Fortuna Mythica [1-4 players, 20-60 min] • 2018 rpg

Separate playing cards into three piles: faces, red numbers, and black numbers.

One player is the 'Reader'.  The other's' are the protagonist's'.  Protagonists start by drawing a face as their character.

Hardships: Reader draws a face and improvises a Hardship based on the card's meaning.  Protagonists describe how they overcome it. 

Actions: Whenever protagonists describe contestable actions they take, draw a card from red and play it against one Reader draws from black.  Highest number wins, on tie redraw. A bigger numerical difference = greater result.

Players take actions until Reader decides the Hardship is resolved and next Hardship is drawn.

Protagonists: may force a redraw from their character card's color deck once per game.
Jacks get +1 to one draw per Hardship.
Queens get +3 to one draw once per game.
Kings can draw 1 additional card once per game.
Aces can force a Hardship redraw once per game.

Card | Hardship      | Character
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JoS  | Duel          | Chivalric
QoS  | War           | Noble
KoS  | Colossus      | Underdog
AoS  | Death         | Lucky
JoC  | Betrayal      | Righteous
QoC  | Conquest      | Ambitious
KoC  | Poison        | Nomad
AoC  | Mystery       | Scholar
JoH  | Hordes        | Officer
QoH  | Assassination | Vigilante
KoH  | Tyrant        | Magus
AoH  | Predation     | Outlaw
JoD  | Attrition     | Gentle
QoD  | Oppression    | Innocent
KoD  | Abomination   | Activist
AoD  | Temptation    | Outsider