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Grey Ranks (role-playing game)
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Grey Ranks is a role-playing game
by Jason Morningstar, independently published
by Bully Pulpit Games
. The game is designed for three to five players and puts each of them in the shoes of child soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising
, serving as members of the Grey Ranks .
As the game progresses, success becomes increasingly difficult and players are faced with difficult choices. Is achieving a goal worth destroying the thing your character holds dear? How will reputations change over time as youngsters have adulthood thrust upon them? The emotional state of the players' crew is tied to the Grid, which tracks their individual condition as they are drawn to the opposing extremes of love and hate, enthusiasm and exhaustion. Success or failure will pull them in unexpected directions, and where these strong currents intersect lie death and heartbreak.
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On August, 2008, Grey Ranks won Game of the Year and Most Innovative Game in Indie RPG Awards 2007 contest.
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
by Jason Morningstar, independently published
Indie role-playing game
An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the game should just be produced outside of a corporate...
by Bully Pulpit Games
Bully Pulpit Games
Bully Pulpit Games, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is a small publisher of indie role-playing games. Their games include The Shab-al-Hiri Roach, Grey Ranks, and Fiasco...
. The game is designed for three to five players and puts each of them in the shoes of child soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army , to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces...
, serving as members of the Grey Ranks .
Game play
Play is conducted over three sessions using a scene structure, with each scene corresponding to a specific date in 1944. Players choose historical and dramatic elements that pique your interest to include in each scene. The game is collaborative, and together the players work to create challenging, exciting, and poignant scenes for the crew - some mission-oriented, and some strictly personal.As the game progresses, success becomes increasingly difficult and players are faced with difficult choices. Is achieving a goal worth destroying the thing your character holds dear? How will reputations change over time as youngsters have adulthood thrust upon them? The emotional state of the players' crew is tied to the Grid, which tracks their individual condition as they are drawn to the opposing extremes of love and hate, enthusiasm and exhaustion. Success or failure will pull them in unexpected directions, and where these strong currents intersect lie death and heartbreak.
Recognition
On July 4th, 2008, Grey Ranks was included in the shortlist for the 2008 Diana Jones AwardDiana Jones Award
The Diana Jones Award is an annual award for "excellence in gaming". The award is unusual in two ways: first, it is not an award for a specific class of thing, but can be awarded to a person, product, publication, company, organization, event or trend – anything related to gaming; second, it does...
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On August, 2008, Grey Ranks won Game of the Year and Most Innovative Game in Indie RPG Awards 2007 contest.
External links
- Official homepage of the Grey Ranks role-playing game.
- Grey Ranks Review at rpg.net
- sporecloud.com, website of the game illustrator Jeff Bent