Kismet: Local Customs

Based on Layla Lawlor's Kismet webcomic, this is an authorized mini TTRPG one-shot that can be played in a single session, or across two or three sessions. Everything you need to play (except for players and D6 dice or a dice simulator) is contained in an 8-page digest-sized PDF mini zine that can be downloaded and printed.

Get ready to enter a pulp sci-fi setting on a lawless frontier moon! You and your group have been accused of attempting to smuggle a valuable object past the corrupt customs agents. (Did you? Possibly!) Play as an escaped science experiment, a spy, or one of four other pregen character classes. Make a few modifications to customize your character, and you'll be up and running in minutes! Each of the characters is also hiding a secret (chosen by you from a pregen list or made up yourself with the GM's permission) that only you and the GM know about at the start of the game, ranging from malfunctioning psychic powers to secretly planning to betray your team.

The PDF contains everything you need to know for worldbuilding background, with no knowledge of the webcomic necessary to play. However, if this intrigues you enough that you'd like to read the comic, you can find it at www.kismetcity.com.

Kismet: Local Customs is developed and written by Yoon Ha Lee with Layla Lawlor. You can find Yoon Ha Lee at at yhlee.itch.io.