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A jam submission

Dragon CaveView project page

a 12 word solo RPG
Submitted by Doug T (@sweetpowersauce) — 49 days, 21 hours before the deadline
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This was made for the 12 word RPG jam.

It was more fun than I anticipated, and I have never written a table top (or under-table, as is likely here) RPG before. 

I attempted to meet all 3 themes.

Folklore - for me I consider J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis to to have written the most influential "folklore" and I particularly was inspired by C.S. Lewis's Voyage of the Dawntreadder, where Eustace becomes a dragon.

Cartography - I ask you to make a map of where you live, and imagine how the things in your room/house/dwelling would translate to a grand fantasy map.

Forbidden - Only the dragon is allowed in the dragon cave. If there are curious creatures nearby, they out to beware, and heed the roaring. 

I know these seem like a stretch, but so is this whole thing for me :)

As an aside, I'd like to mention that when my 5 yr old asked me what I was doing, and I explained that sometimes adults need help to pretend, and that I was teaching people how to pretend to be a dragon, my child explained that he was a dragon earlier today at his grandparent's house.  Enjoy.

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That's a lovely way to frame it and absolutely true - there's still plenty of people who can just get into play but at least as many if not more who need a little help. :) I think your submission is absolutely wonderful and expresses this...childlike wonder of play that we sometimes forget about. I for one will be a dragon next weekend...