Politicalia • 2018 rpg

Overview:
Players running a government with a GM (government figurehead) or GM-less (players as peers).

Aptitudes:
Aptitudes are resource pools that represent strength/power/clout in a political sector. The aptitude groups, Moral and Corrupt, each have 4 aptitudes.  Each aptitude is complemented in the opposite group.

           Moral - Corrupt
               - - -
    Constituency - Gerrymandering
            Whip - Lobbying
              PR - Spin
       Seniority - Bureaucracy

Character Generation:
Spend 13 points in each aptitude group.

Gameplay:
Turns are in order of Seniority.

Make a valid argumentative point with 1 roll per turn.  GMs (if applicable) introduce talking points and moderate.

Using Moral aptitudes increases that aptitude pool 1 point and decreases another moral aptitude pool 1 point.
Using Corrupt aptitudes decreases that aptitude pool 1 point and increases another corrupt aptitude pool 1 point.
These rules apply after all rolls.

Rolls are opposed between initiator aptitude and defender's same or complement aptitude.

(ex. One opposes another's Seniority with Bureaucracy -or- Seniority)

Dicepools are the sum of a single aptitude pool and its complement.

Die values 4-6 are successes. Most successes wins. Nobody wins ties.

Winner moves 1 point from loser's lowest aptitude pool to their same aptitude pool.

When any aptitude pool hits 0, that character leaves play.