I love playing this game as a way to write letters to my penpal friends. I have even been using my tarot cards in place of regular playing cards to help full out the world a bit more and build the story. Specifically I use the meanings of the cards to help determine how the events play our in my writing and the characters that I meet.
It was a little challenging to get started as I am a visual learner and dyslexic. It took me about 3 test runs to fully grasp how the game works. I ended up creating a little worksheet to help me playthrough the game without always having to refer to the rules. (You can download it here if you want) I understand that there is room for misinterpretation of the rule but I like the structure of having a visual representation of how to play the game. It helps me spend more time enjoying playing and practicing writing rather than getting blogged down in the details.
I took a look at your worksheet and I love it! I often get lost when trying to keep track of resources and other things in games because I write stuff down all over the place. Your sheet is beautifully designed and I've found it super helpful. Thank you so much for making it available! :)
I’m not dyslexic that I know of, but have had a bit of trouble organizing mentally lately. This is really gorgeous to start, and is such a tidy little template! I will certainly use this, and maybe even create a page to use myself for assorted other trackable things - character / familiar details (maybe familiar’s silly adventures?), wands, upgrades to tools, location unlocks, reagent shelf stock…anything else I’m forgetting…
my friend is brazilian and therefore poor please make more community copies i would really appreciate that i am sorry for rudely harassing you, please have a good day BBB)))
I have a question, though I haven’t started playing yet. I’m starting by drawing a village map. I see the tinker expansion adds a new workshop building, would you able to say if there will be any more expansions with new village buildings in the near future?
I always picture the Workshop as being separate from the village. Most of the expansions so far are separate from High Rannoc except for the Familiar Shelter which is near High Rannoc. Sorry if that's no help.
The page number references in the text of the printer friendly version are incorrect. There're only a few and it's quick to correct on the printout. The TOC is correct.
Many of the page number references in the printed version from blackwellwriter.com are also incorrect, making it a bit harder to play. Sad, as I bought it as a present.
A minor question, and definitely falls under the “misinterpret rules” command, but I notice that their are several reagents listed under a locale (i.e. mountain) that also show another locale available from the beginning (I.e. forest, or village). Is there a reason why the reagents are listed under specific locales rather than by alphabet? (Narratively, I’ve said it’s the order the witch discovered them, but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing something!)
Just to be thematic really :) I tried to create the feeling of flicking through all the witche's old tomes to find the right reagents and sorting by locale felt best to me.
Is there any chance this game might have Community Copies available?
I’m really sorry if this is rude. When turned into my country’s currency USD is terrifyingly expensive. Please ignore or delete this if I hurt your feelings.
You’ve created a really wonderful game here! My 7 year old and I just spent the whole weekend playing. We’re having so much fun inventing villagers, running around collecting pretend reagents, and coming up with stories about the events! We’re both just completely enamored with the game. Thank you so much for making it!
You could probably complete an Ailment in like 5 to 15 minutes (more if you really sink into it and write a lot) but to get to the highest Rank, find the missing witch, and see all the locales will likely take multiple hours over multiple sittings.
Think of it as something you can come to whenever you like rather than a game to be completed.
I am the same! My first week ended up being about 6 pages of me rambling about the various events, locations, peoples, and my witches random thoughts. I am not sure I will ever get to Winter!
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I love playing this game as a way to write letters to my penpal friends. I have even been using my tarot cards in place of regular playing cards to help full out the world a bit more and build the story. Specifically I use the meanings of the cards to help determine how the events play our in my writing and the characters that I meet.
It was a little challenging to get started as I am a visual learner and dyslexic. It took me about 3 test runs to fully grasp how the game works. I ended up creating a little worksheet to help me playthrough the game without always having to refer to the rules. (You can download it here if you want) I understand that there is room for misinterpretation of the rule but I like the structure of having a visual representation of how to play the game. It helps me spend more time enjoying playing and practicing writing rather than getting blogged down in the details.
I took a look at your worksheet and I love it! I often get lost when trying to keep track of resources and other things in games because I write stuff down all over the place. Your sheet is beautifully designed and I've found it super helpful. Thank you so much for making it available! :)
I’m not dyslexic that I know of, but have had a bit of trouble organizing mentally lately. This is really gorgeous to start, and is such a tidy little template! I will certainly use this, and maybe even create a page to use myself for assorted other trackable things - character / familiar details (maybe familiar’s silly adventures?), wands, upgrades to tools, location unlocks, reagent shelf stock…anything else I’m forgetting…
Many thanks for the tool!
These are amazing! Thank you ! :
my friend is brazilian and therefore poor please make more community copies i would really appreciate that i am sorry for rudely harassing you, please have a good day BBB)))
I have a question, though I haven’t started playing yet. I’m starting by drawing a village map. I see the tinker expansion adds a new workshop building, would you able to say if there will be any more expansions with new village buildings in the near future?
I always picture the Workshop as being separate from the village. Most of the expansions so far are separate from High Rannoc except for the Familiar Shelter which is near High Rannoc.
Sorry if that's no help.
That was really helpful, I can finish the map with out overthinking where to leave space. I can always redraw it down the road if need be. Thank you.
The page number references in the text of the printer friendly version are incorrect. There're only a few and it's quick to correct on the printout. The TOC is correct.
Many of the page number references in the printed version from blackwellwriter.com are also incorrect, making it a bit harder to play. Sad, as I bought it as a present.
A minor question, and definitely falls under the “misinterpret rules” command, but I notice that their are several reagents listed under a locale (i.e. mountain) that also show another locale available from the beginning (I.e. forest, or village). Is there a reason why the reagents are listed under specific locales rather than by alphabet? (Narratively, I’ve said it’s the order the witch discovered them, but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing something!)
Just to be thematic really :) I tried to create the feeling of flicking through all the witche's old tomes to find the right reagents and sorting by locale felt best to me.
<3. Awesome! I was hoping it was something like that, and not me missing a major rule somewhere ! :)
There are now :)
Thank you so much!!!
Is there any chance this game might have Community Copies available?
I’m really sorry if this is rude. When turned into my country’s currency USD is terrifyingly expensive. Please ignore or delete this if I hurt your feelings.
There are now. Have at it.
Thanks so much!
I am loving this game! I am playing with a set of tarot cards and it works wonderfully!
Is there a community of players somewhere?
Awesome :D and yeah there is: https://discord.gg/GygdYnA
We share journal entries, homebrew content, and discuss all of my games in the Discord above :)
You’ve created a really wonderful game here! My 7 year old and I just spent the whole weekend playing. We’re having so much fun inventing villagers, running around collecting pretend reagents, and coming up with stories about the events! We’re both just completely enamored with the game. Thank you so much for making it!
I got my paper copy in today from Kickstarter? What is the estimated playtime? I guess what I am asking is if it is reasonable for one sitting.
You could probably complete an Ailment in like 5 to 15 minutes (more if you really sink into it and write a lot) but to get to the highest Rank, find the missing witch, and see all the locales will likely take multiple hours over multiple sittings.
Think of it as something you can come to whenever you like rather than a game to be completed.
I gave it a go, and, yep, it is a full on campaign! I wrote about two pages of prose for my first "week".
Awesome! :D
I am the same! My first week ended up being about 6 pages of me rambling about the various events, locations, peoples, and my witches random thoughts. I am not sure I will ever get to Winter!