My Life with Master is an independently published role-playing game written by Paul Czege and published by Half Meme Press (it was first released at the 2003 Gen Con gaming convention).

My Life with Master is a game about role-playing the servants or minions of an evil Master or Mistress.

Like most role-playing games, there is a Gamemaster (GM). In this case the GM plays the part of the Master. However, the GM and players together are supposed to "design" the Master, in terms of defining his "Wants", "Needs", "Aspect", and "Type".

In addition, it also won the 2003 Out of the Box Award for Best Sui Generis RPG

and the 2003 Indie Roleplaying Game of the Year.

Steve Darlington, in his review, stated that "even if you never play this game, you will be smarter simply for having read it" since "it quickly becomes hard to distinguish [Czege's] choice of attributes from a high-level academic deconstruction of the character tropes in gothic horror films at a level which could easily be found on a college reading list."

Reviews

  • Backstab #49

References

  • My Life with Master at Half Meme Press
  • Review by game designer Greg Costikyan
  • Half Meme Press Forum at The Forge, mostly concerned with MLwM