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Before The Dawn
Before dawn brings a solo journaling game using an SRD card set featuring the Witcher & Alone theme; played with various cards including tumblings blocks tower, handful of twigs, and one six- sided die. Players take on roles as evil creatures in this horror tale that follows their path to becoming hungry ancient things living off sacrifice alone before sunrise or being torn apart by sun's fiery gaze at the break of dawn. Before Dawn is available for purchase through printable PDF files accessible via a downloadable link provided within article text summary above
Price:
$1.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 13 reviews)
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