- Sun Oct 14, 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Wilson Zorn
- Breaking Point
- Adult Themes
- All depends on players but consider typical crime, emergency, medical, and firefighting scenarios and melodrama around these, especially personal problems of crimefighters, doctors, etc.. May include sex and sexuality. May include references to gore or graphic violence but this GM does not allow for elaboration.
- Open Door policy, Go/no-go topics similar to lines/veils
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- Created at the table
Description:
This is a game about people on the edge, protagonists striving to do some kind of good in a painful, mad world, swimming against the increasing tide of man’s inhumanity to fellow man. The Breaking Point portrays the struggles of civil servants (cops, firefighters, detectives, doctors, etc.) dealing with the darkness of humanity. Please note this is a playtest.
As a highly competent protagonist, you will engage your compassion or dispassion, each with attendant risks, to succeed. You must also learn to be vulnerable to others, confiding in them, but always with a risk of betrayal.
Useful references and inspirations include emotionally damaged characters on cop shows such as NYPD Blue (Sorenson) and Law and Order: SVU (Stabler), stressed doctors as in the show ER, and the firefighters of Rescue Me.
FYI the rules system is significantly informed by Don’t Rest Your Head, with a little bit of Mountain Witch.
Image Credit: CC BY 2.0 Tripp J Crouse.
Tags: Collaborative, Dark, Drama, Emotional, Modern, Play to find out, Player antagonism, Potentially triggering*, Provocative, Serious
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