Spooklyte’s Spectacular Shades: a game about lamps

Spooklyte’s Spectacular Shades  is a short sweet Caltrop Core game about inheriting your aunt’s lamp shop. The twist is that it’s located in the city’s district of the dead, undead and inbetween. Can you keep your shop afloat in all the weirdness going on?

To start the game you roll for your shop’s positive and negative traits. Then you roll for an obstacle that’s getting in the way of your business. You also come up with what sort of neighborhood you are staging in and what kind of neighbors you have.

The game takes place in over 12 weeks, and for each week you roll to see how well your shop does. You roll 1d4 for growth and 1d4 to see how you feel about the week. Then you roll d44 to see what’s happening in the neighborhood.

My shop had a few good weeks a few bad weeks but mostly weeks with nothing happening. I was also hounded by a mob who wanted to use my shop as a front for their business. In the end I was struggling to get by, but I still had the shop open. You can read my playthrough Here