This is a sideblog for the informal 200-word RPG jams organised by @prokopetz each November.
2026’s event will run from 2026-11-01 through 2026-11-30. A link to the submission thread will be added here when the event is live.
2025 – Tumblr thread | Offsite archive (forthcoming)
2024 – Tumblr thread | Offsite archive
2023 – Tumblr thread | Offsite archive
2022 – Tumblr thread | Offsite archive
A first pass at the offsite archives for this year's event. At present, this is automatically generated via Tumblr's API; the output has not been edited or corrected in any way. It is, however, up to date with whatever state your posts were in as of five minutes ago, so all recent edits should have been captured.
If you have any requests you'd like to make for your entry's inclusion – whether in terms of credits, formatting, etc. – now's the time to let me know. Likewise, now is the time to make any final edits; once I begin working on doing manual cleanup and implementing special requests in a day or two, no further edits to the source posts will be picked up.
If you don't see your entry here and expected to, yours may be one of the 18 submissions which did not explicitly grant archival permissions. As a reminder, general discussion of sharing/remixing rights and/or releasing the game under an open license does not suffice for this purpose; I don't have the bandwidth to read and vet the text of whatever random license you decided to use to make sure it permits this particular use, so you do have to directly say you're okay with it.
The list of entries which have not granted archival permission as of when I checked five minutes before making this post is as follows:
Thanks for following up, folks. At the time of this posting, the list of entries that have not granted archival permission is down to five:
If that was intentional and you want your game left out, no further action is required – this is an opt-in thing. Otherwise (i.e., if the omission was inadvertent), please adjust your author's notes accordingly; I'll be checking back in a day or so for a final roundup, so I'll see it then.
(As above, if you opted in but have any special requests for exactly how you'd like your entry's archival to be handled – e.g., anonymously, under a different name, etc. – you have until this weekend to let me know!)
A first pass at the offsite archives for this year's event. At present, this is automatically generated via Tumblr's API; the output has not been edited or corrected in any way. It is, however, be up to date with whatever state your posts were in as of five minutes ago, so all recent edits should have been captured.
If you have any requests you'd like to make for your entry's inclusion – whether in terms of credits, formatting, etc. – now's the time to let me know. Likewise, now is the time to make any final edits; once I begin working on doing manual cleanup and implementing special requests in a day or two, no further edits to the source posts will be picked up.
If you don't see your entry here and expected to, yours may be one of the 18 submissions which did not explicitly grant archival permissions. As a reminder, general discussion of sharing/remixing rights and/or releasing the game under an open license does not suffice for this purpose; I don't have the bandwidth to read and vet the text of whatever random license you decided to use to make sure it permits this particular use, so you do have to directly say you're okay with it.
The list of entries which have not granted archival permission as of when I checked five minutes before making this post is as follows:
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
An alphabetic index of submissions to the 2025 event follows. Note that, owing to Tumblr's limit on the maximum number of links per post, this index will be posted in several parts.
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
An alphabetic index of submissions to the 2025 event follows. Note that, owing to Tumblr's limit on the maximum number of links per post, this index will be posted in several parts.
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
An alphabetic index of submissions to the 2025 event follows. Note that, owing to Tumblr's limit on the maximum number of links per post, this index will be posted in several parts.
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
An alphabetic index of submissions to the 2025 event follows. Note that, owing to Tumblr's limit on the maximum number of links per post, this index will be posted in several parts.
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
An alphabetic index of submissions to the 2025 event follows. Note that, owing to Tumblr's limit on the maximum number of links per post, this index will be posted in several parts.
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
An alphabetic index of submissions to the 2025 event follows. Note that, owing to Tumblr’s limit on the maximum number of links per post, this index will be posted in several parts.
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
Beyond the Door
For 2-5 players.
One player is the Child. The rest are Friends.
Prep: Cut 3 strips of paper for each Friend, on each strip of paper, write a reason you believe the Child's family is mistreating them. Do not show the strips of paper to the Child. The child takes a separate piece of paper, and writes a list of reasons they ought to love their family, three per Friend. Reasons may be superficial or grounded.
Start in a kitchen, end in a bedroom.
To start, the Child reads:
"My parents have been possessed by an evil spirit, which has drawn out their most cruel tendencies. Retreat with me to my room, until it leaves." Move to the bedroom.
The Friends "Lock" the doors by taping their strips of paper across the frame. Text hidden.
Talk about the possession, this has happened before, but the Friends never saw it firsthand. The Child makes excuses, and gives Reasons they love their parents.
Whenever the Child does so, one Friend pulls a paper from the door and explains why the parents are wrong.
When all strips have been removed, The Friends have successfully removed the Child from their home, game ends.
off-site archiving: yes
other permissions: yes
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
Steady Hands
done in five minutes after seeing the deadline's mercy extension
a study in ideals
You are a homesteading widow. Look in the mirror and say aloud what "homesteading" means to you.
Shuffle the oldest deck of playing cards you have, the more cards missing the better.
Have a friend drive you to an outdoor gun range. On the way, ask them why they killed your spouse, and draw a card.
Red cards are mercy. Black cards are justice.
Get out of the car. Put up a paper target. Tell your friend why you and your spouse came to the "frontier." They draw a card.
Each of you staples the card they drew to the target, face concealed.
Walk to the firing line. Toss a coin.
Winner explains what "mercy" and "justice" mean to them and takes a shot at the target, then loser does the same.
Shots that miss the paper target entirely are not counted and the shooter may and must try again.
Walk to the target. Decide for yourselves what has happened.
off-site mirroring: yes
all other permissions: yes
