Setting: Modern earth.
Players: 4 max.
Characters: Entirely up to each player. Human. Occupations, age etc. variable.
System: OVA-Risus,as follows.
Everyone has 2 free dice to roll in any action they can reasonably attempt. Cliche dice are added on top of this (max one cliche in use at a time) if one has a fitting one. PCs have 9 dice to put into cliches. Only 1 cliche can have 4 dice, all others must be 1-3.
In addition, every PC has 1 die in ‘special’, which can increase or alter as the game progresses.
All pcs have 2 dice in flaws. (Either 1 2-die flaw, or 2 1-die flaws. Entirely up to the PC. Flaws that adversely affect gameplay won't be allowed.
Health and endurance exist; the GM will keep track of both.
Game Premise: It’s the end of the world. It wasn’t until today, but each PC wakes up, begins their day and finds out they have become one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, aka their 'special' cliche. Angels and demons, unseen to regular humans, are warring over the fate of the world as they always have and it is the four horsemen who are the deciding votes. They are human, because of Rules, and each has terrible power you must constrain or risk bringing about the end of the world. If you die, some other person becomes the horseman and they may not be near as moral as you are ….
The horsemen are as follows: Death, Pestilence, Famine and War. Players can pick whatever one they’d like, with the proviso that something in their characters background/cliches links them to that. (An anorexic or author of a diet book could be a basis for Famine, for example).
All you know is that you have been given terrible power (by Whom is unknown) and can, if you all desire it, end the very world you live in. There are angels and demons circling you all, trying to make you make one choice or another and the power you’ve been given is so easy to use and so very, very tempting.
Note: Famine has been taken.
