Pointy Dice Are Fun is a tabletop role-playing game system that I designed for my parents and sister, who struggled with the math part of Dungeons and Dragons. The game uses only two statistics and never asks a player to add above eleven. Instead of using a d20, players roll two d4s and add or subtract one, based on their stats.

I focused primarily on developing clear rules for the players and I left less structure and resources for the Game Master regarding session planning. If I were to continue developing this system, I would start by addressing this. I chose to spend less time developing these rules because I planned on running this game for my family and wanted to focus on making the rest of the rules accessible to TTRPG newcomers.

Below are my design notes from the four weeks i worked on this.