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A rules-light tabletop RPG from Calgary, AB.

Dart Rats

Drag Darts · Do Drugs· Don't Die

You are a shitty garbage creature (rat, raccoon, or pigeon) whose entire cosmology is stealing cigarettes from humans. Smoke six and you ascend. That's the whole game.

Ink drawing of an adorable, earnest rat. Art by RKV.

Roll a shitty buddy

Every shitty buddy starts the same way: badly.

Step one · the species: roll a d6, or just fucking pick

Rat

d6 · 1–2
Ink drawing of a rat standing upright, holding an unlit cigarette like a ritual object. Art by RKV.
+2 Reflex · −1 Rage · HP d6+Guts
Too shitty to die · Just a lil guy

A damp miracle of spite and fleas.

Pigeon

d6 · 3–4
Ink drawing of a pigeon with a lit cigarette in its beak. Art by RKV.
+2 Reflex · −1 Instinct · HP d6+Guts
Gravity's ongoing failure · Dumb as fuck

Flying trash, with thoughts (question mark).

Raccoon

d6 · 5–6
Ink drawing of a raccoon with both little hands raised. Art by RKV.
+1 Rage · +1 Guts · +1 Instinct · HP d8+Guts
Trash hands · Kinda fat though

Shitty little hands, no morals.

The dice pick one of the three above (d6), a name off the d20 tables, and a nest that sets your starting kit. You'll probably die, but you'll have fun doing it.

Real rulebook data: abilities, problems, and the fine print live on The Game. If one of these idiots speaks to you, the sesh rolls the full sheet and keeps it.

Nobody yet.
Roll one up.

Scavenge

The city provides, reluctantly.

Everything you own came out of a bin, and some of it is load-bearing. Dig around long enough and the city coughs up a weapon, a tool, or something you probably shouldn't touch. Every pull is a real roll off the loot tables.

Nothing yet. The bin awaits.
A hand-drawn object pulled from the trash. Art by RKV.
The bin

Survive something stupid

Police, animal control, humans in general. The city is full of things that want you dead, and the rulebook is not on your side.

When it gets truly bad there's one move left: read a Profane Passage. It's a spell cast as a coin flip. Roll a d20 against DR 12, clear it and a random spell tears out of you. Miss and you die. Immediately. No save.

Animal controlLv ??
Animal control are bastards
File redacted
Your shitty buddy, squaring up. Art by RKV.
Your shitty buddyVermin
Instinct test · DR 12 · 9 in 20

Something stupid blocks the way.

Six darts to ascension

Burn all six and your shitty buddy wins, permanently, and leaves the table a legend.

The dart counter: a hand-drawn cigarette that burns down as darts are smoked. Art by RKV.
0 / 6darts

"Vilified in ascension. Hallowed in repugnant release."