The Infernal Dictionary: A Solo Grimoire

You are a young magician learning to keep a working intact while the beings in your dictionary refuse to wait for an invitation. In The Infernal Dictionary: A Solo Grimoire , you prepare rituals, make Seals, and judge the visitors who interrupt your work. A spirit might repair your failing Circle, supply missing knowledge, or help complete the rite. Its aid comes with a Price, and its warnings matter. Read the entry. Prepare its Condition. Bargain for help, ask it to leave, or risk forcing it out. Each action uses up ritual time, and a broken Circle ends the working. Across six ordinary rites, you gather discoveries, earn Favours, and accumulate Claims. Then attempt the Great Working, where what you have learned and what you owe shape the strength of your Circle. Inside the complete game 67 visitors adapted from The Infernal Dictionary , with individual powers, Conditions, Prices, Boons, and Backlash. Two matching 60-page PDFs: a manuscript edition and a reading edition with clearer body text. Six Offices of magic: Counsel, Finding, Making, Passage, Protection, and Concord. Twelve creature miniatures , rubricated text, decorative initials, and the appearance of an old grimoire. A worked example, clickable contents and visitor indexes, a record leaf, and a quick reference. Try the playable demo The six-page demo includes one complete Making rite, an encounter with Furfur, and the rules and play sheet you need to finish it. What you need One player, two six-sided dice, percentile dice or numbered slips for choosing visitors, and a pencil. No game master is required. Based on the English abridgment of Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire infernal , with new game rules and a medieval manuscript presentation. Written and designed by Elijah M. Turner . Art and layout by Odessa . Published by Inner Alchemy Games .