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Grin, a Dread-like RPG for TTS [Scripted]

This game implements Grin[www.arcana-games.com] in Tabletop Simulator, with a few tweaks here and there.


It's essentially Dread[en.wikipedia.org], an RPG played using a Jenga tower to ramp up the intensity as the game continues, but instead of a Jenga tower and wonky Tabletop Simulator physics, it uses playing cards.

The cards are set up so that it uses all 12 face cards, the 4 aces, a joker, and then 20 number cards, along with an additional four per non-GM player.


Instead of using a traditional deck of playing cards, I used the Hand of Fate Tarot Deck and Photoshopped some of the cards in there. And instead of numbers, face cards, aces, and a joker, the cards are as such:

Demise (1): This is failure. This is a character's downfall, when drawn.
Fortune (4): These cards, when drawn, are kept in your hand to be used later in lieu of another draw from the deck at any later point.
Success (20 + 4 x players): These are the number cards, and represent succeeding at the action being taken.
Tenacity (12): These represent the Jenga tower at its weakest, and require one to re-consider, as they must draw another card to succeed at their current action.


Once all of the players are seated, with the GM in the GM seat, the Initial Set Up button will automatically shuffle together all of the cards, creating a deck with the proper number of Success cards to the number of players in the game.

There is also a "hard mode", which alters the way the Demise card is shuffled into the deck. Generally the deck is roughly split in half (I have some fuzz in the programming to keep it uneven) and Demise is put into the bottom half, but in hard mode, it can be anywhere.

Demise is put in the bottom half(ish) to represent the Jenga tower being more wobbly and treacherous as a game goes longer. I don't think anyone really fails Jenga in the first few pulls. But the option is there if someone wants it.

The "Draw Card" button works, but there's no additional automation beyond that. If there's interest I can probably automate the rest of it, but as of now I'm pretty happy with how it is.

Also included are the rulebooks for both Dread and Grin.