Pantheon and other Roleplaying Games is a 24-page book that includes five self-contained role-playing games for 3-6 players and designed to be completed in 1–2 hours.

History

''Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games'' (2000), by Robin Laws, was published by

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as one of their New Style role-playing games.

System

''Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games'' consisted of five separate competitive storytelling role-playing games or scenarios, all with the same "Narrative Cage Match TM" system, in which players engage in storytelling rather than playing their characters. Each player tells one sentence of a story on their turn, and needs to mention their character every turn, while the other players have the opportunity to challenge this sentence with die-rolling and bidding using tokens. When all of the players run out of tokens, they finish the story and tally points on a score sheet. Pantheon introduced a system called Narrative Cage Match (NCM) that differs from traditional role-playing game systems in that there is no referee or gamemaster. Players control a character that co-operates and competes with other characters to try to steer the course of the story so that their character finishes in a better position than all the others. Players influence the narrative outcomes of the games they are playing using a bidding mechanism that uses beads and traditional six-sided dice.

Games

Pantheon includes 5 games called: *Grave and Watery - Action and horror in an undersea base. *Boardroom Blitz - Players battle for control of a family

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. *The Big Hole - Modern-day

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s in a tale of crime, revenge and blackmail. *Destroy all Buildings - Giant monsters ravage Tokyo. *Pantheon - Create the universe.

New Style

Pantheon was one in a series of experimental/alternative role-playing games published by

. Other games in the series included the award-nominated '' The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Münchhausen'', ''

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'', and '' Puppetland/Powerkill.''

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References

Sources

Review at RPG.net
British role-playing games New Style Robin Laws games Role-playing games introduced in 2000 Universal role-playing games {{rpg-stub