#RPGaDAY2015 – Day 7 – Favorite free RPG: Thomas Munier’s Inflorenza (in French)

#RPGaDAY2015 – Day 7 – Favorite free RPG: Thomas Munier’s Inflorenza (in French)

Inflorenza is a very distinctive game. Either in totally shared authority, either in a more traidtionnal GM+players way, you play heroes, bastards and martyrs in the forest hell of Millevaux, a post-apocalyptic Europe covered by a nasty, insidious, strange, mutant forest, where the oblivion syndrome makes people forget and destroyed civilization, where the Egregore field permeates everything, links every subconscious mind and gave birth to the Horlas, mystical, magical, monsters. Will you survive? What will it take? The game system is as specific as the game world: PC are defined only by sentences (they start with only one) that accumulate or are crossed out on their sheet depending on how the game goes. It’s a game where love, poetry or sadness can kill you or save you, where you might be able to destroy an army with a song or a single word, be defeated by remembrance or oblivion, destroyed in your dreams or become a legend.

It’s available in a variety of formats, some of which some of which are free (as in free beer), while others are pay-what-you-want, including the very nice handmade gamebook. There is also a fixed-price book on Lulu. They are kind of free-as-in-free-speech. Currently they are licensed as CC-BY-NC (not truly free, then), but Thomas is progressively moving all his work to Public Domain.

It was Game of the Month in May 2014 on the outstanding French rpg reference site legrog.org.

If you read French, check it out, it's well worth it.
http://outsider.rolepod.net/millevaux/inflorenza-2/