Cosmic Horror Role-playing in 36 Words

Cthulhu Sixes is a minimalist cosmic horror TTRPG with dice-stacking mechanics, made for #36WordRPGJam.

Requires 15 red and 15 blue six-sided dice for each player. (Can be substituted with dice of any two colours.)

It is highly recommended to check out TTRPG Safety Tools before playing.

Notes on dice-stacking

On average, a player can stack 6-8 dice using one hand. With some practice, I can occasionally go up to 10 dice using one hand, and I can stack 12 dice using both hands and a tool (which would be cheating). Just to be on the safe side, I have set the requirement to 15 dice per colour per player. You can probably run the game with less dice if you can't find that many.

Resources used

• Made in Affinity Publisher
• Fonts: Fontdiner Swanky, Oswald
• Suckered Tentacle, Coffee Mug, Noodle Ball, Spill and Screaming icons by Lorc from Game-icons.net, under CC BY 3.0.

Inspirations

• Dread by Epidiah Ravachol & Nathaniel Barmore
• Cthulhu Hack by Just Crunch Games

Special thanks to my Patrons

• Donogh McCarthy
• Joseph "Laijth" Lai
• Legendary Aced
• Tore Nielsen

Also check out my other minimalist game jam games D12 & Delve and 2D4 & Explore.