Scrabbeling Mess

Scrabbeling Mess is a tabletop RPG Of assistant wizards using the powers of made up magical words to finish the missions their masters started, played with a standard Scrabble board. For some reasons, your incredibly powerful master failed their mission and died on the job, leaving you to pick up the pieces and finish the mission. If you succeed, you can look forward to the best reward possible: the resurrection of your master.

The game is played by resolving challenges given by the GM through placing tiles on the Scrabble board to make up words. Provided you can define the word you made in a way that makes sense for the word itself and for solving the challenge, you can score that word and compare its score to a target number. Everyone at the table must agree on the word's definition and usage, and disagreeing with you is the only way to reset to board, so you will have to disagree at some point.

A big job of the GM is to record the words used and their definition. Once a word is created, it exists in your game's dictionary and anyone can use it. A big part of the fun is looking at your made up dictionary at the end of the game to see all the strange words you created, and the convoluted definitions you gave them.

Make sure to also pick up the official Scrabble rules from Hasbro: scoring the words works the same in this game as it does in normal Scrabble.

You're now ready to embark on great missions half-solved by your master. Maybe you will survive and finish what your master started!

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This game was originally planned for the "Shit Or Get Off the Pot: A Solo Game Jam", until I realized that the name meant games played by one person, not designed by one person! Faced with this massive mistake, I decided to run my own solo-dev game jam where I design and release 10 imperfect one-page Tabletop RPGs as a solo game designer in a month. Maybe that'll become a real jam one day!

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Feel free to share feedback or design ideas in the comment, I can't wait to read them. The game was created with the intent of releasing something, even if it's not as perfect as it could be. My goal is to release something this month, hopefully one of those games is up your alley. 

Available files: Full colour Legal sized PDF and black and white Legal sized PDF version of the game.