The Princes Kingdom

The Princes
Kingdom
Written by
Clinton R. Nixon
Cover art by
Jennifer Rodgers
Edited by
Crystal Dreisbach
Based on
Dogs in the Vineyard
by D. Vincent Baker
The Princes Kingdom is copyright 2006 Clinton R. Nixon.
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No reference to copyrighted works in this text is meant to challenge

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All art copyright its original creators.
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www.jenniferrodgers.com
Early editing:
Ben Lehman (www.taogames.com)
Layout guidance and art direction:

Joshua Newman (www.joshuanewmandesign.com)
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Foreword
by D. Vincent Baker
Clinton R. Nixon, Joshua Newman and Ben Lehman gave this
game to me as a gift, at a party celebrating the soon-to-be birth of
my third son.
As I write this, my dad is dying.
I think this is a great game. Its a fulfillment, not a copy or

adaptation, of Dogs in the Vineyard; it has moral life and moral
light and moral danger all its own. When we play it, itll show us
truth in ourselves and in our friends.
But my thinking its a great game, thats only the smaller part of
what The Princes Kingdom means to me.
Lets suppose that self-expression matters. Lets say that if I can

take my burdens my childhood heartbreaks, my anxieties, my
secret shames, the dreams I think Ill jinx if I admit them, the
fear I feel at being responsible for the lives and growth of three
radiant, perfect boys if I can take my burdens and write them
down, draw them or paint them, just somehow express them and
be heard, lets say that then I can be a better person than I am
now. Even a little bit better Ill tell you, responsible for raising
children, Im grateful for every little bit better. I see myself in my
kids and Ill take every little bit.
And then suppose that I have a strong community, and were all
mutually dedicated to the success of one anothers self-expression.
Dedicated beyond yes, I support you these are people wholl
work materially for you, invest time and money and expertise in
your success, be there showing people what youve made with real,
unmistakable enthusiasm. Theyll celebrate your success and then
challenge you to even better.
Can you imagine it? Theyll celebrate your success and then
challenge you to better. Theyre better for you than anyone. Theyre
what a church wishes it could be. Theyre what your family hopes
for you when youre grown.
In the original afterword, Clinton said that Im a lighthouse to

him. Maybe so and believe me that Im touched but if I am,
its to the credit of the family that raised me and the community
that took me in. Clinton himself very much included.
You know what they say about men and islands.

Table of
contents
Welcome! 1
Have you played a role-playing game before? 1
Its a game for kids and adults 2
Dice 3
Getting started 3
The first time you play 4
After that 4
The Island Kingdom 5

Being a prince 6
Discovering the Island Kingdom 8
Table of contents iii

How to play this game 9
Character creation 10
The entire journey of a prince 11
When you go to an island 11
Between islands 13
When a prince goes home 13
Creating your prince 15

Qualities 16
Using qualities to color the world 17
Relationships 18
Equipping your prince 19
Carter and Lincoln make up their princes 20
Proving your prince 24

Mustafa and Baha prove themselves 27
Creating islands 33
How to make an island 34
Conceit and injustice 35
Disobedience and outlaws 36
Unrest and loss of liberty 37
False leaders and rebellion 38
War and killing 38
The ladder of problems 38
The people involved 40
The Island of Lo Pang 41
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Friends and troublemakers 45
Roll 46
Power 46
Qualities 46
Relationships 46
Using proto-citizens effectively 47
Dealing with groups 47
Some names and proto-citizens for Lo Pang 48
Problems and fixing them 49

Starting a struggle 50
Resolving a struggle 50
An example of a struggle 51
What happened with that butcher? 54
What could you have done? 55
Dealing with lots of people 56
The Problem Level 56
Mustafa and Baha confront General Fan Mu 57
Fallout and change 63

Baha suffers a grievous wound 66
Sailing through the Kingdom 67

Where do you go from here? 69
The Guides job here 69
Afterword 70
Table of contents
Welcome!
The Princes Kingdom is a game in which you and your friends act
out the adventures of children in faraway lands. These lands are
all across an ancient ocean, and are all ruled by a wise king. You
play the kings children, princes, sent out to explore the kingdom
and help out the citizens. The kingdom is very large, made up
of hundreds of islands, and so the king sends out his princes to
survey it and find out what sort of problems people have across
the lands, so that they may one day be wise rulers themselves.
Have you played a

role-playing game before?
If not, thats OK. Its simple and you already know how to do most
of it. Its like make-believe, but even more fun. If youve played
cops and robbers, for example, youve probably had some point
in the game where you said to your friend, I caught you! and he
Welcome!
said, No, you didnt! and then you argued about
7 it. In a role-playing game, you wont know if youve

caught him until you roll some dice. Its as thrilling
as a good book or movie, but you get to decide what
the characters try to do.
The first thing youre going to do when you play is make up a

prince. Youll decide how old he is and what he is good at and not
so good at and who his friends and enemies are.
One player will be picked to be the Guide. The Guide doesnt play
a prince. Instead, the Guide is responsible for moving the story
along and providing lots of stuff for the princes to do. The Guide
will play all the people in the world who arent princes.
The Guides going to work with the other players and figure out
where the princes are going. When they get there, there will be
problems, and you will decide how you want to fix them. Youre the
princes, after all! Its your job to make sure your fathers kingdom
is running well. Then you and the Guide will decide how well you
did at fixing the problem using some dice and playing a little game
within the game.
Lastly, youll decide whether you did enough and maybe youll
stick around and solve some more problems or work on that first
one some more. Or maybe youll go someplace new and start over
again.
Its a game for kids and adults

Both kids and adults can really enjoy this game. One great way to
play it is with an adult as the Guide and kids as the other players.
Thats not the only way you can play it, though! Once youve
Welcome!
played, maybe a kid should be the Guide while the
other people, including adults, play the princes.
Whatever you decide is alright by me and is going
to be a lot of fun!
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Dice
This game uses three different sizes of dice. The normal size, the
cube you see in many board games, has six sides. We call it a d6.
Another size has four sides and looks like a pyramid. It is called
a d4. The last size has eight sides and looks like a diamond. We
like to call it a d8.
When you have more than one of any die size, you put the number
in front of the abbreviation. Five six-sided dice are written as 5d6.
Two eight-sided dice are written as 2d6. One four-sided die can
be called a d4 or 1d4. All these are pronounced as number-dee-
number. 2d6 is pronounced two-dee-six.
You will need about 20d6 and about 10d4 and 10d8 to play. Thats
a lot of dice, and that equals a lot of fun.
Getting started
You need at least two people to play this game. I think its a lot
of fun with more, but more than six or maybe seven is too many.
One of these people will be the Guide. I talked about him in
the section above. (Oh, yeah, sometimes I say him, and I mean
anybody. It could be a man or a woman or a boy or a girl. It could
be your mom, a teacher, or a girl from school. English is weird
that way and someone should do something about it!)
Welcome!
Anyway, I was telling you about the Guide. It makes
7 a lot of sense for the oldest person in the group to

be the Guide, at least the first time you play. You
need to choose that person before you play.
Everyone else gets to play a prince! Before, I told you anyone could
play this game. Thats true. In this kingdom that youre going to
play in, both boys and girls are called princes, and you can play
a boy or a girl. Boys can play girl princes and girls can play boy
princes. Thats OK.
The first time you play

The first time you play, you have to make up your princes. This is
super easy and fun, and it will not take long.
After that, you will learn how the game works as your prince gets
one chance to prove something to his teachers and dad before he
leaves on his adventures.
Then, the princes will start traveling in the kingdom. Your princes
will need an island to go to. The Guide will create this island
based off the type of adventures you want and what he thinks will
be fun.
After that
When you play after the first time, the Guide gets to create the
island youre going to between times that you play. Youll go to
new islands and meet people and help them fix their problems.
Afterwards, you can talk about the game with the Guide and let
him know what was fun and what you liked most.
Welcome!
The Island
Kingdom
The kingdom actually its the Kingdom of Islandia, but most

people call it the kingdom or the Island Kingdom spreads
out as far as a person can see and farther! The kings castle is on
a large island in the middle of an even larger ocean. The rest of
the kingdom is also made of islands some so big that it would
take five days to ride a horse across them and some so small that
only five families can live on them. There are people whose entire
The Island Kingdom

job is to run boats through the ocean to move goods
R and people between islands.
The entire kingdom is run by the king, your father.

He is a wonderful ruler and only makes laws that
help the people of the kingdom and all good people love him.
Even things that seem hard, like taxes, are done for good the
king uses them to make sure people have roads and boats and
food in rough times.
There is no telling what all lies out there in the kingdom. It is

grand and old, and legends abound. Some people say that magic
happens out in the hidden islands, but others say thats hogwash.
Maybe you will find out the truth.
The sad part is that the kingdom is so big and spread out that
sometimes problems exist that the king doesnt know about.
This is where you will do good work! Because the king cant be
everywhere, you get to go and solve problems where he cannot.
He will not be able to come and save you, because it takes a long
time to get places on a boat. The king trusts you a whole lot, and
knows you will do well.
Being a prince
You are a prince of the Kingdom of Islandia. You were raised in
the royal court and had teachers from a young age. Many days,
they took you out and taught you how to read and write and how
to do math and read maps and ride horses. They probably taught
you how to defend yourself in a fight. Most of all, they tried to
The Island Kingdom

teach you be a good leader, because someday, you
will lead the kingdom.
You grew up seeing your father each day. He wore

a crown of shining gold, but he took that off when
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he played with you. He could be soft and caring, and he could
wipe away your tears with his big golden beard when you fell and
skinned your knee. He could be hard and stern when he caught
you lying or doing something that hurt someone else. Most of all,
he told you stories about being a boy and about being a king and
how to do both.
Now hes told you that you have to go be a leader. You have to travel
throughout his kingdom and make sure that the people are doing
well. You are his son, the prince, and it is up to you to know what
the people need and make sure they get it. When you travel out in
the world, you speak for the king! Thats a big responsibility.
All princes sent out into the world are between five and twelve
years old. When you turn thirteen, you go back to the kings castle
and become an adult and help the king rule the land! Maybe youll
even be the new king!
The other princes are your brothers and sisters. Though you grew
up with them, they might be much older or younger than you, so
maybe you didnt play with them a whole lot. Despite this, you all
have a bond. You need to take care of each other as much as you
need to take care of the people.
The Island Kingdom

Discovering the Island Kingdom
R If youve played another role-playing game before,
you might be surprised to know that what Ive
just told you is all you need to know about the
Island Kingdom to get started. This game is about exploration
and adventure and discovery, and the best way to achieve this is
to organically make up stuff as you play. After all, this is a game
about a make-believe world. So make believe! Anything you can
imagine can exist in the Kingdom of Islandia.
Youll see that when you make up princes youll be filling in

the Kingdom from the get-go. Dont be afraid to throw in wild
stuff, and mix up real-world cultures however you like. Most
importantly, add in any elements that you and the rest of the
players find interesting. When you make up stories, you put in
details from your own unique interests. Do that in this game, and
youll have a blast.
The Island Kingdom

How to play
this game
Everybody likes to sit around and make up stories, I think. I sure

do. Usually when you tell a story, you simply recount a tale that
already exists in your head. You already know what that storys
all about! In this game, you tell a story with your friends, and you
dont know how its going to end!
How does that work? Well, in each part of the story, you have
stuff you have to do. And its easy! Ill tell you what that stuff is.
How to play this game

You dont have to read this whole section right
8 now if you want to, although you can. Its a good

reference for you during the game. Whenever youre
unsure as to what to do next, look here, and it will
tell you.
Character creation
If you are a player and not the Guide, you have to do this stuff:
Make neat princes to play.
Help each other make neat princes.
Help the Guide make up the world. Youll do this just by
making neat princes.
Start learning how to have struggles that is, solve
problems using the dice.
Your princes only have to prove they are ready to see the world.
If you are the Guide, you have to do this stuff:

Help the other players make up their princes.
Start painting the picture of the world by listening to what
the other players want and adding stuff you like.
Go ahead and read further in the game, and start learning
the rules on how to have struggles.
Run the beginning struggle for each prince where he proves
himself.
The Guides characters meaning everyone who isnt a prince,
who well call citizens have to be there to make it kind of tough
for the princes to prove themselves, but make sure they get the
chance to.
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The entire journey of a prince
The players have to do this stuff:
Play the best prince ever!
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Talk about each others princes and help
others think about what their princes are doing.
Help the Guide make up stuff about the kingdom.
The princes have to do this stuff:
Travel from island to island, finding out about peoples
problems and helping them solve these problems.
Learn about the land they will rule some day.
Make sure people know they speak for the king.
Change the world!
The Guide has to do this stuff:
Make up islands for the princes to go to.
Make up neat details about the kingdom.
Give the other players really hard situations to deal with.
The citizens have to do this stuff:
Help out the princes.
Make life hard for the princes.
Bring all their problems to the princes.
When you go to an island

If you are a player, you have to do this stuff:
Play your prince!
Listen to other players play their princes and help them out.
How to play this game 11

Tell the Guide what you want to do and how
8 you want your prince to help fix problems.

Engage in struggles and then show what
happened to your prince because of the struggle.
Meet people and let them know the king cares about them.
Let people know theyre the princes and that they speak for
the king.
Find out about peoples problems.
Help people find the root of their problems and help them
implement solutions. The most common problem is a person
who decides hes better than other people, and its up to the
prince to let that person know hes doing wrong, and even
make him do right if you have to.
Play all the citizens on the island.

Make sure that the peoples problems are brought up
quickly and often.
Listen to the players and make sure you are driving the
game in a direction they find enjoyable.
Do not already have a plan for how peoples problems are
going to get solved. Let the players come up with that.
Make sure that the troublemakers on the island struggle
against the princes.

Try to get the princes on their side.

Try to tell the princes what they should do.
Tell the princes all their problems.
Make things hard for the princes by trying to fix the
problems themselves.
Offer to help the princes out however they can. After all,
theyre princes!
When the princes arent looking, cause trouble!
Between islands
The players have to do this stuff:
Choose what changed about your prince.
Decide what island to go to next. They might even go back
to an island or head back to the kings castle.
Write down the problems on the next island the princes are
going to.
Start to create the citizens for the next island (making
proto-citizens, which youll see in the chapter Friends and
troublemakers.)
When a prince goes home

The player has to do this stuff:
Describe how the prince learned to be a king.
Make a new prince, if you want to keep playing.
8 (The king has a lot of sons!)

The prince has to do this stuff:
Take his place beside the king.
Help the player out with his epilogue.
Welcome the prince home!
This is what you do in this story. If you are ever confused or dont
know what to do next, refer back to this section, How to play this
game, and it will tell you.

Creating
your prince
Everyone makes up their princes together, because its a lot more

fun than doing it by yourself. Everyone should get a copy of the
character sheet out to make up their prince. (The character sheet
can be found on the website for The Princes Kingdom.)
Do you see that it has questions on it? We are going to answer

them together, now.
First, what is your princes name? Think about it and write that
down. Heres something to think about what you name your
prince says a lot about the kingdom and the king. If he is named

Edward or Arthur, that sounds a lot like old
X England. If he is named Nwete or Shaka, that

sounds kind of African. Erethan and Noltar
sound like names from a magical place. Lion and
Rainshower sound like names from a place very
different from Earth where people name themselves after the
natural things they resemble.
How old is your prince? Remember, your prince must be between

five and twelve years old. The older you make your prince, the
more problems he has had a chance to have, which is great! It
means your prince will be stronger, but he will have to deal with
bigger problems. If you are between five and twelve years old,
maybe you want to play a prince who is the same age as you.
Qualities
What strong qualities does your prince have? These are things your
prince is really good at, things that help him out regularly. You can
write down this stuff lots of ways. You might write down climbing
stuff. Or you might write down Im an excellent climber. Or you
might write down I used to climb cliffs with my favorite teacher.
All of these are great!
If your prince is five years old, write down five strong qualities.
Your prince must be very talented to leave the castle so early!
If you prince is six or seven years old, write down four things.
You are leaving early and have lots of promise. If you prince is
eight or nine years old, write down three things. If your prince is
ten or eleven years old, write down two things. If your prince is
twelve years old, write down one thing. Your prince has a lot more
general knowledge than the younger kids and will be expected to
lead the way.
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What troublesome qualities does your prince have?
These things are not really that bad! It might even
be something that your prince likes to do a lot.
What matters is that he sometimes gets in trouble
when he does these things. These things might be
X
stuff like arguing. Your prince might like to argue, but trouble
happens when he does. You might write down I like to argue,
or even Im good at arguing. You can write down other stuff like
sneaking up on birds or horse riding. These are not necessarily
your princes weaknesses. They are things that sometimes give
him problems.
If your prince is five or six years old, write down one troublesome
quality. If your prince is seven, eight, or nine years old, write down
two troublesome qualities. If your prince is ten, eleven, or twelve
years old, write down three troublesome qualities.
Your prince must be either be strong or troublesome at being a

prince. Write down Im a prince for one of the two.
Using qualities to color the world

You can choose anything you want as a quality. The point of this
game is to let your imagination run wild. So, if you want to pick
I can move things with my mind or I can talk to animals as
qualities, go for it!
When you do this, though, remember that youre helping to create

a shared vision of the world that you are going to play in. This
is one reason making characters together is fun. By bringing up
the qualities you are going to take, you get input from everyone
else about whether your ideas fit with theirs, and your ideas may
inspire them!

If you choose to take an ability that greatly
X changes the idea of the world your princes will be

adventuring in, ask everyone else if thats OK. If
you find yourself in a situation where two people
dont agree about what is possible or what would
be fun in this imaginary world, take a break and get the Guide to
help you find a compromise.
Relationships
With whom does your prince have a strong relationship? These
can be friends, allies, teachers, role models, or even pets! The only
rule is that they have to be living things. Maybe your prince has
a dog or a cat. If your prince is five or six, he has three strong
relationships. If he is seven, eight, or nine years old, he has two. If
he is ten, eleven, or twelve years old, he has one.
With whom does your prince have a troublesome relationship?

These are people who your prince may or may not like. They
dont have to be bad people, but sometimes your relationship with
them gets you into trouble. They could be a friend who gets you
to do crazy things. Maybe they bug you they could be a hard
teacher or a squirrel that always follows you around begging for
food. If your prince is five, six, seven, or eight years old, you have
one troublesome relationship. If your prince is nine, ten, eleven,
or twelve years old, you have two.
You can always take relationships with your siblings, the other
princes. You dont have to, however. You should only do this if
you want to have an especially strong or especially troublesome
relationship with one or more of them.

If you cant think of all these people right now, thats
OK! You dont have to fill them all out now, and
you should leave some empty if you can. You should
fill out at least one, though. Write the number of
relationships you havent established yet on your
X
character sheet under unused relationships.
Equipping your prince

What stuff does your prince carry? These are the things your prince
is taking with him. This can be anything you want! Your prince
probably carries something to defend himself with. Maybe he has
a staff or a bow or even a sword.
He has one thing for sure: a cloak. Each prince owns a beautiful
cloak made by his mother. It is usually made up of all sorts of
bright fabrics. All the people in the kings castle, including the
king himself, gave a part of their own cloak to make the one for
your prince. Everyone who sees it will know that the wearer is a
prince of the kingdom and speaks with the authority of the king.
You should describe what your princes cloak looks like.
Once you write down what your prince is carrying, you need to
write down what kind of dice it gives you. Did you see that the
other questions had a type of die beside them on your character
sheet? Well, this one doesnt, so youll have to figure it out. If you
have trouble, ask the Guide for help.
If what your prince are carrying is awesome or really good, it gives

you a d8.
If what you are carrying is just good or OK, it gives you a d6.

If what you are carrying is cruddy, it gives you a
X d4.
Sharp things can add an extra die that you will roll
when using that item. If what you are carrying can
be used as a weapon and it is sharp, like a knife or a sword, you
will roll an extra d4 when you use the item. If you had a really
awesome sword, it would give you a d8 and a d4. If you had an
OK staff, it would probably only give you a d6 because staffs arent
usually sharp. Write the item down like this example: OK sword
d6 + d4.
Guess what? You are done creating your prince!
Carter and Lincoln make up their princes

To give you an idea of how princes are created, heres an example
of how two boys, Carter and Lincoln, start the game. Well revisit
them several times in later examples.
Carter and Lincoln are going to play this game with

Ronald, the Guide. Theyre going to make up
princes first, of course.
Ronald asks Carter and Lincoln, What kind of
names do you guys want to use?
Carters got a strong opinion on this one. I know this
kid named Sulayman. Can I play a character with a
cool name like his?
Ronald says, Of course. Is that OK with you,
Lincoln? Lincoln nods.

After looking up some names with a baby
names book, Carter decides on Mustafa
for his princes name and Lincoln decides
on Baha. These names sound Arabic or
X
Persian, so the three players decide that
the kings island is dry with beautiful domed castles
and gardens.
Ronald asks, So, how old are your princes? Carter
decides to be the older brother and play an 11-year
old. Lincoln wants to play a six-year-old. Both boys
write down their princes age.
Carter has to decide on two strong qualities and
three troublesome qualities for his prince. One of
these will have to be Im a prince. He wants to
be especially good at that, so he makes it a strong
quality. Carter wants to play a strong leader and an
expert with the bow, but hes only got one strong
quality slot left. Ronald mentions that the bow can
hurt people, and maybe itd be a good troublesome
quality. Carter thinks about it and decides the
opposite: his prince wants to be a leader, but hes
still young. He thinks up two more troublesome
qualities and ends up with the strong qualities of
Im a prince, Im a really good shot with a bow,
and the troublesome qualities of Leadership comes
natural to me, I like action, not talking! and I can
live on bread and butter.
Lincolns got four strong qualities and one
troublesome quality to think up. His prince is very
talented, but Lincoln says, I think that Baha doesnt

really want to be a prince. Ronald thinks
X thats a good start for a really interesting

character and Lincoln chooses Im a prince
for his troublesome quality. His strong
qualities end up being Im smarter than my
age, Animals trust me, I once read that in a book,
and I can turn into a fox.
Ronald and Carter stop for a second. Ronald asks,
Is everyone OK with that last one? It definitely
puts magic in the game. Carters fine with it, and so
Lincolns prince, Baha, can transform into a fox.
(This is what I told you about earlier in the section Using
qualities to color the world. Having cool abilities like
this is great, but you should make sure everyone is OK
with you adding such a large possibility to the world you
will play in.)
Next, Carter and Lincoln have got to figure out
their characters relationships. Mustafa, Carters
prince, has one strong relationship slot and
two troublesome relationship slots. He chooses
Suha, the female captain of their ship, as a strong
relationship and decides to keep the other two
troublesome relationships open for play. Ronald
comments how Carter got to make up a citizen that
will always be with them when he wrote down that
relationship.
Baha, Lincolns prince, has three strong relationships
and one troublesome relationship. Lincoln chooses
to have a troublesome relationship with his adopted

fox brother and a strong relationship
with Mustafa, leaving two strong
relationships to add in play.
Lastly, the two of them need equipment.
X
Carters definitely taking a bow for
Mustafa. Ronald asks, Is the bow a really good
one?
Carter says, Of course it is! He writes down
excellent bow d8 + d4, because a bow shoots
sharp arrows. He also writes down old fishing pole
d4 and one of the kings rings d6. He describes
his cloak as purple and gold, and half made up of
one of the kings older cloaks, with everyone elses
pieces sown around the center piece, and writes
down purple and gold cloak d6.
Lincoln wants to have a few books, so he writes down
a small library d6. He also chooses a chipped
dagger d4 + d4, and a loud golden whistle d8.
His cloak is made up of red and brown cloths, and
has a foxs head embroidered in the back, and he
decides its really great a d8 cloak.
With that, Carter and Lincoln are ready to play!

Proving
your prince
OK! At this point, you and the rest of the players, except the
Guide, have made up your princes. Now you get to play the game
as your princes for the first time and learn about the game. The
Guide gets his first chance to challenge you.
The Guide will ask every other player, What do you hope you
have proved to your teachers and to your dad? You will think
of an answer, such as I hope Ive proved Im a good speaker or
I hope Ive showed that Im good with a bow. You shouldnt say
24 Proving your prince

something that you already wrote down that your
prince is good at after all, youve already proved
he is good at that! You can say something like it,
though. For example, maybe your prince is already
a good speaker. You could say, I hope I proved I am
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good at talking with adults.
Youre going to act this out! You and the Guide will talk about
the setting where your prince has found himself and whos there
with him. You will set the scene together and talk about what
your prince is going to try to do and what people or things will be
holding him back.
Then youre going to act it out and have a struggle. (Thats what
a situation is called when its not certain your prince can do
something. You will roll dice to find out if he can do it!) There
are detailed rules for this later, in the section Problems and
fixing them. (The Guide can go ahead and read this if he has
any questions. For now, dont worry about fallout, which youll
see explained in that section.) You are going to try to prove your
princes worth, and the Guide is going to act out all the obstacles
in your way.
Follow these steps to see what happens:
The Guide is going to roll 4d6 and 4d8.

You are going to roll your princes age in d6s. If your prince
is eight, you will roll eight d6s.
If you have a relationship on your character sheet with any
character the Guide is playing in this struggle, roll the die for
that relationship.

You and the Guide should separately line up all
f your dice in order of their value.

You should go first. Say something your prince
is going to do in order to prove himself. It should
be something that your opposition can not ignore.
Take two of your dice and push them to the center of the
table. This is called a raise.
Then the Guide will say how the people and things in the
scene react to this. The Guide should push one or more dice
to the middle of the table whose sum is equal to or greater
than the sum of your two dice. This is called a see.
If the Guide uses only one die to see, he or she can
describe the scene as really preventing you from doing
well. This is called reversing the blow.
If the Guide uses two dice to see, then you do well, but
the opposition still stops you. This is called blocking or
dodging.
If the Guide uses three or more dice to see, then you
do really well, and the opposition is taken aback. This is
called taking the blow.
Then the Guide will push two dice forward, raising, and say
what the opposition is going to do in return.
You push forward dice like the Guide just did, seeing, and
describe your reaction in the same way one die is great, two
dice are OK, three dice means youve been pushed around.
You two will go back and forth doing this until one person
cant see a raise or no one can make a raise. The side that last

saw is the winner. If its your turn, and you cant
raise, but the other person can, then they get to
raise.
At any point, you can roll a d8 for any strong quality
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your prince has that you can use and you can roll a
d4 for every troublesome quality your prince has you can use. You
can even roll the dice for something you are carrying, if you use
it in the struggle. You have to describe using the quality or item
when making your next raise or see.
If you win, you get to add an additional strong quality to your

princes character sheet. For example, if you said I hope Ive proved
I am good at talking with adults, you get to write down talking
with adults under What are my princes strong qualities? If you
lose, you have to write down an additional troublesome quality
on your princes character sheet. This should be related to what
you were trying to prove, or something bad that happened to you
while you were having your struggle.
When everyone is done proving their prince, then you get to say
goodbye. The Guide then plays the king, your dad. Pretend that
your prince is telling him goodbye. The king will tell your prince
that he is proud of him and wish him good luck and then youll
start the rest of your princes story!
Mustafa and Baha prove themselves

After Carter and Lincoln have made up their princes,
Ronald looks around the table. Does anyone have
an idea for what their prince proved to everyone
before he left?

Lincoln says, I want to prove that I can
f make it alone in the wilderness. Ronald

says thats a good idea. Theyve already
described the kings island a little, and it
seems like its dry, but not a desert. Together
they decide that it has cedar forests, and Baha likes
to play in them after school, even though hes been
told to be careful.
Ronald sets the scene. OK. Bahas in the forest one
evening, and he hears the snap of a dry twig. He
turns around and sees a wild boar there.
Lincoln says, Thats scary. Bahas going to try and get
up a tree.
Ronald says, Lets roll the dice and see what happens.
He gets to roll 4d6 and 4d8 because he is the Guide
and Lincoln rolls 6d6, because Baha is six years old.
After they sort out their rolls in numerical order,
their rolls look like this:
Ronald (the boar): 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 6
Lincoln (Baha): 1, 1, 1, 4, 5, 6
Lincoln says, Im going to jump and climb up the
closest cedar tree. He takes a 5 and a 6 in his hand
and pushes them to the middle of the table for his
raise, totaling 11.
Ronald looks and sees that it will take three of his
dice to make 11, so he takes the blow. (Remember,
taking the blow is any time you have to use three or
more dice to see. Since Ronalds two highest dice are 4

and 6, he cant use two dice to see a raise of
11.) He pushes forward a 1, two 3s, and
a 4 for his see and says, The boar chases
you, but cant get to you before you get
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up the tree. Hes frustrated. He then
raises with a 3 and a 6, totaling 9 and says, The
boar is angry and wants to get you down. He starts
head-butting the tree, trying to knock you out of it.
Lincoln doesnt have a lot of dice left. His original
roll was poor, and he cant see that raise. Ronald
says, Look at your character sheet, Lincoln. Maybe
theres something there you can use.
Lincoln says, OK! Well, I have a strong quality that
animals trust me, so thats a d8 I can roll. He rolls
and gets a 7. The rolls now look like this:
Ronald (the boar): 2, 3 (3 + 6 pushed forward for a
raise)
Lincoln (Baha): 1, 1, 1, 4, 7
Lincoln can now see that raise, but has a choice. Does
he use a 4 and a 7 and block and be wasteful, since
that totals 11? Or does he take the blow with two
1s and a 7? (A block is when you use only two dice to
see a raise.)
He decides to take the blow and pushes forward two
1s and a 7 and says, I lose my grip, and beg the boar
to leave me alone, hoping he will listen. He raises
with his last two dice, a 1 and a 4, and says, My
words make the boar more calm.

Ronald sees this with a 2 and a 3, blocking,
f and says, Your words soothe the boar, but

the thorn in his foot enrages him again. He
cant raise, but neither can Lincoln. Ronald
will win unless Lincoln thinks of something.
Carter says, Hey, what about your whistle? Can you
blow it to scare off the boar?
Ronald says, Of course! Thatll work.
Lincoln rolls a d8 for his awesome whistle and gets a
3. He raises, saying, I blow my whistle loudly!
Ronald cant see this raise, and has to give. He says,
You win! Write down what you proved on your
character sheet as a strong quality.
Lincoln writes down I proved I can take care of
myself in the wilderness.
Now its Carters turn. Hes had time to think about
this and he says, I want to prove that I can act like
an adult.
Ronald says, We need a situation for that. How
about this? Youre at a dinner for the nobles, and
your 13-year-old girl cousin, Kamala, is there and
being annoying. You have to make it through dinner
without her making you act like a child.
Carter thinks it over. OK. I can do that.
They roll their dice. Ronald rolls 4d6 and 4d8 like
before and Carter rolls 11d6, because hes 11 years
old. Their rolls look like:

Ronald (Kamala): 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 8
Carter starts. He has to think of

something his opponent, his cousin
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Carter (Mustafa): 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6
Kamala, cant ignore. He says, This is hard.

Whatever I say to her, she can ignore, right?
Ronald says, Well, sure, but ignoring you would be
doing something in this case. Youre in a room with
lots of adult nobles. If you say something forcefully,
then ignoring you would be a bad thing for her. Just
dont say hello or something.
Carter says, OK. Well, then, I decide to act very adult.
I say, It is very nice to see you here today, Kamala. I
was not expecting you. He pushes forward his two
6s, raising strongly.
Ronald sees with a 4 and an 8 and says, It is also nice
to see you, Mustafa. He grins. Kamala says, I most
certainly did not expect you, being that this is not a
childrens dinner. He raises with a 5 and a 6.
Carter cant see the total of 11 with only two dice, so
he has to take the blow. He says, Ill act upset with
her and say, Im about to go see the world. Thats
not something a child gets to do! He sees with his
3 and two 4s.
Their dice look like this right now:
Ronald (Kamala): 2, 2, 6, 8
Carter (Mustafa): 1, 2, 2, 2, 5, 5

Carter raises with his two 5s and says,
f Arent you dancing with your little sisters

later at the childrens party? I look forward
to seeing that.
Ronald says, Thats mean, Carter. Well, Ive got a
response. He sees with his two 2s and his 6, taking
the blow. He says, Kamala sniffles a little. I will
be at the childrens party, she says. He raises with
his last die, an 8. But itll be the last time! For my
engagement will be announced tonight!
Carter cant see this. Hes only got a total of 7. He
looks on his character sheet, but none of his
qualities will help here. Hes in a corner, and has
to give. He says, Mustafa laughs loudly! Engaged!
Thats gross. Everyone looks at him.
Ronald says, What did your prince prove? Youve got
to write down a troublesome quality.
Lincoln says, How about Mustafa doesnt understand
girls. Its not anything about being an adult, but its
true.
Carter says, I like that, Lincoln.
Ronald says, Actually, it should be tied into the adult
thing. How about I think girls are gross. That way,
Mustafa has something he can change later, and it
can help him sometimes, even though juvenile.
Carter agrees. He writes down I think girls are gross
as a new troublesome quality for his prince.

Creating
islands
Creating islands is the job of the Guide, but anyone can read how
you do it. Its no secret!
Every island the princes go to is going to have a problem. Thats

the whole point how could they fix problems unless problems
existed? When the princes get to an island, there will be lots of
people citizens who want to meet them and everyones going
to want to give them dinner, but somethings going to be wrong
and theyll have to fix it. I bet some people wont appreciate that a
bunch of meddling kids are there, but that will just make it more
fun.
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So what are problems like? Problems start small
P and get progressively worse in a sort of ladder of

badness. It goes like this:
Conceit is the smallest problem, and it manifests

itself as injustice.
Disobedience is when people dont follow the kings lead, and it

manifests as outlaws plaguing the land.
Unrest is a bigger problem and its when all the people start
believing that the king doesnt care about them. It manifests as
loss of liberty; that is, restrictive laws enacted that did not come
from the king.
If theres unrest and bad laws, a false leader will arise, someone
who wants to take the kings power. This manifests as rebellion.
And if all those things exist, war and killing can break out, and
thats the worst thing of all.
How to make an island

As the Guide, you are going to make up the islands leaders. Youre
going to figure out who is causing problems and who has the ability
to fix those problems (and why arent they fixing them already?)
and who is most affected by those problems. Youre going to make
up what those problems are. Youre also going to figure out what
all those people above want the princes to do, and what would
happen if the princes never came to the island.
Youre also responsible for making up some information about

what the island looks like, what the people are like, and what the
local customs are.
34 Creating islands
Conceit and injustice
Whats conceit? Conceit is when someone thinks
theyre better than someone else, pure and simple.
Even princes know theyre just people and that they
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have a role to play. Thinking you are better than someone else can
show up a lot of ways in people.
In the Kingdom of Islandia, everyone has a role in life. A lot of

people have jobs. Some people take care of their home. Some
people even hang out by the road and play songs. For all those
people, thats their role in life. Some people, though, dont think
they have to play their role they think that they can just relax
and not do anything. Thats conceit thinking youre too good to
do your job.
There is a system in the kingdom for determining who is supposed

to solve problems. Every village has a mayor. Because there are
so many islands and cultures in the kingdom, some people elect
this mayor while other villages have a mayor for life. However the
mayor is chosen, it is his or her role to fix peoples problems! If
the mayor isnt fixing peoples problems or is fixing one persons
problems more than someone elses, thats conceit. Some islands
are so big they have more than one village. In that case, theres
a governor. He or she is supposed to make sure and solve big
problems. If the governor lives in a big house and doesnt solve
problems, thats conceit.
Long ago, the king of Islandia thatd be your grand-dad or even

your great-grand-dad declared that if people are hungry and
other people can help them, they have to. They can even report it
to the authorities and theyll get paid back! Thats what taxes are
for. If someone is hoarding their wealth, thats conceit.
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Marriage is serious stuff in the kingdom. If two
P people are married and they have real problems,

sometimes they get separated, but they have to go
to the mayor and state their problems. Only if they
have proof and the problems cant get fixed can
they get separated. You cant run away from your family because
your husband or wife eats too much butter or doesnt pick up
their underwear off the floor. If you are making life hard for your
spouse by not doing your part, thats conceit.
If you have children, its even more serious. You have to take care
of your kids. If you arent making sure they have food to eat and
clothes to wear before you do, you arent doing your job, and thats
conceit.
Lastly, and this is a big one, theres a lot of different type of people
in the kingdom. Sometimes, different cultures run into each
other, and some people dont like that. If you think someone isnt
as good as you because they have a different skin color or they eat
different food or wear different clothes or whatever, thats real big
conceit and thats a problem.
If any of the above instances of conceit are happening, it causes

injustice. Chores dont get done; people dont get to eat; wives and
husbands get mad at each other; kids get hurt; and people get
discriminated against. All those things really, really bad.
Disobedience and outlaws

Disobedience means breaking the laws of the king. Because the
kingdom is so very large, there cant be a lot of laws, or people
wouldnt remember them. So the king has made very simple laws
for people to follow:
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Do not be violent. That is, dont go around
hitting people for no good reason.
Do not cheat other people, steal from others,
or willfully cause harm to other peoples stuff.
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If you are paid to do a job, do it. If someone
does a job for you, pay them a fair wage.
Everyone in a family should live up to their role in the
family. Parents should keep care of their children, and children
should help their parents.
Thats it! But youd be surprised at how hard it is for people to
remember to do those things.
When people start breaking these laws, other people think they
can break the law, and before you know it, youve got outlaws.
Outlaws might be bandits stealing from others. They might be
tax collectors taking too much from people. They might be a band
of youths hurting people and vandalizing stuff.
Unrest and loss of liberty

When enough people get cheated or hurt, they get scared. And
when people get scared and dont know who to turn to to fix
their problems, they get riled up. This creats unrest. Unrest is
when people live in a state of fear and bad-mouth their mayor
and governor and king. If people who should be working stand
around and say, That king doesnt know what hes doing, thats
unrest. Unrest doesnt help anyone.
When theres unrest, people sometimes try to take matters in their

own hands and make their own laws. Lets say there are bandits
that steal from people travelling at night. People might make a law
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that no one can be outside after dark. That laws not
P from the king! They made it up, and its a bad law. It
prevents the liberty of the citizens of the kingdom
and unfairly restricts them.
False leaders and rebellion

When youve got enough people all stirred up and making laws
willy-nilly and starting problems, someone will usually try to lead
those people. Its a quick way to get powerful without doing whats
right. A false leader will get up and make speeches about how he
can solve all your problems if you just follow him, but he usually
doesnt want anything but power.
Still, people will listen, and then youve got a whole rebellion a
bunch of people who want to make their own kingdom!
War and killing

This is the worst problem of all. When an island is divided up
and some people follow one false leader while others follow
another guy and still others follow the king, theyre going to fight.
This is war, and people will die. Nothing absolutely nothing in
the world makes the king more sad than a war, a purposeless,
destructive thing.
The ladder of problems

Use the problems above to make up an island. Before you get too
involved, youll need to make up some people to inhabit the island.
These should be people who the princes have to see, some people
who will force themselves upon the princes, and some people
38 Creating islands
whove done wrong, probably with understandable
though definitely wrong reasons. These might
be the same people, or they might not. Its up to
you!
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So, to make up the town, start by re-reading the
section on conceit and injustice, above. Find something that
appeals to you and write it down. Choose a person who has
this conceit and write down their name. Write a little bit about
their conceit. Then write down who this conceit affects and what
injustice they are experiencing.
Ok, now we look at the island and ask ourselves Is this enough to
keep the players interested? Is this enough for the princes to deal
with? If not, we layer on more problems. If so, then we move on
to the last steps of building an island.
If we choose to add more problems, we invent an instance where

someones being disobedient to the king and his laws. This might
well be an outcome of the conceit and injustice weve already
written down. Its never a bad idea to link these, but sometimes its
an even better idea not to to make the disobedience unrelated
or slightly related. Again, its all up to you. So, write down the
name of the person being disobedient and what they are doing.
Then, write down what sort of outlawry is occurring because of
this disobedience.
Weve got at least four people that the princes have to deal with at
this point. Is that enough? If not, we move on to unrest.
Identify a group of people to be in unrest and explain why theyre

in unrest. What are they doing about it? Are they spreading
rumors about the government or not paying taxes or stealing or
what? Write all this down. Then decide what bad laws are being
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enacted. Maybe these are enacted by the unrestful,
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We have a whole lot of people at this point. Is it

enough? If not, we have a false leader.
Write down the false leaders name and what he wants. Who
follows him? Write down some stuff about them, too. Remember,
a false leader leads to rebellion. Whos in this rebellion? What are
they up to? All of this is good stuff for later play.
And if this really isnt enough for the princes to deal with, youve
got war and killing. The islands embroiled in full-scale war. Write
down the who is on what side and what they want.
You dont have to limit the times you go through this process!
You can build one chain of problems up to unrest and another
chain only through conceit, or you could build three small chains
or two big ones or whatever you want. You also choose to split
and join a chain; that is, one bit of conceit might make two bits of
disobedience, or two false leaders are responsible for one war.
The people involved

So, you should have a list of people on the island who have
problems or are causing problems. What do they want from the
princes? Write down a sentence or so for each one.
Then ask yourself what these people would do if the princes never
came to the island. What would the eventual outcome be? Write
down a sentence or so about this.
Thats it! Youve got an island made and ready for play.
40 Creating islands
The Island of Lo Pang
Ronald says to Carter and Lincoln, You
guys go get some juice and give me 15
minutes. Im going to make the first
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island for your characters to go to.
He decides to go ahead and give it some big problems
to hook in the other players.
He starts by thinking about the islands look and feel.
He decides he wants something pseudo-Japanese
and in the 1200s. Its still an island, and not a giant
one, but big enough to have a hill-lands and low-
lands. He also decides to go with Chinese-sounding
names for no real reason besides he likes that idea.
He names the island Lo Pang.
He also decides that two cultures live on the island.
The larger area, the hills, are where he places the
dominant people of Lo Pang. He decides they look
Asian. Below, in the lowlands, he puts the Wulin,
a more primitive minority that are large people
covered in reddish-blonde fur. Ronalds always liked
the Ainu, an ethnic minority in Japan, and also
the idea that orangutans were once thought by the
Malay to be another race of people who lived in the
forest. He combines the two to make the Wulin.
Ronald now writes down the problems the island has.
The conceit is easy the islanders think that the
beliefs of the Wulin are silly and stupid. They think
theyre better than the Wulin. What injustice could
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come out of that? Ronald decides that the
P Wulin revere the coy in a certain pond. The

injustice is that the islanders decided the
coy looked tasty, and they fished for them
and ate some.
Looking this over, Ronald decides that he needs more.
Hell need to figure out disobedience next. He
decides to reverse the people at fault and put it on
the Wulin: they attacked a group of islander boys
they caught fishing and beat them pretty badly. The
outlaws created because of this are easy to invent:
gangs of islander men have been hunting down the
Wulin to get revenge. They guard the main town,
too, driving off any Wulin who want to trade.
Again, Ronald wants to up the stakes. He adds a level
of unrest: rumors have been spread that the Wulin
kill children. The loss of liberty caused by this is a
new law: no women or children are allowed outside
after dark.
Finally, he adds a false leader, because at this point, its
evident there should be one. His name is General
Fan Mu, and hes a retired naval officer. He has
taken over the island. The people have joined with
him in rebellion. The islands real governor, Pei, has
been imprisoned, and the people are happy to follow
Fan Mu.
Theres a few small things he noticed in doing this.
The governor and the general both have another
conceit. The general thinks he can do a better job
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than the governor. The governor thinks
that he shouldnt have to work very hard.
The injustices: Governor Pei gets locked
in the stockade, and the Wulin are
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marginalized and oppressed.
Next, Ronald has to describe on paper everyone
involved. He scribbles down this list:
General Fan Mu
Governor Pei
The leader of the Wulin
The beaten boys
Looking at that, he decides everyone needs names and
that the boys parents should be involved, too. He
ends up with:
General Fan Mu
Governor Pei
Ang, leader of the Wulin
Tze Fo and Tze Mo, two young boys who like
fishing and trouble
Lao Tze, the father of the boys, and his wife, Wen
Li.
Each of these wants something from the princes.
What will it be? Ronald writes down:
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General Fan Mu: He wants the princes to
P officially make him the new governor.

Governor Pei: He wants the princes to
restore order and tell the citizens that he
hasnt made any mistakes.
Ang: He wants the princes to get the Lo Pang to
stop eating their sacred fish and let the Wulin live
free and trade again.
Tze Fo and Tze Mo: They want the princes to let
them run around in the woods like crazy hooligans.
They also want to know more about the Wulin.
Lao Tze: He wants the princes to make the Wulin
pay for their violence.
Wen Li: She wants the princes to recognize her
children as faultless little angels.
This looks pretty good! Now, Ronald thinks, what
would happen if the princes never came? Thats
easy. War would break out, with the guerrilla Wulin
fighting back against the islanders, at high costs to
both.
The island of Lo Pang is ready for play!
44 Creating islands
Friends and
troublemakers
When you are the Guide, you should have two things that will
make the game sail smoothly: a list of names of people on the
current island and a sheet of proto-citizens.
A proto-citizen is a collection of all the stuff you need to make a

real citizen without any of the words attached; that is, its the raw
numbers you need to make a citizen quickly.
Its easy to do! Citizens are made up of the same stuff as the
princes, with one exception. Instead of being defined by their age,
citizens are defined by their power their influence on the story.

3 Roll
1
2
3
Power
6
7
8
Qualities Relationships
1
2
2
1
1
1
4 9 3 2
5 10 3 2
6 11 4 2
7 12 4 2
8 13 5 3
To make up citizens, use the above table.
Roll a d8 on this table to determine the citizens power. Then roll

once for how many strong qualities do I have? Roll again for
how many troublesome qualities do I have? Roll another time
for how many strong relationships do I have? Then roll one last
time for how many troublesome relationships do I have?
Write down these results. You should do this six times before
play, giving you six proto-citizens to use in the game. Any time
you have a citizen who has not been given numbers, but who gets
involved in a struggle, pick a proto-citizen and match them up!
You can assign words to the qualities in play. You can also choose
what the citizen is carrying. You do this during play, not before
play, because you never know what citizens the princes will decide
to focus on.
If you run out of proto-citizens, take a break and make some more
up. If youre out, this indicates that your game is probably full of
excitement!
46 Friends and troublemakers

Using proto-citizens effectively
As the Guide, you can fill out proto-citizens and turn
them into fully-fledged characters at any time during
play, including in the middle of a struggle. You can
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write down whatever you want for their qualities,
which can make them pretty strong for a scene. However, defining
all your qualities in one scene makes that character very focused
and not complex. If thats fine with you, go for it! Challenging the
princes with a tough citizen is fun and rewarding.
If you have a hard time thinking up qualities, remember that

many characters the princes meet will be much older than them.
Writing down Im an adult as a strong or troublesome quality
always works, and gives your citizens a fun die to use in any
struggle with the princes.
Dealing with groups

Proto-citizens can be used to represent groups of characters in
the game as easily as individual characters. Whenever you have a
group of people that are only important to the game as a group
a mob of angry protesters, as opposed to the protest leaders, for
example you can use one proto-citizen to represent the whole
group. In this way, you can have scenes where the princes deal
with an entire group of people at once without the Guide having
to control dozens of characters.

Some names and proto-citizens
3 for Lo Pang
Ronald remembers at the last minute that
he is going to need some numbers for the
citizens of Lo Pang. He looks at the chart and
quickly rolls up some proto-citizens, ending up
with:
Power 10, 1 strong quality, 2 troublesome qualities,
1 strong relationship, 1 troublesome relationship
Power 9, 3 strong qualities, 3 troublesome qualities,
2 strong relationships, 1 troublesome relationship
Power 12, 3 strong qualities, 4 troublesome
qualities, 2 strong relationships, 1 troublesome
relationship
2 strong relationships, 2 troublesome relationships
He needs some names, too. He grabs his baby name
book off the shelf, which has a section on Chinese
names, so that will work for him. He also knows of
a few places online where he could have looked, all
linked to from the The Princes Kingdom website.
Now hes really ready for play!
48 Friends and troublemakers

Problems and
fixing them
Weve talked about struggles earlier. Its when one character wants
one thing and another character wants something else, and theres
not a clear answer as to what should happen.
When your prince wants the local butcher to do his job right and
stop letting his meat just hang in the sun, and the butcher would
rather argue about it, its a struggle. When a player wants his
prince to chase down an outlaw and the Guide says that outlaw is
running off on a horse, thats a struggle.

The way we deal with struggle is by rolling dice and
E comparing them. These dice will not only help us

find out the final outcome of the struggle, but they
will also help us narrate what happens along the
way to that outcome. You will use the dice you roll
to back up all your actions in the struggle.
Starting a struggle
Before we roll any dice, the players and the Guide need to
determine who exactly is involved, what the setting is, and what is
at stake in the struggle. This last bit is really important: you need
to know what happens when one side wins.
Then each player involved takes up dice for his character and rolls
them. These dice are determined by your princes age, or your
citizens power, if youre the Guide, and any qualities, relationship,
or equipment that is relevant.
Resolving a struggle
Struggles operate kind of like a game of poker. One side will push
forward two dice, called a raise. The other side will push forward
any number of dice whose values equal the sum of the raise. This
is called a see. Then it changes the other side raises and the first
side sees. This goes on until one side cant see anymore.
While you are doing this, you will also say what your character is
doing in the struggle when you raise and see. If its hard for you
to see that is, you have to use three or more dice to see you
take fallout. Fallout isnt necessarily bad! Fallout is a side-effect of
struggle, and it is how your character changes and grows up.
50 Problems and fixing them

An example of a struggle
Remember the butcher from earlier in the book
who was lazy and didnt do anything to preserve his
meat? Well, hes sold some bad meat to a family on
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the island. Now a kid in the family is really sick, and his dad is
angry. In fact, his dad wants to go beat up the butcher. Your prince
stands in the way. Im going to play the Guide role here.
We first figure out first whats at stake. In this case, its does the
father beat up the butcher?
We set the stage next. We talk about it and decide that were at
the butchers stall, and the father and butcher are there, along with
your prince. The stall is in a big open-air market.
As for who is involved, its your prince and the father. The butcher
is staying out of your argument. You are taking the princes side,
and I am taking the fathers side.
Now we get our dice together.
You are going to take a number of d6s equal to your princes age.
You are going to bring in dice for your relationships (a d8 for
strong relationships, a d4 for troublesome ones) if the stakes are
related to them or if you are struggling with them. In this case,
your prince has a troublesome relationship with the butcher.
So you take a d4. Your qualities and equipment come in later.
Whenever you use them in a raise or see, you get to roll dice for
them, but you only get to do this once per struggle.
I am going to roll a number of d6s equal to the fathers power

its like age, but for characters that arent princes. I get to roll
relationship dice too, but I dont have any that apply here.

Your prince is seven years old, so you roll 7d6, plus
E the d4 for the relationship with the butcher.
The fathers power is 8, so I roll 8d6.
Now we roll the dice. We put them up on the table so everyone

can see them. A good idea is to sort them by value.
You roll: 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6.
I roll: 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5.
Now we take turns raising and seeing. Heres how that works:
If it makes sense for one of us to raise first, then we do. For example,
if you had said that your prince storms into the room and leaps in
front of the father, and then we started the struggle, youd go first.
But lets say we were at a stand-off: the father wanted to slug the
butcher and your prince was arguing with him. In this case, wed
look at our best two dice. Yours total 11 and mine total nine, so
you go first.
To raise, you put forward any two dice and say what your character
is doing. This should be something the other character cant ignore.
If you only have one die left, you can raise with just that one.
To see, you put forward any number of dice whose sum equals or
is higher than the sum of the raise you are seeing, and then you
say what your character is doing to deal with that raise.
If you put forward only one die, thats called reversing

the blow, and it is awesome. You get to describe how your
character turned his opponents raise back on him, and you
keep your die for a moment. You get to reuse it in your raise
later.

If you put forward two dice, you block or
dodge. You describe how your character avoided
or stopped his opponent.
If you put forward three or more dice, you
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take the blow. You describe how your characters
opponent hurt your character and how your character
reacts. When I say hurt, I dont mean that your characters
opponent always physically hurt your character. It could be
that he made an especially cutting remark.
When you take the blow, you take fallout. I talked about this
earlier. Fallout is both good and bad things that happen to your
character because of struggles. Its how your character changes
and develops. The size of die you use when taking fallout depends
on what sort of blow you took.
If you took a blow while talking, your fallout equals a

number of d4s equal to the amount of dice with which you
took the blow.
If you took the blow when doing something physical a race,
a horseback ride, wrestling for a shovel your fallout equals
a number of d6s equal to the amount of dice with which you
took the blow.
If you took the blow while fighting, your fallout equals a
number of d8s equal to the amount of dice with which you
took the blow.
Bigger dice are more dangerous fallout. Fallout is cumulative, and
you should keep track of your fallout during a struggle. You will
roll your fallout dice at the end of the struggle.
Lastly, you never have to see if you dont want to! You can give,
but if you do this, your opponent wins the stakes of the struggle.

Sometimes, thats OK, especially if you dont want
E to take a lot of fallout.
Whenever you cant see a raise, you have to give. If

its your turn to raise and you cant, skip to the next
person. If no one can raise, the last person to see wins.
What happened with that butcher?

So, as we were saying, your prince is trying to stop the father from
beating up the butcher. You have to go first, and you decide to
make it hard on me and raise with your 4 and 6, making a total
of 10. Do you see how I cant block or dodge that, because I dont
have two dice that equal 10 or more? You say, My prince stands
in your way and says, No, sir. The king has ordered you not to
harm one another.
I have to take the blow, which I dont want to do. I put forward
2, 4, and 4 to see. I say, The father looks upset. He says, I know
its against the law. I will have 3d4 fallout to roll later: 3 because
I used three dice to take the blow, and d4 because were just
talking.
I get to raise now and put forward my 4 and 5, totaling 9. The

father says, But his laziness hurt my son, and its only fair that I
stop him from being lazy. Thats the law.
You cant see 9 with two dice, so now you have to take the blow.
You decide to put forward your 1, 3, and 5 to make 9. You say,
Well, it is the law that he has to do his job. You will have 3d4 to
roll later, too.

You raise back with a 1 and 3. But its not your job
to enforce the law. You should go home and take
care of your son.
I see that with a 1 and 3 as well, blocking. My son

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is in his mothers care.
And then I raise with a 2, my last die. And I think I know a bit
more about how the law works on the islands, son.
You only have a 1 left and cant see! You have to give, and the
father clocks the butcher.
What could you have done?

You can always use qualities and your items to get more dice in a
struggle. Whenever you use a quality your prince has to raise or
see, you can add its die. Whenever you use some of your belongings
to raise or see, you can add their dice, too. You explain what your
prince is doing, roll the dice, and then put dice forward.
So, if you had Im good at talking to adults as something you

were good at before, you could have rolled it in when arguing with
the father. Lets say you didnt have that, though. Lets say your
prince is strong at tripping people. You could have raised with I
try and trip the father as he moves toward the butcher. And youd
get to roll another d8, which would really help.
Notice, however, that tripping would count as fighting, and fallout

would change to d8s. That might be good. However, if the father
decides to push you back, that means youll take d8 fallout if you
have to take the blow.

Dealing with lots of people
E If there are more than two players in a struggle, its
not that much harder. In a circular fashion, you take
turns raising. Whenever you raise, everyone who is
affected has to see. So if three princes were arguing
with the father, theyd all have to see when the father raised! While
it may seem like the father gets a lot of power, he has to see three
different raises, once from each prince.
Oh, and helping each other can happen, too., which is neat. You
can always give some of your dice to someone else to help them
out in a see. If they see with three or more dice, they dont take the
blow. You do instead!
The Problem Level

The Problem Level is simply a measure of how bad the princes
have found things. It is set by the worst thing the princes have
found on the island. If theyve found:
Injustice, its 1d8

Outlaws, its 2d8
Loss of liberty, its 3d8
Rebellion, its 4d8
War, its 5d8
The Problem Level matters most when a characters badly hurt.
In this case, the Guide will roll the characters fallout dice, plus
the Problem Level in a struggle, to see if the character lives.

Whenever there is a conflict and the opposition
isnt clear lets say the prince is trying to sail a boat
into stormy waters to save someone the Guide
will roll 6d6 plus the Problem Level.
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A false leader can always use the Problem Level
when his subjects are backing him up.
Mustafa and Baha confront Fan Mu

Ronald, Carter, and Lincoln are playing through
the island of Lo Pang, and theyve solved a lot
of problems. The big problem in front of them,
however, is that General Fan Mu is not the rightful
governor of the island, and he isnt doing a good
job. Hes a military man, not a compassionate one.
Carter and Lincoln decide that their princes need to
remove him from office.
Ronald decides Fan Mus going to resist this pretty
heavily, though. They start the scene.
Carter says, Mustafa walks right into the generals
office. General, were going to ask you to release the
governor and step down.
Ronald says, Well, that was forward. The general
laughs. I dont think so, child, he says. I think a
struggle is required for him to even remotely take
you seriously.
Lincoln says, OK. Lets have a struggle. I really dont
like this guy.

All three of them roll their dice.
E Ronald rolls 12d6 for the generals Power

12, and a d4 for the generals troublesome
relationship with the governor, because the
governor is part of what this struggle is about. In
addition, the islands in a state of rebellion, so hes
going to roll 4d8 for the Problem Level, described as
his guards that are in his office. Thats 12d6 + 1d4
+ 4d8: a lot of dice!
Carter is going to roll 11d6 for Mustafas age of 11.
Lincoln is going to roll 6d6 for Bahas age of 6, and he
has a troublesome relationship with the general, so
he rolls another d4. Their rolls look like:
Ronald (General Fan Mu): 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5,
6, 6, 6, 7, 8
Carter (Mustafa): 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6
Lincoln (Baha): 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6
Since Mustafa really started this struggle, Carter goes
first. He raises with his two 5s and says, General,
you dont have a choice. Were putting the governor
back in place no matter how we have to.
Ronald says, Nice. He sees with a 4 and a 6, blocking.
He doesnt get to raise yet, because its Lincolns turn
next. He says, The general just looks at you blankly.
Lincoln says, Im going to try to appeal to his nice
side. General, look around at all the people who are

hurt by this. Dont you want to make
things better? He raises with a 5 and a
6.
Ronald sees with a 5 and a 6 too, and says,
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The General says, Of course I want
to make things better. He raises with a 4 and a 6,
and both Carter and Lincoln will have to see. He
says, Its easy for you two boys youve grown up
around your own kind. Stay here and rule the island
with me, and Ill help you learn.
Carter and Lincoln both grumble. Carter sees with a 4
and a 6, blocking, but Lincoln has to take the blow,
seeing with a 2 and two 4s. He notes that he has
3d4 fallout, because theyre still just talking. They
both describe their characters being taken aback,
and Lincoln says, Baha is stunned at this mans
ruthlessness. He yells out, No! but looks shaken.
The dice now look like this:
Ronald (General Fan Mu): 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 7, 8
Carter (Mustafa): 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3
Lincoln (Baha): 2, 3
Its Carters turn to raise. Because Ronald has that 7
and 8 left, he can reverse the blow with any raise
Carter makes. Carter looks at his character sheet.
He can easily bring the strong quality Im a prince
into this situation. Leadership comes naturally to
me, a troublesome quality, fits as well. Finally, the
ring of the king, a piece of OK stuff, will work. He

rolls a d8 for Im a prince, and a d6 for
E the ring, and a d4 for Leadership comes

naturally to me, and the dice now look like:
Ronald (General Fan Mu): 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3,
4, 4, 7, 8
Carter (Mustafa): 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6
Lincoln (Baha): 2, 3
He really lucked out with some good rolls there.
Carter raises with a 3 and a 6 and says, Mustafa
stands up straight and puts the kings ring on his
finger. By the authority of my father and me, you
will stand down, General!
Ronald sees with a 1, a 2, and two 3s and says, That
was really good! Im going to take the blow. The
general stands up, surprised at your verve. He says, I
thought I served the kings interests.
Lincoln smiles. Weve got him on the ropes now!
Hes only got a 2 and a 3 to raise with, unfortunately.
He decides to pull in his troublesome quality Im a
prince, and his strong quality Im smarter than my
age. After he rolls the d4 and the d8, the dice look
like:
Ronald (General Fan Mu): 1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 7, 8
Carter (Mustafa): 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4
Lincoln (Baha): 1, 2, 3, 6
Lincoln says, Baha also stands up straight and says,
General, according to the ruling of the high court

10 years ago, any member of the royal
family has a military rank greater than
general, and only less than the High
General appointed by the king. That is
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correct, is it not? He raises with a 3 and
a 6. If he raised with anything less, the general could
reverse the blow.
Carter and Ronald look at each other. Really nice
role-playing on that smarter quality, Lincoln, Carter
says.
Ronald says, Ill take that blow, too. He grins kind of
evilly. He sees with a 1 and two 4s. He says, That
is true. I am sorely outranked here. Then he raises
with the 7 and 8 and says, This should only affect
Mustafa. You dont have to see, Lincoln. The general
pulls his sword and he rolls in a d8 and a d4 for
the sword, getting only 1 and 5 and swings at
Mustafa, saying But Ill fix that!
Carter says, What did I do to you? Thats crazy. Ill
have to take the blow and wont be able to beat him
afterwards.
Lincoln says, Let me help! My 1 and 2 arent useful,
anyway.
Carter says, Well, yeah, but then youll get hurt. That
will be just as bad.
Lincoln replies, But you can beat him, and I cant. Let
me do it, please?

Carter shrugs and takes the 1 and 2 from
E Lincoln. OK. I take the blow. He takes the

blow with four 2s and a 4. Or I guess Baha
does. Describe it, Lincoln.
Lincoln says, The sword swings down at
Mustafas head. Baha screams No! and leaps to stop
the general. The generals sword catches him instead
and he falls into a crumpled heap on the floor.
Lincoln marks down 5d8 fallout, which is really
bad.
The dice now look like this:
Ronald (General Fan Mu): 1, 1, 5
Carter (Mustafa): 1, 1, 3
Its Carters turn to raise. He says, Oh, man, you just
made a mistake. I can use my bow and Im a good
shot. I will put down this old guy, general or not.
Ronald says, I give, guys. No need for that. The
general didnt expect to hit the kid. He drops the
sword. I will do what you ask, he says.

Fallout
and change
Once a struggle is over, you roll your fallout dice. If you are the
Guide, you can roll fallout dice for your citizens.
Did you roll any 1s? If so, you get a growth fallout. Choose one
thing from the following list:
Add a new strong quality.

Change a troublesome quality to a strong quality.
Add a new strong relationship with someone involved in the
scene.
Change a troublesome relationship to a strong relationship.
Add a new belonging.
For any of these, you have to tell everyone what happened. Howd
your enemy become your friend, for example?

Then, you take the two highest dice from the fallout
a roll and sum them together.
If this sum is less than eight, youre lucky. You just

take short-term fallout. Choose one thing from the
following list:
For the next struggle, you roll dice as though you were a
year younger.
Add a new troublesome quality for the next struggle.
Lose a quality for the next struggle.
Gain a troublesome relationship with someone who was
just in the struggle with you that you do not currently have a
relationship with. This lasts only until the next time you have
a struggle that they are involved in.
Lose your relationship with someone who was just in the
struggle with you that you currently have a relationship with.
This lasts only until the next time you have a struggle that
they are involved in.
Your prince has to leave the scene and spend some time
alone. (You can only do this if no one wants to have another
struggle afterwards.)
If your fallout sum is eight or more, though, you have lasting
fallout. Choose one thing from the following list:
Add a new troublesome quality.

Change a strong quality to a troublesome quality.
Lose a quality used in the struggle.
Add a new troublesome relationship.
Change a strong relationship to a troublesome relationship.
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Lose a relationship used in the struggle.
Make a belonging cruddy (d4).
Remove one belonging from your character
sheet.
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Write down how your princes cloak was damaged. If you
need to, reduce its die size.
Again, tell everyone how this happened. How did your sword
become cruddy, or how did your loyal dog become angry with
you?
If your fallout sum is 12 or higher, you have to choose from the

lasting fallout list twice. In addition, your prince is hurt. Hell be
fine in a few days, but you should describe how he came to be
hurt.
If your fallout sum is 16, your prince is hurt bad. He needs a

healer soon.
If the other characters can get you a healer, start a new struggle.
Whats at stake is your princes life. The healer rolls his power, but
both of you can add in qualities and relationships and belongings.
The Guide rolls your fallout dice again, plus the Problem Level.
The healer takes any fallout from this struggle. If you and the
healer win, your prince will live. If the Guide wins, your prince
will die.
If your prince is going to die, you get to choose whether he dies

now or whether you have a last scene. This scene can even have a
struggle, but your prince will die at the end of it.

Baha suffers a grievous wound
a After the fight with General Fan Mu, Baha
is left with 3d4 and 5d8 fallout. Lincoln has
to roll this now and ends up with: 1, 2, 3, 4,
4, 6, 7, 8.
His fallout total is fifteen and he has one die with
a value of 1. He lucked out: if his total had been
sixteen, Baha would be dying right now and would
need a healer to live. As is, hes very hurt and will
have to rest for a few days. He has to choose one
growth fallout because of the 1, and two long-term
fallouts, because of the total of fifteen.
He chooses to take a new strong quality with his
growth fallout. He takes Im tough as a pine knot.
Considering he just lived through a war-sword
hitting him in the head, this is certainly true.
For his two long-term fallouts, he chooses to change
a strong quality to a troublesome quality and to
damage his cloak. His strong quality, Im smarter
than my age, is now a troublesome quality. He
describes how his cloak is now stained with blood,
and how half of it is now a dark crimson. The group
talks about it, and decides that the cloak is has not
decreased in ability, so its die size remains the same.
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Sailing
through the
Kingdom
Once the princes leave an island, its time to think about what
they did there. Did they really solve the islands problems? Did
they pick the best way to? Are they better or wiser princes now?
Or are they damaged by their experiences?

These are all topics you should feel free to talk
c about. If youre the Guide, its your job to bring

them up, although its definitely not your job to
answer them.
As players, you should also talk about what you liked and disliked
about the game.
Once you do that, you choose a growth fallout. These were listed
before, and here they are again:
Add a new strong quality to your prince.
Change a troublesome quality to a strong quality.
Add a new strong relationship with someone involved in the
scene. In this case, it should be someone who is on the boat
with your character.
Change a troublesome relationship to a strong relationship.
Add a new belonging.
In addition to that, choose one of the following:
Have a birthday! Your prince is a year older.
Change a belonging from cruddy to good or good to
awesome.
Make a space on your character sheet for a new strong
relationship. You can use this at any time later, even in a
struggle!
Make a space on your character sheet for a new troublesome
relationship. You can use this at any time later.
Choose again from the growth fallout list.
68 Sailing through the Kingdom

Where do you go from here?
Do the princes choose to continue to another island?
Do they go back to an island theyve already been
to? Do they go home? (If any prince turns 13, they
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need to go home.) Talk about what sort of island
you want to go to next, if thats what you choose.
The Guides job here

As the Guide, its your job to push the limits set by the previous
island. If the princes determined it was acceptable to take
something if youre hungry, show that situation in a different
light. Is it still OK to take something just because someone else
has more than you? Push those buttons.
In the default arrangement of this game, the Guides an adult and

the players are kids. Kids can deal with this stuff, and its good
for you to ask them and listen to their answers. Dont fall into
that trap of thinking your job is to teach children by telling them
the answers. Sure, your job is to teach children. The best way to
do that is to give them the tools to learn. Ask questions. Propose
hard situations. Then you can stand back and watch them grow.
Its pretty awesome.
By the way, this works great with adults, too.

Afterword
The Princes Kingdom has been the most fun game Ive had the
chance to write. It doesnt hurt that the game its based on, Dogs
in the Vineyard, is an incredible piece of work.
I tried explaining role-playing games and their appeal to my own

father a few years ago. I said, These games are a moral testing
ground. In real life, Ive never had to make a really hard decision
such as If I see someone hit their child, what should I do? Thats
a really hard question, and I dont want to have to answer it. But
by asking that question in a fictional context and having that extra
70 Afterword
filter of playing a character, I can answer this type
of question and know the answer ahead of time.
Thats a pretty wild thing to say, but I truly feel this
way about RPGs. Ive had the opportunity to ask
everything from When is it OK to steal a loaf of
#
bread? to What would I do if a magical elf swung a double-
ended sword at me? That last one hasnt come up since, but still,
Im glad I know the answer.
This game is the distillation of this particular thing I like about

role-playing games. Its not sugar-coated: you play a human child
in some very hard, probably very realistic situations. But every time
Ive played, someones surprised me by making a hard decision and
carrying it out. I look at the situation and think, Yeah, I could see
a child doing that, and feel a little better about the world.
Thanks
I want to thank Vincent Baker most of all. His agreement to
let me publish this has meant a lot, and his constant advice and
friendship have been more valuable than gold.
Thanks go out to others, of course. Jason Morningstar and Remi

Treuer have listened to me ramble about this game patiently, and
were great playtesters. My wife, Crystal, has put up with my late
nights typing. Ron Edwards, my friend and mentor, has been there
since the beginning, and definitely put up with a lot of my excited
ramblings. Best wishes and much credit go to all those who tried
out this game at Origins and Dreamation 2006.
My biggest thanks, though, goes out to my dad, and to every father

who helps his children become adults.
Afterword 71
The American Friends Service
# Committee
The profits from this game go to benefit the
American Friends Service Committee (http://
www.afsc.org). From their website:
The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression

of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Committed to the principles of nonviolence and justice, it seeks in
its work and witness to draw on the transforming power of love,
human and divine. From World War I, the AFSC has provided
assistance to the victims of war, especially children. Just like in the
idealized world of this game, they realize that most conflicts have
their roots in injustice and work to eliminate injustice peacefully
wherever they might find it.
I strongly urge you to go to their website and see their mission

statement and work. I feel comfortable saying that no purchaser
of this game will find their mission less than admirable. I would
like to quote from their mission statement to close this afterword,
as I think it may well be a good code for your princes.
We seek to understand and address the root causes

of poverty, injustice, and war. We hope to act with
courage and vision in taking initiatives that may not
be popular.
We are called to confront, nonviolently, powerful
institutions of violence, evil, oppression, and
injustice. Such actions may engage us in creative
tumult and tension in the process of basic change.
We seek opportunities to help reconcile enemies
72 Afterword
and to facilitate a peaceful and just
resolution of conflict.
We work to relieve and prevent suffering
through both immediate aid and long-
#
term development and seek to serve the
needs of people on all sides of violent strife.
We ground our work at the community level both
at home and abroad in partnership with those
who suffer the conditions we seek to change and
informed by their strength and vision.
We work with all people, the poor and the materially
comfortable, the disenfranchised and the powerful
in pursuit of justice. We encourage collaboration
in social transformation towards a society that
recognizes the dignity of each person. We believe
that the Spirit can move among all these groups,
making great change possible.
Seeking to transform the institutions of society, we are
ourselves transformed in the process. As we work
in the world around us, our awareness grows that
[our] life must change to reflect the same goals we
urge others to achieve.
We find in our life of service a great adventure. We are
committed to this Spirit-led journey, undertaken to
see what love can do, and we are ever renewed by it.
(from the AFSC Mission Statement, http://afsc.org/about/
mission.html#2)
Afterword 73
A brief history of this game
# I wrote this game in fall of 2005 to celebrate the
birth of the third child of my friends Vincent and
Meguey Baker. I gave it as a present to them, and
Vincent later encouraged me to share it with others.
We decided on a charity to which to give the profits, and Ive
published it for you to hopefully have a great time with. Thanks
for buying and reading this game: I appreciate it.
74 Afterword
Find more resources for
The Princes Kingdom,
including character sheets,
Guide aids, and examples at
www.crngames.com.

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As I write this, my dad is dying.

I think this is a great game. Its a fulfillment, not a copy or

Lets suppose that self-expression matters. Lets say that if I can

In the original afterword, Clinton said that Im a lighthouse to

You know what they say about men and islands.

The Island Kingdom 5

Table of contents iii

Creating your prince 15

Proving your prince 24

Problems and fixing them 49

Fallout and change 63

Sailing through the Kingdom 67

Have you played a

7 it. In a role-playing game, you wont know if youve

The first thing youre going to do when you play is make up a

Its a game for kids and adults

7 a lot of sense for the oldest person in the group to

The first time you play

The kingdom actually its the Kingdom of Islandia, but most

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R and people between islands.

The entire kingdom is run by the king, your father.

There is no telling what all lies out there in the kingdom. It is

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You grew up seeing your father each day. He wore

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Youll see that when you make up princes youll be filling in

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Everybody likes to sit around and make up stories, I think. I sure

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8 now if you want to, although you can. Its a good

If you are the Guide, you have to do this stuff:

10 How to play this game

When you go to an island

How to play this game 11

8 you want your prince to help fix problems.

The princes have to do this stuff:

The Guide has to do this stuff:

Play all the citizens on the island.

12 How to play this game

Try to get the princes on their side.

When a prince goes home

8 (The king has a lot of sons!)

14 How to play this game

Everyone makes up their princes together, because its a lot more

Do you see that it has questions on it? We are going to answer

Creating your prince 15

X England. If he is named Nwete or Shaka, that

How old is your prince? Remember, your prince must be between

16 Creating your prince

Your prince must be either be strong or troublesome at being a

Using qualities to color the world

When you do this, though, remember that youre helping to create

Creating your prince 17

The Island Kingdom

The Island Kingdom

The Island Kingdom

The Island Kingdom

How to play this game