Cavemen with Laser Guns
The Game:
A post-post-apocalyptic game about a humanity blasted back to the stone age - but now they've got alien laser guns, too.
What I Like About This One:
This game came about as part of a conversation I was having with my No Plot Only Lore cohost Josh about L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth. The first part of that book set up an enthralling setting of humans living as nomadic pests in a world controlled by an overwhelming, technologically advanced enemy.
Then the humans find a mountain full of F-15 jets and learn how to fly them or something. I don't really remember, but I do recall that I found it infuriating and put the book away and never read another thing by L. Ron Hubbard. You ever seen a jet's cockpit? I couldn't figure out how to fly one of those things, and I have computers and a flushing toilet and stuff.
But there is a level of advanced technology that I think stone-age humans could probably figure out. "I point the wand at an elk, and push this bit of it, and an elk is now both dead and cooked. It happens every time I touch that bit of the wand. What a wonderful wand."
We again have the group resource statistics. I like the mechanic of your name also being a representation of the natural things in the world that you resonate with.
What I Would Do Differently Next Time:
Y'know what? I kinda just like this one. The system is simple and straight-forward, but open enough to tell a lot of different kinds of stories, and I represents a lot of the things I like about one-page RPGs. I'm not sure I'd change this one at all.