Wide Awake in the Garden

By Alison C. For the Team Dogpit Cultivation Jam

Wide Awake in the Garden is a GM-less tabletop map crawl game about cultivating plant intelligences and navigating an overgrown walled garden. 2-4 players use an illustrated map as their framework, and play as eccentrics seeking to use mystical, obscure, or otherwise paranormal techniques for promoting plant sentience. As the players move through the map, they encounter challenges and work together to tell the story of this place, resolving prompts and contributing to the team’s discoveries through short role-playing scenes. 

Each point on the map in Wide Awake in the Garden is loosely inspired by a song from Mort Garson’s 1976 album, Mother Earth’s Plantasia. 

The game may be modified for solo journalling play, or used as an adventure module/resource for another game system, though this is not specifically addressed in this document.