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A jam submission

ConthulhuView project page

An Convention of fans and madness
Submitted by KrazyComix (@KrazyComix) — 69 days, 8 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Anticipation: How excited are you to play this game?#402.3332.333
Theme: How well does the game capture the theme?#533.3333.333
Format and Grammar: Does it look like a finished product?#592.0002.000

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Which die/dice is at the core of the game?
D4 and D8

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

So I don't have the ability to play a session within the rating period, so these impressions are just from reading:

The premise is cute. I'd be down for playing something like this.

The presentation however, is very rough. Setting aside the fact that it's a horizontal text box layouted on a vertical page, where ctrl+f doesn't work, some of the wordings definitely need a do-over. The most memorable examples:

  • Satiny roll 3 (Quirk) mentions a double edged-sword but the effect is literally either positive or negative
  • From my understanding, the fact that the PC pro and con is relevant to the d8 rolls is only inferred through context
  • Sanity roll 2 mentions a "negative contition". I assume this can also give context-dependent -1 but that's not explicitly stated anywhere either. Or maybe a negative condition doesn't affect rolls and is just narrative, like the paranthesis at the end of the Sanity Stress section imply?

 To aid with problems communicating gameplay paremters, a structued overview of what a character and round of gameplay might look like can go a long way here. And please use consistent wording for your mechanics, for example what something is called that gives -1 to a roll.

As from the perspective of a GM, some prompts as to what to design for, how long encounters shoud be, etc. would be appreciated.

Gameplay seems very sleek and freeform, which I think fits well with the setting and everything. The core of a fun, chill game session is here, it's just buried in a very inefficient way of communicating information. But like I said, it is an intriguing setting I'd love to explore.