At the end of August 2024, we submitted PITCHFORK to itch.io’s One-Page-RPG Jam. PITCHFORK is an intro and teaser for our upcoming UNTETHERED roleplaying game, set in a distant village of the Lower Princedoms in the same setting, far away from any remnant towns and ports from the Autumn War that recently came to an end.
In PITCHFORK, you take the roles of villagers, trying to protect your home from a horrendous creature of war, a chimeromantic monster bred to ravage and destroy the enemies in the last days of the war. The realms now suffer from these beasts, and as villagers, you have only what home and neighbors offer to help you defend it while saving your loved ones from a bloody, gruesome end.
The PITCHFORK microgame was done as a side-project while developing UNTETHERED, as we wanted to show off some of the setting details and the core game mechanics and introduce what’s coming. Both are built on top of the OGREISH framework, a streamlined storygame engine using descriptive facets as narrative and mechanical elements, allowing players and GMs to engage in roleplaying and storytelling without
