you are a crab and amelia earhart is dead - a one-page ttrpg
2025-03-29
"you are a crab and amelia earhart is dead" is a one-page ttrpg i wrote in mid-2020 in the midst of lockdowns. it's a transparent clone of lasers and feelings by john harper. this is because, at the time, i had no idea you could write any other kind of one-page rpg.
it features a nice crab photograph that, to my knowledge, originates from andrew hosie's blog on the western australian museum website (internet archive). EDIT: i've just noticed the alt text on the image credits dr zoe richards!!
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after writing it i ran several sessions of this game for unigames, both online and in-person due to lockdowns. memorably, the players demonstrated that min-maxing into the largest, most brutish coconut crab was the strongest possible option.
it's a simple project but something i'm proud of to this day - it's still in the unigames library and i'm aware of it being played during one-page ttrpg oneshot nights.
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