A Most Brilliant Spark: Dreamscape TTRPG for deceased PCs
A collaborative, card-driven, soul-searching TTRPG for 1-5 players who dare to ask, “can death offer a clarity that could not be found in life?” Uncover your Player Character's secrets with a kaleidoscope of memories triggered by their in-game death.
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Player Character death strikes a final curtain for their storyteller. The tales that unfold after their passing are merely echoes of their past influence. We often commemorate the stories that lead up to a PC’s demise, but there is another story that lies dormant, resting untold in the flash between life and death.
A Most Brilliant Spark is a collaborative, card-driven, soul-searching TTRPG for 1-5 players who dare to ask, “can death offer a clarity that could not be found in life?” Choose a Player Character who died in-game and explore their hidden desires one last time by remixing core memories into a kaleidoscope of fantasy, psychedelia, and retrospection. Players will reveal random suits from a deck of cards to guide a dream-narrative in unpredictable ways and perhaps discover new resolutions to past life experiences. When the deck runs out, the dream ends, and so will, finally, the Player Character.
The Campaign Will Include
54-card custom poker deck
12" x 12" dry/erase poster playmat
Free digital game-aid downloads
Free mental health clinician-approved expressive therapy protocols for the game
2+ hour digital ambient soundtrack
Zines will be printed, hand-folded, and bound in-house. Artwork and project updates will be posted here as we get closer to launch.
Early Concept Art
Printer Friendly "Spark Board" Play Mat (WIP)
Early Bird Perks
A Most Brilliant Spark is a spiritual-sequel to Remember Frankie? (2022), a lyric-writing game where players reminisce about an imaginary person using real memories. Early subscribers will get a free digital copy of Remember Frankie? when they pledge to any tier of the campaign.
Remember Frankie? Interior Page Spread
The Team
Mental Health Protocol Designer
Similar to Remember Frankie?, this zine can be used by mental health clinicians for various forms for expressive therapy. Kim is our lead protocol designer and is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in the state of MA and a board certified music therapist (MT-BC) who received her master's from Lesley University in 2017. Over the past decade, they have worked in outpatient, partial hospital programs, and in community mental health settings, centering social justice theory and cultural humility at the core of what it means to be trauma-informed. In 2020, she received intensive training in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and, in 2022, training in cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for the treatment of trauma and PTSD. Kim is deeply passionate about integrating expressive therapy techniques into treatment to help challenging work feel more tolerable and accessible to a wide variety of individuals.
A Most Brilliant Soundtrack
Wil Cox is a composer and sound designer who also happens to love games. His work is highly cinematic, which makes sense given his background in film and television. As Coyote Senate he has released a number of records that bridge ambient, electronic, alternative, and metal. He is also the designer of the board game Shut Up, Cat! and is currently working on both new music and new games.
Coyote Senate Pedal Board Setup
Fulfillment
We'll be working again with our local fulfillment partner Flying Cloud Fulfillment for all domestic and international orders. Pledges aim to ship around February 2027.
Inspirations
Mirror (1975) by Andrei Tarkovsky & Aleksandr Misharin
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