Deliver Us From Eval
A downloadable HR document
You are approaching the end of your first year with Strategic Assurance and Theoretical Assessment Nexus. You don't remember applying for the job, what you used to do, or where you parked your car this morning, but hey – you're getting paid, right?
On starting up your computer, you find an email letting you know the company director will be conducting your end-of-year review... personally. You cannot under any circumstances let this happen for a few reasons, the first being that you spend most of your time pretending to work because you have no idea what your job is, the last being that every one of your co-workers who has gone for their review has never come back. You are on the fifth floor, the company director is on the sixth floor, you MUST get out of the building before 3:00pm. Go.
Created for the One-Page RPG Jam 2020.
Note from the author: this is my first game jam, and the first RPG I've written. Please let me know if you play it, if you like it, or if there's anything I can improve.
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Looks like a lot of fun! Really love the strengths and weaknesses, very thematic and I could see players getting real creative with them. “Your taste in clothes is literally – literally – distracting” is just brilliant. I wonder a bit about if the “no compromise, your way or else” weakness encourages antisocial play but it’s probably fine so long as you have the right group.
I’ll be adding this to my emergency reserve of one-RPGs for when we can’t run our usual campaigns for sure!
Thank you for your comment and kind words!
I’m not sure it’s clear enough, but the strengths and weaknesses are just CV-themed attacks or skills to be deployed against foes, not your team (unless you end up on the sixth floor...)
For instance, if your team is blocked by someone who won’t let you down a corridor/to another floor, you could deploy ‘no compromise’ to argue your way out of whatever they’ve said, or to carry out a really fancy attack.
E.g. “I’m not letting you down this corridor, fight me.”
“I am a manager and outrank you, move” (and/or throw a desk at them)