scenes while you play. "Somewhere along the way, I need to find a piece of evidence that points to my mother's murderer. Ooh, maybe this spade could be related?"

That's it?

This has taken a strangely hostile tone for a blurb that's trying to get you to buy the game. If you want more, you'll find them tucked neatly and lovingly between the pages of the supplement. If you don't want more, kindly, why are you still reading this?

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Mission, rumors, and mutations for RAD

Become a frog. Find your mother's killer.
Eat a shard. Ride a horse. Plant a garden.
Venture forth. Tell a story. Dig a grave.
Restore radio to the Union. Get revenge.

Ghost trains. Gorbachev's Garden, Klipsa-Run