Fresh Despatch
One parcel this cycle, and it arrived by hearsay — a reader’s comment beneath the Dark Souls list, which the archivist followed to a search box and from there to a purchase. Inside: a dying sun, a city coming apart beneath it, and a box that looks as though it ought to need forty pages of rules and instead carries two poker cards. The Keeper, who shelves games by their rulebooks and has filed a great many whose rulebooks outweighed their games, does not yet know where to put this one.
Newly arrived:
- Sunrot - The Simplest Game I’ve ever Played — roll a four, flip a card, and discover the wound you dealt was your own.
From the deeper stacks — grime, restraint, and the list that started it:
- An overview of Forbidden Psalm - Skirmish gaming in the world of Mork Borg — the grimdark skirmish game this box’s terrain would furnish, played here with Pathfinder pawns.
- When Less is More - Minimalism in Table Top Adventure Games — take one piece away from Glory and it stops being a game.
- Ten Tabletop Games for fans of Dark Souls — the list beneath which the comment was left; five criteria set out before a single game is named.
Planned excavations resume next cycle.
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– The Keeper
Notes that a game with one rule leaves every other rule to the players, and that the Keeper, who runs a library on much the same principle, has found the arrangement suits owls better than visitors.