Ten Acre Games
Hugh Lashbrooke
2023-08-05
All Ages
A pair of penguins, bonded for life, seeking a nest to start a family. Penguin Tale is a GM-less RPG for 2 players. Each player takes on the role of one of a pair of African penguins – one male, one female. You arrive on a South African beach at the start of the summer mating season and begin your journey to find a nest, start a family, and raise your chicks until they are ready to venture out on their own. Players must move across the map, discovering new locations and finding one suitable for building their nest. Once a suitable location has been found, they must build a nest, mate, lay eggs, incubate the eggs until they hatch, and then rear their chicks until they are ready to go out on their own. The game ends when the chicks leave the nest for good. Locations are generated through random die rolls, with 400 different possibilities. Along the way players face potentially life-threatening challenges like wild cats, human destruction, inclement weather, floods, and a host of other randomly generated situations to which they must respond.