| Puppetland | |
| Subtitle: | A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe |
| Designer: | John Scott Tynes |
| Publisher: | Arcane Magazine, Hogshead Publishing |
| Date: | 1995 |
| Genre: | Horror |
Puppetland: A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe is a role-playing game written by John Scott Tynes.
The game was first published on the author's website in 1995.[1] Its first print publication was in Arcane magazine issue 16 in early 1997, then later by Hogshead Publishing together with Power Kill, a satirical role-playing metagame by the same author, under the title Puppetland/Power Kill. A much expanded edition[2] was published in 2016 by Arc Dream Publishing.
A free edition, including most of the game text is available on the author's web site.
Puppetland/Powerkill was part of a series experimental/alternative role-playing games published by Hogshead Publishing. Other games in the series included the award-nominated The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Münchhausen, Pantheon, and Violence.
In November 2014, an expanded version of Puppetland was successfully funded on Kickstarter, to be published by Arc Dream Publishing.[3]