Showrunner RPG

Your Show Is Greenlit. The Producers Have Notes.

In Showrunner, you're playing heroes AND the Stars hired to portray them. Your GM is the Director, a collaborator trying to guide you to a masterpiece. Your greatest antagonists aren't the Show's hostile dragons or mega-corps; they're the executive producers footing the bill.

Meet Karen, obsessed with "synergistic development" and "flaw metrics." Meet Larry, a chaotic mogul who thinks your sci-fi epic needs "more horse guys" and "combo moves."

Every session, you receive a Producer's Beat Sheet: a checklist of their absurd, contradictory demands. Hit your marks and you get renewed. Fail, and your Show is cancelled. Game over.

The Screenplay is the Reference
All of Showrunner's rules fit into the concise 20 page Production Bible. The Production Script serves as a backup with "sticky note" rules summaries and extensive rules explanations and examples in play. Even better, you only need to read 2 pages to start your first Show!

A Legacy-Style Campaign
Experience the game’s evolution firsthand. The Pilot Episode begins with a single, elegant 2d10 mechanic. With each new Episode, the producers demand more depth. A new Production Bible update unlocks new systems: from Specialties and Key Assets to Flagship Assets and Faction Turns.

• Learn to Play by Playing: A guided 20-episode "Season One" that teaches the game as you play. Learn the whole system just through reading each Episode's  Production Bible  one-page rule summary. 
• Show Two Fast-track: Includes a guide to skip the roguelike-style unlocks and launch a fully-powered campaign immediately.

The Three Layers of Production 
Every decision happens on three levels:

1. You and your friends, the real people telling the story.
2. You as the Director and Stars, managing meta-currency like Grit and Plot Armor to steal the spotlight or demand a retake.
3. You as the Characters, the heroes of a story unaware of the corporate chaos scripting their fate.

What's Included?
This complete set contains everything you need to run countless seasons of television:

• Show One: A meta-narrative adventure that unlocks the rules episode by episode.
• Beat Sheet System: An innovative tool that drives the meta-plot, teaches the rules in increments, and makes every Session a high-stakes performance.
• Director's Cheat Sheet: A comprehensive reference guide for running the game smoothly from day one.

Deep, Evolving Systems:

• Influence: Demand a Retake, steal the Spotlight, or burn your Plot Armor to survive.
• Action Sequences: Choreograph multi-stage heists and battles with a collaborative "combo" system.
• The Writer's Room:  A powerful solo engine for the Director that brings the world to life between sessions.
• Flashbacks and Time Jumps: Rewrite the past mid-Episode and shape the future between Seasons.

Will you create a masterpiece that wins all the awards? Or will you buckle under the pressure and be written off?
Find out by playing through a Legacy-style setting-neutral RPG campaign played with the intensity of a Roguelike.

It's time to start filming.