Puppetland

Puppetland: A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe is a role-playing game written by John Scott Tynes.

Puppetland
A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe
Puppetland. First edition book cover, 1999
Designer(s)John Scott Tynes
Publisher(s)Arcane Magazine, Hogshead Publishing
Publication date1997
Genre(s)Horror

The game was first published in Arcane magazine issue 16 in early 1997, then later by Hogshead Publishing together with Powerkill, a satirical role-playing metagame by the same author, under the title Puppetland/Powerkill.

A free edition, including most of the game text is available on the author's web site.

New Style

Puppetland/Powerkill was part of a series experimental/alternative role-playing games published by Hogshead Publishing. Other games in the series included the award-nominated The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Münchhausen, Pantheon, and Violence.

Kickstarter and New Edition

In November 2014, an expanded version of Puppetland was successfully funded on Kickstarter, to be published by Arc Dream Publishing.[1]

gollark: I was being sarcastic about the second thing.
gollark: I actually have a personal repository mirror thing set up myself.
gollark: Either that or this is the final stage of Microsoft's plan to destroy open source, and they will update all their open source tools to delete any detected open-source code, wipe Github and pull their own stuff.
gollark: I think:* Microsoft will try and work it into their enterprise stuff* Nothing much will happen for most users
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References
  1. "Puppetland: The Storytelling RPG of Grim Make-Believe". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2016-06-26.


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