Honey Heist

Honey Heist is Grant Howitt's tiny heist RPG about bears with a plan, a disguise, and a deeply unreliable relationship with self-control. It is built for tables that want a complete premise immediately: choose a bear, choose a criminal role, generate the target, and start causing problems.

Theme and Setting

The setting is whatever heist location the group invents, from a convention center to a luxury yacht to a honey vault guarded by suspicious humans. The important thing is contrast: the characters are competent enough to attempt a caper and bear enough to make every subtle plan unstable.

How Play Feels

Play moves quickly because the rules keep decisions simple. A roll usually tests whether a bear can stay Criminal or slips toward Bear. Success moves the plan forward; failure usually creates a visible mess, a broken disguise, a chase, or a new excuse for the GM to escalate security.

What Makes It Distinct

The Bear/Criminal tension is the whole engine. Many one-page RPGs are jokes first and games second; Honey Heist works because the joke creates real table pressure. Players are constantly deciding whether to stay professional, indulge bear instincts, or turn a botched scene into a bigger gag.

Where It May Not Fit

It is not built for long campaigns, detailed character advancement, tactical combat, or serious genre emulation. Use it when the group wants a complete comic one-shot in one sitting and is comfortable making bold, silly choices without much mechanical scaffolding.