
Brother Knows Quest
Tiny Wastelands
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Quick takeaways
- Tiny Wastelands is a minimalistic tabletop role-playing game that offers a satisfying gaming experience without the complexity of extensive rules and options.
- The game provides a range of traits, mutations, and psionic disciplines for character customization, allowing players to create diverse and distinct characters within the post-apocalyptic setting.
Deep dives
Overview of Tiny Wasteland
Tiny Wasteland is a minimalistic tabletop role-playing game that offers a satisfying gaming experience without the complexity of extensive rules and options. It does not include classes, levels, or experience points, but offers them as optional rules. The game allows for quick and easy character creation, with players selecting an archetype, three traits, and a weapon. The archetypes include normal humans, mutants, scavengers, survivors, wonders, crazies, fixers, and tyrants. The game also introduces the concept of traits, mutations, and psionic disciplines, which players can choose to make their characters unique. Tiny Wasteland provides a variety of micro-settings, such as Floodland, Ravenous Green, and Salvage, each with its own unique challenges and stories to explore. While the game includes optional Enclave cards for added randomness, they are not necessary to play the game.