(Kickstarter) Twelve Hundred Words by Taylor Smith

It's not my usual demographic, but I'm kinda groovin' on the whole tiny rpgs/zine format for new games, especially for RPGs.

Probably the copy of Girl Underground that arrived in my mailbox last weekend.

Taylor Smith has launced a Kickstarter for Twelve Hundred Words, five Tiny RPGs representing the author's autobiographical experience with mental health.

In Taylor's own words off of the Kickstarter:
Twelve Hundred Words is a series of five tiny tabletop RPGs; each one is exactly two hundred words and then all the other words in this 12-page zine add up to exactly the titular value. Despite their particular length, these games were not submitted to the 200 Word RPG challenge. You see, I was too anxious to pick which two of the five I had written to submit and then the deadline came and went. These games represent, in the abstract, my experiences with having OCD and Anxiety.

The five games included are:

• You Have Many Thoughts, and Your Thoughts Beget More Thoughtswherein your inspirations, goals, and anxieties spiral out of your control.
• Upon Thy Bardsong wherein action and conflict are resolved with singing.
• Deceiviest wherein you lie to others and to yourself.
• Love, Foundational wherein you can only act on love and its ties.
• All A Game wherein anything and everything can be made into a game.

Mercedes "Cibby" Acosta provides beautiful and rich illustrations that frame each game, employing subtle symbolism and drawing from personal experience. All the art you see on this page was created by Cibby and is included in Twelve Hundred Words.

The writing is done, the artwork is already done, it just needs to go to print, and ten bucks for the pdf and a hardcopy (plus US Shipping) is the the type of Kickstarter I want to back right now.