Tales from the Low Cantrefs is a hearth fantasy game about youths coming-of-age amidst a slowly-gathering apocalypse. Emphasis on *slowly*. You play out the stories of villages across the land, decades apart, as the Cantrefs slowly darken. And with each tale's end, you mark new stanzas of Doom...
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Tales from the Low Cantrefs is a hearth fantasy game about youths coming-of-age amidst a slowly-gathering apocalypse. Emphasis on *slowly*. You play out the stories of villages across the land, decades apart, as the Cantrefs slowly darken. And with each tale's end, you mark new stanzas of Doom...
Hi TTRPG folks! Trying to be more active here. I'm Luke and I'm working on: - Heaven in the Dust (Greek Tragedy in the Dustbowl, Hadestown vibes) - Tales from the Low Cantrefs (Coming-of-Age Hearth Fantasy, Sabriel vibes) - The Bitter litany (Fantasy Courtly Intrigue and Hard Choices, GoT but good)
1. Night Witches - prestige TV 2. Girls of the Genziana Hotel - A24 film 3. Under Hollow Hills - performance art / immersive theater / circus
Setting aside the works I've already designed games in response to (Hadestown, Realm of the Elderlings, Old Kingdom, Chronicles of Prydain), let me see... 1. The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper) 2. Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic or Tortall novels 3. A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)
Connie Chang's Godkiller is crying out to be dug into, anything by Rae Nedjadi, the works of Jeeyon Shim & Shing Yin Khor (either together on Field Guide to Memory or apart), Vee Hendro of the Storybrewers, Kavita Poduri (Songs for the Dusk), Kazumi Chin, literally everything Caro Asercion has made
Harvest is a Folk Gothic game of tradition, necessity, and sacrifice, set on a remote & idyllic island where the old ways live on and blessings abound. Like the Wicker Man & Midsommar, it asks the old questions: “Whose blood must be spilled to feed the land?” and “Whose hand will hold the knife?”.
