problem with work on journal game design is that currently have dreams about snippets of journal games that do not exist , and more than that , not actually good or substantial enough ideas to work into anything .

but sort of curious now if any dream journal-based journal games exist , whether framework to play with real dream journal , or just create some weird dreams and then analyse . :P

wonder how people play test journal games , especially just by nature of journal games - want to get really into process , not worry about weeds .

see , kossai get sudden epiphany recently , and now have most of journal game actually write up and just about ready for test - but not sure how to do that because obviously know ins and outs of everything , as well as already have particular ideas and interpretations .

think maybe when done with this document , will upload on neocities and put link to that here on access list , then see if anyone want to read over or try out play . if that go well , would like to put on itch . ( and probably still mirror on neocities , just because mirror is good to have . )

probably thing which most unsure of is score system , and not entirely sure how to test that effectively without literally just roll dice and track different score spreads - in other words , not even really play game !

question from tumblr :
You mentioned something about not leaving haphazard gifts for fae, which obviously makes a lot of sense, though I was curious if there are any basic things to know about the dos and don't of offering gifts to fae? I imagine such things are a case by case basis and would depend on the fae in question and any number of other factors, but are there any things that are good to keep in mind when considering if a gift is more likely to be appreciated or offending?

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hehehe , did hope someone would ask to elaborate on clothes thing - this sound like great reason ! ;D

somewhat long under cut , with thoughts on various kinds of objects - and some non-objects .

just find this one on hunt yesterday . come away is short TTRPG design for 3 to 5 players and one game master , in which band of faeries return home and find poor human visitor . visitor would like to leave - return home safely , sell stolen goods , or even rescue another mortal - but faeries , of course , have another idea .

but , kossai is kossai ! still design 3 player characters , but fill all 4 of these roles - no one else play in cofront , just alone right now to test things out .

and yeah , little bit of juggle between sheets , but really fun ! given short and sweet scope , single setting in 3 rounds , would say nothing like gemulator is necessary . there is only one adaptation which make so far - determine turn order by d6 per each character . this work out because kossai have 3 characters and 3 d6 , so could just roll all at once . highest number go first , lowest number go last . if anyone tie , just roll those dice again and pick next highest from that . :P

could probably fudge around some numbers and rules to actually adapt for 2 or even 1 player character , but think that might be less interest because part of fun is how characters can play off of each other's actions and have different specialties . wonder if adaptation for multiple visitor characters could work - should faeries band together to focus on just one mortal , or will each one go for different mortal ? would definitely need more than 3 rounds , and nerf attention damage , unless party was even bigger than 5 . and then at that point would have other adaptations to make , so pbffft .

oh , and yes , did successfully ensnare mortal in faerie realm :3

now that actually better at draw fat faces in this style , should really draw new icons , but pretty sure old posts will be stuck with old icons - no way to update pictures associate with specific keywords , right ?