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SPORTS HORSE dozens

You are an equiludologist. A student of Horse Sports. You also have a gambling problem. Your goal is to build a stable full of the finest Sports Horses in all the land. In this game you will:

  • Create horses

  • Build their spirit

  • Bet on your horses

  • Win fabulous prizes

  • Horse cloning!

  • HORSE SPORTS

YOU WILL NEED

  • These instructions!

  • A whole bunch of six-sided dice. Like maybe 12 or 15.

  • Maybe some pen and paper to chronicle the adventures of your horses.

STYLES OF PLAY

  1. TIMED: Play two rounds of HORSE CHAMPIONS and see how wonderful are your horses

  2. FREE PLAY: Play forever, just you and your horses.

  3. SOLO: Play by yourself!

  4. AMONG FRIENDS: Play with others.

  5. MULTIVERSAL OMNIHORSE: Import and export your horses, taking them with you between games!

GETTING STARTED

To make a horse, determine your Qualities. Then use the tables below to give them a Look and a Name. Finally, gather up your dice for your Spirit pool.

HORSE QUALITIES

Every horse has three basic qualities. Assign +0, +1, and +2 to each of the following.

  1. RAZZLEDAZZLE (RAZ): speed, agility, precision, showmanship

  2. GUMPTION (GMP): brawn, boldness, impulse, aggression

  3. MOXIE (MOX): cunning, smarts, know-how, insight

HORSE LOOK

To determine the look of your horse, choose or roll (twice) for Base Color and Markings.

d6 COLOR MARKINGS 1 Black None 2 White White stockings and blaze 3 Gray White splotches 4 Red White spots 5 Brown Black dots 6 Tan Star

HORSE NAME

Roll d6 to determine how many times to roll on the name tables.

d6 ROLL... 1 - 3 Adjective Noun 4 - 6 Adjective Adjective Noun

To roll d66, roll 2d6 and read them in order from left to right to create a two digit number between 11 and 66. e.g. if you roll a 2 and a 4, that is 24.

d66 ADJ d66 ADJ 11 Bucket Of 41 Too Much 12 We Bought The 42 Eldritch 13 Exceptional 43 Her Imperial Majesty's 14 Understood 44 The People's 15 Electric 45 Coal Miner's Daughter's 16 Lunar 46 Your Very Own 21 Wild 51 Randy 22 Soupy 52 Clever 23 Balanced 53 Punctual 24 What 54 My Favorite 25 Humble 55 Effectual 26 Tropical 56 Reliable 31 Proud 61 Mister 32 Give Them 62 Doctor 33 Let Them Eat 63 Eventual 34 Perfect 64 Naked 35 Handsome 65 Soaking 36 Ugly 66 Blistering

d66 NOUN d66 NOUN 11 Wizard 41 Commitment 12 Apple 42 Ransom 13 Farm 43 For The People 14 Dancer 44 For The Win 15 Cheese 45 In A Box 16 Shrubbery 46 Under The Sea 21 Panic 51 Filibuster 22 Chocolate 52 Know It All 23 Horror 53 Bluster 24 Queen 54 Tornado 25 Tropic 55 Gravity 26 Thunder 56 Mess 31 Pride 61 Aristocrat 32 Holiday 62 Royalty 33 Hangover 63 Slander 34 Cake 64 Twenties 35 Smoke 65 Hope 36 Echo 66 Science

HORSE SPIRIT

Start every game with a pool of at least nine dice. This is your Spirit pool. It represents your horse's wild, untamed, noble essence.

At some point, you will choose to gamble away your horse's Spirit in order to win competitions.

If you finished last session with more than nine dice in your pool, begin the next session with that many. If you finished last session with less than nine, begin the next session with nine.

HORSE SPORTS

Each Horse Sport has an associated Horse Quality. To compete in a Horse Sport you will assemble and roll a Horse Sport dice pool. Your Horse Sport dice pool is made up of a Gift, your Quality modifier, and Spirit:

  • Always start with 1 dice. This is a Horse Gift. Don't question it, accept it. You never look a horse gift in the mouth.

  • Add a number of dice equal to your Horse Quality modifier (+0, +1, or +2) for this kind of Horse Sport.

  • Add as many dice from your Horse Spirit pool as you are willing to gamble, between 0 and all of them.

Once you have assembled your Horse Sport dice pool, then it's time to roll all those dice! Here's how to interpret the results.

  • WHINNY: If any die shows a 1, then you win! Describe a favorable outcome. Add 1 die to your Horse Spirit pool.

  • NEIGH: If there are no 1s, then you have lost the challenge. Describe a less than favorable outcome, or a setback or a complication. Also your horse loses Spirit: any dice you have gambled from your Horse Spirit pool are lost.

RAZZLEDAZZLE SPORTS

These Horse Sports require agility, precision, and showmanship.

  1. Ring Jousting: the horse must carry its rider so that they can spear and capture a ring with their jousting instrument

  2. Lemon Sticking: the horse must carry its rider so that they can pierce a lemon on the ground with their jousting instrument

  3. Chariot Racing: the horse must draw a two-wheeled chariot

  4. Ballroom Dancing: the horse must dance with elegance and poise

GUMPTION SPORTS

These Horse Sports require brawn, initiative, and aggression.

  1. Basket Duck: played with a live duck in a basket. The first side to deliver the duck back to their home ranch wins.

  2. Polo: smashing balls through hoops with mallets

  3. Horseball: similar to basket duck, but the ball is a ball instead of a duck, and it must be passed through large vertical hoops in order to score.

  4. Running And Jumping: the runningest, jumpingest horse is the winner.

MOXIE SPORTS

These Horse Sports require cunning, smarts, and know-how.

  1. High Dive and Swimming: a high dive competition, with a synchronized swimming event

  2. Horsegammon: it's like backgammon but for horses

  3. Social Etiquette: manners and social grace

  4. Rhyming and Riddling: a battle of horse wits

HORSE CHAMPIONS

A Horse Championship Game consists of one Horse Sport of all three types. If your horse wins all three games, they become a celebrated Horse Champion.

HORSE CLONING

At any point you can create a new horse by splitting your current SPIRIT pool into two piles. Keep one pile for your original horse, and give the other one to your new horse.

Give your new horse some Qualities, a Look, and a Name.

HORSE RETIREMENT

There may come a time when it is appropriate for your horse to retire and go out to pasture. This might be because they have had a long and accomplished Horse Sports career. Maybe they had an injury or their Spirit is broken by a particularly devastating defeat.

Nothing mechanically needs to be done for this. Just imagine a beautiful grassy pasture for them to graze in. You can visit them any time you want, and they will be happy to see you.

HORSE IMPORTING AND HORSE EXPORTING

Hey are you into tabletop roleplaying games? Do you maybe play some kind of Sword and Sorcery fantasy and wish your character had a horse? Lucky for you! You can easily export any of your horses from SPORTS HORSE into your other games! Similarly you can import a horse from any other game into SPORTS HORSE.