little shepherd, little spy

A game by PsychHound

Solo Duet Paid

a solo journaling game using tarot and your bookshelf to send spy messages

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Card Draws Epistolary Fiction First gm-less Journaling Worldbuilding

Content

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Fantasy Fairy Tales Rural Fantasy

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Dyslexia-friendly font Multiple formats

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Beginner-friendly Family-friendly

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Description

a solo journaling game using tarot and your bookshelf to send spy messages

You try to keep out of the whole war business.

It's just not really your thing. There are more important things to worry about, like Gethin, your biggest ram, getting stuck in the fence again, or Ffion rubbing against the raspberry bushes and getting her wool all sticky.

Life is pretty simple for a humble shepherd such as yourself.

You tend to your flock. You make pies and jams. You … do some reading.

Of very particular books, at very particular times.

You certainly don't have an opinion on this whole "recently found sword of myth now in a fierce ownership debate between the mortals and the fey" thing.

And if you happen to get books delivered to you - from the rural book lending library - and then if you happen to talk to specific people - just neighbors, really - and happen to pass along certain information you gleaned from the reading of those books …

Well, what's a little smalltown gossip?

Little Shepherd, Little Spy is a solo journaling game about being a spy in the fairy war. Choose which side you're on, then draw tarot cards to interpret the messages coming through the information ring. Your tarot card tells you what book to look at and what page. Then you copy down all the relevant information on that page and consult your spy codebook.

You will need:
- A way to write
- A way to draw tarot
- At least four books (realistic fiction, scifi/fantasy, nonfiction, & educational)
Little Bookshop, Little Books is a small add on giving supplementary rules on how to play the game in a bookshop or library.

Little Mortal, Little Fey is the supplementary rules for a 2-player letter writing system, where one of you is a spy for the mortals and one a spy for the fey. You still do your solo-journaling game as normal, but it explains how letters are delivered between the two of you and when you can send and receive those letters.