ONE-PAGE GAMES VOLUME 05 (Special Order)

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In 2016, Grant Howitt decided – flippantly – to write a one-page roleplaying game every month and release it for free online. Little did he know that the barely-intelligible pen-and-ink scratches he turned out would go on to define his career, and the shape of roleplaying games, for years to come. Played by thousands of people all over the world, Grant's one-page games run the gamut from strange to silly, daft to deadly serious, and powerfully original to potentially copyright-infringing. Each volume contains (at least!) 13 games in their original single-page format, complete with SECRET BACK PAGE material for every game that's never been released online. Plus, where relevant, the longer games Grant and his collaborators have released are printed in full-colour, saddle-stitched booklets. Each game has been written, illustrated (sorry) and laid out entirely by Grant, unless someone else helped him, in which case it says so. As of 2024, all these volumes come in US Letter size, in a sturdy cardboard folder with a spine.

Volume 5 (2021–2022)

• Uncanny Rally – with Chris McDowall (Electric Bastionland, Into the Odd)
Play escaped military androids on the run from the authorities trying to drive to freedom on the west coast. You'll need to do part-time jobs for gas money, but also your arm keeps turning into a minigun without warning and your personality programming is malfunctioning. Good luck!• Back Page: Three D20 tables of military technology, android collective tech, and smartphone apps for you to use during your games of Uncanny Rally.

• Big Bang Superstars – with Nathan Blades (Shadow Operations, Arcana Corps)
Unknown Armies crossed with America's Next Top Model. Space wizards, demigods, alien hive minds and handsome robots compete in an extradimensional reality show for the chance to rebuild the universe.• Back Page: Big Bang Back Page. Tables, prompts and similar ephemera from Grant and some actually useful advice from Nathan on running the game online for an audience.

• Cluedon't – with Chloe Mashiter (Alongame, Time Heist)
Your eccentric relative is dead. They were so eccentric that they decreed only their murderer would inherit their vast fortune. Even though you didn't do it, can you convince the cops you did? A reverse version of Cluedo, or "Clue" for American readers who get spooked by ludic suffixes.• Back Page: Every idea we had that we couldn't fit on the front page, including but not limited to: psychic powers, traps, rules for being a ghost, and bribery.

• Himbo Treasure Hunt – with Sasha Sienna (Odd Jobs)
You're a good-intentioned muscular person with a non-standard intelligence profile. Can you stop your local gym from closing by unraveling a mystery that goes all the way back to 1973?• Back Page: The Laser Jubilee. Competely unrelated to Himbo Treasure Hunt. Queen Elizabeth the second (lord rest 'er soul) is celebrating her Laser Jubilee with holograms, robot parades and brutal crackdowns on dissidents. Can you, a dissident, ruin a local celebration?

• Arlecchino's Eleven – with Daniel Lavery (The Toast, The Chatner, Texts from Jane Eyre)
Not a one page game! A 36-page game, laid out by a professional designer, with proper photobashed art. You're a washed-up crook with one last job to do before packing it in – a heist in Reno. The only advantage you've got is a sackful of theatre masks that let you do magic as long as you perform a play alongside your heist. Some knowledge of 17th Century Italian humour recommended but not required.

• Heartswood – with Sarah Gordon (Vicious Creatures)
Once upon a time, someone broke her heart. Now she's descending into the depths of her psyche to mend it. Play arcane facets of someone's soul following a traumatic breakup and explore a cursed woodland to rebuild their life.• Back Page: Street Writer. Competitive slam-poetry game. Sarah's list of Roller Derby-style names for contestants based on classic authors really makes it.

• Lexinomicon – with Becky Annison (Bite Ma…