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A Little Game about Little Heroes

Writing/Layout/Design John Wick  Wicked Editrix Annie Rush Special Thanks to Jared Sorensen  For helping me throw out the (litter) box. Extra Special Thanks to Cobb Still Who protects little heroes.

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Cat: A Little Game about Little Little Heroes Heroes is © and ™ 2004 by John Wick. All rights reserved by the Author, Author, published here under permission. Any mention of trademark or copyrighted material is not a challenge to those marks. The stories, characters and situations in this book  are entirely fictional. Except boggins. Those are real. Go give your cat a hug.

“I Know I’m Dreaming” Introduction What You Need Making a Cat Character  Step 1: The Traits Step 2: Names Step 3: Reputation Step 4: Lives Taking Risks Easy Moderate Hard Testing Fate Advantage Dice Scars Healing Fighting Fighting Other Cats Fighting Non-Cats Dodging Death Reputation Using Reputation Losing Reputation Getting a New Reputation Lives Style Magic Magic Points The Bauble Curse Getting Wet  No Tail Tail Using Magic Fall on All Fours (Variable) Hide in Plain Sight (Variable) Sneak (Variable) Doorslip (Good) The Dinner Dance (Good) Dream Bite (Good) The Chase Your Tail Whammy Fighting Frenzy (Good) Storytelling

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17 Advanced Rules 17 Increasing Your Traits 17 Legendary Traits 17 Experienced Cats 17 GM Advice 17 Step #1: Writing Stories 18 Step #2: Telling Stories 20 Step #3: Running the Game Storytelling in 22 the Kingdom of Dreams 22 The Quality of Dreams 22 The Dreamer  22 Symbols and Absurdity 24 Exaggeration 24 Time Jumping, Flying and Other Amazing 24 Acts of Physical Impossibility 24  Nightmares 24 Dreaming Rules 25 Cat Adventures 25 A New Secret Secret Name Name 26 Rescuing the King of the Cats 26 Good Dogs and Bad Cats 27 Cross-Genre Cat  28  Natural Enemies 28 A Note on Traits Traits 28 Dogs 29 Rats 30 Mean People 30 Boggins 31 The Green-Eyed Monster  31 The Man under the Bed 32 Ghosts 32 Heavies 33 The Shoulda Brothers 34 Fictional Facts & Factual Folklores 42 Last Words

“It’s about damn time!” -- Yog Sothoth “Didn’t he announce this ten million years ago?” -- Shub Niggurath “I thought he was dead!” -- Herbert West, Re-Animator 

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