Crown of Salem

CWs: Horror, Death, Paganism, Witchcraft, Puritanism, the Church, and the Supernatural

One of your neighbors of the good, God-fearing town of Salem has been revealed to be a WITCH! And in their dying throes, they indicated one last member of the town is a member of her coven. The townspeople see blood, and one more townsperson must be burned at the stake. Will it be you?

Crown of Salem is a card-based RPG for two or three or more using only half of an ordinary deck of cards. Each player will assume the role of a townsperson in the bewitched town of Salem. Accused by the townspeople of witchcraft, and under interrogation by a jury of their peers, the players must answer a series of questions - posed by the cards they draw - truthfully, under the eyes of God, in an effort to prove their innocence and save themselves from a painful demise.

Though the title and lore place this story in colonial Salem, the village can be anywhere at any time. Instead of Salem witches, it could be a Balkan village dealing with Vampires, a modern suburb dealing with Skinwalkers, or a futuristic metropolis dealing with Aliens. The world is created through play, and no two worlds will be the same. 

The title is a merge of the two main inspirations for the game; Town of Salem by BlankMediaGames, with the 'Crown' part paying homage to the game this is a hack of, For the Queen by Evil Hat Productions.

This work is based on For the Queen (found at http://www.forthequeengame.com/), product of Alex Roberts and Evil Hat Productions, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).