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Quests in King Arthur stories are about ideals, conflict and temptation.
Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard is a solo prompt-based journaling game where you create a Sun Guard and travel alone on a quest, attempting to hold to your Code until you reach the end, facing trials and complications along the way.
You are the last Sun Guard. Will you take up the mantle and ride the ancient roads?
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positive
Pros
- Low barrier to entry and quick to start
- Promotes creative writing, world-building, and character development
- Affordable price with community copies available
Cons
- Feels more like a writing exercise than a traditional crunchy game
- Limited mechanical depth for players seeking heavy euro-style crunch or tactical play
Thematic elements
- quest, honor, memory, forgiveness, personal growth, and the burden of memory
- A crumbling imperial realm with deserts, pine forests, and frost-cliff regions; a long-dormant Sun Guard order on a mythic continent
- journaling-driven, first-person prompts; character-driven storytelling with prophecies and deeds
Comparison games
- Call to Adventure
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Character creation through background and traits — Choose a background, two traits, and define starting stats via 2d6; determine motive and the character's code
- Code corruption mechanic — If resources run dry, players can corrupt their code to continue playing
- Deeds and end-of-game declarations — At the end, declare deeds that summarize the character's great acts and outcomes
- End Game Bonuses — At the end, declare deeds that summarize the character's great acts and outcomes
- Prompt-based writing as core activity — The primary activity is crafting narrative responses to prompts to build a world and character
- Prophecies/omens to guide play — Departures provide omens; players can incorporate these into prompts to avoid spending resources
- Resource Management — Might, Guile, Time, and Honor are spent and earned as you travel and respond to prompts
- Resource management with archetypal stats — Might, Guile, Time, and Honor are spent and earned as you travel and respond to prompts
- Two prompts per location with journaling — Move to a location, spend time, roll 2d6 to generate a prompt, and write a short narrative about the encounter
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- pilgrimage of the sun guard is a journaling kind of solo rpg prompt creative writing style game
- it's not very expensive
- these kind of journaling games i think are good exercises just to start the day with with a cup of coffee and you can just kind of get your mind going
- the game reminds me of a journaling version of Call to Adventure
- feel free to rewind rework the fiction if as it suits you
- it's good for creative writing
- I had quite a bit of fun with it
- I like these kinds of games
- this is a nice little exercise
- the game is meant to be about hope and learning
- I hope you enjoyed taking this look at pilgrimage of the sun guard
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