Create a beloved TV show and then play through the fandom's favorite low-budget episode in the chaotic one-shot The Bottle Episode. Manage your very limited resources, share a dramatic secret or two, and find out how the episode ends! This game is for 1 GM and 3-6 players, takes 2-4 hours to play, and requires a d6 and a stack of blank index cards.

You are the Chosen One on a team of monster-hunters, and your love interest has just been bitten by a werewolf...

You are the daredevil pilot on an intergalactic spaceship, and the ship's AI has gone rogue and shut down the engines...

You are the brilliant hacker on a team of criminal masterminds, and your whole team has been locked in the vault in the middle of your greatest heist yet...

And your show has absolutely no budget for the next fifty minutes of television. Welcome to The Bottle Episode!

The Bottle Episode is a one-shot game for one game master and three to six players. It can be played in two to four hours, and requires a d6, writing utensils, and the free printable game sheets or blank index cards.

In the first part of the game, the GM leads the players through a series of prompts to create their beloved TV show in either the sci-fi, Western, heist, monster-hunters, or sitcom genre. In the second part of the game, the group will play out the bottle episode of the show! 

Game mechanics focus on players rolling a d6 and adding modifiers by spending both personal and production resources.  Once a resource is spent it's gone for the rest of the game - the producers could only afford what's in the pile!