How to play Wither & Grow
Wither & Grow is our new solo journaling game and I wanted to talk a little bit about how it works!
In the game, you play as a sentient plant creature. You have 6 different Ideals that not only affect how you think about the world, but also impact your physical changes.
In each round of play, you'll roll 4 dice and assign them to 4 different dice slots. The four dice slots are:
The Ideal which will grow this round
How much that Ideal grows by
The Ideal which will wither this round
How much that Ideal withers by
You cannot pick the same Ideal to wither and grow in the same round.
At the start of the game, each of your Ideals has a value of 2. If an Ideal goes above 10, your growth becomes uncontrollable and you lose yourself. If you an Ideal goes to 0 or below, it has died and is no longer important to you.
After you resolve the 4 dice slots, you'll select a prompt for the round you're on and write your journal entry. Your journal entry should include answers to the prompt as well as general descriptions on physical and emotional changes you've gone through based on which Ideals have withered and grown.
Here is an example:
Here the Harmony Ideal (which corresponds to the number 2) would increase by 5 and the Horror Ideal (which corresponds to the number 6) would decrease by 3. Since this is the first round and all Ideals start at 2, Harmony would then become 7 and Horror would become -1. Horror would wither and die as it fell below 0. Then, you would write your journal entry based on these changes and pick one of the prompts from this page and write more about your life as a sentient plant.
If you are interested in checking out Wither & Grow, it can be found on itch at the link below. If you decide to play this game, I'd be delighted to hear about it!
a solo journaling game about the life of a sentient plant
