Driftwood

This was successfully funded on kickstarter during Zinequest 2025

It’s the end. Not too long ago, children played in parcs and grocery stores were full of fresh produce. There was traffic after work and talk show hosts on cable talking about nothing with celebrities.
Then, sounds of reactors, explosions, cries and now : silence.

You leave everything behind, whatever is left of it, and you drive until the road ends, hoping to find places untouched by the apocalypse. You will follow your path, unwavering, like driftwood at the mercy of a roaring river.

What is Driftwood?

A tabletop roleplaying game made to be played by your lonesome by rolling dice to generate events, places and people and writing your thoughts and progress in a journal. 

We hope Driftwood to be an interesting and fun challenge for players who want to write more and lose themselves in introspection and creativity. The secondary goal of this game is to generate a lived-in world with dynamic factions and intrigues to act as a sandbox to use in your favorite multi-player roleplaying game.

This project aims to give players a worldbuilding experience that is rooted in experience rather than from a bird’s eye view.

It comes in a 12 page 'Zinewich' that contains all necessary elements to play, including :

• Rules of play
• A dice generator for diceless play
• An 'invader stronghold' generator
• A pre-made mini-adventure ' From Flames to Fire'

How to Play

You will need :

• 2 white six-sided dice
• 2 black six-sided dice
• 1 journal or papers with pen and pencil
• access to the internet and google maps

When you start this game, you will have a number of generators that will create your character, the broad strokes of why they have survived this long and who the invaders are. You will then have to choose a starting point ( a city, a village, a place you know) and the end of a road where you hope your character will find peace. 

A turn of this game will consist of two journaling sessions : 1 taking place during the travel between two points and the second taking place at a point of interest, where you will meet survivors and have interactions with them.

The game will guide you through these sessions using prompts which you must roll for with all four dice.

Additional content

From Fire To Flames mini adventure

In the accompanying adventure From Flames to Fire, we propose to start from Albuquerque New Mexico and try and get to the 'La Tierra del Fuego' (or Lands of fire) at the southern tip of the continent.

Structures & Drawings

This small expansion is a series of random generation tables to create the architecture of the invaders.

This game is 100% human-made with Game design, graphic design and photography by Vincent Fugère