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A jam submission

Sorrow Be the SovereignView project page

A medium-level dungeon for Knave 2e and Shadowdark RPG.
Submitted by Fireside Tales — 2 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Usability: Is the adventure easy to use on the fly?#253.9424.214
Writing: Is the adventure original and fun to read?#284.0094.286
Overall#293.9204.190
Fun: Is the adventure fun to play in an OSR playstyle?#413.8084.071

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

This is simply elegant and beautiful. This speaks so much to the setting presented as well as the theme in play you take part of! Just wow! READ THIS!!

Submitted

More often than not we delve dungeons that are waiting for us to loot them, I like the subtle touches in tone that make the place attractive in nature like the race to loot the dungeon and the queen’s song! Some of the pages are just gorgeous to look at as well.

Submitted

Really enjoyed the art. Especially that excellent cover. Story is solid with a great map to explore and plenty for players to do. I really liked how the Queen's songs can affect the experience with a delve shift. Layout was good too and made the whole thing easy to digest. 

Submitted

Gorgeous layouts, easy-to-reference materials, and a dang Hypercube to boot!

Submitted

The artwork is stunning, right from the cover where the scale in the room creates a real sense of wonder. The layout on page 2 is a triumph and I liked the border you used on most of the pages.

The idea of Cheri, the spider-cat familiar, is equally adorable and unsettling, which is perfect.

If it's possible to trim it down a bit I think the adventure overview would actually work really well on page 2 where Carigen Ebonheart's last letter is right now, or possibly flip page 3 and 2. There's already a lot of great content but, in a future release, it would be nice to have a bit more detail fleshing out mistril and the wickeds.

The wisp spiders making webs of fog are great too.

Submitted

This one is underrated, one of my favorites of the jam.

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful artwork.  I also like how the queens songs shift things in the dungeon.  I like the player facing map as well   and really appreciate the in pdf links.  

Submitted (1 edit)

Ditto! The player facing map is a simple but wonderful inclusion, and the entire dungeon is written succinctly while still maintaining personality. Feels like it would be a smooth run for a DM.

Also, I would hang that Table of Contents on the wall. That page is seriously beautiful (especially paired with the last letter from the hero King).

Incredibly well done.