A downloadable universal TTRPG poem

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Introducing the one and only award winning twelve-word poem-based business card-sized TTRPG, CUPS: the Comprehensive Universal Poem System!!!

Forget everything you thought you knew about CUPS, the award winning poem-based universal roleplaying TTRPG, because CUPS 2nd Edition IS OUT NOW!

Twice the words!
Twice the fun!
Twice the CUPS!

In honor of the 24-word RPG Jam, CUPS has been upgraded from 12 words to 24 words. That's twice the words, which makes it twice as good! This new edition includes expanded character creation rules to allow you to make your most detailed CUPS character EVER!!!

People are already RAVING about CUPS 2nd Edition - listen to what itch.io says about the award winning instant classic:

FAR OUT!

What is CUPS?

CUPS is one of the most approachable universal systems to date. With flexible rules that allow for solo or group play, and a system that can be transposed into any setting, CUPS reaches across all genres and gets to the heart of dice-based ttrpgs; the dice. 

Player Count: 1 - infinity
Ages: All
Dice: Any that have numerical values on the faces
Game Time: 5 minutes - 10+ hours

Buckle up: it's about to get CUPS in here.

Here's what people are saying about CUPS: the Comprehensive Universal Poem System:

Wow!

Now an Award Winner!

Winner of the prestigious Sprinty Award,
"The Most Legitimate Award In Gaming"!

Licensing Information

This work by Chubby Crow Games is licensed under the Creative Comrades License Agreement 1.0.

If you would like to create content using the system presented in CUPS: the Comprehensive Universal Poem System, all you need to do is give credit. If you copy the text below, you'll be all set.

This work is based on CUPS by Chubby Crow Games and is licensed for use under CCLA 1.0.

If you use the logo provided, simply add:

CUPS Logo provided by Chubby Crow Games and used with permission.

You're not required to tweet at me or message me, but I'd love to know if you make something for CUPS!

Download

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

CUPS 2nd Edition (full rulebook [pages, landscape]) PDF 34 kB
CUPS 2nd Edition PNG page 01 73 kB
CUPS 2nd Edition PNG page 02 60 kB
CUPS Logos.zip 35 kB
CUPS 1st Edition (original 12 word version) 178 kB

Development log

Comments

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Really awesome, compact, and flexible system! I want to make a game with it!

Oh my gosh please do! I would be honored.

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Absolutely glorious. 

Ingenious system? 

You're victorious!


Liscnce info this seems to lack? 

Fore I have CUPlets I wish to hack!

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Ne'er had I read sweeter words than these here.
Ne'er were kinder things heard by my ear.

Give me a moment, a short breath, a pause.
Let me atone for my dreadful faux pas.

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Go now! to the page; go see and behold!
Below the description, a license so bold!

Create as you wish, without a restraint -
I hope I have solved this license complaint!

(Read this devlog or check out the page - it's been updated! https://harper-jay.itch.io/cups/devlog/480503/cups-licensed-under-ccla-10)

This is truly amazing! Thank you.

Working on stuff now.

I would suggest also entering this in the Forever Open Source Jam.

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Thank you for the suggestion! It has been submitted. :)

I'd love to see whatever you make!

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Awesome scenes. I have been doing layout today on a supplement called Cuplets, it has some optional rules and adventure seeds in couplets, NPCs in haiku and I'm I just need to finish the item acrostics and finish layout, so hopefully next couple of days (I'm Brina/ RatGrrrl Games by the way. This is my old creator/ current customer account and I often forget which one I'm using)

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This is a very rough WIP of Cuplets https://at.tumblr.com/ratgrrrlgames/some-more-wip-and-stuff/92fzr9zpdyri 

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Oh. My. Goodness. That looks gorgeous! I don't even have words. I'm so excited for Cuplets!!!

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Cannot believe you managed to fit this into a poem, ingenious! :D

Truly I surprised myself!

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Wow, such a simple elegant system with unlimited possibilities!

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Aw shucks thank you!