Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy
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| A Game of Necromancy | |
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| Designers | Lucian Kahn |
| Illustrators | Ezra Rose, Miriam Nadler |
| Publishers | Hit Point Press |
| Publication | 2018, 2023 |
| Genres | tabletop role-playing game, storytelling game, horror |
| Players | 2 |
Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy is a ritualistic storytelling game by Lucian Kahn. Throughout the game, two players act out a ceremony in which one resurrects the other from the dead.[1] Dead Friend was nominated for the 2019 Indie Game Developer Network "Most Innovative" award.[2]
The manual is written as instructions for a necromancy ritual, and the game requires Tarot cards, two coins, matches, and salt.[3] Instead of rolling dice, players draw Tarot cards to receive randomized storytelling prompts.[1][3]
In an interview about Dead Friend with Alex Roberts for Backstory on One Shot Podcast Network, Roberts asked Kahn what components he thought about while writing a tabletop role-playing game in the form of a ritual. Kahn mentioned poetic use of repetition, cycles and circles, and movement of meaningful physical objects.[4]
