The Veilwoods: Training Day
A downloadable game
A One-Page Solo TTRPG
Welcome to the Veilwoods, a one-page solo TTRPG created for the One Page Game Jam 2024.
About the Game
You are the newly appointed Ranger for the mysterious Veilwoods, and today is your training day. With a few tools, and a pocket notebook, you must navigate the forest and complete your tasks. But as the day progresses, you’ll realize that the Veilwoods hold secrets, some that may go against what you consider normal. Explore, survive, and report back... but be careful, because in the Veilwoods, something is always watching.
Features
A short but immersive experience where you can have a taste on how it feels to spend the day as a Ranger tasked with exploring the strange and unsettling Veilwoods.
Created for the players who prefer playing solo, with only a few dices and a love for storytelling and journaling.
Create your own character adding as much details as you want, and choose a specialization to approach the challenges and tasks in different ways.
Future game plans
This game is a "one day extract" and first draft from a larger project currently in development. I saw the One Page Game Jam was currently ongoing so I decided to make this to publish something out there and motivate myself to keep working on it. This also means any feedback is very much appreciated and more than welcome, and will be taken in consideration. The full game will expand on the mysteries of Veilwoods, offering deeper storylines, a longer campaign, and more complex interactions with the forest.
Also if you keep your journal entries digitally and you're comfortable in sharing them I would love to read some of it!
Ready to step into the Veilwoods? Remember that what you see isn’t always what it seems, and some things are better left undisturbed.
Download
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Development log
- Translated version added: Korean!87 days ago
- Translated version added: German!87 days ago
- Translated version added: Italian!Oct 28, 2024
- Translated version added: Polish!Oct 27, 2024
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So, this was one of the first solo TTRPGs I ever played - I wanted something small to try out, and the artwork and theme caught me.
I really enjoyed it! I ended up spending just over five hours over a couple of evenings really fleshing out the story of my character and drawing the map and my findings etc. I went the Naturalist route, and made my character a graduate student who dropped out after a lab experiment of hers went wrong, who'd come to the Veilwoods seeking answers for what happened. I'd been reading a lot of Jeff Vandermeer prior to playing this - and it lends itself really well to that sort of weird/speculative fiction vibe.
The prompts were open enough to allow you to go in multiple directions, but the dice mechanics with the stacked Status / Supernatural Activity / Fate rolls really helped keep a level of suspense and also reign you in a bit in a way I appreciated as a new player. I also enjoyed keeping track of what was in my bag/supplies and finding ways to utilise them as I went through my tasks.
I'm hoping a more expansive version is still in the works for the future, as I'd be really interested in seeing more of the Veilwoods!
Hello! I'd like to include this in a printed compendium of games, part of the Tiny Tome series. Please let me know if you're interested.
Hey! Sure, that sounds nice. You can hit me up at [email protected] if you need anything else :)
Hi!
We plan to use your game in local RPG event soon and decided to make a translation. Would you allow us to share polish version of "Veilwoods" on our (skybluekey.itch.io) page? Also, if you'd prefer to place it here, please, share email contact or write message to [email protected].
Hi!
Oh that's so nice to hear!
Since I had the intention of adding other translated versions I would love to add the Polish version here already! I will contact you per email^^
I used this to run one of my characters from an existing TTRPG setting through a little thing because I wanted to play them some more and it was a good time. very interested to see what the full thing looks like. Particularly I'm interested in seeing more about the consequences for how you choose to interact at the end of the day.
Thank you so much for trying my game, I'm happy to read you found it fun and enjoyed it! :) Definetly more to come (with a little patience hahah).
I believe in you! I will wait patiently and politely