The Exile's Tragedy

The Exile's Tragedy is "a Game of Roles and Plays" submitted to the Game Chef contest 2011. It is a short game, written entirely in iambic pentameters, about a conflict between a duke and his daughter, into which the player characters are drawn. Players, gather round this table vast: upon these shores where danger lives with slaughter: thy heroes wracked, they haven find at last where Duke Orsino rules, despite his daughter. Amanda, now in conflict with her sire, doth seek support and ’gainst him threatens ill. She seeks a champion, she would now conspire to seize her father’s crown against his will. What will the heroes do? Which part uphold? Though nobles all, the actions they will choose may greatness find, or leave their bodies cold and dead before the tale is done. Some lose. So, gentles, pray: the fates that ye take here shall rival those from William Shakespeare.