In the spirit of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), it's time to put the pen to the paper and create some fantastic new tabletop games!

Taken from their website:

What Is NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand new novel.

They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists. NaNoWriMo officially became a nonprofit organization in 2006, and our programs support writing fluency and education. Our website hosts more than a million writers, serving as a social network with author profiles, personal project libraries, and writing buddies. NaNoWriMo tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and hosts real-world writing events in cities from Mexico City, to Seoul, to Milwaukee with the help of 900+ volunteers in thousands of partnering libraries and community centers like… well, like nothing else. NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. It’s a teaching tool and curriculum taught in thousands of classrooms, and NaNoWriMo’s programs run year-round. Whatever you thought NaNoWriMo is, it’s more than that.

The Goal

To promote old and new TTRPG creators to write up some great stuff this month, while supporting each other in this endeavor! 

Rules & Recommendations

1.  You must either write 50k words in total (which can span multiple games) OR spend every day of November 2022 adding to your game. If you wish, you may also choose to focus partially on this tabletop challenge, and partially on the novel portion of NaNoWriMo. If you join in late, you are welcome to hop in from wherever you’re at and adjust accordingly!
2. Your game must somehow support the charitable efforts of NaNoWriMo:
   1. Include a page referencing the purpose of the challenge and a link to their donation page (https://store.nanowrimo.org/collections/donate).
   2. If you sell your game at a cost, a portion of the funds is encouraged (though not required) to go to their organization to support new and budding writers! 
3. Your final product is encouraged to include progress shots of the game as it was being built within its main itch page.  This is to help show your process. 
4. While one page RPG's are more than acceptable, keep to less than 5 entries this month. This is to help refine and expand the work that you have.
5. Games do not have to have been started during November 2022 to enter, but they do have to have been sizably impacted by your work during this month.
6. Upon submitting a game, if possible, try out someone else's game and leave a kind review! 

Theme

Optional Theme:  Wood Sorrel for Joy

Community

• The NaNoWriMo TTRPG Discord: https://discord.gg/vSnW8gvA 
  
• Itch.io Discord: https://discord.gg/itchio-98142307840200704 
• Non-TTRPG NaNoWriMo Discord: https://discord.gg/NyzpsCyk 
• The official NaNoWriMo Community + Resources: https://nanowrimo.org/dashboard 
  
• NaNoWriMo Community Group: https://nanowrimo.org/writing-groups/tabletop-nanowrimo-ttrpg 
• Prep for NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org/nano-prep-101 
  
• TTRPG's For Trans Rights in Florida Bundle: https://itch.io/jam/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-in-florida 

Please note that this community is not supported or affiliated with the official National Novel Writers Month organization in any way. This is purely fan organized.