Inner Healers
A downloadable game
** English & French PDF in the same bundle **
Inner Healers is a 60-minute diceless & character creation less tabletop cooperative role-playing game with a GM for 2 to 6 players. In this successful mix between an escape room, a case investigation and an RPG, the players will be able to alter the patient's mental world and to select which character they want to enact via a (facultative but awesome) digital free webservice.
Inner Healers is perfect for adventurers and problem solvers. It draws its inspiration from RPGs (La méthode du Docteur Chestel, Paranoïa), TV series (The Prisoner, Code Quantum, Paprika), movies (Matrix, Inception), video games (Psychonauts, To the moon) and scientific literature (brief strategic therapy, Ericksonian hypnosis).
The Manual (in English and French) is divided into four sections illustrated with thematic purple-green vintage dark comic art.
- The Universe describes the places and people behind the groundbreaking Immersive Computational Therapy (ICT).
- The Intervention describes the stages of a game session.
- Too good to be true is a 10-page scenario in which players will try to cure a diplomat from its sudden narcolepsy.
- The Appendices explain how to use the Dream Operator Terminal, give the GM tips to craft unique tense scenarios, deal with zero-setup one-shots and unlock the players in their healing journey.
Inner Healers is perfect for an RPG initiation and for seasoned players alike. It lends itself to both one-shots and serial formats. It even has successfully been used on stage as an improv prompt.
Key features:
- Quick sessions: solve the case in under an hour.
- Fast to teach, easy to run: no character creation, no skill system, no dice tests, just a dream to explore, alter and cure.
- No randomness (yup, no dice): do what the world allows and you will succeed; do otherwise and suffer the consequences.
- A Dream Operator Terminal: a free online webservice to help players and GM's to alter the world together.
- Character variability: as a player, enact every character met during your journey in the patient’s dream; who will you be during the next run?
- Varying tone and ambient: cowboys, dinosaurs, Italian mafia? Gloomy or hilarious tone? You can have them all, depending on the patient’s inner world.
- Shared power between GM and players: as a player, alter the patient’s world; as GM, reload it to let them discover the consequences of their actions.
- Dramatic and cathartic settings: help patients to solve their confidence issues and open discussion on personal trauma with your players (if wanted).
- Appendices: to craft your own unique scenarios, quickstart your game and unlock your players.
Be ready to dive, alter and cure. Or die trying!
PS: wanna see more and read what players think of Inner Healers? Read the preview and check the reviews on DriveThruRPG!
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Release date | Dec 28, 2023 |
Author | Isaacpante |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | diceless, Dreams, Escape Game, programming, psychedelic, Psychological Horror, Tabletop role-playing game, User Interface (UI) |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | English, French |
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I have played this game during a TTRPG meeting in my local club. Nice setting but seeing how much AI was used for making the images of this game makes you wonder how much of the text was also written by genAI or ChatGPT.
Hi Amyranth666 ! Thanks for trying Inner Healers. I hope you had a blast!
And thanks for asking ! As the writer of Inner Healers, I can assure you absolutely no AI was used for creating the text. All comes from my mind, and hands :)
Sadly, I'm not that competent in drawing : playgroundAi allowed me to create the seven images of the document (cover + 6 inside illustrations).
Btw : may I ask in which country you played Inner Healers? I'd love to hear about his travels.