Just Another Castle

About

You are a princess with tremendous power. However it seems some facts were mixed up, and now the people thought you were kidnapped by a dragon, instead of traveling to reach your dream of building your own castle.

The situation escalated to the point your family promised your hand to whoever saved you from the castle. This wedding shall not happen! Clear up the rumors (in the game understood as Distortion), seek aid from friends, forces of nature and more, or you can simply use your powers with a cost. Anyway, make sure to choose your own fate!

It's a game about choosing your own fate, whatever it may be.

You will only need

A deck of cards (without the jokers)

A jenga tower (or something you can stack to represent your castle)

Pen and paper

A coin

This game can be played with

One person!

Versions

Just Another Castle_TTRPG(PrintableVersion): One page (printing on both the front and the back). Cut the page in the middle and fold the two pieces of the page in half. You can staple the pages or stitch it as you want.

Just Another Castle_TTRPG(DigitalVersion): I made this one so it's easier to read/play it online.

Inspirations

This work was somehow inspired by material derived from “The Goblin Pulls Out A Gun,” a Viditya Voleti Tech Pack, available by CC BY 4.0 license at vidityavoleti. itch.io. Just Another Castle is not affiliated with Viditya Voleti.

This SRD is really interesting! It got me thinking about the potential of increasing difficulty and the two opposing sides (the Player and the Difficult Situation).

This work was also somehow inspired on Firelights and Hopes & Dreams, products of Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com/), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Especially related to the idea of tracking and boxes/squares that I used in the Character Sheet. Very cool!

Credits

I found the Quarter Size Zine Template here!

Castle (Image) from Hannah Wright on Unsplash

Bricks Texture from Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

Everything else made by me using Google Docs and Canva

This was originally made for One Day One Page Game Jam 3.