Prentice
A downloadable game
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Prentice is my entry for the Wretched & Alone Jam. You play as the apprentice to a powerful spellweaver, whose death has left you trapped in their arcane sanctuary. Your mentor's magic held this place together, and without them, it is crumbling. You are a lowly apprentice and don't know the ritual to exit from this magical realm. Can you figure it out before the whole place unravels around you?
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (6 total ratings) |
Author | Trash Heap Games |
Tags | Fantasy, GM-Less, journaling, Magic, solo, storygame, Tabletop role-playing game, wretched-and-alone, wretched-jam |
Purchase
Buy Now$3.00 USD or more
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Prentice_pages.pdf 1.9 MB
Prentice_spreads.pdf 1.9 MB
Development log
- Added Print-Friendly Version63 days ago
- Wow another updateJul 07, 2024
- Updated pdf!Dec 12, 2021
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Absolutely love this game, I've been working through my first playthrough and Apprentice Salomon is already mustering the courage to get over his master's passing and work his way through escaping the labyrinthine tower he once called home.
One minor ask/suggestion, could there be a pdf printed with single sheets? The spreads are very easy to read on the computer, but for printing, it causes some issues with the pages not lining up, and making a little booklet for portable play is somewhat frustrating to get the print settings to work out right. Just a hopeful thought, even despite that, this is a fantastic game and I've enjoyed every minute spent delving into it!
Thank you so so much for this!! I would love to read about Salomon's story when it is done! And I will definitely make a print-friendly version this week, I never imagined someone would want to print it!
A great and powerful wizard took you as an apprentice. Safe and cut off from the world, you trained and studied in their private sanctuary. But you were never taught the incantations you needed in order to leave. And now your mentor is dead, the sanctuary is collapsing, and you must find a way to escape.
Prentice is a Wretched and Alone game about trying to escape a wizard's private sanctuary after they have died. While you were once welcomed here the place has turned against you, the walls a crumbling, the void is out to get you, and you are searching desperately for anything that might help you escape.
This game is played like any other W&A game with Days, Cards, and the tower. The tower in this case represents the crumbling nature of the sanctuary as it returns to the void.
My sanctuary was located somewhere between dreams and the waking world, and I had plenty of horrible creatures who were trying to trick me by telling me I was still asleep. But in the end, I found a peaceful little farm and had to accept my doom. You can read my playthrough HERE
WOW this was so good!! Thank you so so much for playing and sharing your story!