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A jam submission

Solo TTRPG: The Descent - Community VersionView project page

A Solo Assignment for Candela Obscura
Submitted by Nostromo's Reliquary — 26 days, 20 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
IDEA | Was this game super interesting or innovative#1072.4493.000
MOOD | Did the game have atmosphere or make you feel something#1082.4493.000
FUN | Was the game satisfying to play or did it bring you joy#1092.4493.000
Overall#1432.0412.500
VISUAL | Did the game have nice graphics or art direction#1492.0412.500
AUDIO | Did the game have great music or sound design#1700.8161.000

Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Let people know how long you've been working on the game
This one... writing the initial seed story (which is a multi-player TTRPG module) was about 6 months ago. Turning it into a solo adventure, that project basically burned through me like a fever. I wrote it throughout December, and then we finished the closed beta in early January :)

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Im pretty new to ttrpgs so I was a bit lost but I was trying very excitedly!

This is really cool. I spent the last few hours running through it but im still at the beginning because im trying to understand the rules. I thought I could make a character, then found that I should only be making characters based on whats currently allowed maybe if you havent purchased the full multiplayer game? Then I just went with it but the online character creator seemed to be geared toward multiplayer because it started asking about relationships. But Im just now realizing there was a portion of the pdf that I had missed because originally I saw a link that said "begin your investigation" on page 4 but im now realizing that the link doesnt start me where im supposed to be, it starts an experienced player where theyre supposed to be

I have been looking for a good solo ttrpg because most people I know flake on rpgs and none of us are good gms so....this is a great thing. I didnt get far enough to really get into it yet but im gonna have to come back to it this friday because man...you have set up a GREAT mood!

I realized when I started talking to people that I must have missed something because its talking about cards and sway and I thought we were still barely into creating our character(which I did a few times because the order kinda seemed like "create your character's story and reasons for doing things based on entry 1" then it turned into "entry 2 - choose a preset character or create one base don a preset character thing(I still think there are some rules for a custom character class that I missed - Ill go back and look) and also your relationships, background, questions and motivations" to entry 3 of "okay now choose what secret motives you have also rechoose your background".

My biggest problem is im having trouble knowing what to do and what we were about to do because some of the text implies I should do it and then it tells me to choose from a list in the entry afterwards.

But Im excited to go back and try again when I have a bit of free time this weekend because it seems really awesome and like I just need to read it carefully and maybe peek at the next section before completely making my decisions.

Great job on the mood, great job on the characters, great job on alot of it - I think its mostly my fault for being pretty new to ttrpgs - maybe the feedback is helpful coming from an inexperienced player or maybe I just need to read better. 

Also...totally love the anchor-linked text. Just skips you to the right stuff - man that makes it so easy though on the spots where I needed it. Gonna show this to a few people and see if they like it.

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Thanks, glad you like it! Let me know how it goes :)