{"title":"Pre-Orders","description":"\u003cp\u003ePre-order items should ship in May or June.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may add non-preorder items to the pre-order.  Everything will ship at the same time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you include a copy of TYOV with your pre-order you will need to email me at dearleadergame@gmail.com in order to get the PDF link, otherwise it won't release til the package ships.  You don't HAVE to email me, but you can if you don't want to wait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMake a login when you buy so you can come back and adjust your address should you need to.  Email me at dearleadergame@gmail.com for address adjusting if you can't figure it out on your own.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"thousand-year-old-vampire-secret-companion-book-pre-order","title":"Thousand Year Old Vampire companion volume","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eHere you may order the unnamed companion volume to \u003cem\u003eThousand Year Old Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e. The companion volume is physical mate to the original game book–same beautiful treatment with foil, ribbons, and all the fanciness. 188 color pages on almost-museum quality paper. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBut:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThis book is not necessary to play \u003cem\u003eThousand Year Old Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e and is, in fact, an impediment to efficiently working your way through a game session. It is not a game in any useful sense of the word. It is not a book of stories, or pretty pictures, or additional prompts.  It's not a book of character sheets, neither is it a journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThere's not a word in the entire book. Or a drawing. Not a puzzle to be seen. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book, to be absolutely clear, is not useful.  It is, I believe, very \u003cem\u003eworthwhile\u003c\/em\u003e but don't forget, friends, that I am an idiot.  My worthwhile might be your bitter disappointment.  In fact, it most likely is.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhat is the companion volume? Well, I'm sticking to my guns and saying it's an experience that's best entered into without any foreknowledge. But I'll put a spoiler down below, in case you must know. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow I'm going to go further and say that a bunch of folks pre-ordered the companion volume when I told them, at length, not to. Some people got so, so angry about it and yelled on the internet and sent me threatening emails. Others thought the companion volume very interesting or amusing or challenging, sometimes for the wrong reason. The wildest thing, though, is that a small handful of the very angry people changed their minds about the companion volume and decided they liked it, and that, friends, is just incredible.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBut to help stave off future outrage, I'll put an explanation of what you are buying in a 'spoiler' way down below. Highlight the paragraph and it'll describe exactly what is in the book but I will not be so heavy handed as to explain the \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e it is what it is. I'll leave that for folks to wonder over (though you can certainly find it discussed on the internet). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpoiler text begins.\u003c\/strong\u003e If you are on an text-to-voice reader you might want to stop the reading!  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000;\"\u003eThe companion volume is a page-for-page recreation of the original Thousand Year Old Vampire rule book. It matches the original item for items, image for image, but its...abstracted. Paragraphs of words are now blocks of color, images are reduced to primary shapes, everything is made strange. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000;\"\u003eJust imagine what a delight that would have been to open unknowingly but, alas, you had to look at the 'spoiler text'. I understand, I would have too. I cannot bear a mystery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eChris Bissette has a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/loottheroom.uk\/a-memory-of-a-vampire\"\u003egracefully written article\u003c\/a\u003e on the companion volume. I feel honored to have such a thoughtful thing written in response to a thing I made. Beware, there are spoilers toward the end!  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eChase Carter wrote an \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dicebreaker.com\/games\/thousand-year-old-vampire\/news\/thousand-year-old-vampire-companion-book-reaction\"\u003earticle for Dicebreaker.\u003c\/a\u003e I just reread it and fear he was overkind and didn't grab the cranky social media posts and share them.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBelow is the pre-order information for this book.  I put it here as a historical novelty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat are you pre-ordering?  It's a secret.  Or a surprise.  Surprises are good, usually.  This one possibly less so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut I will tell you some things about the item you are buying:  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003eIt is a book.  188 pages, hardback, foil and ribbons and full color. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003eIt's not a game.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003eIt's not an expansion for \u003cem\u003eThousand Year Old Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e, though the companion volume is nearly meaningless without the TYOV book. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003eIt's not a collection of writings, stories, reflections, or any other such thing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003eIt's not a writing journal, character sheet packet, or adjunct for TYOV play. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003eIt's not a book of illustrations or puzzles or clever collages or interesting photographs.   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003eWhatever that thing you are thinking about might be, it almost certainly isn't that.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #533737;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book, to be absolutely clear, is not useful.  It is, I believe, worthwhile but don't forget, friends, that I am an idiot.  My worthwhile might be your bitter disappointment.  In fact, it most likely is.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnow that the book is every bit as beautifully realized as the original \u003cem\u003eThousand Year Old Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e!  It meets the same specifications in size and quality, it has the same treatments–foils and ribbons and finery galore.  It is, after all, a companion volume!  It is intended to live on a shelf next to the original and will do so very well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut again, I am not suggesting that you order this.  In fact, I am trying to dissuade you from it.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you must order this book I would ask that you open the package in surroundings that that enjoin a dreamy focus and a generous spirit.  Have a copy of \u003ci\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThousand Year Old Vampire \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eat hand.  You will not need dice or pen or paper because, again, this is not a game. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso, no PDF of this one.  It's only a physical book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e---  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left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• 20 page digest-sized zine.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Full color interiors.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• Includes three plastic gels to reveal the information hidden in the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• Winner of \"Best Art\" Indie Groundbreaker Award, 2022!  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: 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which show each player different information on the same page.  A marvelous gimmick!  Should the downloads include the three different colors separated out into their own game book PDFs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project was conceived during Zinequest 2021 and was later featured at the NONFiction Now conference in Wellington, NZ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can download the PDF packet free over here:  https:\/\/timhutchings.itch.io\/a-fantastic-longing-for-adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI talk a bit about the game on this NONFiction Now panel here:  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6OXb3sdhBNQ\u0026amp;t=1s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Aug 1, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" height=\"380\" width=\"518\" 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eternal unlife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can see \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.olddog.games\/A-Thousand-Years-of-Vampire\"\u003ethe entire collection of images here\u003c\/a\u003e.  For free.  All of 'em. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo be absolutely clear:  The contents of this book are, and will remain, freely available to all for as long as we have an internet–you do not need to buy \u003cstrong\u003eThe Book\u003c\/strong\u003e to enjoy Denee's story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" alt=\"interior view of book\" src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/w\/1200\/i\/c36718cf251b807555b74a5395726e2a9026bbcd5030de8543397c65f225f07d\/vampire50.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(I'm not going to try to entice you with images from \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ebecause you can see them all \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.olddog.games\/A-Thousand-Years-of-Vampire\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho is Tim Denee?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTim Denee is an artist\/illustrator\/designer I've admired from afar.  He made \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.olddog.games\/Oilfurnace\"\u003eclever\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.olddog.games\/Bronzemurder\"\u003emoving \u003c\/a\u003ecomics of his Dwarf Fortress play throughs and I LOVED them.  When I figured out that the guy making this great TYOV Prompt art was the guy that made the Dwarf Fortress comics I was full of incredulous, suspicious joy. \u003cem\u003e I do not deserve things this good\u003c\/em\u003e, I thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd I'll add this:  I am entirely responsible for this book being produced and delivered.  Tim Denee is innocent of anything that might go wrong.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's this book like? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a 9.5\" wide by 5.5\" high clothbound hardback book.  It's 88 pages if you don't count the endpages, which you shouldn't.  Front and back have gold foil and are artfully debossed.  It ain't a game but it is very handsome nonetheless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tim Hutchings Makes Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40957879845048,"sku":"AMBR","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0519\/6598\/4952\/products\/ThousandYearOldVampire-12.jpg?v=1679720172"},{"product_id":"tyoc","title":"Thousand Year Old Campfire, or Old Morris Cave: A Continuous Use Campsite in Mammoth Cave National Park, an Excavation (Book+PDF)","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThousand Year Old Campfire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eor\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eOld Morris Cave: A Continuous Use Campsite \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ein Mammoth Cave National Park\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ean Excavation \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThanks to Tim Hutchings, you will believe that a hole \u003cbr\u003efull of broken pots and animal bones can make \u003cbr\u003eyou feel emotions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e-Anna Anthropy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eI don't know if I know how to explain this, but I must try.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eYou are buying a game. The game is disguised as a particular sort of regionally produced archaeology journal which I used to see for sale in state parks when I was a youth.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eIn this solo game you are creating the results of an excavation of a cave mouth which has been a frequently used campsite for a thousand or more years. You do this backwards, building up history from the bedrock up.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eYou will roll a die and add dirt, building the cave floor upwards over time. At some points there will be archaeological finds 'uncovered'; you will operate a flowchart to learn about that find and how it came to be there. I am very proud of these flowcharts–some of them are, maybe, the best art I've ever made.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eA flow chart might look like this:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0519\/6598\/4952\/files\/sdfasdfsadf_480x480.png?v=1689280625\" alt=\"flowchart from game\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eYou operate the flowchart and then add things to your strata schematic. In this case you would draw in beads and follow the procedure for making a long-dead campfire. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eA finished strata chart might look like this:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0519\/6598\/4952\/files\/ScreenShot2023-07-13at12.50.24PM_480x480.png?v=1689277867\" alt=\"view of filled out game sheet\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eI am inordinately happy with this game and am unable to do it justice here. Maybe I can rewrite this later and do better?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat are you actually buying?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• A soft-cover, digest-sized game booklet with 72 black and white pages. There's a flip through video in the thumbnails at the bottom of this page.\u003cbr\u003e• Digital PDFs of the rulebook and two varieties of play sheet.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSo what do you need to play?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• The game rules, of course\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• a play sheet\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• a six-sided die\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• a pencil or pen\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• a blue ballpoint pen (optional, really)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• 2-3 hours to spare, maybe more depending on how you play games\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSo what do you do?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• Roll a die to add layers to your strata chart, bottom to top\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• Navigate flowcharts using that six-sided die\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• Draw in the strata layers and the archaeological finds buried within\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrawing? Do I need to be an artist?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• Absolutely not.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJust to be clear: Is this a journaling game?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• Not in the 'write a page of text' sense. In fact, you'll write no words at all unless you count the signature you add at the end. You DO accrete and record information over time, but it is the form of the strata chart.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat do you feel?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• Each flowchart is a snapshot of something that happened in the past. These might feel purely utilitarian, frustrating, charming, melancholy, wistful...  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAre there tricks?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• Yes. There is a layer of metatextuality on top of this that sweetens the game experience I think. It isn't vital to the play of the game.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs it replayable?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• I think so! I'd guess there are at least three good plays in it. The random progression will give a reasonably different experience each time. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo I have to do anything extreme?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• No? You don't have to mark in the book if you don't want to. You aren't expected to go out into the woods and hide your finished work in a hollow tree. I guess you can if you want to, though.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs there really an Old Morris Cave?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• No, the cave is fictitious though some of the material in the game is true. There really is a Mammoth Cave State Park and the land the cave is imagined to be on really was once owned by a man named Valentine Simons. There is such a thing as processual archaeology and I did (mostly by accident) engage with it in a way that one of my reviewers thought interesting. There are things in game that are real in other ways. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA thousand years ago there were only Native Americans in the region. 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He nailed the tone of an academic journal while also herding the numerous cats that make up a set of rules, even those as simple as these. I recommend him highly to those in need of a word fixer upper. (Ezra would've told me to hyphenate 'fixer-upper' I bet, but this page is all me and my own word badness so I refuse.)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this like \u003cem\u003eThousand Year Old Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• \u003cem\u003eThousand Year Old Campfire\u003c\/em\u003e is a descendant of \u003cem\u003eThousand Year Old Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e, sharing themes and some mechanics. There is nothing supernatural in this game, it is definitely less intense, there are no single characters for which you advocate, there are no resources to track and spend. You do not need to have played TYOV to enjoy TYOC–it is a self-contained experience. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAre there any warnings associate with play? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• Yeah, I guess there are. There is animal and human death (but not graphic; we might learn that a bird flew into the cave, bonked its head and died). Certain unlikely paths contain themes of implied sexual harassment. I would be comfortable with a 12+ year old playing this game in the approved manner.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIs the PDF text-to-audio friendly? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e• I don't think it is. The flowcharts have the text embedded in the image so an automatic reader probably can't detect it. If you need this service please email me at dearleadergame@gmail.com. But even then there is a flow chart aspect and a read-out-loud rework would need to be a whole new doc because of the direction arrows... If folks have thoughts on this please let me know–as a one-person shop I don't know how to best handle something like this.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIs there any errata I should know about? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e• Gosh darn it yes there is. Figure 13 has a dagger reference that should point at Entries 9 and 10, not 8 and 9. This error is obvious and you'd've picked up on it if you'd bumped into it during play. 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