Description
Your world is about to change, and you with your skills of divination and foresight, are the only one who can see it. In the last week of the old world, each of your visitors will play a part in the changes yet to come but they come to you with their own questions. Advise them and lead them down a path towards the future, pulling their strings of fate.
Auspex is a real-life tarot reading practice wrapped in a world building, solo journaling game. Take on the traditional role of a community’s seer. You’ll use a variety of (actual) spreads – The Bridge (five cards), The Court (six cards), Broken Mirror (seven cards) – to suss out your visitors’ hopes, fears, and desires. Use your deck’s symbols, both individually and as a cohesive whole, to build meaning. See the layers. Get a sense for where each visitor’s life is heading in the context of the approaching change. What information you ultimately pass on, however, is up to you: give advice, tell a half-truth, outright lie, steer fate.
Querents’ personalities (and inquiries) are tied to the Major Arcana, the first 21 cards of a standard Rider Waite Smith-style deck. The Fool is an adventurer, The Magician is a scientist, The Devil is a con artist, etc. At the end of your week, the patterns in your readings determine the change – what it is, how it happens, who it affects, and how you’ll exist with it.
- 44-page zine, 5.5″ x 8.5,” color cover with B&W interior
- Requires a Rider Waite-style tarot deck and a way to record your game
- Enjoy as a solo TTRPG, or use for writing inspiration, world-building, or tarot reading practice
