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The Wheel Turns Once Again

Agouro is a narrative game of inevitable prophecies, inspired by Tarot cards and dark fantasy stories like Kentaro Miura's Berserk and Netflix's The Witcher.

In Agouro, you'll perform a ritual to summon the story of a group of people whose lives are intertwined in the threads of destiny. Your decisions will shape the fate of the World, and also your own.

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Rules and Mechanics

Agouro is played with between 3 and 6 players, and each ritual of play takes around 2 to 4 hours.

Players create protagonists by choosing a Path based on one of 20 Major Arcana cards, then use two standard decks of cards (52 cards, 4 suits, no Jokers) to bet in turns, creating scenes that carry the story forward and advance towards the culmination of the prophecy.

The prophecy is inevitable. You play to find out how it happens.

If you want a few more details on how it works and where the mechanics came from, I made this twitter thread to explain a little bit.

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Playtest Version

WARNING: For now, Agouro is only available in a playtest digital version. If you purchase it now, you'll get the finished digital version of the game when development ends.

Future planned updates include, but are not limited to:

• Editing and proofreading by other collaborators;
• New illustrations for the Major Arcana;
• Better iconography and character sheet design;
• Sections with examples of play throughout the Book of Omens, to help readers better understand how the rules were meant to work;
• An entire chapter composed of optional rules, hopefully made in collaboration with other designers, as well a section on how to change the game's rules to adjust play to your liking.
• The funding of an actual physical version, hopefully, if enough people show interest this digital version (it will have to be paid for separately, of course).

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If you'd like to give me feedback on your experiences playing or reading Agouro, or if you want to pay in R$ or trade a copy of one of your games for it, you can do so by messaging me on twitter @raulranma, or by sending an e-mail to raulranma@gmail.com.

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The rules for this game are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. That means you can create new material based upon them if you wish, as long as you also publish it under this license and give appropriate credit. Table texture on the mock up pictures by Nathan Dumlao.