Posthuman's Progress

By Evan Torner

Players: 5

Genre: ''Lola Rennt''

Posthuman’s Progress is a freeform live-action roleplaying game for 5 players plus 1 facilitator. It has been conceived as a game in which not all characters are created equal, but every player nevertheless holds power over the narrative. It is a game about conceiving different outcomes to events that take place over a very short period of time, and what the long-term effects of those events might be. At the same time, this is not a contemplative game by any stretch of the imagination. It should be fast-paced, improvisatory, and seriously playful.

One player plays the posthuman. A posthuman is a human with latent abilities beyond those of a normal human, but only triggers them during moments of extreme stress. In this game, the posthuman is a woman who desperately needs to save her lover from certain harm. One player plays the posthuman’s lover, who has gotten him/herself into a jam and will do something stupid in about 20 minutes that will prevent them from having a future. The rest of the players play humans the posthuman and the lover encounter in their desperate journey. The posthuman is so powerful that she can alter the flow of time: the first implementation of her plan to save her lover won’t work, nor will the second, but the third one will work… and against all odds. What that looks like and how it manifests, however, is up to the game’s players.

Cost: free

Available from: http://guyintheblackhat.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/posthumans-progress-fall-2013.pdf