The Fool's Journey

"So you, you have this situation where you're co-creating in an environment where the characters and the players have very different levels of information. And I just love that. I think it's a really fun game."

— Jason Morningstar

Another profitable day of fortune-telling. Truthfully, there isn’t a thimble’s worth of magic in your entire body. The cards, though – those are for real. They never tell a lie, according to the witch you nicked them from.

The Fool's Journey is a one page rpg about cards and secrets for exactly two players. One player plays the fortune-telling Witch, who uses a deck of cards to predict and prognosticate. The other player is the Wretch, who seeks the Witch's services, but is concealing a secret. The Witch has a secret of their own, though.

Over the course of the game, players construct a spread of imaginary cards, deciding through play what the cards look like and what they mean. (If you like, you can draw your cards afterwards!)

You will need: Two players and any deck of cards.

Illustrated by Shafer Brown. Playtested by Marc Majcher and Nic Bennett.