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A jam submission

VestigiumView project page

Tell the story of relations between powerful artifacts and their bearers.
Submitted by Adcaro92 — 5 hours, 51 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Main Theme: Occult Classic#14.8574.857
Judge's Chocie#2n/an/a
Sub Theme: Social Media Nightmare#201.2861.286
Modern-Day#204.1434.143
Sub Theme: Jams and Other Sticky Messes#212.0002.000
Sub Theme: Ranting & Raves#211.5711.571

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Type of Submission
System

Which themes are you trying for?
Occult Classic mainly

Submission Overview
Hello there!

I present to you Vestigium, a game made from scratch for this jam.
When I saw this contest my thoughts were making something I wanted to play with. Taking inspiration in City of Mist RPG, a bit of conspiracy theories and Fountation SCP Lore, I have brewed something awesome (in my humble opinion).

Vestigium serves drama between the magic and the common, as in classic superhero's stories. People that fiddle in the occult cannot have a peaceful life.

The system uses d6 pool management in order to give players a sense of comitment in actions. The dice will wear down and die, but with drama and moving the story forward, dead dice will recover.

I hope you have fun with it, as I've had in its design process.

Team Members
Just me :)

Are you ok with me showing your creation on stream?

yes

Are you ok with me making a link to your submission/contact on my website?

yes

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Comments

Submitted

Vestigium has a very interesting mechanic based on dice pools. It is a simple and efficient way to represent the concept of balance between a human bearer and their sentient magic artifact.

I like the idea that the magic come from Vestigium (the magic artefact) rather than the classic human-being wizards.

The only drawback is that the document lack of a skill/power list but this is easily fixed by taking inspiration from another TTRPG source.

Great job!