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Johnny-Mac Willcox-Beney (10 KP) rated The Quiet Year in Tabletop Games

Jul 20, 2019

Gorgeous illustrations (5 more)

No prep needed

Good inspiration for post apocalyptic settings

Great first TTRPG

Cheap! ($6)

Replayable for different communities

Fantastic Post-Apocalyptic Story Gaming

Absolutely gorgeous single-session GMless story centered game. Players must navigate a year in a community after an apocalypse. Each week is represented by a card from a standard 52 card deck, each suit a season.
When a card is drawn it introduces a new choice to be made by a player about your community, with limited organised discussions about these choices replicating failures in communications in real communities. This choice is then represented on a map of your community that you build as you play.
This game is absolutely brilliant as a first TTRPG, a first session to build the setting for a post apocalyptic game in another system or just as a standalone one shot. It only takes one 2-3 hour session, some paper, pens, 6 sided dice, a standard deck of playing cards and the PDF. The questions it asks prompt very interesting ideas about your community to build somewhere that feels alive and fully fleshed out. A great buy!

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Dillon Jacoby-Rankin (202 KP) rated Unstable Unicorns in Tabletop Games

Jan 18, 2020

Unstable Unicorns

2017 | Party Game

8.8

(19 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

High player limit (3 more)

Fun and cool theme

Amazing Artwork

Simple Rules

Confusing rules on the neigh card (0 more)

Crazy fun party game

Players: 2-8
Time: 30-45 minutes

Players: Can play up to 8? Anything that plays up to 8 is a plus for me. We have different player amounts for our group all the time and sometimes you need a bigger game.
Time: Not only is it a larger group game, but it plays fast. Turns are so quick you guys. Read a single card and follow the text. It's that fast.
Simple Rules: Literally your turn is either draw 2 cards or draw 1 card and play 1 card. Then follow the text on the played card and keep up with ongoing effects. Example. The yay card says you can't be neighed(stopped from playing a card). Super simple to keep up with.
Artwork: The game is made by TeeTurtle. Shout out to them for the artwork in the game. It's all cutesy unicorns and such. If you don't know. TeeTurtle makes shirts and such. They have a cool and hip style which makes this a fun and great game to look at. Each card is unique.

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Cori June (3033 KP) rated The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha #1) in Books

Mar 5, 2020

The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha #1)

R.S. Belcher | 2013 | Paranormal, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

Diverse and intricate characters (2 more)

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Complex Imagery

pacing gets a litle complicated and the flow is disrupted (0 more)

A very complex world set in a small Nevada town during 1869. R. S. Belcher grabs your interest and keeps you guessing on the intricate happenings of this strange town, Golgotha.
Seeped in lore and the paranormal it makes me wish I knew a bit more about Tarot as the chapters are named after one of the cards and I know I have missed a bit of the intricate layers that are contained in this book. This book does get a little esoteric and has some weighty comments on religion but doesn't preach at you and lets you make your own decisions. It is an appropriate product of the time it is set in (1869) so there are a few racist comments that show a small bit of what may have been like in the wild west or America around the time of the Civil War.
The flow of the book stunted me a little until I got used to flashbacks and realized that you back tract on the day for a different p.o.v., it added depth to the characters and world.