a Song of Dying
A downloadable game
The World is Gone, Only the Song Remains.
My submission for the Souls-Lite TTRPG Jam, a Song of Dying is an ode to dying worlds and creeps that roam them.
A Song of Dying provide a skeletal framework for playing a Soulish game with your friends using mechanics inspired by Forged in the Dark games, 24XX, Soft Horizon, and if you squint, Cairn by Yochai Gal and Block, Dodge, Parry.
Art Public Domain Kay Nielson The Lad in Battle
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this was a really good one page RPG! I enjoy it quite a bit, I'll have to try it out sometime.
Thanks! I just wanted to get something down, and I was pretty happy with how it came out on paper.
Getting a whole system down to a single page is an accomplishment in itself. I like the use of the expanding/shrinking die, and combining Attributes and Equipment for rolls.
I had a little trouble grasping the example of play, and adding monsters and/or items on a page 2 might be a nice way to flesh it out.
You should really check out Soft Horizon. It ran so I could walk :)
This game definitely needs a lil expansion and clarification. The point of the example was to reiterate that you can roll more dice, which increases chances of success, but when any die rolls a 1 or 2, succeed or fail, that die drops down one die size.
Maybe more to your point, though, I didn't flesh out consequences for equipment dipping below d4. I left it open ended so that a referee could say "ok the item breaks," or "your sword is wrenched away from you and teeters on the edge of the cliff face." Which is to say equipment is a bit of a nebulous idea cloud at the moment.