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Solo Journaling RPGs
The Witch’s Library — A Solo Journaling RPG
A cozy-then-creepy solo journaling RPG: as the vanished witch Morwenna's last apprentice, you catalogue impossible books in her tower while the Hungry Margin eats stories at the edges.
- Players and time
- 1 player; full game 3–6 sessions of 30–60 min (Quick Game: one wing per evening); needs a 52-card deck, one d6, six tokens, a journal; age not stated
- Pages
- 31
- Format
- A4 and US Letter
- Language
- English, Italian (La Biblioteca della Strega)
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What's in the download
- Intro letter from Morwenna and At a Glance
- How to play: A Night in the Tower, Candles, Kings as Portents
- The Catalogue: book oracles (d66 titles, binding, contents, temper) + calming restless books
- The Familiar rules
- 52 prompts: ♥ Memory and the Witch, ♦ Ink and Ingredients, ♣ Cataloguing, ♠ The Hungry Margin
- Oracles: Visitors at the Door, Strange Happenings After Midnight, What the Witch Left in This Room
- The Witch's Study endings; The Margin Arrives
- Sheets: The Apprentice, Catalogue Cards, Library Tracker (5 wings), Night Journal, Quick Reference
Inside pages
Lines from the book
The stairs creak on the ninth step and the thirteenth, and on the fortieth if it rains.
Cozy first and frightening second: beeswax and cat fur, tea gone cold beside a ledger, rain on leaded glass.
Catalogue everything." and "Do not feed the books after midnight. You will be tempted. They will be very persuasive.
