The Crawling Chaos

A Roleplaying Game of Weird Demises

The Crawling Chaos is a zero-prep roleplaying game that lets you invent short macabre tales of weird horror in which a lone narrator is drawn into a web of esoteric and obscure mysteries until their curiosity leads them to an eldritch doom. Play with 2-5 players, or by yourself with the included solo rules.

• Story game for 1-5 players, 1-2 hours, zero-prep.
• One Player / Many GMs
  
• Create tales of weird horror with your friends.
• One player is the Narrator, speaking always in the first person. The others play as Architects, spending points to introduce characters, incidents and threats to which the narrator reacts and responds.
• Solo rules for either spoken or written play.
• Huge host of random tables to keep your imaginations firing.
• A Lovecraftian story game that actually feels like a Lovecraft story.

One Player / Many GMs

The Crawling Chaos inverts the traditional format of roleplaying games. One player controls a single character – the narrator – against whom the other players, acting as the world and the incidental characters, throw incidents, accidents and unpleasantnesses in an attempt to propel them towards an inevitable and grisly doom.

Zero-Prep Lovecraftian Horror

The conversation begins with the Narrator describing their present situation, one Architect takes an Action to disturb that situation with an incident, the narrator reacts to that intrusion, another architect takes an action to drive the story on further, and go on, towards the revelation of The Awful Truth.

The narrator speaks in first-person, and may only react to characters, threats, and incidents. The architects speak in third-person, and may only describe and control elements external to the narrator.

The conversation continues, eroding the narrator’s Pools, until they find themselves at Mortal Risk, and one architect successfully consummates a final Eldritch Doom and speaks the Final Word.

Thank You!

The Crawling Chaos is my first published roleplaying game. Thank you in advance for supporting it and for sharing it with others! If you have any feedback or thoughts, please find me through my website.!

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This is my first completed roleplaying game. I would love to hear your thoughts. You can find me in the Planet Smasher Games discord: https://discord.gg/UVB3QcwGNj