4d4s SRD

This SRD is documentation to create 4 days, 4 season (4D4S) games.

The SRD is based on Autumn Bells by Jared Mason. The original game is available here.

4D4S games are solo journaling games about a character or object's experiences. The story is told through snapshots of the most influential years.

The game is played by laying out a grid of cards. The 4 rows represented the years selected for the game (eg 1, 5, 30, 100). The 4 columns represent the 4 seasons within the year (eg Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring). Players turn cards over one at a time, exploring prompts and mechanics as they do.

You might want to tell stories about:

• A magical teaching wizard's career (the basis of Autumn Bells). The story would be told at year 1, 5, 30, and 100.
• A fighter pilot. The story would be told as a new recruit learning to fly (year 1), fresh into routine military service (year 3), going into combat (year 5), and retiring into commercial flying (year 20).
• A thousand year old tree, and what it has seen throughout history
• A handcrafted sword, handed down through the ages
• The life of a horse, and all its owners over four selected years
• A seafaring vessel. From its creation, it's time as a cruise ship, being repurposed as a floating hospital, becoming a floating museum, and getting salvaged at a scrapyard. 
• A chapel in a medieval church, and all the things its seen through the ages

The SRD is CC-BY4.0 and comes with additional permission to use the 4D4S logo. It is available for free.

Includes:

Main SRD document, logo files, template files to create your own games (based on year or season layouts)