The Librarian of Babel
A downloadable RPG
This is a journal-based Solo RPG game, but you are also welcome to play with a friend.
You’ve been hired to work at the Library of Babel. This is a magical library that not only contains every book ever written, but also every book ever imagined. While magical, the library doesn’t maintain itself. It is the job of the librarians to make sure every book is appropriately cataloged and shelved as well as preserving the library’s vast collection of art and artifacts. Given its eternal nature, you're expected to keep meticulous records on your day-to-day activities at the library as a resource for future librarians.
All you need to play is a deck of cards and a journal. If you want to play with the extended rules, you'll also need some dice.
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I just wanted to tell you, I've just returned to this game after a while, and I had an idea for jokers that make them more than just prompts to stop playing! My idea is that jokers serve as freeform prompts of an exceptional nature! Since they are so rare, especially if you reshuffle the deck after each game day like I do, they represent an interruption to the usual day to day in the library where something out of the ordinary, even by the library's standards happens! Also the intention is to keep it vague so this could cover a whole range of scenarios, but the one thing joker events must have in common is being suitably epic, while staying within a slice of life tone of course! Finally, of course, like many of your game's rules, this way of playing is to be completely optional.