The Dark Room Dreams

They tear, drill, break your body to parts… Trade you like property… Like Real Estate… All distant events in your domestic body… 

If you are ready for a game with themes of comatose states, introduce a House that Dreams in Darkness. 

Gather the Frames (7 notecards to start), a pencil with eraser, and on a device that can record voice, curate a playlist of videos or tracks (called your "Reel"). Before you sleep the first night, spread 3 notecards into 3 stacks next to where you sleep, and stack the rest near the device that shuffles and loops your Reel while you sleep.

A Home Renovation of Great and Terrible Power

The Dark Room Dreams continues the story of A Home Renovation of Great and Terrible Power, which includes games like: 

• And Our Budget Is...
• Closing Cursed
• Crawl Through the Cracks
• Design the Alignment
• Get the Job Done... Right.

If the price of all 6 of these games together is too much for you, you can either find preview versions of these games now for a low monthly subscription at patreon.com/DarkLavenderVoid, or wait for these games to become available as these games hit their funding goals.

The VOIDCORE

"The Dark Room Dreams" follows a framework from the Dark Lavender Void called the VOIDCORE. Every VOIDCORE Gamebook has different Directions for using Mechanical Artifacts to tell Fictional Stories, telling Stories to control the Artifacts, and continuing these spirals into other Gamebooks. This gravity pulls in players, powering the VOIDCORE. 

Stories bind compatible Gamebooks together with any kind of shared Artifact: as long as you can move them, count them, and differentiate them, the flexibility and diversity of acceptable objects for VOIDCORE games opens vastly divergent potentials in design space. The pages of each Gamebook use Directions to teach you how to you change the direction of the game. Each Direction reorients you in the parts of the game you want to explore, tells you what to ask, empowers you to make that game direction-altering decision, and tells you (or your group) where to go from there. Players can leave early, hop in late, play without Gamebooks, jump between universes: the VOIDCORE framework handles everything here, burdened by the weight of nothing.

For a Great Resource on Safety Tools

The TTRPG Safety Toolkit is a resource co-curated by Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk. The TTRPG Safety Toolkit is a compilation of safety tools that have been designed by members of the tabletop roleplaying games community for use by players and GMs at the table. You can find it at bit.ly/ttrpgsafetytoolkit.