Puppetland

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Puppetland
A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe
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Puppetland. First edition book cover, 1999
Designers John Scott Tynes
PublishersArcane Magazine, Hogshead Publishing
Publication1995
GenresHorror

Puppetland: A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe is a role-playing game written by John Scott Tynes.

Contents

The game was first published on the author's website in 1995. [1] Its first print publication was in Arcane magazine issue 16 in early 1997, then later by Hogshead Publishing together with Power Kill, a satirical role-playing metagame by the same author, under the title Puppetland/Power Kill. A much expanded edition [2] was published in 2016 by Arc Dream Publishing.

A free edition, including most of the game text is available on the author's web site.

New Style

Puppetland/Powerkill was part of a series experimental/alternative role-playing games published by Hogshead Publishing. Other games in the series included the award-nominated The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Münchhausen , Pantheon , and Violence .

Kickstarter and New Edition

In November 2014, an expanded version of Puppetland was successfully funded on Kickstarter, to be published by Arc Dream Publishing. [3]

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References

  1. Puppetland. Revland. Retrieved 2024-02-19
  2. Puppetland product page. Arc Dream Publishing. Retrieved 2024-02-19
  3. "Puppetland: The Storytelling RPG of Grim Make-Believe". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2016-06-26.