The Price of Coal - Text-Only and Commentary
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The Price of Coal is a card-based prompt-driven storytelling game about coal miners and their loved ones in West Virginia, 1921. It’s about the struggles faced by those who stand up for their rights, and about communities that come together through hard times. It’s about a history that should not be forgotten. It’s about the fights we still face today.
This is a TEXT-ONLY version of the game's card deck, with the full text of the game in one column, and designer commentary and notes in a second column. I want to make this version of the game available as a game design resource for other designers, or a behind-the-scenes look for those curious about the game's development.
For a full, online playable version of The Price of Coal, with art and VTT integration, please check out our Roll20 module.
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"The Price of Coal is not a game with a happy ending – just as with those real people whose story the game is based on, while individuals may very well scrape something together in the epilogue it is by and large a tale of struggling and then failing. It is, however, an excellent example of how a game can use prompts and character relationships to help us tell a story about such a struggle, grounded in real events, a story of where we’ve been and how we got here, and a reminder of the Price that had to be paid. It is a story worth telling." Click the link for the full CHG review!