Happy Free RPG Day
As promised, for those of you who can’t join us at JiffyCon, here’s your free copy of Trial & Terror: Supernatural Victims Unit.
As I’m writing this, I’m still suffering a bit from yesterday’s all night rush to the presses. It’s actually two something in the morning the Friday after, but if all goes well this post won’t show up until the very brink of Free RPG Day. So please forgive me if I seem a bit scatterbrained.
Just over a week ago, this game was not much more than a tentative title on a piece of scrap paper with 9 other game ideas vying for our attention. We winnowed out the candidates we thought we could actually finish in a week and then fate in the form of a d4 pointed its gnarled claw at Trial & Terror: SVU (whose original title escapes me at the moment).
The week has been tremendous fun for me. Exhausting, but a hell of a lot of fun. And I’m sure Jason and Jim had similar experiences. Right now, I’m just kind of dazed that it’s all over. Well, probably not exactly over. I think this one’s got legs and I’m very interested in seeing where this game takes us next. But for now, the experiment is a success and we couldn’t be prouder of our little Game in a Jiffy–rough spots and all.
We hope you enjoy it as well. If you have any questions about how to play, or any
tales of how it worked for you and your friends, we’d love to hear about it.
And a huge thank you to all our artists who exceeded expectations with an entirely unreasonable deadline. Thank you John Carimando, Scott LeMien, and Andrew DeFelice! You made us look far more professional than we are.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Congratulations everyone! This looks really great and I am to have a small part of it.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Small part, my ass. Without the art, we’d be nothing but a bunch of boring words. Thanks, man!
June 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I’ll be bringing this game to my group this weekend to play!
June 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I’m eager to try this out!
June 24th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Awesome. I’d love to hear how it goes.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
So, me, my bro, and a friend played L&T:SVU yesterday. We where laughing on the first scene. (Our games turn to comedy quickly.) We had a rookie Frankenstein’s monster cop and a senior human cop. They were looking into an apparent murder of a demon summoner. Some of NYC’s npcs included the crying wife, the screwed out client and a hairstylist, there was also a chase!
They speak to the wife after a few days and she was coming home from a jog with her fru-fru pink dog. he was not helpful but receved a call from the angry client.
The client of the summoner was an owner of a gay dance club with a hell theme. He dealt with demon antiquities and sold coke with powered demon organs in it. The Summoner frequented the club often and hasn’t been there in a week.
After the Meal & Arrest they bagged the summonr’s client to later put pressure on the wife for murder. The cops where thinking that she payed the client to murder her husband because he was cheating on her.
The ADAs were Sam Adams Jackson and Honey Walters. They did an arraignment scene and but couldn’t get remand. They then convinced Adam Shiff to let them trump up a charge to arrest the wife. Then they had the Client and the Wife in a room and offered only one of them a deal. The Client turns on the wife. They ended it with closing arguments and received a guilty verdict with a just sentence.
They ended up with 11 conviction pool and they gave me 6 extra Reasonable doubt dice for a total of 9.
We dug it, it was quick, fun and easy to get, especially if you watch the law and order shows. At certain points we were putting ourselves in stitches over some things they setup as a scene. (They ate lunch at a werewolf Italian Restaurant and I was doing a guido accent with some wolf howling.)
July 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
This game was fun! Good stuff! The way the game is setup really gives it that Law and Order feel. ROCK!
July 15th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Oh, this game makes me so happy!
July 13th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
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