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Had great fun running this as a one shot for my family. It has great art (mostly public domain I believe, but very well chosen and used) and layout. The locations and characters are few enough and simple enough that this is a breeze to prep for, and yet it's still open ended enough that there are many ways it could go depending on the party's choices. 

One crucial recommendation: make sure that the party has a strong interest in saving the ship. The easiest way to be sure of this is to choose your hook carefully.

I used Cthulhu Dark rather than Knave -- to be honest, Knave is far from the first system I'd think to use to run this, and I welcome the news of a system agnostic version.

I think it would take most average groups about 2.5 to 4 hours to run this end to end. Obviously depends a lot on the system and group. 

Definitely play at night for those spooky vibes. And have some stormy ocean sounds ready to enhance immersion.

Sick art!

I have a custom die (label "mydie") mapped to a hotkey (let's say 'm'). When I press that hotkey N times, N of the dice will be rolled and the expression defaults to summing them together. I want it to instead apply NmydieKL.

I can imagine different ways of exposing this. For example:

1. Allow roll conditions to be mapped to hotkeys. So if I map the 'L' key to "Keep Lowest", and if I map the 'm' key to "mydie", then I could press m-m-m-L to roll 3mydieKL
2. Allow custom dice to be given  default Roll Conditions. So if I set up 'mydie' with the default Roll Condition of "KL", then if I press m-m-m the app will automatically evaluate 3mydieKL.
3. Probably other ways of doing it

Alternatively, finishing the “Roll-time variables” feature described in the 1.5 changelog would probably meet my needs. Then I could just set up a saved expression like ~N~mydieKL. But (1) or (2) would be so much more fun! There's something satisfying about pressing a key three times to roll three dice.

Anyways, thanks for this excellent app!

Purchased!

Is there any chance we could get a PDF of the game in Printer's Spread format, instead of Reader's Spread format? Printer's Spread format would allow us to print out the game like a booklet.