ADZE

ADZE is a micro-system, meant to be played over the top of more traditional TTRPG, that is meant to foster a sense of discovery, scientific study, notetaking, sketching, doodling and collaborative storytelling. It is lightweight but has a high capacity for depth, allowing a party take a hand in designing the gamemaster's world without taking them out of the fiction. It evokes science-forward narratives like Scavenger's Reign, system-discovery elements in games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and adds an element of collaboration that is absent from many of the Big Box TTRPGs that make up such a bulk of play. Finished journal pages are assigned cards, then those pages are poured over to create hands that decide correlation, causation and breakthroughs. When any detail can shape your story, players will engage with their notetaking and get excited about exploring their gamemaster's world!