Abort Retry Fail

Los Angeles, 1984. A creature, neither fully man or machine, arrives from a war-torn future. It's mission: To change the present. Assassinate a future leader of the resistance. Destroy vital infastructure. Protect and safeguard our only hope. Steal motorcycles, trucks, and sunglasses. Tell people to chill out, dickwad. Go on a vacation.

It cannot be bargined with, it cannot be stopped, and it cannot remember what it was doing.

Abort Retry Fail is a 1-page RPG about collectively trying to steer a killer robot towards its objectives and failing miserably. Each player takes control of a rogue subroutine, attempting to complete the mission to the best of their limited abilities while also accomplishing a nonsensical goal foisted on them by their malfunctioning programming.

This is a small, minimalist d6 game for three or more players, with light GM duties, focused on madcap comedy and silly one-liners. It's a good game to warm up your roleplaying muscles before a real session or just waste an hour or so doing Arnold impressions.

If you enjoyed this game, try the sequel, Abort Retry Fail 1000, where players take on the robot from the first game as a liquid metal machine come to clean up the mess!

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This game is part of the "I'll be Back" collection, a series of small games about everyone's favourite bodybuilding actor governator.