Design a tabletop RPG within the following requirements:

Thematic Requirements:

No swords.

No guns of any type.

No dungeons (or dungeon equivalents, like widespread ruins).

No undead.

No demons or devils.

No Conan-style barbarians.

No elves, dwarves, or halflings/hobbits.

The player-characters cannot be generic adventurers for hire.

The setting cannot be just the standard Medieval Europe environment (peasants, barons, kings, Norman-style castles, horses, wagons, rolling farmland, etc.). It may include some of these individual elements.

If your game includes monsters, beasts, or other non-sentient opponents, they must be complex and interesting, not just a handful of simple combat stats.

If your game includes magic, it cannot use discrete, memorized spells with specific effects.

Rule Requirements (here's where things get interesting!):

Your core mechanics cannot involve rolling a die or dice, adding modifiers, and comparing the result to a target difficulty number to determine binary success or failure.

Your game cannot be directly Powered by the Apocalypse.

These requirements are meant broadly. Renaming swords to “blades” doesn't get you out of that requirement, and “swords” includes long knives, scimitars, katanas, rapiers, etc. If you're “skirting the line,” you're too close. Make something different.

For the purposes of this contest, “fantasy” is not a simulation of the real, actual world in the past, present, or recognizable future. Anything else is fantasy.﻿

The game must be playable. Don't submit a game where part of it is still an idea; make something up and throw that into the document. It doesn't need to be polished with all the margins lined up perfectly.

Submit your game by midnight UTC, August 12th, as a post in the official Google+ Community, or by emailing your game to brent@brentnewhall.com. I'll choose whatever game most impresses me as a winner, who will get a .zip of every game I've ever published. All entries will be published on this official webpage for the world to see and play.