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Basically anything that could be in one of the found-footage V/H/S series of movies would fit. That means rat monsters, freaky weirdos who live in the sewers, people who had their organs replaced with 90s old tech and are somehow alive, forbidden knowledge written on the walls of an abandoned building, all these would be great.

I want to detail weird locations, events. RPG mechanics that almost make sense. Similar to Godhusk, we could have several different potential endings based on which factions were helped, which items found, choices made by the player characters, etc.

Your ideas seem quite interesting!

I am not sure how well a 40k style sci fantasy setting would work with the design goals of this jam entry. It seems like that could make it hard for the book to feel cohesive.

So I think that's probably not the direction I would like this project to go. But if you have other ideas and would like to still participate in this jam entry, we can try to figure out something that works! Otherwise, I hope you find a group that makes your idea, it sounds cool and I hope to see it as one of the submissions!

Your portfolio looks excellent, we'd love to have you on the team! I will start getting a discord server set up so we can all collaborate.

That sounds great, we could use a writer! Welcome on board! 

Yeah once the jam starts we can do a brainstorming session, get a skeleton of what we want the book to look like. Then we can break that into chunks, figure out what parts each person is responsible for, and jump in!

Maybe we can combine ideas. I know almost nothing about WH40K, but I am open to taking your ideas for it and mashing it up with my modern surreal horror setting. 

The reason I want to do a modern setting in found footage style is it is one of the only genres where we can have blurry photographs as the art and it looks like it fits. It's much faster to make, I would guess (but I am not against having artists draw something either).

Maybe having the feeling of 40K modules in a modern setting could help with the discordant out-of-context feeling that fits this jam. We reference factions with tons of lore, replace space orks with something like a drugged up gang living in an abandoned gas station, and that could be a very interesting setting.

What do you think?

Also, what sorts of skills do you have? Are there parts you would like to work on? It sounds like writing parts of it might be up your alley?

I am also looking into a found footage horror book. Maybe we could collaborate! Here is my post. https://itch.io/jam/you-cannot-play-this-ttrpg-jam/topic/6200811/looking-for-col...

Lets make a supplement for a modern surreal horror TTRPG that doesn't exist! 

I want the book to feel like you found a dusty old module for a game you haven't heard of behind the shelves of a local game store. The art is unnerving, but you feel compelled to bring it home, searching through the pages to figure out what sort of game this could possibly be for.

Here is an example of my work.

Design goals:

• Zine sized pdf (probably 5.5in x 8.5in)
  • Somewhere between 12 and 32 pages.
    • Pages in multiple of 4 so it can be printed as a zine.
• Modern found-footage surreal horror vibe throughout.
• This book is the third module in a series.
  • Throughout the book it references rules, NPCs, events, and page numbers from the nonexistent core book and nonexistent previous two modules.
• Gaps left in the module, leaving the reader wondering how this is supposed to be used.
• Inspirations: Liminal Horror, Godhusk.

Important parts and where you can help:

• Layout - I will do the layout using LaTeX.
• Art - help needed
  • I have ideas of using grainy / blurry photos and putting them through a CRT filter to give them that found-footage vibe, but I am open to suggestions.
    • I could also take collaborator photos / art and run them through the CRT filter to keep the art consistent.
  • Cover art
  • Interior art
    • Ideally, at least one image per spread (2 pages)
    • Maybe one full page piece of art
  • Map(s)
  • Embellishments
    • Making the pages feel dusty, etc.
• Writing - help needed
  • Lore
  • Rules text
  • NPCs
    • Factions
    • Different NPCs/factions have conflicting objectives
  • Locations
  • Items
  • Objectives
  • Cryptic GM advice
• Editing - I will be the editor, keeping the writing and art consistent with the design goals.
• Project management - I will facilitate this project.
  • The final PDF will be posted on my itch.io account, all collaborators will be credited.

Optional things:

• It would be fun to mail a print copy to each collaborator.
• There could be an advertisement for other products that don't exist.

Collaboration:

Please let me know if you are interested in collaborating! We can communicate through here as we get ready for the jam, then move to Discord once the jam starts.