Astounding Tales and the Gods who Sing Them
A downloadable game
Pah!
It's tough being a deity when nobody pays attention to you anymore. Society has moved on, what? Madness! Of course, the solution is simple: craft tales so ASTOUNDING and so MAGNIFICENT that no one has any recourse but to listen to you again.
Astounding Tales and the Gods who Sing Them is a competitive 3-5 player game where each player comes up with FANTASTIC tales that can outmatch everyone else's stories. Work with special themes pulled from a random deck of cards, and narrate GLORIOUS tales of your exploits!
Inspired by the Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Astounding Tales provides the framework for a narrative about disgruntled gods who are fading away from society's memories.
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I love this premise. I have always enjoyed the idea that deities exist only for as long as they are remembered/stories are told about them. That this game sits you down and goes “okay, you want to be remembered? Tell the best stories of your existences” delights me. I think it also really allows for the creativity and spontaneity of a table to shine as there really isn’t much time to prepare these stories, or sentences with which to tell them!
Each round, part of what you are weighing is whether you want to try and win the round or be the person choosing the victor. It encourages each player to make use of their story tokens, as your chances of being remembered increase by not being the person with the most tokens at the end of the round! Read my full review [here]!
A competitive storytelling game where you play as gods who are fading from people's consciousness. The gods start the game with many sentences of stories to tell and tokens to spend, but they dwindle as time goes go, until their names are forgotten. It's fun and competitive, and at the same time tragic and evokes feeling of lost.