Flippin' Gladiators

Flippin' Gladiators is a business card-sized micro-RPG where you play a Roman gladiator. It's a combat-focussed, beer and pretzels game designed for solo play, and created for the "First annual Micro-RPG Business Card Edition!" jam.

This business card-sized micro-RPG includes:

• Simple, fast-paced rules
• Quick character creation, including 4 historically inspired loadouts
• Uncluttered, pictorial character sheet
• Procedure for things to get worse for your character to facilitate solo play
• 8 varied enemies
• Risk/reward character advancement system

All you need to play this game is a printout of the card, a pencil, and a rubber. Having a coin to flip is optional, but recommended, as the card is marked up to be flipped as a stand in for a coin.

Flippin' Gladiators is heavily inspired by (or, arguably, a hack of) Prole by Nate Treme (aka Highland Paranormal Society).  In particular, it borrows the ideas for the main resolution mechanic, character creation, and coin tables.

Attribution:
Writing and design: Luke Cackett.
Inspired by Prole by Nate Treme (aka Highland Paranormal Society).
Images: photographs of the Zlitern Mosaic available at Wikimedia Commons.