Chart the Constellations
A downloadable game
The deep void of the sky is filled with pinpricks of light known as stars. They float about in nothingness and share their light with the universe. And it just so happens that their light has made it to where you are. Up in your night sky are trillions of stars that endlessly twinkle. Some of them have even been given stories, as people are prone to do. It is up to you to find and record those stories.
You will need: A deck of cards and something to take notes
Created for: Spooky Starry Spring TTRPG Jam
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Chart the Constellations is a game about creating one constellation for each season by using a deck of cards to create the pattern.
You start by dividing the deck into 4 smaller decks, each with 13 cards and laying them out on the table in any sort of pattern you like. You then eliminate the clubs and spades from the pattern and use the remaining cards to form the stars.
The amount of diamonds and hearts will decide if the story is mainly about humans or animals and the clubs and spades are used to determine who the characters in the constellation’s story are, and what the morals of the story is.
The game is also very open-ended to what kind of story you can make since the only aspects the game tells you are the characters and morals.
Sometimes a story can have only a few characters but many morals, and sometimes there are many characters and few morals, so there is lots of variety in the types of stories you can tell and you can be as detailed or as vague as you like.
I played only one year’s seasons and made 2 constellations featuring people and 2 featuring animals. You can find my playthrough HERE