Have you played this game?

You can rate this game, record that you've played it, or put it on your wish list after you log in.

(based on 1 rating)
1 review1 member has played this game. It's on 1 wishlist.

About the Story

Standoff is a game about collaboratively telling action stories full of twists and turns and reversals.

Awards

Entrant, Back Garden - Spring Thing 2016

Ratings and Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A rule set for a TTRPG, November 19, 2024
Related reviews: about 1 hour

This is a pdf that gives the rules for a collaborative storytelling game.

The basic idea is that you need an antagonist who ultimately loses and a protagonist who ultimately wins. People can add details at any time to the game but important details like character names have to be nominated and approved.

The game also includes some base ideas you can work with, including a list of character names. I thought "Johnald Pregnant" was the most amusing antagonist game.

This whole game is thoroughly described, but there's not really a lot to it. I'd imagine that someone focused on storytelling wouldn't need all the rules, and someone really into rules would want more meat. The people I see benefitting from this the most are a mid-sized group of people on a vacation trip where there's not much to do and they want to do storytelling but have a couple of obnoxious people in the group so they lay some rules down on how to proceed.

Was this review helpful to you?   Yes   No   Remove vote  
More Options

 | Add a comment 

Tags

- View the most common tags (What's a tag?)

(Log in to add your own tags)
Edit Tags
Search all tags on IFDB | View all tags on IFDB

Tags you added are shown below with checkmarks. To remove one of your tags, simply un-check it.

Enter new tags here (use commas to separate tags):

Delete Tags

Game Details

Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: April 6, 2016
Current Version: Unknown
IFID: Unknown
TUID: 890etv3boy53rbjh

RSS Feeds

New member reviews
Updates to external links
All updates to this page


This is version 2 of this page, edited by JTN on 21 March 2024 at 8:36pm. - View Update History - Edit This Page - Add a News Item - Delete This Page