Touched by the Veil 🪦: A Booklet Storyset 📖 for Tableau Games (Print-N-Fold)

Touched by the Veil 📖, where the unsolved intertwines with the unseen, setting hearts racing and souls searching. A two page Booklet Storyset 📖 supplement for Tableau: Collaborative Cinematic Storytelling (available here on itch.io as Tableau Core ꩜ Rules in a “name your own price” Print-N-Fold Tableau Booklet 📖 edition).

Also adaptable for use in other  ‘belonging outside belonging’  style storygames, this Storyset 📖  accentuates tales of lurking truths, and the irresistible dance between the known and the unknown.

Leverage these five quintessential Story 📖 Elements in your stories:

• Setting The Haunted 🏘️: Traverse places where the barrier between worlds is gossamer-thin. Here, every echo holds a story, every shadow might just have a soul.
• Tone Suspense 🎶: Walk the tightrope of anticipation, where every heartbeat might herald a storm, and the unseen and the unsaid loom just out of reach.
• Theme Obsession 💢: Delve into fervent passions that defy logic.. When the heart's deepest desires blur with the haunting call of the beyond, what path will you choose?
• Genre Beats Mystery 🥁: Embark on a journey to unravel puzzles shrouded in layers of deception. But remember, every clue uncovered may come at a price.
• Faction Wandering Souls 🫂: Encounter the entities of the in-between, those who whisper tales from the yonder, some seeking closure, some yearning for justice, and some guarding age-old truths.

In Touched by the Veil 🪦 every decision reverberates with suspense, every passion becomes a binding chain, and every shadow might just hold the key to a mystery unsolved. As the curtain lifts on these tales, how will you navigate the intricate tapestry of intrigue and emotion?

Tableau Booklet Storysets 📖

Tableau Booklet Storysets 📖 supplement Tableau stories with additional rules and story elements, but you'll require a Tableau Playset 🎞️ or the Tableau Core ꩜ Rules  to play. Storysets 📖 also are easy to incorporate into most ‘belonging outside belonging’ style storygames, and are adaptable for use with many other styles of tabletop role-playing games.

Storysets 📖 don't possess the same flexibility as a Tableau card-based Playset 🎞.  Instead, they are designed for a similar style of play using small, card-sized Booklets easily printed on US Letter 8½''x11'' paper. To utilize a Storyset 📖 just unfold the Booklet to a particular Story 📖 Element page and have a storyteller Take Up 🫰 the Booklet for control that Element just like a card with Story 📖 Element.

Assembly: Print booklet, single-sided. Fold long way (11'') with text out, then unfold. Fold short way (8-½'') with text out, then unfold. Fold short sides ¼ and ¾ inward with text in. Cut center guide, stopping at the ¼ & ¾ folds—don’t cut to page’s end. Refold as per image. Ensure cover is on front. Tighten creases.

About Christopher Allen (Writer & Designer)

I am fascinated by the art and craft of collaboration, and have its practice and the study of how and why collaboration works at the center of my professional career as an entrepreneur, a software architect, as well as a creator, producer & publisher in the game industry.

I have been a fan and supporter of games (especially roleplaying games) for decades, with old favorites including Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest II, while my new favorites are the collaborative games that have emerged in the last couple of decades, both in the form of GMless story games as well as in board games.

Professionally, I've done considerable work in the computer game industry: I was the lead designer for Castle Marrach and Lovecraft Country online games and producer for mobile adaptions of several strategy games by Reiner Knizia and Michael Schacht.

In the tabletop games industry, I produced Chaosium's award-winning Beyond the Mountains of Madness RPG supplement, resurrected Arkham Horror cooperative board game before licensing it to Fantasy Flight for their bestselling 2nd edition, and I support the tabletop gaming community as the owner/publisher of the popular website RPG.net.

Recently, I have been doing more personal projects, directly creating releases for the tabletop industry: I co-authored with Shannon Appelcline Meeples Together: How and Why Cooperative Board Games Work published by Gameplaywright with a successful Kickstarter in 2018, a successful Kickstarter in 2019 for the original 18-card Gate Watch 2019, and a 2023 Kickstarter for the first two Tableau Games, my cooperative storytelling card game system. I will be releasing other games & media through Dyvers Hands Productions. I am also an avid supporter of other game designers on Kickstarter and Patreon.

About Dyvers Hands Productions (Publisher)

“Dyvers Hands” is an archaic phrase used to refer to a project that has been contributed to by many people. Divers is a word of Latin origin (diversus) that is still commonly used in modern French language; it literally means “many and varied”. ~ Wikipedia

At Dyvers Hands Productions, we are passionate about creating and developing collaborative storytelling experiences across a wide range of media. Our focus includes tabletop games, online communities, graphic novels, short-story anthologies, and we hope to one day expand into TV and movies.

We believe that the best stories are the ones told together, and our mission is to foster creativity, promote collaboration, and bring people together through immersive and engaging gameplay.

Our latest project, Tableau, successfully funded on Kickstarter, is a storytelling game system that emphasizes shared storytelling and character development.

Credits

Touched by the Veil 📖  A Booklet Storyset 📖 for Tableau Games was written & designed by Christopher Allen.

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Tableau Games™, Dyvers Hands™, and Castle Marrach™ are trademarks of Dyvers Hands Productions LLC.