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Hum.

I guess there's nothing to prevent you from reusing the same characters and spinning out new situations -- you could even use new playbooks for each character to reflect how they've changed -- but it's very much intended for one-session gaming.

To answer your questions:

1. No, nothing breaks if you just pick the targets.

2. Not all blessings are one-shot problem solvers. Some just open up opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have, like The Devil for instance, which just tells you terrible secrets about people.

When I ran it +33% to +50% was enough obstacles, but if your group have all picked up easy-solve blessings then you might want to up that number a bit. Essentially, you want to force the players to think a bit about what they're doing rather than just spam win buttons.

3. My intent was that each shift should be used once -- a bunch of them don't make sense if they're used more than once -- but that you need room for reuse on some of them in case combat goes on for more than 4-5 rounds. In hindsight Financial Revenge and Game Face should definitely also come with the 'don't use this more than once' note that's attached to Predictable, just for clarity.

Sorry for the delayed response.

"Yes"

Did I say later? I meant now.

Okay, the good news is that I think it's just supposed to be pointing to the Locations, Themes, and Characters table on the back page. I seem to have gone from calling them places to locations while writing the game and never noticed.

I'll push a fix to the pdf later this evening, probably.

Ah, butts. My weekends are super busy so I'm not sure when I'm going to get around to fixing this, but I'll try my best to get it repaired soon.

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, I've been drowning.

Anyway, you're right, that's not very clear. What I intended to mean there by 'feature' is the details of the group of enemies that are present there on this run -- what type of thing they are, what traits they have, what treasure they're guarding, etc. 

That's a good idea. I'll post a couple in a second.

I'm glad you (?) enjoyed it!

Thank you very much!

Hello. Can you add a page-based pdf to the zip file please? Spreads are a huge pain to read.

Yeah, there's a lot you could do with this basic system. You just have to sit down and write all the arcs.  '^_^

I once tried to hack The Quiet Year and there was literally nothing I could change without making it worse. It's a low-key masterpiece.

The link to the itch page for this one 404s. Have you got it set to private?

Page 64: "Moon Ephemera" -- should that be Moon Sentence?

Ideally you can run it with no prep at all, straight from the book, but that does place some demands on the improv skills of your group.

If you do want to prep, there are some sample setups (I think I call them 'playsets') in the book itself. They're basically a 2-3 paragraph setting pitch and a 2-3 sentence idea of what each playbook might look like in that setting, and that should be enough to jumpstart things.

(That said, this is my opinion and I do run an improv-heavy playstyle. If you find differently please say what prep you did that was helpful and what wasn't, and I can maybe incorporate that in the guidelines.)

It's going to be adventures.

I saw the 'four adventures for $8' bundle you have, so that gives me a target quantity and price.

I generally don't bother with community copies because they're a lot of faff, but if you can't afford it just hit me up on Discord (potatocubed) and I'll sort you out with a discount code or a pdf or something.

Not at the moment, I'm afraid. One day I'll finish doing all the cards and go through and tidy everything up and actually put a bow on it and call it done, but not today.

Thank you for your kind words!

'Adventure' is your default arc for if you've got no better ideas, but it's worth looking through the others and seeing if any feel like a natural extension of the story you're telling. Depending on your character's genre Cosmic Adventure and Crime Fighting are both also good basic arcs.

Thank you for your kind words!

Oh, no, not at the moment. I still think it's a good idea but I've moved on to making other things.

I'm not sure what you mean? SIX is finished.

No, I got radio buttons as well. I just selected the one I liked best?

Is there a third-party license for Beacon or are you keeping it in-house for the time being?

Thank you for your kind words!

And thanks to OSP for putting my game in front of 2.4 MILLION subscribers. That kind of thing makes a real difference to us tiny indie creators.

That's an excellent idea! But also a lot of work. If I get the urge to revisit SIX in the future (once it's actually finished, with art and such) it's definitely a thought.

I still plan to update it once I've got the art in. I just don't have the art yet. (You'll know it's the final version because I make print copies available on DTRPG.)

The final size is going to be ~200 pages, give or take.

UU was definitely an inspiration, yeah. 

I've done a little research and LibreOffice doesn't implement VBA in quite the same way as Excel, which I'm guessing is the problem. In theory I could grab a copy of LibreOffice and work something out, but in practice I have eleventy-billion things to do until mid-January so it's unlikely I'll get to that soon, if ever.

Hello -- if you bought the game here then you'll get the updated pdf with the art as well. I'm just going to update the files when they're ready, and you'll be able to grab the fresh new one.

Yeah, I kind of ran out of motivation by the time I'd got to the index.  ¬_¬

Much like TokenOracle, now I've seen it I can't unsee it.

Graphic design is my passion, etc.

https://potatocubed.itch.io/bleak-spirit

Thank you for your kind words. And on Twitter as well!

Thank you for your kind words! I'm always glad to hear people enjoyed playing my games.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! And it's fine to bend the rules a bit to make things come out the way you want -- I do that all the time when I play solo RPGs so I'm not going to start acting like it's forbidden or something.  =P

And thanks for pointing out the xx's. Technically The One isn't finished yet, so I haven't done my usual final checks, but I don't think the rules text is going to change much now.

If I submit something to this jam, it'll be the game I started writing for Beyond the Super Jam but never finished.

And I'd love to see more entries for the Felonious Fauna Jam, which was completely eclipsed by the Emotional Mecha Jam when it was running originally.

It's about as good as it's going to get for a while, I think. At some point in the future I need to polish up the card designs, maybe make them printable, but for the foreseeable future it's going to be this.