Wait Four Minutes in Silence
A downloadable SF TTRPG scenario
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Every attempt at communication with the Atzerritarra has led to violence.
Until now. After years of brutal warfare across known space, the Atzerritarra have broadcast a single message, over and over.
A set of coordinates, and a sentence in 50 different Earth languages:
Wait Four Minutes in Silence.
What Is This?
This is a simple, system-agnostic science fiction one-shot tabletop role-playing game scenario. It's designed to be played with a single game moderator (GM) and anywhere from two to six players, though the scenario could probably support more.
Credits
This scenario is a sort of adaptation of 4′33″ by John Cage. The art is by BEEPLE, licensed under CC BY 4.0
Published | 10 days ago |
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
Author | Kirt Dankmyer |
Genre | Adventure |
Tags | adaptation, john-cage, One-shot, scenario, Sci-fi, silence, system-agnostic, system-neutral, tabletop-role-playing-game |
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Wait Four Minutes in Silence.pdf 296 kB
Wait Four Minutes in Silence.txt 3.2 kB
Comments
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Perfectly captures the quiet, contemplative nature of the original piece. And if this doesn’t teach rowdy players how to quiet down and listen, I don’t know what will. 10/10.
Also: the inclusion of a plaintext version is convenient.
What do I hear when no one is talking? My tinnitus.
I suffer from tinnitus as well. That's a valid thing to hear in that situation.
Inventive recomposition of the Cage piece! It captured the spirit of it perfectly and smoothly translated it into a gaming situation. 5 stars
Thank you! I really enjoyed putting the science fiction wrapper around it.