On Poetic Hacks: A solo journaling collection

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On Poetic Hacks is a collection of 5 solo journaling RPGs and an SRD of the system for On Poetic Tides by Beth Jackson.

It includes previously released:

• On Poetic Tides: A Poetry-Prompting Adventure by Beth Jackson
• Light Years In An Instant by Angelique Drummond

and new releases by Angelique Drummond:

• The Collector: Write short stories as a scavenger bird with a penchant for shiny things.
• The Bard's Ballad: Step into the shoes of a Bard and write an epic ballad of your adventures.
• The Unknown: While investigating the grounds of an estate you work for you stumble upon a mysterious rift. You'll journal all about either your experiences of going through the rift or your feelings about choosing not to.

It also includes an introduction explaining that these works are demonstrations of various optional hacks to illustrate that anyone can easily get into making TTRPGs. Along with a very brief description of SRDs and the SRD for On Poetic Tides so that others may hack it too.

Printing Options

There are two files.

On Poetic Hacks - Digital Book is formatted to easily scroll through and read on screen. You may also print this file out as individual pages. 

On Poetic Hacks - Booklet is formatted as a folio or booklet zine. This is meant to be printed on both sides "flip on short edge". Next all the pages get folded in half and can be stapled or stitched in the center to bind the pages together.

More Games

You can check out all of our journaling and writing prompt games here, as well as some below:

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