Deeds Drawn is a GM-less, narrative-driven, pocket TTRPG for storytellers and strategists. Your cards are your character, your skills, and your adventure oracle. Built for solo and cooperative play.

Between Deck and d6
Our goal was to fit an entire TTRPG in your pocket... or get pretty close. Deeds Drawn uses a unique deck of cards and six sided die for core resolution. That's it. If you've got some paper on hand, the narrative nature of the game makes it especially suitable to folks who enjoy journal gaming, as well.

Quest by Quest, Scene by Scene
Each quest is formed with a combination of cards that make up a sort of ad-lib adventure. Once you know the quest, you'll pull cards to identify surprises and challenges along the way. During a challenge, you'll use a combination of character cards and dice rolls to resolve it.

Cards as Resources
The cards comprising your character has associated skills and efforts described by abstract phrases. You'll expend these cards to overcome challenges scene by scene, relying on your ingenuity as a player to align them with the narrative.

Facing a raging river? Maybe your "giant stature" offers an advantage when wading through it. Dealing with a magical trap? Your "puzzle intuition" could help you decipher and defuse it.

Cards are temporarily exhausted when used in a scene, and recovered when you take downtime to rest. However, for each rest taken, and each challenge failed, the more power your foes gather as a result.

GM-less Solo or Group Play
There are enough cards in the deck (currently 55) that a few friends can roll up characters together, and play the game similar to how you would a GM-less TTRPG... the more diverse the party, the more likely you'll be able to overcome the challenges thrown your way.

Deeds Drawn is built upon my first BackerKit project, Distal, using its IP to frame the world, characters, and consequences. You don't need to know anything about Distal to play, however. Deeds Drawn is its own game, wholly encapsulated. But, if you do play Distal, you might have some fun interplay between games using the "same character."

Functionally, the goals for this project are really two fold. The first is to get enough art to round out the odds and ends that aren't present or just aren't a good match for the card layout. The second is, frankly, to help keep me fed. I'm a game designer by trade, but have been trying to avoid going back to the corporate nightmare that is the video game industry right now. I just want to stay indie and create things people will enjoy.