Papers and Paychecks was a role-playing game.[1]
Description[]
In it, players adopted the roles of students and workers in a fantasy world with a technological and industrialized society. It was played with papers, pencils, and at least two six-sided dice. It seemed fun.[1]
Notable Players[]
Karl Chisolm, a thirteen-year-old boy of Ravens Bluff in the Vast in the mid-to-late 14th century DR, spent his spare time playing Papers and Paychecks with his friends.[2]
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Background[]
Papers and Paychecks first appeared as the above cartoon by Will McLean in the Dungeon Masters Guide 1st edition in 1979. It was introduced to the Realms via "The Downunda Patisserie" in Polyhedron #51 in 1990. An actual Papers and Paychecks RPG was introduced to the real world by Lev Lafayette with a Kickstarter project and it was published in 2017, as seen here.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gary Gygax (1979). Dungeon Masters Guide 1st edition. (TSR, Inc.), p. 111. ISBN 0-9356-9602-4.
- ↑ Wes Nicholson (January 1990). “The Living City: The Downunda Patisserie”. In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #51 (TSR, Inc.), p. 31.