I've had the great honor of contributing to Laplace Atelier's Ryuutama Campfire Collection.
Ryuutama is a Japanese roleplaying game that focuses on travelers making a long journey. A spirit called a Ryuujinn follows them along, collects their stories, and uses these to nurture a dragonling who will grow up to become a Seasonal Dragon. It's about small adventures in a big world. It's great for Studio Gibli-inspired games. It's also perfect if you'd like to run something like J.R. Tolkien's Hobbit.
I ran a year-long Ryuutama campaign. It was fun. One of the characters was a knight for a lost kingdom. The rest came from a small hospitality harbor town. As per tradition, they were to take a journey, and they went along with the knight. They traveled North, West, and East. They traveled through plains, forests, mountains, and tundra. They went across the sea. They visited towns. They went to a fairyland. They found the lost kingdom and helped an aging dragon defeat a demon. I loved it and am so glad to still game with this group.
The thing I most enjoyed about Ryutamma was the simple but robust travel rules. Each venture held fresh stories between towns. Failed travel rolls lead to exciting things. The basis of the world was fun to explore. Though I plagued my players with some horrors, great wonders were also to be found.
The one flaw I found in the system is that magic types tend to be the only versatile 'type'. At every level, they gained spells, while the other types didn't get much else. That's why I wrote Whisper Magic for the Campfire Collection. In it, magic isn't learned but found on one's journey. Little stories that were fed to the Seasonal Dragons crystalize into whispers, small gems that tell their story to the first people who find them. These stories lead to magic. Magic anyone can use.
I was also inspired by Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, where magic is acquired by knowing the true names of things.
The Campfire Collection is more than just my whispers. You'll also find playable scenarios, expanded rules, fiction, and even how to run Ryutamma in Space. There is also very excellent art.
So, if you have Ryuutama or if I've just convinced you to buy it, check out the Campfire Collection here. It's free of charge, a true labor of love.
You'll be glad you did
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