Review: Hidden Isle

tl;dr: a tarot-driven story-game on the Forged in the Dark chassis; very interesting game engine and a setting for swashbuckling ~16th century adventures. I picked up The Hidden Isle Picked at VindieCon - on a 'support your local publishers' kick since Causa Creations are here in Vienna - but more specifically sold on the notion it could be a solo/duet system for use during odds and ends of time while youngest householder is sleeping. This is unusual in that it is a Tarot-driven RPG - the tag-line they use themselves is "a tarot RPG of sorcery and adventure" - and originally arose because the studio had created a Tarot-based boardgame, Sefirot and pretty much had the groundwork already done for this by the time they finished that. This is a story-telling focused game, strongly inspired by the Forged in the Dark system, modified for Tarot-cards. The setting is an alternative magical 16th century with the core concept being that characters venture out from the secret island port of…

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