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Welcome dear researchers!

We're happy to have you with us. It is time for your research team to start a new project. We have heard some rumours, but these are yours to investigate. So what will it be? Floating lights in the nearby town, a new rumour of Al Hazred's Necronomicon or perhaps a new sighting of La Chupacabra? 

Your team is ready and waiting, so let's not wait any further. A hidden world awaits!

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In Abscondita Mundi the players take role of researchers of the paranormal, the secretive and the unknown. As researchers, the players will write letters (or e-mails if your game is set in the digital age) describing the details of their shared investigation. With each letter or e-mail, more details will be added to the case, and as you progress through the game you will create your very own lore about the topic of your study, be it a infamous cryptid, UFO's or cursed objects and ghost sightings.

As it is an epistolary game, no dice or character sheet are needed. Just you and a friend (or perhaps a whole group of researchers) is all you need to play.

The free-form however, does not mean that there is no structure to the game. The letters written by the researchers should follow certain structure, providing framework for the investigation and ensuring that the case progresses with each letter. With each response the details are fleshed out, not only providing your with further data to investigate but also building a shared lore of your research subject, whatever that may be.

Are you ready? A hidden world awaits!


UPDATED:
In the latest update two random tables are provided to help you come up with your investigations providing you with 20 different subjects for your investigations as well as 20 unique locations which you may want to visit in your research!

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
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(1 total ratings)
Authoromnixo

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Abscondita Mundi.pdf 880 kB
Abscondita Mundi - Tables.pdf 168 kB
Abscondita Mundi Printer Friendly.pdf 144 kB
Abscondita Mundi - Sample.pdf 328 kB

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I really like what you have done here. Do you know of any community of players of this or other epistolary games?

Hi Pat.

Thank you for purchasing the game and I'm really glad you like it. I'm afraid that I do not know of any larger communities. Most of the epistolary games I've tried myself were with friends. Though I'd love to try something out with a larger group of people :)

I'd say reddit is a great place to start looking for some people :)

While almost a year later, I do have something that is worth sharing. This reddit group https://www.reddit.com/r/fictitious_letters/ is solely focused on epistolary genres and games, so that's definitely worth checking out :)

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Thank you for rremembering me and posting. That is very kind. I will check it out now.

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Very cool. I'd love to see some roll tables for this.

For this particular game I tried to keep it to one side of an A4 page. Though I may potentially expand it with some tables to roll on for rumours/events :) 

I'm glad that you like the idea!

2 years later... but the tables have finally arrived! haha

Having forgotten about the project to focus on other games, I've felt a sudden urge to revisit it today and give you the tables you wanted Joey! So I do hope you'll like them :)

this is great!

I'm glad you like them! I may revisit it and add some more things in the future, but for now that hopefully will help you get started!