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Shepherds, Hungary 1900s
Help Us Choose Our Next Game
Welcome back to our third Tiny Table Game Poll! We once again received so many lovely submissions and we need your help to narrow them down. We will be taking the top 3 games to Patreon for our patrons in the Mini and Micro tier to vote on
Shepherds: A game of young do-gooders struggling with their issues as they work together, become friends, and strive to protect the peace and happiness of ordinary people. Pour your heart out in a heroic speech, discuss your fraught relationship with your father, and offer entreaties to villains so blinded by their own pain and frustration that they can't see a path forward in a game where the power of friendship is real and tangible. Embrace the JRPG melodrama in an easy, dynamic Powered by the Apocalypse format. Available on Itch.io here.
Clutch: This TTRPG is centered around being tactical and crafting interesting builds without having to use a spreadsheet. All options are supposed to be interesting with very little bloat or useless options. WIth also heavy emphasis on survival mechanics. In this game you can play anything from a cowboy to a psychic warrior that uses telekinesis to wield 4 swords at once. All while traveling across the land fighting monsters. Check out the game here: https://matthew-bradford.itch.io/clutch.
Dawn of the Orcs: Dawn of the Orcs is a GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war, modify and improve them over time, and tell the story of how the Orcs become their own people. https://lymetime.itch.io/dawnoftheorcs
Extra Ordinary: Extra Ordinary is a tabletop roleplaying game where you play kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world. It is a game of belonging outside belonging, a dice-less and GM-full game system that uses tokens and the players’ imagination to create a narrative-focused and roleplay-heavy story. https://jaztice.itch.io/extra-ordinary
MechTale: Mechtale is a rule-lite TTRPG aiming to offer mech customization while also keeping gameplay simple. If you want a mech game you can learn and teach to your players easily, this is your game! Besides that, it is quite accessible, only using d6s to play, a pencil, and a piece of paper, so c’mon! Give it a try! https://mooniestarstruck.itch.io/mechtale
Spindlewheel: Spindlewheel is a tarot-like interpretive storytelling game where you weave a story from card to card. Using a poetic oracle deck that features archetypes from tarot, fairy tales, and the turn of the century, interpret spreads of cards to generate a world and its characters. Then, use those same cards to unfold the story as the desires of those characters collide and change the world. To find out more, visit https://teacabbage.com/spindlewheel!
Pilot Episode: Pilot Episode is a ttrpg about the past and how we remember it. You play actors on a 1950s sitcom who find themselves trapped within the sitcom's world, forced to recreate the pilot episode of the sitcom and entertain the mysterious and otherworldly Live Studio Audience. https://smallredrobin13.itch.io/pilot-episode-the-quickstart
Branded for Sacrifice: Branded For Sacrifice is an original dark fantasy roleplaying game set in the world of our video game by the same name. Play as a solo-RPG or with friends, and create a Branded warrior from scratch, then go out and slay the Demons that plague the planet! Roll D6 for attacks, wipe out hordes of enemies at once, and generate piles of loot while you learn more about the mysterious mark that's appeared on your body and what it entails. https://fracturedgems.itch.io/branded-for-sacrifice-ttrpg
Deathcap Sauté: Death Cap Sauté is a GM-less one-shot TTRPG for 2 to 5 players. Players will compete in a deadly cooking competition in the weird post-apocalypse to gain the favor of the elusive Shroomp Lord! Using a simple push-your-luck dice system, face-off in 5 unique cooking challenges to see who will come out on top! https://junkfoodgames.itch.io/death-cap-saut
Echoes from the Frost: EftF is a journaling rpg set in a world that has already ended, consumed by a relentless force known as the Frost. In the face of assured oblivion your character carries a fragment of the past, a skill or piece of knowledge too important to lose, navigating the frozen wastes for a year as they search for a way to pass it on to future generations. A dark game that is primarily about hope, it is played with only 3d6, a journal, and your imagination. https://fragileasglass.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-from-the-frost.
Which Should We Play?
Shepherds
Clutch
Dawn of the Orcs
Extra Ordinary
Mechtale
Spindlewheel
Pilot Episode
Branded for Sacrifice
Deathcap Saute
Echoes from the Frost
If you submitted a game to us and don't see it on the list, don't fret! We will be hosting many polls like this and your game is still in consideration. If you game is on here and isn't chosen to move on to our next poll, also don't fret! We may add it on to the next poll again.
Kurdish and Turkish shepherds wearing the kepenek, a traditional felt shepherding cloak.
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) "The Annunciation to the Shepherds" (1875) Oil on canvas Located in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Shepherd's Song by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), 1891, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Song of the Shepherds by Richard Bauckham
We were familiar with the night. We knew its favourite colours, its sullen silence and its small, disturbing sounds, its unprovoked rages, its savage dreams.
We slept by turns, attentive to the flock. We said little. Night after night, there was little to say. But sometimes one of us, skilled in that way, would pipe a tune of how things were for us.
They say that once, almost before time, the stars with shining voices serenaded the new born world. The night could not contain their boundless praise.
We thought that just a poem — until the night a song of solar glory, unutterable, unearthly, eclipsed the luminaries of the night, as though the world were exorcised of dark and, coming to itself, began again.
Later we returned to the flock. The night was ominously black. The stars were silent as the sheep. Nights pass, year on year. We clutch our meagre cloaks against the cold. Our aging piper’s fumbling fingers play, night after night, an earthly echo of the song that banished dark. It has stayed with us.
The Annunciation to the Shepherds (L'Annunciation aux Bergers)
Artist: Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884)
Date: 1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia