"Be birds. Do crimes." That about sums it up!
I was at my favourite game store the other day, drooling at their wonderful RPG collection, when I found this little gem. I hadn't been meaning to get anything, but it was small and cheap and... pigeon heist!
Pigeon's Eleven is a one-shot based game where everyone makes a criminal bird and then does a heist in order to get food. It's deeply silly and full of bird puns. The central mechanic of the Polymorph system is that each character is represented by a different die. Different actions require specific numbers to be rolled, so you have different odds on achieving particular actions based on which die you're rolling. There's also a player-controlled NPC, 'The Nest', who's the equivalent of the Guy In The Chair, and the players can get them to activate cool abilities like summoning a flock of seagulls as a distraction. And that's about it!
Character Creation: I got my wife to create this character - she's a fan of birds, silliness and rules-light games. She decided to be a kea, an indigenous Aotearoa New Zealand bird, which is a mountain parrot well-known for its intelligence and criminality. We'll get bonuses to doing kea-like things, like disassembling cars with our beak, A pun name was a must; I suggested Kea-nu Reeves. Kea-nu is a Pro, which means we roll a d4 whenever we want to do something - we have a 1/4 chance of Gadgets, a 2/4 chance of Brains, a 2/4 chance of Wings (movement), a 1/4 chance of Talons (fighting) and a 1/4 chance of Cover (using our cover identity). Our background is the Country Club, which is the closest we could get to 'tourist carpark vandal', and our banditry is Arson & Destruction, since Kea are famous for being able to destroy anything.
And that's it! Super easy and we were giggling the whole time.
Final Verdict: NZers love our birds (we call ourselves Kiwis, after all!) We are 100% going to play this game.
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