Roleplaying in a nation gone mad.
Coming January 2023!
Coming January 2023!
Downtrodden is a tabletop roleplaying game of personal horror that takes place in an alternate version of our world… a version in which cisgender women and nonbinary people have had many of their basic human rights removed as the result of a wave of paranoia, propaganda and desperation in the United States. It is no longer the land of the free.
It is into this tumultuous landscape that the characters are thrust. Who are these characters? Are they members of the oppressed? Allies of the oppressed? Are their goals to put an end to the madness or simply to survive? How has the Traditional Values Act affected their lives or the lives of their loved ones? Do they have ties to any of the underground resistance groups or are they on their own?
The war against the PatriarQs begins now!
The Downtrodden game system requires each participant to have a standard deck of playing cards. These decks change throughout the course of a campaign, representing the effects of mental health, experience and other factors. Just like in real life, characters are ever-changing and their decks reflect that.
Click the link below to see a three-page PDF that explains the basics of task resolution. Below that is a link for an even more truncated explanation.
It is into this tumultuous landscape that the characters are thrust. Who are these characters? Are they members of the oppressed? Allies of the oppressed? Are their goals to put an end to the madness or simply to survive? How has the Traditional Values Act affected their lives or the lives of their loved ones? Do they have ties to any of the underground resistance groups or are they on their own?
The war against the PatriarQs begins now!
The Downtrodden game system requires each participant to have a standard deck of playing cards. These decks change throughout the course of a campaign, representing the effects of mental health, experience and other factors. Just like in real life, characters are ever-changing and their decks reflect that.
Click the link below to see a three-page PDF that explains the basics of task resolution. Below that is a link for an even more truncated explanation.
| basic_training_task_resolution.pdf |
| superquickresolution.pdf |
Snippets
Snippets are small images that gives some insight into the Downtrodden setting and system.
Below is an "in-setting" propaganda brochure published by the New American Way Department to espouse the supposed benefits of the Traditional Values Act.
