The Penguin Harlequinade

The Penguin Harlequinade is a fast-paced one-shot RPG based on the Italian masked theatre tradition Commedia dell'arte. Commedia relies on stock comedic archetypes (the aged miser, the cowardly soldier, the clever maid, the swooning lovers, the pontificating scholar, the agile but stupid clown, and so on) in lieu of developed characters with realistic goals, and focuses on stock bits of semi-improvised physical and verbal comedy to keep the action moving.

This is a chaotic game about very stupid people coming up with needlessly elaborate plans to accomplish relatively minor goals.

The two files here are the game in its original form, and a version with extra blank pages added so that it'll come out nicely if you print it as a booklet.