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Played Old Morris Cave from Tim Hutchings (Thousand Year Old Vampire). It's a solo archaeology, map-making game where you excavate a cave that's been used continuously for over 1000 years. You build a strata map from the bedrock up with different layers every d6 inches. Where you draw the layer usually results in an event from the past, like an animal taking shelter, or someone building a campfire, that you play through with simple flowcharts. You draw pots, bones, or ashes into your strata layers. Sometimes events, like digging treasure hunters, erase your older drawings.

Building the strata map is fun and you don't need art skills (which can sometimes be a barrier for art-journaling games). There's no bookkeeping. I found myself really caring about the history of this cave, a sign of a good world-building game. I'd recommend the printed version because there is a lot of page flipping and also the presentation is great. It looks and reads like an in-universe (diegetic?) field report.

Here is my map:

Mar 6
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