Fortunes: The Tarot Card Storytelling Game

Angol leírás

Fortunes might be played after a rousing seance or during the quietest hours of the night, ideally in a room with a candle. It could be played by an eccentric family who lives in a dilapidated mansion on a hill overlooking a small town in autumn, or by a curious young couple sitting on a hay bale as a harvest festival finally winds down on a Sunday evening. However it is played, Fortunes is a game for storytellers.

The game consists of four acts. In Act I and Act II, you introduce the themes that occur throughout Act III. Storytellers who use these recurring themes during the collaborative story gain additional cards to use in Act IV. Begin Act I once you choose your book.

During the game, players take turns telling a collaborative story. There’s a card to enhance the setting, a card to guide each primary character, and three cards (to start with) in your hand. Each card has a corresponding story prompt, and some of these prompts will set up your story’s “recurring themes.” You’ll be able to draw a card each time you work one of these themes into your scenes. During your turn, you choose one of the cards from your hand and describe a scene from the shared story.

If you’ve incorporated the recurring themes into the story, you should have at least one extra card in your hand for the conclusion. You will use these remaining cards to finish the game. With each card, you get to wrap up one story thread from the collaborative tale. Maybe you’ll describe what happened to a character. Maybe you’ll hint at a new mystery yet to be solved.