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    This document summarizes the rules for a roleplaying game called Third Act where players create characters by writing skills on paper sheets. When skills are used or characters take damage, players must tear pieces off their sheets. The goal is to complete a scenario set by the Game Master before running out of skills. As skills are used and damage takes, characters become weaker until they are removed from the game if their sheet is empty. Players can also crumple their sheet as a "last ditch effort" to succeed at a skill.

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    This document summarizes the rules for a roleplaying game called Third Act where players create characters by writing skills on paper sheets. When skills are used or characters take damage, players must tear pieces off their sheets. The goal is to complete a scenario set by the Game Master before running out of skills. As skills are used and damage takes, characters become weaker until they are removed from the game if their sheet is empty. Players can also crumple their sheet as a "last ditch effort" to succeed at a skill.

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    This document summarizes the rules for a roleplaying game called Third Act where players create characters by writing skills on paper sheets. When skills are used or characters take damage, players must tear pieces off their sheets. The goal is to complete a scenario set by the Game Master before running out of skills. As skills are used and damage takes, characters become weaker until they are removed from the game if their sheet is empty. Players can also crumple their sheet as a "last ditch effort" to succeed at a skill.

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    Tearable RPG PDF

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    This document summarizes the rules for a roleplaying game called Third Act where players create characters by writing skills on paper sheets. When skills are used or characters take damage, players must tear pieces off their sheets. The goal is to complete a scenario set by the Game Master before running out of skills. As skills are used and damage takes, characters become weaker until they are removed from the game if their sheet is empty. Players can also crumple their sheet as a "last ditch effort" to succeed at a skill.

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    Jim McClure & Jim Merritt

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    SETUP GAMEPLAY
    Each Player gets one sheet of paper and they write One player will be designated as the Game Master (GM) while all other players will be the
    down any six skills their character is proficient Characters. The GM will establish the setting (Fantasy world, Space Opera, Wild West) and the
    with (e.g. Swordsmanship, Investigation, Tea goal of the scenario for the characters to achieve (slaying a dragon, smuggling cargo out of the
    Ceremony, Hopscotch). The players may choose solar system, completing a stagecoach heist). The characters will play out the events of the story
    any skills they desire and may write those skill in through collaborative storytelling of their characters and their actions. Anytime a character tries
    any size and orientation on the paper. This paper to do something that requires some amount of skill, the GM will ask if the player has a skill on
    is the player’s character sheet. their character sheet that applies to the situation. If they do not have an appropriate skill, they fail
    the action. If they do have a skill that would apply, the player must make a “tear” and then
    automatically succeed at the action they are attempting.

    The game ends when either the goal of the scenario has been completed, or all players have
    TEARS been removed from the game.
    A “tear” is when a player must physically remove
    a piece of their character sheet and throw it
    away. There are two situations when a character
    must make a tear: They use one of their skills
    or their character takes damage. RULES FOR TEARING
    TEMPLATE The tear must always remove at least one full letter from a skill. The tear
    FOR TEARS
    When a player uses one of their character’s must go from one edge of the paper to another, thus completely removing
    skills they must tear away part of their character a section of the character sheet. When making a tear no foreign objects
    sheet that contains at least one full letter from can be used, only the hands of the player. The tear must be done in one
    the skill they are going to use. As an example, continuous rip, the player is not allowed to release or change their grip on
    if a character is using their Swordsmanship the paper once the tear has begun. The tear must remove a section of
    skill, they must rip a piece of their character paper large enough to cover the entire template shown on this rules sheet.
    sheet off that contains at least one full letter
    of the word ‘Swordsmanship’ (although in
    practice it is often very difficult to remove only
    one letter).
    CHARACTER DEGENERATION
    When a character takes any kind of damage, As the players progress through the GM’s scenario their characters will become weaker from the
    be it physical, mental, or emotional damage, use of skills and the mental, physical, and emotional damage they take. When a skill is completely
    the GM chooses a skill on their character sheet removed from a character sheet (no letters left on the paper) they no longer have that skill. If there
    and the player must make a tear removing at least is at least one full letter of a skill left on the character sheet the player can still use that skill.
    one full letter from that skill.
    If a character has no skills remaining on their character sheet, or they are asked to make a tear
    and do not have enough paper left on the sheet to cover the template, the character is removed
    from the game. Based on the GM’s discretion the character is knocked out, killed, driven insane,
    too exhausted to continue, or any condition that is appropriate for the story.
    LAST DITCH EFFORT
    At any point in the game a player may choose to
    crumple their entire remaining character sheet into
    a ball and toss it at the GM to try and automatically
    succeed at any skill (even a skill that is not on their TEARING FAUX PAS
    character sheet). If the ball of paper hits the GM A tearing faux pas is when the GM calls for a player to make a tear, and the player breaks one of
    they succeed at the skill. If the paper misses, they the tearing rules (Does not tear a piece that contains at least one full letter, does not tear a big
    fail. Regardless of the outcome the player is promptly enough piece, readjusts their grip, etc). When this occurs the player must make another tear in
    removed from the game after this action. additional to the tearing faux pas they already made.

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