November 10, 10AM ET, 2026 Did Your Player Character Just Die? Great, Play This!
A Most Brilliant Spark unravels your PC's deepest secrets with a kaleidoscope of fantasy, psychedelia, and retrospection triggered by their in-game death.
Fade-to-Black to Begin the Story...
Player Character death strikes a final curtain for their storyteller. The tales that unfold after their passing are merely echoes of their past influence. We often commemorate the stories that lead up to a PC’s demise, but there is another story that lies dormant, resting untold in the flash between life and death.
A Most Brilliant Spark is a collaborative, card-driven, soul-searching TTRPG for 1-5 players who dare to ask, “can death offer a clarity that could not be found in life?” Choose a Player Character who died in-game and explore their hidden desires one last time by remixing core memories into a kaleidoscope of fantasy, psychedelia, and retrospection. Players will reveal random suits from a deck of cards to guide a dream-narrative in unpredictable ways and perhaps discover new resolutions to past life experiences. When the deck runs out, the dream ends, and so will, finally, the Player Character.
The Campaign Includes...
- 54-card custom poker deck
- Free digital game-aid downloads
- Free mental health clinician-approved expressive therapy protocols for the game
- 2+ hour digital ambient soundtrack
The Team
- Written by Ennie Nominated, Rhodrick Magsino, creator of ARKYVR.
- Edited by Ennie Nominated and The Awards winner, Samantha Leigh, creator of Anamnesis, Death of the Author, and The World We Left Behind.
- Sensitivity Consultation by Diana Jones Emerging Designer Winner, Basil Wright, who consulted for Cloud Empress, Brotherwise Games, Dinoberry Press, and Evil Hat Productions.
Post-Campaign Donations
We'll manufacture an extra physical zine for every physical-tier backer and donate them to mental health organizations/professionals that use TTRPGs in their practice as free resources. Digital zines will be available for free to all mental health professionals after the campaign ends.
A Most Brilliant Soundtrack
Wil Cox is a composer and sound designer who also happens to love games. His work is highly cinematic, which makes sense given his background in film and television. As Coyote Senate he has released a number of records that bridge ambient, electronic, alternative, and metal. He is also the designer of the board game Shut Up, Cat! and is currently working on both new music and new games.
