Everyone Is John Arbuckle: A TTRPG Adventure

 

INTRODUCTION

Everyone is John is a tabletop RPG in which the players play as John, a person being controlled by multiple consciousness who all have varying goals and obsessions. The game is rather simple with a few major stats and basic dice rolls.

However, there is potential here, let me introduce you, the reader, to:

 

EVERYONE IS JOHN ARBUCKLE

On a bright sunny Monday morning John Arbuckle is making Garfield his lunchtime Lasagna, in a series of cosmic misfortune John slips on some pasta sauce after putting the lasagna in the oven, falling and hitting his head on the countertop. As he lays face up on the floor in pasta and with a growing knot on his forehead, Garfield and Odie stand concerned over him. As he opens his eyes the splintered mind of John Arbuckle fights for control.

 

THE SETTING

Garfield is a comic strip series that turned cartoons into even a live action movie. The canon chosen is a combination of the comics and cartoons. Garfield is a real animated cat, not a hallucination and not an eldritch god. John is in love with Liz and Odie is along for the ride. And Nermal exists. Cartoon and Comic logic is allowed and even preferred.

 

EXAMPLE OBSESSIONS

1.      Shave Garfield

2.      Have a successful dinner date with Liz

3.      Take Odie around the block

4.      Ship Nermal to Abu Dhabi

5.      Commit Insider Trading

6.      Successfully Rob a Bank

7.      Remaster the Bedroom