The Wizard’s Tower by Courtney Gurll is a role playing game published by Magical Gurll. The game is based on For the Queen and is a Descended from the Queen game covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
The supplement is available as an eight page Pay What You Want supplement from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover and one the front matter.
The first page of content is laid out as a single column table. In it, it explains that you are a wizard’s apprentice, learning the craft and assisting them in their tower. The wizard has vanished, though, and there are places that were forbidden to you that you look for them in their absence.
The next page is laid out in a similar format. It explains what is needed, which is at least one player, a standard 52 card deck without jokers and the instructions. The players go in turns, or if solo you go alone, and draw cards. There is a question associated with a card and the person drawing it answers the question, or passes it onto the next person asking them to answer it; they may do the same. Questions that don’t want to be answered can be X’d. The game is over when the ace of spades is drawn with the final question.
The remainder of the game are the lists of questions, one for each card.
The Wizard’s Tower in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is short enough that these are not needed. Navigation is okay. The text is in a table format – single column for the instructions, two columns for the questions – and appeared to be free of errors. Illustrations are minimal. Presentation is okay.
This is as might be gathered a storytelling game. It can be done solo, with a journal, or with several players, but no GM. Whether or not the game appeals will depend on whether or not storytelling games appeal. Those who find it difficult to answer these sorts of prompts will find the game difficult. The Wizard’s Tower can be found by clicking here.
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