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Dragon Dowser w/Custom Card Deck

By: Hatchlings Games

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Inspirisles

Last Stocked on 4/19/2024

Product Info

Title
Dragon Dowser w/Custom Card Deck
Publisher
Product Line
Dimensions
6x8x1"
NKG Part #
2148126513
Type
Softcover

Description

Dragon Dowser is a solo journaling RPG using the Carta SRD by Peach Garden Games. You play a mysterious character known as a 'Dowser'. Your aim is to locate abandoned dragon eggs and return them to your Sanctuary. If you succeed before expending your resources, the hatchling you rescue will be reared to change the kingdom forever!

Throughout this task, you will be tested in four distinct ways, each associated with a different playing card suit.

(Hearts) Community: Associated with culture and people.
(Clubs) Conflict: Associated with war and intolerance.
(Diamonds) Mystery: Associated with exploration and secrets.
(Spades) Survival: Associated with landscape and weather.

The Carta system will have you traversing a spread of 24 playing cards (6x4 grid) answering journaling prompts as you go. Your aim is to find a preselected dragon egg (Ace) and return it safely to your Sanctuary (Joker). Journaling has you answering a series of questions to form a picture of your experiences.

You begin the game with 8 resource tokens, which can be increased or expended depending on the cards you reveal. The lower the number on the playing card, the higher the drain on your resources. Revealing a 2 of any suit is calamitous, whilst a King is the ultimate boon!

The four Aces represent different eggs, but also distinct narrative conclusions. If you choose the Ace of Hearts for example, with adulthood, your dragon will overthrow the ruler with help from the community. However, if it's the Ace of Spades, they'll use the environment to their advantage.

If you reveal an egg not chosen from the start, it will turn up broken. By offering a blessing and burying the shell fragments, you will gain resources.

Two Sanctuary cards are placed on the outside of the grid. You can begin from and return to either of these as you play. Once your rescued egg is taken to a Sanctuary, you'll be asked to journal the experience of rearing the hatchling to adulthood and describe how it influenced the world when released.

The beauty of journaling games is in the sheer variety of potential stories. With 48 cards, each displaying 3 open-ended questions, every playthrough will be unique and every experience distinctly personal.

For example, in one session the tyrannical ruler could be consuming dragon egg yolks for eternal youth. In another, they could simply be greedy for land. Whatever your answers to the prompts, Dragon Dowser is certain to ignite the imagination!

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