Game Pile: The Magical Land of Yeld
Here is a list of things you are going to find in the book The Magical Land of Yeld.
- A Witch class whose first benefit is literally saying “No one understands me. But that’s fine! I understand myself!”
- A christmas sweater you can give to an enemy at the start of combat and if they’re never attacked, they will become a friend
- Rules for food that improve your dice, including vegan options
- Comics that explain what happens with at least one funny talking dog telling you how to knife a baddy
- Character creation bases that let you pick archetypes such as Princess, Big Sister, Know-It-All, Brat, Dog, and Liar
- Chaining combat mechanics that require you to say ‘excuse me!’ to interrupt monsters
- Death mechanics that let you haunt the baddies until your friends get back to an inn
- A calendar tracking the holidays and festivals your characters will get to experience
- A bunny postman
- A Secret of Mana style job system that starts out basic and expands to Badass
- A spell that lets you summon a horde of sheep
- Beautiful, clean artwork illustrating everything
- A basic adventure where you fight a person who is quite clearly a Messed Up Adult In A Fandom Space Being An Asshole To Kids
- A Sweater Shop
- A Battle Kite
- Fumble systems for spells that lets your existing spell effects work, but also add on interesting disasters
- An extensive discussion of structuring stories in terms of their stages and consequences to build anticipation
- Folding character sheets
- A monster called a bean whale
- And I guess, if I was going to try and convince you to check this book out, it’d be with this:
So go buy it, jeeze.
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