Do Not Let Us Die In The Dark Night Of This Cold Winter

Our siren song is the crow's shriek. The storeroom has been ransacked; the shelves lie naked and the empty barrels din like hollow bones. Folk scurry from home to home through the knee-deep snow, begging for scraps of food and furniture to burn. Many have fallen ill and no end to their fever can be found. Others have gone on frost-bitten toes into the forest for firewood and have not returned... Our pain is as bitter as the biting, frosted wind and I fear we will not live to feel the first warm rays of spring's sun. I beseech you, do not let us die alone and frozen during the darkest nights of this coldest of winters.

A game of managing resources...

Cold Winter is an entire winter in a single session; it takes the adventurers from your current fantasy roleplaying campaign and tasks them with rescuing an ill-fated village from the clutches of a terrible winter. While the gameplay is bound to its own set of rules and abstractions, it can serve as a side quest or adventure that has a lasting impact on the entire campaign. It is a game of resource management; adventurers will collect supplies and then decide the best way to divide the supplies to ensure as many villagers as possible survive.

It can also be played as a one-shot game or a miniature board game that stands in for sessions when players are missing or a break is in order. A game with four players will last for about two hours.

A digital box set...

This Digital Box Set Edition contains the following items:

This digital box set includes the following things:

Abridged quick-play rules handouts.

A complete PDF of the original rules.

A playmat.

Macros to expedite each type of dice roll.

Tokens for marking each player's adventuring class.

An axe token to mark the active adventurer.

Adventurer Building worksheets.

A Village Storeroom worksheet.

Coffin tokens to count the number of dead villagers.

A deck of occurrence cards with a coffin backing.

Tokens, border, and a background to build a map of * your village.

Reference sheets for both the building and storeroom worksheets.

A quick-reference token.

A village map building board.

Content Warning: While Cold Winter does not contain any explicit material, overly violent descriptions or frightening artwork, it does deal with heavy themes such as starvation, injury, illness, and mental anguish caused by environmental stress. If I had to rate this product I would rate it PG-13. - Cecil.

System: System Agnostic

Length: One-shot

Features: Card Decks, Custom Macros

i Can only be used with Roll20; cannot be downloaded.

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