Live. Love. Die. Remember by Ray Cox is a role playing game published by Reizor.
The supplement is available as a five page Pay What You Want PDF from itch.io. One page is the front cover and about half the front matter. There is also a second, printer-friendly PDF and a txt file version of the supplement.
The opening paragraphs explain that in this game the player is an AI-enabled humanoid, militaristic robot, or mech, which has fallen in love with their pilot. What’s needed are dice, paper, something to write with and something to write on the skin with. There are tables with prompts and you can choose a random one, select a specific one or have someone pick one.
01: Describe the War explains that this is for some world building, and if there is more than one player, they describe the world together. This is a war… is a d6 table, What were you built for? is a d6 table and When you first met your pilot, what about them seized your attention? is a d9 table (which is odd).
02: Relive Your Memories has a d30 table of memories of the love for their pilot. A number of scenes are chosen, 3, 5 or 7, ideally based on the number of players, with 7 for 1 player and 3 for 4, but it is up to the players. A prompt is picked, a scene based on it is narrated and a tally mark is done.
03: Make Your Choice has the mech make a choice about their future; sacrificing themselves to save their pilot, both dying to aid the war effort or sacrificing peace to keep their love.
Live. Love. Die. Remember in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is short enough that they are not needed. Navigation is fine. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. Bar the cover, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a narrative, GM-less game and dice, despite what it says, are not useful; two of the tables use non-standard numbers for dice and the final one is a choose the result table. This is definitely not a game that will appeal to everyone and many will probably not find it as intense as it is intended to be. Live. Love. Die. Remember can be found by clicking here.
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