Song & Sword
A downloadable game
Song & Sword is a 1-page, rules-lite, fantasy adventure game inspired by The Legend of Zelda and its myriad successors. It’s also a hack of John Harper’s Lasers & Feelings. Players take on the role of bold adventurers, attempting to save the land by collecting artifacts of legends and battling the forces of the Adversary.
The game features:
- Quick character generation - pick a couple descriptors and choose a number and off you go.
- Collaborative Adversary generation - make a villain together with stakes that will directly impact the players.
- Deterministic success and failure - no "partial success" here! Communicating the potential outcomes ahead of the roll let's players make informed decisions about the risks they face.
Fonts are Sherwood, Fontin, and Fontin Sans.
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Could you explain this part?
"Whenever you run out of Hearts, you are knocked out and will need to rest somewhere safe to recover. When you do, add or subtract 1 from your number (minimum 2, maximum 5) as you recommit yourself."
Does that mean add or subtract from your SONG/SWORD? And does it get better or worse?
Hi! Yes, you can add or subtract from your SONG/SWORD number. I refer to it as your "number" for short, since its the only one you roll against.
It's more sliding along a continuum than getting better or worse. Move up and you get better at SONGS; down and you get better at SWORDS.