Hey Hun!

Your (sort of) acquaintance, Karen, contacts you out of the blue with a life-changing opportunity. The chance to make piles of cash - from your home! All you have to do is empty your bank account, acquire and store a hefty inventory of The Product, raid your contacts to create Downlines, relinquish a large percentage of your profits to Karen, and always. be. selling.

Hey Hun! is a satirical one-page TTRPG wherein players take on the roles of new Recruits for The Company, a massive conglomeration and producer of cheap products hell-bent on one thing: complete late-stage capitalism domination at all cost. Fight the system, join them, or usurp power - the choice is yours!

Gameplay Overview

The narrative and tone are fairly open-ended as Recruits sacrifice Downlines to progress the 3 act structure of a one-shot story. Actions are propelled by each player's hand of playing cards (skills). Improving a Recruit's hand of cards (among other things) pushes the plot toward a final showdown.

The only pre-planning required is for the GM to acquaint themself with the plot beat prompts. The rest organically spills out as all players create a story as harrowing, serious, zany, or downright absurd as they like. (If you're familiar with Grant Howitt's one-page work, you're good to go; if not, check him out here on Itch.io or his Patreon!)

Requirements

• (At least) one game sheet
• One Game Master to take on the role of The Company
• 1-4 players to become Recruits
• One standard deck of playing cards per player (including the GM)
• One d20 per player (or a generous pile of any tokens)
• Writing utensil

Optional

• d8 for character creation

Thank you for playing!

Notes

Hey Hun! is intended to lampoon the predatory practices of extra-legal multi-level marketing schemes that prey on vulnerable people for the sake of massive profits (and maybe a bit of human suffering). If you are unfamiliar with MLMs and are curious to learn more, engage with the following:

• The Dream - A podcast series by Jane Marie and Dan Gallucci
• LulaRich - Amazon Prime's documentary series about LulaRoe
• Kate Shellnut's piece in Vox
• Rachel Monroe's piece in The New Yorker

And that's just a jumping off point.