A Small Journey

A Small Journey was inspired as an entry into the Pleasure-Not-Business-Card RPG Jam.

No matter where you are, if you have a six-sided die and a copy of these rules in your pocket, you can journey wherever your imagination can take you. Pack carefully--the few items you bring along will be all you have to overcome the challenges that lie ahead...but if you pack too much, you won't have room to bring back souvenirs from your journey!

Play on your own, or play with one player guiding the story of other players' journeys--it's up to you!

A SMALL JOURNEY is the base game, and all the rules you need to play. You can play on the Pack grid provided, or use it as an example for writing your own on another piece of paper.

AN EPIC JOURNEY expands the base rules, letting you connect together your small journeys into one epic journey. Add these optional bits of rules to enlarge your pack, choose a specialization that lets you pack special gear more easily, bring a sidekick/minion/pet along to help carry your load, and even some handy stuff you can buy and bring along on your next journey to make it easier.

A BOLDER JOURNEY brings flavor to your small journeys by letting you add bigger challenges to the mix, and giving your failures tougher consequences. Of course, bigger challenges should come with better rewards, so you also get rules for useful and valuable treasures you might find.

A WILDER JOURNEY is a tiny table full of huge ideas, for when you don't know where to go next on your small journeys. Roll three times to find out who you might encounter, where you are or might need to go, and why you might be going there. (Alternately, roll once and use all the contents of a single cell on the table for truly wild ideas like the Superhero Zoo War.)

Finally, if you don't have room to pack your reading glasses, A SMALL JOURNEY - COMPLETE ONE PAGE EDITION brings together all four modules for the game and enlarges them into a single landscape page suitable for framing.