OddFolk

Odd Folk is a modular game. At its core, its a series of actions that players (including the GM) can use to introduce unexpected narrative developments into the fiction they are co-creating. The game is organized into kits (a collection of actions) to help you choose what kind of stories you want to tell and what kind of flavour you want to focus on. Kits are contained bundles of mechanical support connected by a theme. 

A Game of compounding consequences.

In Oddfolk, success and failure is not what’s at stake when you roll. Each time a player rolls, they select one or more options from a picklist, depending on the result. Rolling a 1 is often the best/simplest result, as only one choice is needed. Beyond that the results become incrementally more complicated as more details are added. 

For example, the Seance action from the Witches + Warlocks kit reads: 

Seance
Commune with the occult for guidance and understanding.  

Something unwelcome answers your call 
You receive a true answer to one question 
The Spirits remember your name 
You become marked

A player who rolls a 2 might pick "Something unwelcome answers your call" and "You receive a true answer to one question".  It becomes the groups responsibility to determine what story development fulfills both of those criteria. 

The Kits

Kits are a collection of between 5 and 8 actions. Included in the game are kits covering a variety of genres and circumstances: 

Fantasy Basics, Magic, Combat, Witches + Warlocks, Drollery, Common People and Group Hug by Me

Spooky Gardening and Ghostbusting by Kait Tremblay

Speculative Fancies and Weird Items by Aaron King

Artifact Crafting and Slasher Horror by Christian Sorrell  

Itchfunding and PWYW

Originally, I was going to kickstart this game. While I was trying to figure out the logistics for shipping a physical project some idiot decided to make the prospect of delivering goods across certain borders very stressful. It made me reconsider what my goals were with releasing this game and really I just want people to PLAY IT! 

So, I'm still producing the physical zine, because it does something I think it real cool with it's modularity. I'm hiring some very fun folks to make some extra content, because I think they are real cool.  And, I'm releasing the digital version for pay-what-you-want, because I want anyone who is interested to be able play it. 

I'm also working to make a web interface that will help assemble the specific parts of your game and give you a print at home version. This will hopefully translate some of the coolness of the modularity of the game to the digital version of the game. 

When the game reaches $1000 and when all the components are done, I will order the print run and start physical fulfillment. 

Where the game is at

It's mostly done! I'm laying it out and giving it a couple editing passes, so the pdf here might change a little. I've printed proofs and they look great.  The cool people are working on their kits which wont take long. The first draft of the PDF is out now, and I'll add to it as more comes in. The web interface is in progress and should be done within a couple weeks.  

In order to get a copy of the physical zine and all it's little inserts,  select that special $20 reward below for Canadian shipping and the $25 one for international shipping.