Planning an RPG adventure for Two Sides to the Coin? Author Beckie Blake has written the perfect primer to send to your prospective players. 

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WANTED 

Agents of chaos, to bring mischief and merriment to the gaming table! 

JOB DESCRIPTION: This is a cooperative game, with only one winner. You’ll be joining a team employed to complete a task, and although you might be working towards the same goal on the surface, you’ll also have your own motivations for being there. You’re not only trying to fool the other characters, but the players themselves. Yes, that’s right! You get to deliberately mess with your friends too! It’s perfectly acceptable to manipulate, bribe, or employ any other means necessary to control the narrative of the story. 

Your stats will fluctuate throughout the game, as you spend them to bolster your own die rolls, and earn them back through masterful deception. You’ll be required to be a team-player for the greater good, but to create opportunities to advance your own agenda at every opportunity.  

Use your coin pool to openly to aid or hinder others, forming alliances and making enemies as you see fit. But remember: everyone else is out for themselves as well. Not only will you be trying to fool them, they’ll be trying to mislead you too. 

QUALIFICATIONS: Suitable candidates must have the ability to leave their consciences at the door. Ideally, you’ll work better alone than in a team but have no problem pretending you like people. You’ll be confident in the art of betrayal and able to mislead others whilst advancing your own personal gain. Ideally, you’ll have made at least one GM roll their eyes. Bonus points if you’ve ever heard them utter “are you sure you want to do that?” during a session. You should have a track record of figuring out “whodunnit” within the first few pages of a mystery novel and spotting a BBEG a mile off. 

THE SMALL PRINT: Above all else, this game has been designed to bring some light-hearted escapism to your group and should be treated that way. Have fun with your characters and your plotting, but remember that while some degree of scheming is encouraged (and, indeed, the whole point of the game), outright conflict is not. In other words: be the chaos goblin you always dreamed of being, just don’t eat the other players’ dice. 

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