Adventure Hooks: Mini-game to Create your Next Adventure Beginning

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About a week ago as I was falling asleep I somehow thought up a mini-game centered on how to start your next RPG campaign.

Short description: A player declares a genre and each player gets six cards (two verbs and four nouns).  Then each player has up to 2 minutes to describe the beginning of an adventure using as many of the six cards as possible.  Once each player describes an adventure beginning, players vote for the best and the winner scores points equal to the number of cards he or she used in the story.  First player to 15 points/cards wins.

It is based somewhat on “Snake Oil” which I’ve been playing with my daughters. Others say it reminds them on “A10” an anime related card game.

Linked here is a PDF of version 0.1.  I hope you like it! Constructive criticism (aside from near-complete overhauls) is welcome, especially if you have suggestions for what noun/verb cards worked well or should be added.