Are you ready for a walk in the woods?
Don't Walk in Winter Wood is a storytelling game of folkloric fear. Players take on the roles of hapless villagers who must enter a legend-haunted forest and uncover its sinister secrets. The game uses simple rules and a unique narrative style to help you create spooky stories with your friends. It includes:
- Legends of Winter Wood: The dark folklore surrounding Winter Wood and its neighboring village. Featuring contributions by Jason Morningstar (Fiasco, Grey Ranks), Daniel Bayn (Wushu, Secrets and Lies), Jason L Blair (Little Fears, Streets of Bedlam), Jeremy Keller (Technoir, Chronica Feudalis), Rafael Chandler (Dread, Spite), and Daniel Moler (Red Mass).
- Game Rules: Easy-to-learn rules designed to be playable
around a campfire. Recommended for 2-6 players in search of the
willies. Playing time averages about 2 hours.
- Advice: Tips on running games of folkloric horror, building your own scenarios, and creating a memorable, spooky atmosphere.
- Scenarios: Four ready-to-run scenarios set in Winter
Wood. Desperate villagers strive to save a girl hexed by a long-dead
witch in The Curse. A mischievous children's dare leads to an encounter with The Strangers. Rumors of a skinchanging beast haunt the village in The Witchery Way. A strange celestial event leads to a terrifying encounter in A Light in the Woods.
