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Odd Jobs, Long Nights, & Cold Mornings is a narrative game designed for crafting stories about adjacent acquaintances, professional respect, and catching feelings. It is designed for 2 (or 3) players and utilizes prompts and scene types to facilitate a narrative structure. 

One player is the Established, an old hand with known skills, respected in your shared social Circle and by those behind your newly shared Cause. The other player is the Rising, the up and coming hotshot with talent and ambition. You work well in tandem, and maybe even better in parallel. 

The work is dangerous and fraught. What tensions and frictions arise when there is only one person who has the context to understand both sides of you?

What you need to play:
There are no dice or cards involved, so only the game text itself is required, along with whatever method you and your fellow players prefer to capture the details you feel are relevant.

What's new in the Revised Edition?

  • New prompts, from 3 new songs
  • Brand new professional high-quality layout
  • Revised text for improved clarity
  • 3-player gameplay variant

Media touchstones include:

  • The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015 film)
  • TENET (2020 film)
  • Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992 film)
  • Miami Vice (2006 film)
  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024, ongoing TV series)
  • The Nice Guys (2016 film)

Purchase

Buy Now$5.00 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:

OJLNCM-REVISED-spreads.pdf 566 kB
OJLNCM-REVISED-singles.pdf 568 kB
OJLNCM-REVISED.txt 17 kB

Development log

Comments

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I've played this game many times with many friends, and it's fresh and interesting every time. The system is flexible enough to allow for many different stories to be told across a ton of genres, and it also allows for all kinds of relationships to take center stage. Easy to pick up and play, and I'd say easy for players at all levels of TTRPG experience, provided that they're prepared for a more story-focused game rather than a mechanics-focused one. The writing is clean and clear, the design is thoughtful and easy to follow, and the game really does fill a niche in the TTRPG relationship game space. Essential to the indie game ecosystem, in my mind.

this game is fun as hell, some rly enjoyable prompts here. i will say, the rules are pretty confusingly laid out and it took abt an hour to piece together how play is actually conducted. nevertheless had a good time playing a pair of scifi imperialist soldiers who didn't want to admit how much they wanted a father-daughter relationship. they're twice as good at killing innocents now that they've confessed that to each other. good stuff, might need another pass at the layout.