The Widening Gyre • 2018 rpg

Each player embodies one of the Families who rule the world from behind the scenes. Distribute ten points among Arcane, Science, Power, Secrecy, and Manipulation. Name the Family head. Choose a city as a base.

Your Friendship towards each other Family is 6. When another Family tries to harm yours, roll 1d6. If the roll is equal or less than your Friendship towards them, subtract 1 from your Friendship. Floor is 1.

Their Friendship towards you is their business. They track it separately.

Take turns doing things, rooted in the fiction. Mechanical effects can include:

- adding 1 to a stat (subtract 1 if you fail)
- making another Family's stat unusable for a cycle
- moving your base
- developing a speciality (+1 to a specific fictional type of thing)
- doing something else cool with a game result that matches the fictional result

To do a thing, choose two stats and roll 1d6. If you roll under the total, succeed. To defend against a thing, add one of your stats to the total they rolled.

Add or subtract 1 if you're doing things in your base city. 

If a Family's stat sum (excepting Friendships) is under 6, the Family dies.