The Seven Ravens

Nothing (particularly) strange has ever happened to you, but something has always felt a bit off about your connection to this world. Something weird and, so far, unexplainable! You and a few strangers meet up in a peculiar location and you know they all have the same feelings. Who are these other travelers and what are the mysteries behind this sudden kinship? Will this adventure bring you all the comfort and answers you've always known you needed to seek out?

Your Storyteller will guide you to a mysterious place, where you and your new chums need to uncover hidden talents, bring to light past unresolved murders, and hopefully find your way back with your memories intact!

Game Info

• rules light, heavy roleplaying and exploration
• highly collaborative storytelling with a Storyteller as opposed to a GM
• meant to be fun, creative, and hopefully hilarious (you know, like murders are)
• at least 2 players and as many as the Storyteller can manage
• several hours of prep potentially needed by Storyteller, but usable examples will be included to make the runup faster
• about 1-2 hours of prep needed by players
• many pages of tables!
• lots of pages of trees!
• a heckin' rad poem to give you feels

Content Warnings

death, murder, and whatever the Storyteller and players agree to

About Development

Prototype

Originally this was made up by Evel, using their complete lack of knowledge about TTRPGs and game cards from the boardgame Mysterium! FePho pushed to have it be a proper finished thing.

Current

FePho and Evel finished the dev notes of Seven Ravens, and are hard at work completing the Player Guide! Lupé gifted us their poetry talent to get us started on a poem, adding an entire time mechanic which was sorely lacking.

They are nearing completion of the Game Manual (which includes the player guide and storyteller guide) which they'll be sending to our editor to put final polishes on. After that they will be adding art and making a Quick Play Guide which will include a story, maps, and example materials so that players and a story teller can quickly start a game. Cassowary will then take all that and typeset it for printing so we can have a super slick ready to print edition!