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Jam Goals

With more than 150 Breathless games in English, 100 in Japanese, and multiple widely successful Breathless game Kickstarter later (Stoneburner, FACILITY, SYMA), we’re finally here.

This is the Breathless Jam 2!

The Breathless community has grown beyond all of my expectations, and this jam is a celebration of your creativity, passion, and the countless stories you’ve brought to life.

Whether you’re a returning designer or joining for the first time, welcome.

For this jam, you have two ways in which you can participate:

1. Design an Adventure for Breathless:

This time, we’re especially encouraging designers to create adventures for Breathless itself! Whether it’s a one-shot, scenario, or campaign, we want to see your best ideas for play at the table.

We are on the lookout for high-quality adventures to license and bring to print for a secret Breathless project. Imagine your adventure being printed and distributed thousands of times across the world!

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If you submit a Breathless adventure, you may be contacted for an exciting opportunity for the next step of the Breathless world
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2. Create a Breathless Game:

Use the Breathless Creator Kit to design your own game. Hack the mechanics, invent new settings, and make it your own!

What is Breathless

Breathless is a survival horror role-playing game featuring dreading mechanics. Every skill check brings you one step closer to more dangerous situations. Characters are talented and proactive, but the path that lies in front of them is perilous. They will face difficult tasks, try to catch their breath, scavenge what they can find, and try to get through in one piece.

To allow everyone to make games using similar mechanics, we've released the Breathless Creator Kit. This SRD is free and open licensed, including the core mechanics and designer notes for you to copy, hack, and adapt into your own Breathless games.

The goal behind Breathless Jam 2 is for you to take this SRD and make it your own—whether through a new game or a thrilling adventure for Breathless. There is no strict theme for this jam: let your creativity guide you.

The Breathless SRD is both a great entry point for new designers, while also offering tons of flexibility and hackability so that more experienced designers have lots of fun using it.

Where to Start

The best place to begin is with the Breathless Creator Kit. This kit includes templates, assets, and everything you need to start designing your own Breathless game or adventure.

License: ORC (or CC-BY 4.0)
Assets: Download the Breathless Creator Kit Assets
Attribution Text: This work is based on Breathless and the Breathless Creator Kit, product of Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com/), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas. This product is licensed under the ORC License available online at various locations including www.azoralaw.com/orclicense. All warranties are disclaimed as set forth therein.

Your Submission

Design an adventure for Breathless (especially encouraged this year!)
Make a game using the Breathless ruleset.
Submissions are open throughout the jam period
Missed the deadline? Contact me for a custom submission link!

Price

You can price your game or adventure as you wish: "Pay What You Want," free, or paid.

Promotion

Use the #BreathlessJam2 hashtag on social media, and tag @rpdeshaies to get a signal boost.

Size and Format

Release your Breathless adventure or gam in any size or format. The original game was a half-fold brochure, but you can go as big or small as you like.

License

The Breathless SRD is released under the OGL license. This means you can simply copy and paste the following text anywhere in your document, and you will be good to go:

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Breathless Jam 2