A Simple Heroic Adventure Game

I've been thinking about what I want to peel out of my old Hellbenders rules and playtests, and this morning Marcia at Traverse Fantasy shared a lovely post that crystallized some feelings I have had about class-based games. Specifically, I've wanted a framework for building a class identity around some small countable number of axes that lends itself to more intuitive DIY play. In response I wanted to snap a baseline on those thoughts and take my Overloaded Blackjack Table into a dedicated system framework. I've also learned a lot about other games on the market since working on Hellbenders, so I think this framework is a lot more in line with Aaron Lim's Ithaca in the Cards or the Bakers' Murderous Ghosts, but I think this still has its own flair to it and could stand on its own as a pick-up-and-play adventure game. Simple Heroic Adventure Game (SHAG)This is a small game to be played with a deck of french-suited (or poker) playing cards. First, strip out the face cards from the deck…

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