In January 2023 we presented the QAGS Quick Deal featuring QAGS, the “Quick Ass Game System” for simple, fast-playing RPG adventures in any genre. QAGS (“kwags”) can run anything from historical swashbuckling to far-future space opera. Define your characters with six Words (Body, Brain, Nerve, Job, Gimmick, and Weakness), Skills, a Tag Line, and Dumb Facts. A single roll of a 20-sided die decides the success of any action. Use your Yum Yums (edible candy experience points) to re-roll failures, dodge damage, or even take control of the game. As simple or complex as you want, QAGS is great for new players and for seasoned gamers who like improv, weird settings – and snacks.
This Quick Deal had the QAGS rules and some truly bizarre campaign settings: the complete QAGS Second Edition corebook; Hobomancer and the Hobomancer Companion, about Depression-era vagrant wizards riding the rails to protect the mortal realm; the straight-ahead space opera Rocket Jocks; I Psi, about Cold War psychic superspies; Weird Times at Charles Fort High; Roller Girls Vs.; the Musketeering swashbuckler And One For All; and the tantalizingly insane Leopard Women of Venus, based on the work of Golden Age comics artist Fletcher Hanks.
