Take Your Marks

Take Your Marks - Tabletop Athletics

Roll 2d6. Read the mark. Rank the field.

A fast tabletop athletics game across the ten classic track-and-field events. No decathlon scoring, no points conversion, no maths at the table. Run a decathlon or your own Golden League.

Every athlete is two things: a Grade (1-10) and a Lean (the event family they specialise in). Roll 2d6, read the finished time or distance straight off the chart, then roll a d10 and write it on the end as the final digit. A cell of 10.3 with a d10 of 7 is 10.37. You append it, you never add it. That d10 is also the photo finish.

One event takes two minutes. A ten-event meet with a medal table takes an evening. A full season is a campaign.

11 print-ready documents. 54 pages. Plus an offline browser app.

The rules, the ten event tables, a meet scoresheet and the narrative tables

Roll Up an Athlete - 2d6 grade curve, d66 names, nations, temperaments. A fresh eight-strong final in two minutes

The Championship - heats, fastest losers, qualifying standards, team scoring, medal table

The Circuit - a seven-meet season where every athlete nominates one meet to peak at. Form, injury, world rankings, ageing, retirement

Fictional Universe - The Six Nations - who Valoria, Kestria, Marenza, Sundara, Norvik and Talis are, and ten editions of the Meridian Games already on the roll of honour

Athlete cards nine to a page, and a records and almanac sheet

The Meet Roller app - single HTML file, runs offline, editable field, JSON import and export

The athletes and nations are invented, so it never goes out of season and never plays the same way twice. Prefer real athletes? The rulebook includes the method for rating anyone from their personal best.

Two dice, a printer and a pencil. That is it.