Black Bars - A Redaction Roleplaying Game

Black Bars is a roleplaying game for three people about slipping secrets past censors that want to prevent the TRUTH from getting out. 

• One of you will play the Whistleblower, the one that creates the Secret and the Messages.
• Another will be the Censor, redacting the Messages whilst trying to discover the Secret yourself.
• The last of you is the Decoder, receiving a heavily obfuscated Message and tasked with finding out the Secret.

You can play this game in any setting you want, as long as all the players present have a similar level of familiarity with wherever you choose. It could be somewhere in the real world, the setting of a story you all love, or in the expanded universe of some media you're all deeply knowledgeable of. 

The rules here are very much a short version of the game that puts most of the design pressure on the players. A future version will contain, amongst other things: a mad-libs style system for generating secrets, a dedicated setting with lore to play with, expanded rules and abilities for each player role. 

For now, I just wanted this to exist somewhere so I can point to it for future reference. Hope you have fun with it!

HMLW