Hey folks, I want to share the game I’ve been working on for the past year with my partner. It’s a friendship building card game called the Fellowship of Fools, based on the Tarot, using the artwork of the Tarot de Marseilles deck. We’re planning on releasing it for Public Beta on The Game Crafter on 6/24/18 to get a wide set of playtesting feedback and then to release the final version this fall! The Game Crafter is a print-on-demand game publishing platform. This makes it a bit more expensive than we’d like for the finished game, but it also means that we don’t have to front all of that scary money associated with a full print run with a manufacturer. We’re planning on creating an app version and making expansion decks for romance, sexuality, and kink. Check out the website to learn more! You can follow the game on social media on the Facebook page, Twitter, and Instagram. After the Public Beta is released we’ll be asking players on social media to share their interesting card combinations, stories, suggestions for alternate Topic and Situation Prompts, and suggestions for the future expansions! If you want to support this project and my other projects, you can become a patron of mine on my Patreon.
About the game:
We are all Fools, on our journeys through this world. Its dangerous to go alone. Take this game with you. Fellowship of Fools (FoF) is a game about friendship. Making friends takes time, communication and honesty. For many, making friends and forging new connections can be difficult or even feel impossible. FoF is a game that gives you an opportunity to get to know people through conversation, vulnerability and finding common ground. It is also a game about saying, yes, no and maybe.
This game is intended to help guide you through developing a friendship with someone new, or deepening an existing relationship. With prompts for situations to role play together, you must choose what are the best topics to explore in that given situation. Some things may be too personal to ask too early in getting to know someone, or not appropriate for the situation at hand. Together we will navigate these possibilities and share feedback on how we choose to play and respond. The more you play the more experience you build at conversing and building friendships. The more you play with the same players, the deeper your relationships become. Fill out a Character Sheet for the other player you are playing with to keep track of information you feel is important as well as the experience you build with them.
Fellowship of Fools is based on the Tarot, in use since the 14th century for games and since the 17th century for divination (that we know). The Tarot art for Fellowship of Fools dates back to 1761 to it’s use in France, and is called the Tarot de Marseilles made by Nicolas Conver of Marseilles. Today, Tarot cards are used primarily for inner reflection and personal development; Fellowship of Fools aims to turn that reflection and development outward, to help build the skills of relating and building intimacy.
We’ve split the Tarot deck into its two parts – the Major Arcana for Situations and the Minor Arcana for Topics. On each card there will be two different prompts – Situation Prompts and Topic Prompts – with numbers to indicate their difficulty and the number of points you can gain, or lose, based on how you play. You can earn points or lose points for how you play a Situation, asking an appropriate Topic that they will feel comfortable answering at this point in your relationship, and for how well you answer the Topic you asked of them.
