I just read the Pyramid review of this game and it looked interesting. I’m curious if any Doper has played the game, and what they think of it.
I haven’t actually played it but I did buy the book at Gen Con and it looks very cool. You play a child in a world where the thing under the bed and the thing in the closet (and a whole lot of other much worse things) are real. It’s a dark game (how dark depends on the GM, but there’s nothing whimsical or funny about it). If you have specific questions about the book and the game I can try to answer them…I hope I’ll have a chance to run it soon and see how the mechanics work.
I understand a bit of the mechanics (from the review). The one thing I am curious about, because of the idea I got for a character/campaign just from reading the review, is how exactly adults lose the ability to interact with the Closetland things.
If you can just tell me a bit about that I’d be really grateful. I also wouldn’t mind hearing about how your game goes.
It has to do mostly with a stat called Innocence. The younger you are, the more you have (PCs can be from 6 to 12–with each year of life you lose a point of starting Innocence). Even without any serious interactions with the Closetland denizens, the vast majority of people lose their Innocence by the time they reach adulthood, resulting in their inability to interact with Closetland–or in most cases to even remember it exists, except in the back corners of their psyches where memories from childhood cause them trouble.