Pantheon (role-playing game)
 Cover of Pantheon, cover art by Frazer Irving | |
| Designer(s) | Robin Laws |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | Hogshead Publishing |
| Publication date | 2000 |
| System(s) | 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.
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 than 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.
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.
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 Münchhausen, Violence, and Puppetland/Powerkill.