Christmas has come early for solo roleplayers. Black Armada, the UK narrative-games studio behind the GM-less horror storytelling game Lovecraftesque, has launched a Kickstarter for a pair of advent calendars that double as complete solo tabletop RPGs, each designed to be played one door at a time through December.
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See how it worksThe campaign, Advent of Adventure, offers two very different Decembers. In Advent of Adventure itself you play the one elf who dodged capture after a dragon invades the North Pole and builds its nest on a pile of undelivered presents, leaving you 25 days to save Christmas. For a darker season there is Advent of Abomination, a folk-horror game in which your character spends Christmas alone in a remote forest cabin and slowly realises they are not alone. Both are journaling games: open a door each day, read the prompt behind it, and respond by writing, drawing or recording a voice note, driving your story to its ending by Christmas Day.
It is a neat fit for the format. Rather than a chocolate you forget by lunchtime, each door is a story beat, and the calendar quietly turns "I should play more solo games" into an actual daily habit. Black Armada is run by Becky Annison and Joshua Fox, long-time champions of small, story-first games, and Annison has been vocal about solo journaling as an easy on-ramp into RPG design.
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Start organising for freeWant to try before the physical version arrives? Advent of Abomination already exists as a print-and-play edition on itch.io for a few pounds. The Kickstarter, which went live on 21 July, is aiming to deliver in early November so calendars land before the first of December.
Sources: Rascal News | Geek Native | itch.io
