Elliot Davis
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thanks so much for checking out the game! I’d recommend the series of My First Dungeon for a great look at how to play
https://open.spotify.com/episode/37xiJmieyoFjj97WYnCTQs?si=lj5EVE9_T8O_3lSySw2wTA
By items, what do you mean? Time travel devices or something else? The only 'mechanized' items are Your Coin and the 7 Devices. Any other items that you create throughout play are purely narrative.
The Major Arcana would be used like minor arcana in terms of traveling forward or backwards in time. You would travel the number of days associated with the number of that Major Arcana. For example, if The Emperor is the righthand card of your spread and you choose that card, you would travel 4 days into the future.
Thanks for this review! Love the 80s movie comparison, that’s a new one for me.
I’ll note that you can’t lose your character on the first roll. You will become too delicious if you have zero Eldritch traits and then roll another Chicken failure. So you would need to roll two Chicken Failures in a row from jump to immediately lose your character.
Love to hear about your group's playthrough! Definitely can be easy to get carried away with the body horror at times haha.
Thank you for flagging some of these rules clarifications! This game is a few years old so there are definitely things I would like to update at some point when I have the time. These sorts of questions/flags are super helpful for that.
In terms of order of ability, all genes will be used in the Resolve phase unless otherwise noted.
For R - I think your interpretation was dead on! Love that it knocked out the player with 2 hp
For Z - correct! This would not be permanent. Essentially whichever of the split abominations is more "healthy" becomes your main one after this turn.
Thanks again! So glad your group had fun playing :)
Thanks so much! Can't wait to hear what you think of it. There are actually rules in the game for variations on replaying in the same planner. If you want to chat with other folks who have played, there are a handful in the Many Sided Media Discord!
An incredible follow up to the base game that celebrates and dramatically expands on everything I love about the world of Project ECCO. The Broken Watch will bring a new depth beyond what is possible in the base game. The layout and art is striking and I would love to see this in print. Mariko has created something special here.
I don't have any empirical evidence of this but my thought would be that including more special events, namely Entity Encounters and Agency Headquarters, would push the story forward quicker. On the other hand, if you write a device without either of those special events, it becomes something a player could spend more time with without strictly "advancing" the story, almost like a side quest.
Here is a resource for if you are working on a supplemental device!
I say this within but it bears repeating:
This guide has information for how I wrote devices in the writing of Project ECCO. This is not the "right" way by any means. It is meant only to be as prescriptive as is helpful for your project.
Happy designing!
-Elliot














