The Peace Engine

You’re an Inventor.

Your new project is your greatest yet:

THE PEACE ENGINE

A mechanical miracle meant to manufacture world peace.

A most marvelous venture.

What toll will it take on your body and mind?

How will it strain your relationships?

Who among the public will lift you up? Shout you down?

What say Fate?

Glimpse your fate, begin your research, 

and test new parts to bring your dream to life.

A solo game of perseverance and hope, The Peace Engine puts you into the shoes of an Inventor with possibly one of the most impossible, impractical, illogical ideas imagined: build a machine that manufactures world peace. 

Through several phases of play, your Inventor will contend with Fate and the consequences of Research while constructing the titular Peace Engine, putting it through its paces via constant Testing, all of which should feel like you the player are building and running a recursive Rube Goldberg machine. 

Gauges will need to be checked, Limiters toggled, and Diagnostics monitored as you make it through the ups and downs that come with any life spent in such a pursuit. How do your Relationships factor in? What will be your Legacy? Will the constant draw of the Engine have an impact on your Health? 

Build the Engine and record your findings. Your failures. Perhaps even your success.

This game uses:

• Polyhedral dice, d4-d10, preferably several of each
• A standard deck of cards
• A tarot or oracle deck of your choice
• A Jenga tower
• A method of journaling

This game is inspired by and pulls mechanics from:

• The Wretched by Chris Bissette
• Blades in the Dark by John Harper
• Apocalypse World by D. Vincent and Meguey Baker
• Motif by The Thought Punks
• Iron Core by OpalBreeze Games
• Breathless by Fari RPGs
• Ironsworn by Shawn Tomkin
• The one-page RPGs of Oliver Darkshire
• Caltrop Core by TitanomachyRPG