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the discord link on the page (and in the spreadsheet) appears to be expired. Any chance to get that updated so I can join in? 

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have a look at the font issue. Can't take credit for the illustration: it's a public domain fleuron I found on Wiki Commons. 

I enjoyed playing this game. I'd give other players a few bits of advice, before they start.

1. Roll all the prompts for a monarch and then write their story. Put the events in a different order if it makes more sense. Introduce their spouse or their children at the point in the story when that makes sense.
2. The dice rolls are suggestions, don't let them constrain your storytelling. If events unfold that set up an interesting dynastic struggle, just write about the civil war that happens! Don't let the dice rolls constrain what happens in the story you're telling!
3. Think about gender and power in your world. It's easy to fall into the trap of falling back on sexist stereotypes of the scheming manipulative queen, for example, if you're not aware of how misogynistic a lot of historical sources and old stories are! 

I wrote up some thoughts about my Lineage playthrough here.

Woo amazing! Thank you.

Who else is going all out for nightmare mode? I've hit 2 of the 4 nightmare mode constraints. Another one, no expository text, I might also have acheived, I'm not really sure what it means. I'm at 2200 ish words, so that's going to be hard to cut down to 1000. My submission is a single 13kb txt file containing a complete game that requires no other text. I am feeling pretty happy with how minimal I went.

Markdown? Bah. Who needs all those `#` and `*` symbols padding out your file size. I've submitted a 13kb txt file.

I have a rules question: how does dojo of the flame cluster attacks (add a die to your class pool) work for mage (roll d4 to determine how many d6 are in your class pool). Is it d4+1 d6 or is it d5 d6 or something else?

Are there plans to create a WHITE version like for HARDCASE? I tend to read games on an e-ink tablet and it does not really like green-on-black...

I had been reading Ironsworn and I saw the game jam so I decided to try something out. I have a couple of other game jams I've signed up for to try out other small ideas. I'll definitely keep you in mind if I'm looking for collaborators, thanks for organising the jam.

Thanks. I'm glad I got something submitted. I wanted to do a lot more (I have a bunch of notes) but it'll be a good few weeks before I have time to get back to it...

That's kind, thanks. But I will probably have something written up by the deadline.

Oh woops. I leaked my inspiration in the Introductions post. Anyway, my plan is to do a sort of hack/supplement for Ironsworn that makes it play more like The Witcher. The idea is your main vow is replaced with a commitment to kill a specific monster. You then need to find out information and acquire specific stuff (and maybe allies?) to make your task easier. These sub-tasks then translate into advantages that make the actual mosnter fight at the end easier. 

Hi there. I am planning to write a The Witcher themed hack of Ironsworn, but I have two small kids and a history of signing up to jams and failing to submit anything. So we'll see how it goes. I like my current plan because you could basically already run a game of Ironsworn where you imagine yourself as a kind of monster hunter for hire, so there's actually not much I need to do to make this work. Depending on how much time I get I will add bells and whistles and more stuff. One of my kids has a cold though, so I might end up not getting anything on paper before the end of the jam. Let's hope I get something written...