Black Friday: The RPG

Don't want to brave the Black Friday sales crowd this year? Play this game instead! 

In this bloodthirsty comedy, you compete against your family and friends to do your Christmas shopping. The game takes place in the USA, in the mid 2000's: the height of Black Friday sales traffic. 

Play as an Adult and fight your way through hordes of shoppers to try to get your list done, or play as a Minor and try to force your parents to let you have fun. Plays best with 5-10 people, including the game runner.

Features: 

One-Shot game - Enjoy it over a few hours, in a single sitting. It's a great game to play on Thanksgiving while you're waiting for the turkey to be done, or on Black Friday instead of going shopping.

Simple materials - The game requires a pair of 6-sided dice, pencils, paper, and a mall map of your choice. 

12 Playbooks - The choice of what kind of character you want to be is up to you. Did you want to be the Middle Sibling? What about a Karen? Or perhaps the poor Employee whose family dragged them back to work to shop on their day off? Try all of these, and more, and 6 Adults and 6 Minors to choose from. 

Very little prep work - No need to do a lot of preparation or reading, just print out a map from you local mall and you're good to go. 

PbtA - Mechanics are heavily inspired by Apocalypse World, making this game Powered by the Apocalypse. 

Printer-Friendly - There is both a full color and a black and white version. Plus a zip file for All-in-One Download!

Resources:

Mallmanac has printable maps of malls from all around the USA.

Random.org has a list randomizer for making your own shopping lists, and a random number generator to help you choose a list.

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