Weird Tales Shadowdark Game Jam

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A jam submission

Dreams of the SeaView project page

An old tower, built by a wizard who studied too deeply.

Submitted by ordsten — 13 seconds before the deadline

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Usability: Practicality and playability at the game table.	#96	2.739	3.000
Inspiration: Effective use of assigned "Weird Tales" cover elements.	#108	2.556	2.800
Vibes: Overall atmosphere and feel of the supplement.	#111	2.556	2.800
Overall	#111	2.617	2.867

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Just in case the feedback gets buried on discord, I’ve copied it over to here.

Having a cover page would’ve been a nice touch, the first page is a bit cluttered
- The image on the front looks great! Having that as your cover background with your title and additional details on top would’ve be awesome!
Choice of font for primary headers is tough to read. I keep misinterpreting the “S” as a 1
- Sorta looks like a number 1
Using tables instead of lists for your roll tables. I don’t think they would’ve used up any more space and would’ve helped communicate what dice needs to be rolled vs reading the list and inferring
- Adding more emphasis (i.e. bold text) to important bits for skimmability.
- Example: Local children have been reporting talking to a dead body, but when adults investigate it’s gone.
Important information in your random encounters table is sorta buried / easy to miss.
Having a map would’ve been nice. This reads like a point crawl so a map of nodes and edges would’ve been totally fine!
- If it ever goes on sale, dungeon draft is a nice tool for making actual maps. I like to use the “dysonesque” plugin
Spacing around headings is taking up a lot of space, which accidentally used up a lot of your page count.