A Horse Race Test TTRPG

By Hunter J Allen

The Trumpet sounds and the world falls away. There remains only the track, the flags, and enough room for a champion at the very end. This is all that should matter as mares muscle for rank, but the hearts that ever faster beat do not stop yearning. Bonds both slight and sweet are forged and forgotten in those precious moments of the race. A sidelong glance can speak of the fiercest rivalries and the most longing of unrequited loves. More than speed or strength: heart decides the victor of these harrowed horses. Will their hearts beat to the gallop of victory, in time with another, or halt altogether?

Dead Heat HeartBeat is a TTRPG based on one of my favorite pieces of internet psychosis: Horse Race Test. In this game you and your friends will roll dice, race to the finish line, and spin yarns tied around the hearts of your champion race horses. This is a storytelling game of emergent fiction that I think very well captures the chaotic and meaningful ways in which collaborative fiction can spring from chance.

Included is the PDF of the entire game as well as a PDF of a printable Zine version to be printed double sided(flipped on the short side) and stapled  saddleback style. 

As Horse Race Test by Twitter user @SnakesAndrews is constantly evolving, I plan on releasing DLC in order to capture the oeuvre and stink of current HRT, so STAY TUNED SPEED FREAKS!