Hey Jacob!
I’ll look at your Backerkit purchase and see what is going on there and get the download email kicked off so you can get your PDFs!
There is! We have both the large and small sized journals available in print here: https://pandiongames.com/products/dungeon-year-design-journal
Hey Benji!
The overhaul kind of fell to the backburner as we ramped up on other games, and I struggled with making the update fit within my vision of what Banda’s Grove is.
My current plan is to rewrite the game to be compatible with our newest game, Midnight Muscadines, after we release it. It will take place within that universes’ Quantum Realm, called the Tapestry. I feel like the system I’ve spent the last 9 months making made for Midnight Muscadines fits with what I was originally trying to do with Banda’s Grove.
The readability issue is valid, though. I’ll look to see if I can tweak that on the current version and get you a better font.
Well shoot. It looks like gdocs has changed how things work a bit. I’ll need to rethink how to share this template.
For now, here is the direct link to the google drive folder. If you right click the gdoc files and select “Make a Copy” which will copy it over to your account so you can use it!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mp-WRt8kHuvgQDSdBYoRtz6mefUDPC4K?usp=drive_link
I went back and forth on a lot on whether the family members should consume additional food and water and left it out for now. The realistic answer though is YES. They would consume another Food and Water per person per day. Each member could decide to not eat or drink each evening.
But that felt too brutal even for this game. I may add it in as an optional rule.
Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying it. It sounds like you uncovered quite the story! If you ever post about it, definitely tag me. I’d love to read it and learn more about the cult and the lonely crab god.
For the mechanics: The card draw for the location is only used on the location table and then discarded. Only afterward do you start using the other tables. The idea is that the first card draw is the character arriving at the location, so the investigation hasn’t formally started.
Hints and Hijinx creator here! This is definitely one of my favorite games to come out of the system. Almost Bedtime Theater really took the spirit of hijinks and knocked it out of the park.
The story, clues, and locations are all spot on. The writing is top-notch, and the layout is gorgeous.
Absolutely pick this one up.
Ahahaha, I was waiting for this comment! The images are indeed guinea pigs! This was a simpler, lower budget project for us and the artwork we had was for guinea pigs. However everyone really loved the name “Hamsters and Himbos” rather than “Himbos and Cavies”. So we decided to take some artistic license and live with the mix up of the art vs name.
To answer your question you play as the president of the local book club trying to solve the mystery of why the giant hamsters (or guinea pigs!) have arrived in Willowdale.