The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men

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Bake up a Cookie

Third Background:

Zen Cookie
Through its existence, no matter how short, every living being, food or consumer, goes through experiences and learns from them. Growing apart from your origin to a unique creature is a large part of survival. How has your Gingerbread Cookie spent the days since emerging from the Oven?

The third and fully unique Background, you must choose for yourself. Zen Cookie. This will represent your personal area of experience, and offer an advantage whenever you do something similar in the future.

Examples of this Background are "Freedom Fighter", "Tree Climber", "Channel Surfer", "Cookiesmith Apprentice", "Sugar Cookie Translator", and "Accountant". What the last cookie is accounting for, we're not exactly sure, but he gets an advantage while doing it.

Important Non-Player Cookies

The Oracle

The Oracle is a dusty old cookie from several years back who spends her time on top of the refrigerator. While many Gingerbread Cookies believe in her strange powers, others think the crone is simply eccentric, making up all her predictions.

Believing herself to be the protector of secrets, the Oracle bewitches Gingerbread Henchmen to bring offending Cookies to her. If the Oracle thinks too many other Cookies know your secret, believes you have a dangerous secret, or suspects that you have no secret, don't be surprised to hear a heavy knock on the door of your gingerbread house.

Some Sweets

Similar to sugar cookies, Gingerbread Cookies are often smothered with frosting below the neck. After that, they are adorned with a wide variety of sweets to give them more personality. (At least that is what the grown-up humans think.) From a Gingerbread point of view, the candies are not decorations, but instead magical tools and weapons.

Black Licorice

Two-inch strips grow to a two-foot long of miniature ladder. Going up?

Candy Corn

One piece can be used as a knife, and will be sharp enough to cut or puncture anything that isn't human or animal. Glows when giant spiders are nearby.

Starburst Mints

This floats on water, and is steady enough that a Gingerbread Man can stand on it.

Gumdrops

Not magical, but possibly handy.

What Other Ideas?

Neighbor Cookies

Crumble and crumble alike. You've wrapped up your latest case, when who should stumble over the fence but some funny shaped gingerbread cookies from next door. They say that somecookie fell into the pool. And their Baker lost her recipe. And do you have some spare tacks and hands to help hold up the lights?

For more ideas not published here or in the printed book, keep an eye on the Gingerbread Men tag page.