That Owl, Betrayal

Everyone is just waiting to betray your expectations. You can expect that.

That Owl, Betrayal is a tabletop roleplaying game about surviving in a post-modern pulp fiction environment in which betrayal can swivel its head around 360 degrees and the only purpose of the story is to shock the readers. As the readers, it is incumbent upon you to play the game in such a way that you will not be shocked, and thus disappoint the author. (This is called "survival".)

That Owl, Betrayal contains:

• A PDF with 6 tables of Stereotypes—the Bad Guy, the Cranky Mentor, the Dashing Loner, the Geeky Nerd, the Street Kid, and the Undefined Thing—which you can roll a six-sided die against to see how the Stereotypes react from 4 different types of stimuli (Learning, Hacking, Striking, and Recovering). Will the Bad Guy like or dislike being Hacked? Will the Dashing Loner attack or turn to your side from being Struck? Will the Geeky Nerd help you Recover anything at all or just discourage you? The dice decide!
• A 3-minute theme song to the pulp fiction movie you're playing as a campaign (Give Me Up).

Have fun interpreting Stereotypes, being betrayed, and not being shocked!

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That Owl, Betrayal

Check out Ruth Kastin's complete lineup, including COMBO SPELL!, Crossfade, Defuse, FTLpunk, Ice and Darkness, Master Dungeon 2E, Master 3E, Myriad Cowboys, Sticky, That Owl Betrayal, and UpBeat!

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This game is released under the CC-BY license, which means you can do anything you like with it as long as you credit the author(s) for having helped. If you use this work, the author(s) would love to hear about it on Discord!