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Your Friend in Witchcraft was successfully funded on Kickstarter! An updated PDF for this game will be coming later this year.

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Your Friend in Witchcraft is an epistolary game for two players. As you play and exchange letters, you’ll tell a story about how witches learn, how leaders grow, and how people change.

To play, you’ll each need: a coin for flipping, a deck of tarot cards, and a way to exchange letters.

Build Memorable Characters

One player will portray the Novice: you are new to witching; there are no other witches in your community who can advise you. The other player will portray the Expert: you're an old hand at witching, and have knowledge to share.

You'll work together to establish the tone and setting of your game. Then, you'll each choose an Archetype to base your witch character on, and answer some questions about their personality, home, and community.

Write Magical Letters

Gameplay happens asynchronously, as you write and exchange letters during the different seasons of the year.

When you write a letter, you can draw on a few sources of inspiration:

  • Story Moments: narrative beats that you can choose when to use, that tell the story of your character and their relationship with their pen pal
  • Everyday Prompts: questions to help you fill in details of everyday life, prompted by drawing Minor Arcana cards from your tarot deck
  • Arcane Acts: information to help you build acts of magic, prompted by drawing Major Arcana cards from your tarot deck

What's Included

When you purchase Your Friend in Witchcraft, you'll receive the game booklet in digital form. This 42-page, full-color PDF includes 6 Archetypes, 2 sets of Story Moments, 28 Everyday Prompts, and 7 Debriefing Questions. 

Community Content

Your Friend in Witchcraft now has community content! Kurt Refling has created 4 incredible new Archetypes: The Oathkeeper, The Addict, The Caretaker, & The Wild. Check them out here!

The core game book contains a license for creating your own Archetypes or other content for the game. I'd love to see what you create!

Notes

This game uses a tarot mechanic inspired by Anamnesis by Sam Leigh/Blinking Birch Games, licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Purchase

Buy Now$8.00 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $8 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Your Friend in Witchcraft - Standard 5 MB
Your Friend in Witchcraft - AtkinsonHyperlegible 5 MB
Your Friend in Witchcraft - OpenDyslexic 5 MB

Community Copies

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Community Copies

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WOW this game!!! it's a gorgeous piece, with just enough structure to allow intriguing and impactful narratives to take root and grow. it's full of character and reflection on the nature of magic and the people who practice it. i can't recommend it enough!

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Deftly woven art.

It takes a delicate hand to create an epistolary game with an overarching plot structure, and that's doubly true when you concoct as many pathways as Kay has in Your Friend in Witchcraft. With three (different!) playbooks for each player to choose from, Kay has created an asymmetric game that gives all characters opportunities to be interesting, vulnerable, and fallible.

I can heartily recommend Your Friend in Witchcraft to anyone who likes quiet connections, emotionally intelligent stories, and a little bit of magic.