Nightsong Living World Season 1 Jam

Building the setting of a TTRPG as a community

I recently talked about the idea of a living world TTRPG game jam for Nightsong, and then I thought I’d just set up a jam page and test the waters.

We have more than 35 people who’ve joined a jam for a game that’s still unreleased, so I’ll take it as a good sign that people like the pitch of the game AND the idea of a living world format.

Let’s make it official then. But first, what is Nightsong?

Nightsong is an OSR adventure game of free-blade wanderers in a sorrowful world of bug-folk, towering trees, vast hive-cities, and gleaming Voidways. Awaken from an amber tomb and sail the skies on giant mounts, drifting between fading beacons where dreams, songs, shadows, and Beast-Gods shape the land.

https://nightsong.farirpgs.com/

At the start of the winter equinox begins the Nightsong Living World Season 1 game jam on itch. The goal: design something that revolves around a still unannounced canon event in the setting. It could be an adventure, procedures, rolling tables, NPCs, bestiaries, a blog post, anything. You will have 2 months to design and publish your project, and what you design will be canon in its own way within the world of Penumbra.

The event of the world will be announced soon. I’m also working on creating official Affinity Studio templates (both in book and sheet formats) for you to work with, and some compatibility logos which should be published soon.

You can download the free playtest material which includes the rules and setting details of Nightsong here: https://store.farirpgs.com/products/nightsong

You can join the jam at https://itch.io/jam/nightsong-living-world-season-1