Realm

Welcome to Realm, a one-page solo journaling game where you will be writing the history of a region over many years. You might choose to imagine your realm as a fantasy kingdom, a modern nation, or a futuristic precinct. Use your imagination and storytelling skills to craft an unusual and engaging chronicle.

You'll need a blank page for your chronicle, a coin to toss, and a map showing a number of countries, regions or states. Choose one to be your realm. You will be writing an imaginary history for this area, using the geography and placenames from the map for inspiration, but completely unconnected to the actual past of that area in the real world.

Inside the tri-fold pamphlet, you begin at 1463, in the Age of Kings. Read the prompt, look at your map, and imagine what the history of your realm might have been. Make an entry in your chronicle, recording the year and a description of events at that time. Then you move along the path to the next event. If there are two paths, toss a coin and move along the heads or tails path, depending on the outcome.

Repeating this process, you create an entry in your chronicle for each event. Eventually you will reach a space that instructs you to write a final entry in your history. After that, the official chronicle of your realm is complete.

Realm was created as part of Trpitych, but can be played as a standalone game.