The Giver's Contract

The Giver's Contract is about you, your partner(s), or a group of friends playing an intense emotional experience: the horror and/or euphoria of becoming a monster. With a unique gameplay system and a variety of monsters to choose from, it's exciting to explore something different and dark compared to daily life, and daily life transformed by this new strangeness. 

The game features:

• Three (3) Scenarios to choose from  (and the power to design your own)
• Seven (7) Transformation Milestones (daily or weekly, you choose your pace)
• Seven (7) Monster Archetypes (from vampire to fleshy being, each have unique perks and downsides)

The game requires:

• Pencil, paper, or device for notes
• A d10 or d20, or RNG if you prefer

This game is designed for 2 or more players, however if you wished you could probably adapt it into a solo journaling experience with no problem at all!

This game was first created for the Hot Horror Jam in 2019, where the game had to be 4 pages or less. In the future, I would like to make a more fleshed out (pun intended) version, with more monsters, more art, more in-depth descriptions of transformation possibilities, more game campaign scenarios to choose from, more lore (I left it vague so people could choose their setting with more flexibility, but I would like to have world-building to provide) - just MORE. And character sheets! I made a thumbnail concept back when I was first designing this but never had the chance to create a full-size digital version for release. I also didn't get the opportunity to work in safety tools for this, and would like to be able to do that as well in a more fully realized, expanded version of this game. Until then, please use safety tools that work for you when playing this due to the nature of the game. 

I may also rename this game in the future because to be honest, I was struggling with a good name for this back then and what I chose was based on a logic path that I never even explained anywhere.  (It was "when faced with weird shit people will either come up with some big metaphoric greek/roman/latin/whatever name for something or just do something super basic. I went with basic in that the entity gives people monster stuff, so it's called The Giver. Anyway. I want to make something... more interesting in the future.)

That's all for now! Hope you enjoy the current version in the meantime!