The Penguin Harlequinade is a very silly, very fast-paced tabletop roleplaying game by Hugh and Angus Dingwall. It is based on Commedia dell'Arte, which is a very old Italian style of masked comic theatre. Commedia relies on stock characters interacting in a semi-improvised plot which starts from an initial scenario.

A standard Commedia plot might be as follows:

  1. A is in love with B.
  2. B is in love with C, who is for some reason totally unsuitable.
  3. A enlists the help of their friends D through F, who are unfortunately all very stupid. (Optionally, D-F may be friends or employees of B or C in order to introduce a conflict of interest).
  4. Hilarity ensues.
If you can handle the thought of playing a character with the mental attributes of a brain-damaged ant high on caffeine, I humbly recommend The Penguin Harlequinade for your delectation.

You can read The Penguin Harlequinade below via Issuu.com.

Alternatively, you can download pdf versions below.

For those of you who favour crushed-dead-tree format over hypothetical-magnetically-stored-ones-and-zeroes format, I recommend downloading the "booklet print" pdf. It is materially identical to the other one, it just has an extra blank page added in to make booklet printing easier. 

 
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