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New Style role-playing game by John Scott Tynes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Puppetland: A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe is a role-playing game written by John Scott Tynes.
| A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe | |
|---|---|
Puppetland. First edition book cover, 1999 | |
| Designers | John Scott Tynes |
| Publishers | Arcane Magazine, Hogshead Publishing |
| Publication | 1995 |
| Genres | Horror |
The game was first published on the author's website in 1995.[1] Its first print publication was in Arcane magazine issue 16 in early 1997, then later by Hogshead Publishing together with Power Kill, a satirical role-playing metagame by the same author, under the title Puppetland/Power Kill. A much expanded edition[2] was published in 2016 by Arc Dream Publishing.
A free edition, including most of the game text is available on the author's web site.
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.
In November 2014, an expanded version of Puppetland was successfully funded on Kickstarter, to be published by Arc Dream Publishing.[3]
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