Echo Pawn Pact

A fictional traveler and a fixed field recording become rival forces on a small tabletop journey where identity traits alter how sound hazards score each move.

Creation: creation_0391da7c8dd31749f9a0cbe9da109bf0
Player action: Choose a route card, then roll the interpretation die to move the traveler and resolve the field recording as shelter, omen, or obstacle.
Style cartridge: 🎲 Board Game · board-game
Novelty delta: Identity does not merely decorate the board; it rewrites the interpretation table through which the fixed recording becomes terrain.

Causal chain

1. randomuserTurn the fictional person's name, nationality, and portrait into the pawn identity and route modifiers.
2. wikimedia-commons-audioUse the field recording metadata and playable audio as the terrain event that changes scoring and board state.

API roles

API	Operations	Essential role
randomuser	person	Defines the only pawn, its visible portrait, and deterministic identity modifiers used by every route resolution.
wikimedia-commons-audio	recording	Supplies the audible terrain card and metadata that determine event class, risk, and end-state narration.

Dependency

randomuser → rules → wikimedia-commons-audio: The pawn's nationality and name length visibly select which interpretation table is applied to the fixed field recording, changing movement and scoring.

Interaction

Controls: route card buttons, interpretation die button, native audio controls

Outcome: The pawn advances, the terrain card flips category, score tokens change, and a new honest interpretation of the same fixed sources is dealt.

Visual direction

Style: painted cardboard expedition board with punched route cards and one portrait pawn

Palette: felt green, rulebook cream, pawn red, faded blue rivers, charcoal ink

Typography: box-title slab serif, card monospace, small-caps rule labels

Motion: card deal, pawn step, die tumble, token bounce

Cartridge receipt

Palette: painted cardboard, felt green, pawn red, rulebook cream

Typography: box-title slab, card monospace, small-caps rule text

Motion: die tumble, tile flip, card deal, pawn step

Era: family tabletop box with punched tokens and folded board

Caution: Do not create a static board illustration; every API must change playable rules.