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best friends
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friends
a role-playing game
about girlfriends and
all their petty hatreds
by gregor hutton
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table of contents
Being best friends .........................................................................4–5
Creating Your Girlfriend and All Her best friends too ...........6–8
So What Ya Gonna Do? ................................................................8
Hatred Ratings...............................................................................9
Pretty, Cool, Smart, Tough and Rich ..................................10–14
So How Ya Gonna Do It?............................................................15
Running The Show, and Tripping The Girls Up ...............16–17
Describing Things, People and Places .....................................18
Some Scenarios ............................................................................19
A List of Character Names .........................................................20
Example Character: Katie, a tough karate girl ........................21
Example of Play, or How It Will Probably Play ......................22
The 24-Hour Game Design Project ...........................................23
best friends Character Sheet .........................................................24
best friends
Conceived, designed, illustrated and written in 24 hours
by Gregor Hutton
e: gregor@gregorhutton.com, w: gregorhutton.com
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pretty
smart
rich
tough
cool
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being best friends
So, what’s this book all about?
Well, it’s a role-playing game about being a girl.
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role-playing 101
Where to start? Well, this is a ‘role-playing game’, but it’s not
about going into dungeons and fighting dragons. No siree.
Role-playing a social activity where you sit around with
some other folks and talk. Yeah, you make stuff up. One of
the group is called the GamesMaster and the others are all
called players. Each player role-plays a character.
In this game your character is a girl. All the other characters
are your girlfriends. You’re all best friends.
There are rules that help you decide what you can and can’t
do. The GamesMaster helps the story along, adjudicates
disagreements and describes the world around the
characters. Sort of like an interested panel-show host. And
that’s about it. Oh, yeah, it’s all about having fun.
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size of the group glossary
You’ll need a GM and three
to six players.
Here are some handy terms.
Character. An imaginary
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a narrative.
As long as everyone agrees
then it happens.
So ‘I’m going to the door and
opening it.’ might be a typical
thing that you say in game.
No problem.
If everyone agrees then
it happens. The GM will
help you interact with the
Groups of Fewer Than Six Players game ‘world’ but the other
If you have a group with fewer than 6 players are also important in
players then you can’t allocate deciding what is allowed.
only one hatred to each player.
So, what if the door was
The way around it is to allocate an locked?
extra hatred to the player(s)
sitting to your right. Are you smart enough to
open it? Are you cool enough
For 5 players, the player to your right to know how to pick it?
gets an extra hatred allocated to them.
What if you need a valid
For 4 players you have two extra bank card to get though the
hatreds. Give one to the player to your
door? Are you rich enough?
right and another to the player to their
right (i.e. the two players that are to Tasks that are contested are
the right of you).
defined to be one of the five
For 3 players, the player to your left hatreds:
gets 2 hatreds and the player to your
• pretty
right gets 3 hatreds.
• cool
This way everyone ends up getting 5 • smart
hatreds around the group. • tough
• rich
Choose where you sit carefully!
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so what do the ratings
mean?
Now, that’s an interesting
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You missed the day at school And who doesn’t know why
where they handed out the the sky is blue? Bwa-ha-ha.
brains. Either that, or they 3 and over
put a softball in there instead. Genius. No messing about.
You’re too clever for your
own good sometimes, but
with your vast intellect and
PhD it’s all probably part of a
gargantuan master plan.
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tough
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You are as healthy as the next 13
All the things that are girl. You sometimes run and
covered by tough are things you can dance a bit too.
that rely on your fitness,
strength and so on. Doing anything more
energetic than your normal
Things like: daily routine is a push
• fights though. Just sayin’.
the game other than create what if you really need get it
characters and whatnot. back? Your friends will help
you for sure. They’ll have
Here are some scenario ideas
to when they hear that the
that I thought up.
slumber party video is one
at the mall of the things that has been
stolen. No one must see that.
You could spend all day
at the mall. Shopping and house party
getting coffee and all the
There’s a house party on.
crazy stuff that happens
Everyone who’s anyone
there. Like getting mistakenly
will be there. Who’s coolest,
arrested for shoplifting, or
who’s prettiest, who’s
harassed by shop-fitters on
toughest? You’ll find out at
their lunch break. Stuck in
the party. Just hope that it
the elevator. Things like that.
doesn’t all end in tears.
the prom sex in the city
It’s only the biggest night of
Who said this game was
your life. And your friends
just about young girls?
couldn’t possibly ruin it for
Older women have hatreds
you, could they? Try and get
and desires too. Just hope
the best date and not have it
that your friends don’t go
turn into a disaster. Is that so
sleeping with your ex, again.
hard? With friends like this...
nonsense
no boyfriend, failing French,
school sports champion
...and we’re ready to play.
i am...
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