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THE CODE LUDUM OF LORD GAME JAM

Let your most ambitious TTRPG cosmology unfold from your tiniest zine! 

Put more plainly, the goal of this this jam is to create a system-agnostic RPG setting supplement, with an emphasis on cosmology. Make up a whole world, fill it with gods or faeries or spirits or eldritch forces, and describe it in a tiny white book!

Presented in celebration of Quinns Quest Play to Find Out - Season 3: Nobilis.

THOU SHALT SHOW DEFERENCE TO THE GREAT WHITE BOOK

  • In its aspect, let your entry be square
  • In its scale, let your entry be no larger than 5.5" x 5.5"
  • In its aesthetic, let your cover have ample white space
  • In its page count, let your entry be modest — 8 is a nice place to start

THOU SHALT SHOW AMBITION IN YOUR CREATION

  • Create a cosmology describing the nature of reality and the powers that shape it
  • Let your imagination free — you may hew closely in theme to the world of Nobilis, or you may diverge wildly: squabbling gods, faerie courts, the scheming embodiments of abstract concepts, or something much much stranger
  • Fill your cosmology with conflicts and tensions that create opportunities for play
  • Craft your Tiny White Book as a pile of snow upon a raft such that the iceberg it implies would sink the mightiest ship
  • Let your setting be free from system, such that any TTRPG may take on the mantle of your world
  • Should your ambition be great enough, let these rules bend before you, as you embody instead their very spirit

THOU SHALT ACCEPT THESE CONDITIONS

  • Thou shalt not use generative AI
  • Thou shalt acknowledge that this is an unofficial fan jam that is unaffiliated with Quinns' Quest and Play to Find Out 
  • Thou shalt acknowledge that this is an unofficial fan jam that is unaffiliated with Jenna K. Moran and Nobilis

THOU SHALT ENJOY THE ENTRIES FROM PAST PTFO FAN JAMS