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The Mothhouse — solo journaling RPG, printable, $5

A topic by AraphelWorks created 16 hours ago Views: 113 Replies: 1
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I just published The Mothhouse.

You keep a stone house on a narrowing ridge between the living and the departed. At night the moths come, carrying remnants of messages: a name, a question, a farewell, a debt. You tend the lamps, write what they leave, and decide what, if anything, to send back.

It is a solo journaling game played in nights. Each night you roll a d6 to tend the lamps, then draw a playing card and answer its prompt. There are 52 original prompts, one for every card in a standard deck, plus hardships, mercies, an oil track that will eventually run dry, and journal sheets. A session can be one evening, or a string of short sittings over a couple of weeks.

You need the PDF, a 52-card deck, one six-sided die, and something to write with. A dice-only variant is included if you have no cards. Nine printer-friendly letter-size pages.

https://araphelworks.itch.io/mothhouse

The listing is marked as using generative AI for some text and graphics.

Moths bringing back fragments of names, goodbyes, and debts is such a vivid premise for a journaling game. Once a player decides to write back, can future prompts bring that same person up again? Getting a reply a few nights later would hit really hard.