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The Park Manager

The Park Manager, or PM, is the gm equivalent of this game. Fairly classic. And then I got into the layout and thought " Hey this spread is nice, I will use it for the start of the park manager section". Except it only had the top half. And I thought it was kinda empty. But I had nothing to put there. I did not want to start with the gm rules already. And I remember my little in-game introduction. And wrote, automatic, no thoughts, head full of words. This is the result. And it changed the Park Manager forever.

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Progress on the new Meeting Point section of my game. Separated into Guests, Park Members and Outsiders. Here are your encounters!

Guests :

Urban Explorers

Animals

The Vagabond

Park Members:

Mascot

Ghosts

Memories

Animatronics

Plants

Ride Animals

Coaster Dragon

Outsiders :

Fair Beings

The Curator

Rust Witch

To help the Park Manager, each will have a description and moves but that's not all.

Some will have visions, examples to choose from.

A lot will also give ideas for what may happen when a Coaster Mage hit 0 Health confronted to these. Like I said in the book, when magic is involved, there is so much more than death as a consequence.

Find my game about magical abandoned theme parks and the Coaster Mages seeking their powers here.

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Wanderer of the Dark Rides

In one step, I can walk through a whole world

Our second Queue is based on dark rides, the ones with an incessant looping song and are associated with the Wonder.

With them, sometimes size is a matter of perspective. We live in a such a small world after all.

Find Where the magic never ends? , the lumen game about the power of abandoned theme park and the Coaster Mages that seek it out on itch.io

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Meeting the Vagabond

I continue to work on my bestiary for Where the magic never ends?, my game of abandoned magical theme parks and coaster mages.

Rounding out the Guests part of my bestiary, here comes the Vagabond.

Various reports from theme park’s expeditions tell of the same figure roaming multiple parks. Always the same shape, always the same face, always the same voice. A vagabond-looking humanoid, looking like a bearded middle-aged man, with an acoustic guitar. They are obviously Magic-adjacent, yet the parks all treat them like a Guest and not an Outsider.  Their voice a choir, their guitar an orchestra. Ancient echoes in modern trappings. Wisdom meant for wood and steel. The earworm breeds in open ears, burrowing deep. Sound is solid, air moves.  Siren’s song, no ambulance. Silence speaks, void listens. The deal is made when you step on the crossroad. Siren’s song, drowning ocean. Lullabies for the deaf, colors sing. Close your eyes, shut your ears. 

Moves :  Songs in the Key of Magic Everybody's Got a Peaceful Place Uncover the Light

What are you ? What are you ? What are you ?

What may happen when you fall to 0 Health in front of this being :  Join the orchestra Become a melody Wake up

Can you guess I'm having fun ?

Find the game here