The Clockmaker’s Advent: Solo RPG Advent Calendar

A cozy solo journaling RPG played as an advent calendar: twenty-four printable Doors, one per night from December 1 to Christmas Eve, as you repair a town's silent Advent Clock with a deck of cards, one d6 and a journal.

Players and time: 1 player; one evening per Door, 15-40 minutes, December 1-24 (or any 24 evenings, or a few long weekends). Needs a standard 52-card deck (no jokers), one d6, six tokens and a journal. Age not stated.
Pages: 56
Format: US Letter + A4
Language: English, Italian (L'Orologio dell'Avvento - GDR Solitario)

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Premise: you are the clockmender of Halberstill, a snowbound mountain town of clockmakers; Ottilie Brandauer's Advent Clock has been silent for forty winters
The children's letter that opens the game ('Please make it go.')
Who You Are (d6): six clockmenders, each with a Knack; 'Something Ottilie Used to Say' (d12)
Each night: open a Door, draw an Hour (card), answer the prompt, roll to repair; optional Past Midnight for an extra card at a cost
Five stages of the repair: The Case, The Wheels, The Heartbeat, The Voice, The Procession
6 Patience tokens; Spades drain, Hearts restore with a sentence of kindness; four Kings are Portents of the Still Hour
52 prompts in 4 suits: Neighbors & Kindness, Brass & Treasures, The Bench, Frost & Doubt
Oracles: Tonight in Halberstill, Names of Halberstill, Townsfolk (d66), The Workshop Drawers (d66), What the Town Brings
24 printable Door slips (Memory / Visitor / Mystery) that tell one story in order
Cozy Mode (no losses), Long Evenings, gift ideas, Next December replay
Sheets: Clockmender, Workshop, Neighbors, Advent Calendar, Clock Tracker, 24 dated journal pages, quick reference