A downloadable duet RPG

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An email app window with an email from HytchHyk driver relations to you. The subject: Putting a stop to rideshare renegades. The text: Hello all HytchHyk drivers! We’ve received reports of rides being fulfilled by sharing a bus ride instead of driving passengers in a personal vehicle. Fulfilling rides by riding with the passenger on public transit diminishes the passenger experience and undermines our sponsorship of grass-roots campaigns to ban public transit, making our rides safer and faster. As a result, we have updated our driver agreement to reflect that rides may *only* be delivered using a personal vehicle. That said, we decided to honor your romanticism for the bygone era of public transportation by commissioning Devon Campbell to create Rideshare Renegades, a one-page duet RPG allowing two players to indulge this ridiculous fantasy together, with one playing the driver and the other playing all their passengers. It’s a game about the conversations that happen along the way, but there are some light mechanics too.

Rideshare Renegades is a quick-to-play single-page RPG for two players. You've got to make money as a rideshare driver, but there's one problem: you don't have a car! Miss too many transfers, and your passengers will be late to their destinations. While you're managing the ride, read your passenger to figure out what sort of conversation they want during their ride.

One player will take on the role of the "driver," figuring out what passengers need socially and navigating public transit while trying to increase their star rating on the HytchHyk rideshare platform. The other player will take on the role of each of the passengers, chatting with the driver (or not, depending on their preference) and evaluating the social experience of each ride.

The game is pretty light on mechanics and focuses more on the conversations that happen along the way.

Your purchase (even if you purchase for $0), includes four PDF versions of the game: color versions in a style mimicking that of Windows 95 for print and display, and monochromatic versions in a style mimicking that of Mac OS System 1, also for print and display. The monochromatic version works great if you want to print at home on a black-and-white printer or if you want to use as little ink as possible.

Rideshare Renegades was created for the One-Page RPG Jam 2024. It's my first ever TTRPG, so I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments!

Promotional graphics were designed using some icons from Flaticon.com. I also got tremendous help with playtesting, editing, and other sundry tasks from my wonderful partner.

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

Rideshare Renegade 1.0 (color digital).pdf 173 kB
Rideshare Renegade 1.0 (color print).pdf 3.3 MB
Rideshare Renegade 1.0 (monochrome digital).pdf 88 kB
Rideshare Renegade 1.0 (monochrome print).pdf 1.4 MB

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