Turning tide - The settlement beyond the disaster

"The last of the snow and ice are leaving this northern side of the land, and the buildings in the empty settlement seem to dry up at last. The houses in this rural abandoned village are mostly intact, but doors and windows are not closed. It seems that whoever lived here, left in a hurry. There even seem to be some boats down at the shore. As the scouting party investigate this, a horrible sight meets them. The beach is strewn with human bones, and the few boats left there seem to have been grabbed and tossed in on land..." Disaster has struck the world inhabited by the people in your game world, forcing them out of their daily lives and into a life on the run. When the game begins, they have at last found a place of relative safety to create a settlement for the future. The players in this game take on the roles of the settlement's elected council members, representing the people and the direction they decide on for their future society. Turning tide is a narrative roleplaying board game that requires no game master to reveal the story to the players. It is a board game designed for playing around a table, but it is versatile and was successfully play-tested in a real-time digital format during the Covid-19 pandemic. Turning tide uses regular playing cards to determine random events and one or two ten-sided dice for percentile rolls. During each player's turn their story moment is influenced by what has happened so far, the random event cards, their choice of optional actions and the resource management situation of the settlement. How will your people survive and prosper at the turning of the tides, in the unfriendly environment following the collapse of the world as we knew it?"