"Well met, Glyphcrafter. It's time to begin your education"

G L Y P H

is a single player adventure in runic magic, an exercise in creativity, and a supplement to add language and artistry into a variety of tabletop roleplaying games.

It charts a novice's first steps in mastery over a set of rules that give shape to their will, and allow them to influence the world through their art.

What can it be used for?

Glyph offers a set of flexible rules that allow a player, or a player character, to build a library of magical ephemera which they can use to chart out spells and incantations. As such, it can be used to add flavour to a favoured magical character. It can also be used exactly as presented -- as a solo pursuit, a distraction from the world, an exercise in metered creativity.

Build your library of Vessels, Lines, and Investiture, and tackle requests from those who seek the help of an accomplished magician to solve their problems. 

Glyph will challenge players to create a working vernacular of arcane shapes and symbols, answer questions about where their magic comes from, and how different external factors push and pull at its effects.

In the end, players will have a collection of these sigils, and a small grimoire of spells, that they can take forward into future games to add flavour and language to their player character's magic. 

The game is now complete.

Once the game is in your hands, we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback in the comments, and we'd love to see the Glyphs you come up with!

If you'd like to get in contact with us, help support this and future projects, or just see what else we're working on, click on Hieronymus the snake below, and follow to find out.

We've been releasing development zines charting Glyph's ongoing progress over on our patreon, where you can learn a little bit more about us, about the process we went through to create Glyph (and all other future Oddments releases), and catch a peek behind the design curtain to look at the cutting room floor and see all the stuff that didn't quite make it into the final product.