2. YOUR CHARACTER’S ARCHETYPE 4.

THE KILLER’S MASK

1-1 Actor 4-1 Influencer 1-1 Alien Mask 4-1 Gas Mask
1-2 Artist 4-2 IT / Programmer 1-2 Animal Head 4-2 Guy Fawkes Mask
1-3 Beat Cop 4-3 Janitor 1-3 Anime Mask 4-3 Hockey Mask
1-4 Bully 4-4 Jock 1-4 Sun Glasses 4-4 Human Flesh
1-5 Cashier 4-5 Journalist 1-5 Ski Mask 4-5 Jack O’Lantern
1-6 CEO 4-6 Nun / Monk 1-6 Bandages 4-6 Mascot Head
2-1 Clown 5-1 Nurse / Doctor 2-1 Big Hat 5-1 Masquerade Mask
2-2 Conman 5-2 Office Worker 2-2 Biker Helmet 5-2 Pantyhose
2-3 Convict / Felon 5-3 Paramedic 2-3 Burlap Sack 5-3 Paper Bag
2-4 Delivery Person 5-4 Politician 2-4 Cardboard Mask 5-4 Paper Plate
2-5 Detective 5-5 Preacher 2-5 Carnival Mask 5-5 Plague Doctor
2-6 Drug Dealer 5-6 Private Eye 2-6 Cartoon Character 5-6 Skull / Skeleton
3-1 Escort 6-1 Psychiatrist 3-1 Celebrity Mask 6-1 Surgical Mask
3-2 Exorcist 6-2 Psychic 3-2 Clown Mask/Makeup 6-2 Theater Mask
3-3 Ghost Hunter 6-3 Socialite 3-3 Devil Mask 6-3 TV / Monitor
3-4 Goth 6-4 Taxi Driver 3-4 Dinosaur Mask 6-4 VR Headset
3-5 Hitchhiker 6-5 Teacher 3-5 Doll Mask 6-5 Veil / Wedding Veil
© M. Kirin, 2023 3-6 Horror Writer 6-6 Virgin 3-6 Eyepatch 6-6 Welded Metal Mask
3. YOUR CHARACTER’S SECRET 5. THE KILLER’S WEAPON
ONE PAGE LEFT is a solo role-playing game about surviving a 1-1 You’re not who you claim to be 1-1 Axe 4-1 Katana
horror movie. Your character will be chased by a killer of your own 1-2 You lost your dream job 1-2 Baseball Bat 4-2 Knife
creation. Over the course of the game you will journal your 1-3 You just lost your partner/spouse 1-3 Bow & Arrow 4-3 Lead Pipe
experiences on a single sheet of paper. If you ever run out of space or 1-4 You are taking care of a child 1-4 Buzz Saw 4-4 Machete
Luck, your story will come to a tragic end. Will you survive the night? 1-5 You recently retired / quit your crappy job 1-5 Cane 4-5 Musket
1-6 You have a physical disability 1-6 Chainsaw 4-6 Nail Gun
2-1 You were recently released from a mental facility 2-1 Claws 5-1 Pickaxe
In order to play this game you will need the following: a six-sided die 2-2 You recently escaped police custody 2-2 Cleaver 5-2 Pitchfork
(d6), a black pen, a red pen, a marker, and a sheet of paper (Letter/A4 2-3 You are obsessed with horror movies 2-3 Crowbar 5-3 Revolver
recommended). Playtime is between 30 minutes to an hour or more. 2-4 You bullied someone so bad they nearly died 2-4 Folding Chair 5-4 Rope & Noose
2-5 Garrote/Piano Wire 5-5 Scalpel
The goal of this game is to create a journal entry similar to what you 2-5 You ran away from home
2-6 Giant Scissors 5-6 Screwdriver
might find in a horror survival video game as part of environmental 2-6 You are camping out in the wilderness
3-1 Guitar 6-1 Scythe
3-1 You recenly won the lottery
storytelling. Expect chaos and disorganization. This being a horror 3-2 You recently got out of rehab
3-2 Hacksaw 6-2 Shank
game mood is of the utmost importance; consider dimming the lights 3-3 Hammer 6-3 Shovel
3-3 Someone you love recently went missing 3-4 Hockey Stick 6-4 Spear
and putting on a spooky playlist (such as this one: bit.ly/onepageleft). 3-4 You got a letter from your biological parents 3-5 Hook & Chain 6-5 Straight Razor
3-5 You got a weird call from your ex 3-6 Ice Pick 6-6 Wrench
You begin ONE PAGE LEFT by creating your character and then 3-6 You recently got out of an abusive relationship
4-1 You recently inherited the family fortune 6. THE KILLER’S TRAIT
the killer. Your character will be trapped in a strange mansion with
4-2 You have been having visions of your own death 1-1 Behaves Robotically 4-1 Horns
this monster hot on their heels. Do each of the following steps in order: 4-3 When you were young you used to talk to ghosts 1-2 Broken Shackles 4-2 Hot as Hell
4-4 You are obssessed with conspiracy theories 1-3 Burnt Skin 4-3 Long Neck
1. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER 4-5 You inherited a strange artifact/item 1-4 Constantly Crying 4-4 Metallic Voice
Pick a number between one and six, write it out as a word in the 4-6 Your blog/channel recently blew up 1-5 Constantly Laughing 4-5 Music Follows Them
1-6 Covered in Mold 4-6 Only Seen in Mirrors
middle of your page, then draw a rectangle around it. This is your 5-1 You are a criminal informant
2-1 Covered in Scars 5-1 Prosthetics
lucky number. From now on (including character/killer creation) any 5-2 There's something only you can fix
2-2 Covered in Tattoos 5-2 Huge Muscles
5-3 Your loved one is in the hospital right now
time you roll the dice and your lucky number comes up, you must 2-3 Cultish Robes 5-3 Rotting Flesh
5-4 Your spouse is going into childbirth 2-4 Clockwork Noises 5-4 Silent Footsteps
draw one symbol of Luck on your page. This symbol can be anything, 5-5 You witnessed a murder when you were young 2-5 Emits Coldness 5-5 Speaks like a Child
a heart, a smiley face, a four-leaf clover, etc. Decide what your Luck 5-6 You just got laid with your dream person 2-6 Emits Fog 5-6 Surrounded by Static
will look like, and draw 1 Luck somewhere on your sheet. 6-1 You're looking for a new start in a new city 3-1 Extra Limbs 6-1 Tall and Slender
6-2 You found a weird book in the local library 3-2 Extra Long Fingers 6-2 Tantalizing Voice
For steps 2-6 you will roll the six-sided die (d6) twice, keping in mind 6-3 Your art has been torturing you… 3-3 Has Gills 6-3 Very Long Hair
6-4 You are part of an affair 3-4 Glowing Brand 6-4 Walks on all Fours
the order of the numbers rolled, then reference the list and record your 6-5 You've been invited to the party of the year 3-5 Glowing Eyes 6-5 Wedding Dress
result somewhere on your page. Do this for every list, then flip the 6-6 You are blackmailing someone 3-6 Has No Shadow 6-6 Wide Frame
page over to step into the mansion.
OPENING SEQUENCE
Do the following three prompts in order:
1. At the top of the page, introduce your character the
same way you would do in a diary. Describe yourself
and your problems but don’t linger…
2. Turn the page upside down and draw/describe the
killer as you would a nightmare.
3. Your character wakes up inside a strange mansion,
their head and heart pounding. Write down what goes
through their mind in these dizzying moments.
[1] You are hiding in a closet.
Through the crack of the door, you
see the killer looking for you.
What’s going through your mind?
[11] You find yourself in a room
filled with strange meats hanging
on hooks. Put your pen in your
mouth and draw what they look
like or write a single word.
[111] You are hiding in a
crawlspace but you hear the killer
nearby. They are repeating the
same sentence over and over.
Close your eyes and overwrite
what you hear.
[1111] You ran into an old
elevator and the doors closed
behind you. You feel the walls
closing in. Turn the page upside
down, then draw or describe the
bizarre control pannel in this
elevator.
[11111 ~ Rat End] You locked
yourself up in the attic of the
mansion and awaited rescue. How
long did it take? Roll: (1) The
longest hour of your life, (2) Until
dawn, (3) A couple days, (4) A
week, (5) You are still waiting, (6)
They are never going to find you.
In the hours where your hope was
tested, you dreamt of a rat that
could talk. Using a marker,
overdraw the rat from your
dreams and overwrite the words
they told you.
[2] The killer bursts through the
front doors of the mansion and
you flee. As you run, you see
bloody words on the wall. In red,
record what you saw.
[22] You run up a spiral staircase
that appears to go on forever.
Draw a spiral, then along the
entire length of the spiral write
down what is keeping you going.
Why do you still run?
[222] You evade the killer by
going down a chute and
something soft breaks your fall.
When you come to, you find
yourself in a room full of bodies.
Using your non-dominant hand,
draw or describe what you see.
[2222] You believe you’ve made
it out of the mansion but find
yourself in a hedge maze. The
killer is hot on your trail. Close
your eyes then, using a marker,
overdraw your way out of the
maze.
[22222 ~ Escape End] You are
running for your life and the killer
is right behind you—but you don’t
stop. You keep going until your
body gives out, and when you do,
you wake up somewhere else.
Roll: (1) You’re home, (2) You’re
in an open grave, (3) You’re in a
padded room, (4) You’re in a jail
cell, (5) You’re in a hotel room,
(6) You’re in a church. Using a
marker, overdraw this place or
describe it, then overwrite the first
thought that comes to your
exhausted mind.
EXPLORE THE MANSION
From now on, repeat the next two steps in order:
1. Roll. You may draw an X on one Luck to increase/decrease the value of the number rolled by 1. Either way,
record the final number on the margins of the page.
2. Using the table below, do the prompt with the number you rolled starting from the top and working your way
down (example: if you rolled 1 for the first time you would do prompt [1], the second time you roll 1 you would do
prompt [11], and so on). Don’t forget to keep track of what numbers you’ve rolled on the page.
DON’T RUN OUT OF LUCK OR SPACE
Overwrite/Overdraw allow you to write/draw over previous prompts. If you ever write/draw over a previous prompt
by mistake, X one Luck. If you ever need to X one Luck but have none left, do the prompt labeled [Outta Luck]
instead. If you ever run out of space to do a prompt, do the prompt labeled [Dead End] instead.
[Outta Luck] The killer jumps out
[3] You witness the killer murder [4] You find yourself in the [5] You find yourself in the
of the shadows and strikes a
someone else. You are unable to mansion’s basement, before the mansion’s chapel. The killer
killing blow. Your story has come
help them. The victim calls out to corpse of someone you knew. murders someone at the altar
to an unfortunate end. You have
you feverishly. In red ink, write Who was this person? How did while hooded figures chant. In red
one final breath, Roll and
down what they said. they end up here? ink, write their chant three times.
overwrite that many words.
[33] You find yourself wandering [44] You find yourself in a room [55] You step into a ballroom full [Dead End] The killer’s got you in
into a room filled with bizarre where the killer stores the trophies of masked people laughing, a corner. There is nowhere left to
works of art. Turn the page they’ve taken from their victims. dancing, and partaking in other run. Your story has come to an end
clockwise and draw or describe Without realizing it, you take one pleasures. Their masks are without fanfare. Using a marker,
the most messed up piece of art in of these trophies. Draw it or nothing like the killer’s. Draw it or overdraw a zero across the entire
this room. describe it. Then draw 1 Luck. describe it. page.
[555] You find yourself in a dusty
[333] You stumble into a large [444] You find yourself in a room [6] X one Luck. The killer jumps
library. Before you is a lectern
dining room with a feast laid housing a strange experiment. out of the shadows and strikes!
with a large tome open to some
out… except the plates are piled You cannot stop staring at that You’re hurt but you manage to get
arcane diagrams. You cannot stay
up with body parts. Using your thing. Draw or describe the away. Roll, then in red ink draw
for long, but you learn something
non-dominant hand, write down creature in the cage, then using a that many scars across the page.
about the killer. Record your
what goes through your mind. marker overdraw a cage around it.
findings.
[3333] You find yourself in room [4444] You hear awful screams [66] X one Luck. You find
[5555] You find yourself in the
that houses an open casket. The coming from a nearby room. yourself in the killer’s secret
mansion’s depths, surrounded by
corpse within is dressed as though Through the crack of the door you chambers. Inside this accursed
walls of carved rock and earth. At
for a funeral. For a moment of see the killer torturing another place, you learn the killer’s
the back of this place you find a
madness, you think you hear the victim. In red ink and using your motives and their connection to
shrine to the killer. What does it
corpse speaking to you. In red ink, non-dominant hand, write down the mansion. In red ink, write what
look like? Draw or describe it.
write what you think you heard. what you hear. you’ve learned.
[666 ~ Killer End] X one Luck.
[33333 ~ Scar End] The killer has
[44444 ~ Mirror End] You find You and the killer clash on the
you trapped with your back to the [55555 ~ Cult End] The killer has
yourself inside an impossible rooftop of the mansion. Driven to
mansion’s balcony. Faced with dragged you into a dark room. All
room. The walls, floor, and ceiling survive you take the killer’s
certain doom, you jump into around you are hooded figures
are covered in rust. As your mind weapon and strike back at them.
darkness. When you come to chanting in a strange language.
begins to slip away, you find The killer falls! What happens
you’re in a hospital—you’re alive You are taken to the center of the
yourself looking into a mirror. next? Roll: (1) You don the
but you’ve suffered a terrible loss. room. You are to be sacrificed, but
What do you see? Roll: (1) The killer’s mask, (2) You awake in a
Roll: (1) You lost a part of your to whom? Roll: (1) God, (2) The
Killer, (2) Your Final Moments, hospital room, (3) You are
body, (2) You lost one of your Devil, (3) The Mansion, (4) An
(3) A Shadow Shaped Like a victorious but succumb to your
senses, (3) You lost someone dear Eldritch Monstrosity, (5) A Living
Person, (4) A Monster, (5) A wounds, (4) You awake in jail as
to you, (4) You lost your future, Shadow, (6) The End of the
Child, (6) An Animal. Your mind the lead suspect in the murders, (5)
(5) You lost your spark, (6) You World. In your final moments you
is broken beyond repair. Using a You are reunited with your loved
lost an item dear to you. Using a see a symbol appear on your skin.
marker, overdraw a mirror, then ones, (6) You watch the mansion
marker, overdraw what the killer Using a marker, overdraw the
overdraw or overwrite what you collapse. This movie has come to
took from you, what you will brand that foretells your doom.
see inside of it. an end, overdraw your final
never get back.
message before the credits roll.