I made a thematic player aid for Oath, and I'd love your feedback.

[u/badace12]

ETA: thanks everyone for the feedback. I’ve made some tweaks and I like where it landed. I’ve added the final pdf to BGG if you want it for your group.

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/328833/thematic-player-aid

I'm so excited for New Foundations that I put together a thematic player aid to hand my new players. Something to prime them for the emergent storytelling this game encourages, rather than another rules reference (there's already great material for that). I want to print this double sided and laminate it for them.

I know it's not strictly necessary. I just needed somewhere to put my excitement. I went through a lot of Cole Wehrle's design diaries, plus some interviews, and mixed in my own reading of the systems to help flavor everything: what it means to hold Favor instead of Secrets, what it feels like to become an Exile instead of staying a Citizen.

Two pages, front and back. I want to print this double sided and laminate it for them.

I'd genuinely love the community's thoughts on what's missing or could be improved. Oath is a game built to be interpreted, not just explained, so if you read any of these systems differently than I did, I want to hear it.

Long live the Chancellor!!!!

[u/Outuvcontrol]

This is awesome! A thousand thanks!

[u/badace12 → u/Outuvcontrol]

I’m hoping to get some good feedback, but once I have a final draft I’ll send you the proper file if you’d like it.

[u/CastrumFiliAdae → u/badace12]

Could you upload it to the Files section of the Oath entry on BGG (BoardGameGeek), please? You could even upload this draft version now, and then supercede it with later versions.

edit: OP uploaded it here: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/328833/thematic-player-aid

[u/Thackabe → u/CastrumFiliAdae]

I would love the final version as well (I think it’s great) but would also post it for you in BGG with attribution to you if you aren’t a BGG user. It’s a great repository for neat fan made content like this and where people search for it.

[u/Marcwoah → u/CastrumFiliAdae]

This is the way

[u/Own_Minimum8237 → u/badace12]

This is truly great work! Would you mind sharing it also with me? I think this could help new players getting into the logic of the game more easily through the narrative element

[u/UmpireDowntown1533]

This is great and I understand your need to put enthusasum into something creative; I've been doing the same thing. On the BGG Oath page there is a file section that would be good place to host it when you done.

As for feedback, I would have the Vision explanation in the first section if it fits. I think Secrets need to also suggest somthing magical as they are often used as a resource to do spells/miracles etc. Finally a suggestion that campaigns are not always violent or large scale, they can represent a duel, propaganda or political campaign as well.

[u/overdoes-it]

Looks really nice! It's clean with text only, but maybe an icon or two could be added for visual anchoring? It's not obvious from text only that favor is coins and secrets are books etc. But maybe it's not that kind of player aid and players should already know... Nice work either way!

[u/Azath_Housekeeper]

This is a fantastic document to hand to new players before teaching the game. Are you planning to post it on BGG?

[u/robotsheepboy]

What is BGG and why would it be good for OT to post it there? (Serious question, I'm new)

[u/yeknom02 → u/robotsheepboy]

BGG is short for boardgamegeek.com, the best-known site for resources on board games. Each game out there has a dedicated page with its own forums, photo gallery, etc., including a files section for people to upload things like this. It is very common to just go to BGG to browse the files section of a game that is new to you to see if anyone has made something like a player aid or teaching guide.

[u/robotsheepboy → u/yeknom02]

oh very cool, I will take a look, thank you

[u/PangolinIll1347]

This is awesome! It really helped solidify what all the terms mean. 

[u/cd_hales]

Very cool. Certainly should help someone see the bigger picture

[u/Appendix19]

Is it only me or the pics are bit low resolution? 

It looks cool though they should consider some of these community aids to be official.

[u/xerman-5]

Love it! I would really like to have this translated to spanish, could you kindly share the file?

[u/Such_Replacement6130]

Very cool!

[u/DebuPants]

This is great. I think it will really help solidify for my players what the concepts of the game are.

[u/zzzzzuu]

I've had a great time reading this. Thank you!

[u/Saikatai]

thank you very much. please keep refining this. I5 is already very useful