Pantheon (role-playing game)

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Pantheon and other Roleplaying Games
Cover of Pantheon, cover art by Frazer Irving
Designer	Robin D. Laws
Publisher	Hogshead Publishing
Publication date	2000
System	Narrative Cage Match

Pantheon and other Roleplaying Games is a 24-page book that includes 5 self-contained role-playing games for 3-6 players and designed to be completed in 1-2 hours.

1 System
2 Games
3 New Style
4 Sources

[edit] System

Pantheon introduced a system called Narrative Cage Match (NCM) that differs from traditional role-playing game systems in that there is no referee or gamemaster. Players control a character that co-operates and competes with other characters to try to steer the course of the story so that their character finishes in a better position that all the others. Players influence the narrative outcomes of the games they are playing using a bidding mechanism that uses beads and traditional six-sided dice.

[edit] Games

Pantheon includes 5 games called:

Grave and Watery - action and horror in an undersea base
Boardroom Blitz - players battle for control of a family megacorporation
The Big Hole - modern-day gangsters in a tale of crime, revenge and blackmail
Destroy all Buildings - Giant monsters ravage Tokyo
Pantheon - create the universe

[edit] New Style

Pantheon was part of a series experimental/alternative role-playing games published by Hogshead Publishing. Other games in the series included the award-nominated The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Münchausen, Violence, and Puppetland/Powerkill.