Status: 🌱

Published on 2 July 2022 by Janis Strods

Idea: A Formula 1 RPG?

I’ve been watching the Drive to Survive F1 docuseries these days while quarantining with the old C-19, and it feels like a perfect background for a role playing game.

Change the motorsport to a spell-casting competition, a series of legendary obstacle-courses, a competition to get the best trade deal (or just keep the vehicle in there), and we have a game with:

Update: Trying this out

Currently (December 2022) running a mini-campaign based on the principles listed above in FATE Core — not F1, but a sailing race set during the golden age of piracy.

As I’m running shorter sessions (2 hours), finding it better to split the race from the preparation phase, but getting a lot of kicks from creating the competitor characters and crafting game mechanics around the race.