The Prophet

The Prophet is a solo-journaling role-playing game. It requires a tarot deck and can be played in as little as 30 minutes or over days.

Receiving Revelations: Turn over a tarot card and let the prompts and the card image be the revelation from the deity that called you. Navigating through visions of struggle and cries of despair, following the guiding flames of insight, to help turn your people’s trajectory towards justice and equity.

Overcome Events: Flip coins to find out if the people heed your warnings and are aided by their deity in overcoming enemy invasion, surviving a great earthquake, or a raging fire, or are crushed by the weight of divine condemnation reaping upon themselves the consequences of sewing the seeds of inequity.

Concluding the Revelation: Will there be any hope for redemption for those receiving your words or will they be deemed beyond saving?

Record your Revelation: Write with the prophetic vigor of your favorite punk singer or a more traditional prophet. Write as if the voice of your chosen deity was resounding from your being, addressing those around you who would like to continue to reap the benefits of keeping others down. 

Let me be perfectly queer, this game was inspired by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Amos, Isaiah, Kathleen Hanna, Greg Graffin, Vaginal Davis, Deke Nihilson, GB Jones, Alice Bag,  and all the other Punk and not-so Punk prophets who inspire me to continue to live a more embodied life. 

This is a Princess Sword game, based on Anna Anthropy’s Princess with a Cursed Sword, available at w.itch.io.

Anna's work in the solo-journaling RPG field is unparalleled. I strongly recommend that you check out not only her games based on the SRD found here but the rest of her work as well.

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