What is this ?

The Darkness in the Depths is an old project that keeps haunting me. It’s been years, now. It won’t let go of me. It wants me to bring it to the world.

It kept evolving in my mind. But its core is still the same.

• It’s trying to share a way of playing roleplaying games that I like very much (and that I don’t know many games that bring it)
• It’s about exploring the world of play and the characters through invention, reincorporation, sharing, asking questions and finding answers
• It’s about drama, daily life, uncovering mysteries and navigating intrigues
• It’s Troupe play, Ars-Magica like with a bit more support, maybe an not-so-old school renaissance ? It oscillates between player-led to gm-led and from gmed-game to gmful.
• It’s low-to-no-prep?
• It’s about weird and terrible elves that lives in the depths of the world. Why and how is yours to discover.

I’ll be developing and talking about it here.

Right now, my goal is to get to a working prototype that I can test at the table.