This is a great story-telling system! I love moving through prompts and seasons by rolling a d4.
One question though, there are lots of references in the prompts to "your dedicated": Does this have a specific meaning beyond "a recurring character"? I get the sense from the context that there is a piece of the implied setting that I am missing.
Ah! I can definitely do some rewording to help with clarity on that subject.
Prompts with "your committed" are meant to reference the recurring individuals in your squire's life defined by Acts of Commitment-- the idea behind scoring that category every four instances being an evolution of your relationship with a contentious character over multiple intense encounters. Sorry for the confusion!
And thanks so much for your comment, feedback is always much appreciated and I hope you're enjoying the game. :)
Okay, that makes sense. Given that there are only 13 Act-of-Commitment prompts, and your chance of landing on any one of them is about 1/3 (~36%, if I did the math correctly), you will only hit 4 or 5 in an average game. This would tend to encourage developing a single recurring character, but the prompts seem to encourage multiple recurring characters (because the prompts drive the characters' stories in different and sometimes mutually exclusive directions).
As a possible solution, you could encourage a step in character creation where the player outlines several already existing relationships. This would allow the player to connect the early prompts to whichever character makes most sense and give them the opportunity to develop multiple relationships.
In my current playthrough, that is what I am doing. I am also going to try to work them into whatever other prompts I roll (even if it doesn't score commitment with them).