The Witch is Dead
A downloadable game
You are a magical woodland creature, and your beautiful witch mistress has been killed, and you are about to set out on a murder-revenge adventure in the human lands. Comes with a spell list, a means of generating plots and adversaries, and a drawing of a cute fox that's just mauled someone.
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I played a game of The Witch is Dead a while back and had such a good time, I wanted to add it to my travel-rpg-kit, which does better with half-page size materials. I also wanted a PG version for kids... so I made these! They are in doc and pdf form. Print and fold or print double-sided and cut for 2x copies!
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wad7vyujsICz6Itpinezx8RXr2yMqYw5?usp=sharing
Really appreciate these - ran a game for adults + younger family members, really appreciated having a PG version available to share. The character sheets made prep really easy too!
That's great! Thanks for reporting in... It's good to hear someone used it!
I can't take credit for the character sheets. Someone else made those, but I don't remember where I got them.
If you are reading comments wondering if you should try this... TRY IT.
I heard about this on the Dungeons and Daddies podcast. Not only was this was perfect game for me to try out gm'ing, it was the perfect game for my friends to try ttrpg for the first time. It's very simple, takes minutes to setup and can be improvised on the fly. You get some guide rails to work within but it is ultimately wide open for you to create your own story.
I gm'd for two rats and had a blast.
This looks really fun! Does the absence of any license info mean it’s free to remix and whatnot? I’ve made a formatted version for personal use - more or less the same but toned down a little for my 7yo’s benefit.
I like to make these things available in case it’s helpful to others. Full attribution etc, obviously.
Had a fantastic time with this game. Doing a bunch of one-pagers to build confidence in my GMing skills and this did the trick. Everyone enjoyed being a vindictive little creature. I think this game can go either quite dark or quite silly depending on who your players are - for my group, we got a bit of both (e.g. pastry heist, but also brutally curb stomping the witch hunter with the help of some townies).
I just finished a single-player game with my brother, my first time running a game. Very easy to improvise/react to dice rolls and still adhere to the premise of the game. Made a couple on-the-fly decisions because it was a one-player session (Dog showed up as a backup when things got dicey), but the Witch was vindicated and Magpie got the pleasure of plucking out the murderer's eyes.
This is actual gold. It is just so much fun and it is way too easy to get into. Sessions can be extremely short and i love it.
it's a little cut off on the right sid
Love this one! Such a fun game! There is a possibility to propose a Spanish translation? It will make more easy to explain to people that don't understand English very well
I’ve never been GM before. Decided yesterday to run this game for my usual group this morning (regular GM is work-swamped so we’ve been mostly just hanging out together for the past couple weeks). It went SO well!!!
I made my own character sheet template in Google Docs since we’re all remote from each other and meet online. I put the “You are a cute woodland animal.”, traits section, and then the whole bottom section where it explains “when you try to do something “ what happens and the Danger stuff and everything. Then I put a horizontal line and put stuff from the part of the pdf that looks like a character sheet. It looks pretty dope, if I do say so myself, and avoids having the players be able to see the GM roll tables. This worked out great, too!
The game was easy for me to run with no experience. My players were amazing and got into it very fast. We had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs.
Played last evening using "Roll for Shoes" system. Ended up with a spider specialised in cleaning up anything : magic scrolls, magic shop, weapons handles, dog's nose, forest,... Great fun.
My main game was cancelled today so I decided to run this with some of the players who were around. We had a great time! I'll definitely be wanting to run this again!
I am getting this game because @Rosiello wrote an excellent review of it!
to the developer: I love the idea of this game, but my RP group likes something with a few more crunchy rules, so I've made a pathfinder module based on it. Fun to play, and I'd like to release it into the wild under a CC sharealike noncommercial license - is that ok? Will reference your game in the obligatory copyright section with a link here. :)
Did you follow up on that?
I've had no reply and have had a busy couple've months, haven't followed up yet. The adventure is written but not yet playtested, got sidetracked playtesting griffons :)
Griffons? Do go on.
Haha - it's a PF2 adventure module, with rules to play as griffins, and using the optional cinematic chase rules. Was fun to run my team through, although they got a bit sidetracked with the undead guardian priests for a while.. https://copperaeon.itch.io/guardian-griffons-of-the-tower-of-the-dead
If you play it & enjoy it, let me know! Would love to get some feedback from other groups. Alternatively, if PF2 is not the thing, ping me with your system of preference and I'll see if I can translate the scenario for you :)
I actually play Ponyfinder with a DM in Pathfinder 2, so not that far off! Could you make some options for pony races too?
I'm very inexperienced as a GM and as a player in general, but me and my friends still had an absolute blast running a session with this game. Thanks so much for releasing this!
I love the game, but the pdf seems to be clipped at the sides meaning some of the text is lost from the last section. Is this an issue for anyone else, or just my pdf reader (the firefox browser).
it’s cut off on iPhone too.
here’s a pic without the edges cut off. Posted by the author to Reddit. https://imgur.com/a/d8QZe
Awesome - thank you!
it's fine when printed. Not sure why it's clipped on the phone.
This was my first time running a game and it went amazing, thankyou!
I love this game so much! Thank you :D
What kind of animal is number 7. Magre?
Magpie
is this dnd kathulu or pathfinders
none, all the rules are right on the page :)
There is another person already asking this 3 years ago with no answer but lets try again. Can you please add a text version? The handwritten version is not that great for legibility.
Thank you for the kind offer but I don't think it would fit or format well within the comments section given the character limit. Accessibility is key though so I do hope the creator uploads a print version so my dyslexic friends can join me in a game.
I have (unofficially) transcribed the rules:
https://gist.github.com/sebosborn/7c945ed48f93a7b563cec7df32b16bcf
oh my lord i got zero notifications for this or i would have thanked you far earlier. i very much appreciate this. thank you. its a shame the creator has put zero effort into this or any other request for accessibility on their other games
In case it's useful to someone else in the future, there's a small but relevant bit missing (as far as I can tell) in this transcript, namely what DANGER does mechanically: if you ever roll equal to or under your DANGER, you're in serious trouble (dead/trapped/lost/captured).
Thanks for doing the work of making the transcript in the first place!
Thank you lilint, I made my own revision of the transcribed version, and added the DANGER mechanic, plus a couple other minor things that sebosborn's version skipped. You can find it in Markdown format now, here: https://github.com/ToddBradley/the_witch_is_dead/
Hilarious one shot that left us rolling in laughter. However, be prepared for things to get dark
WHAT!?
Fun little game for two people. Dark themes.
Actual play here! - http://sasgeek.com/podcasts/42-the-witch-is-dead/
Can you add a text version?
There are now text versions here...
https://github.com/ToddBradley/the_witch_is_dead/
and here
https://gist.github.com/sebosborn/7c945ed48f93a7b563cec7df32b16bcf