This Life Of Hours - A Daydreaming RPG

Created for the 2025 One-Page RPG Jam

Life Of Hours is a contemplative one-page RPG that lives entirely in your mind. No dice, no character sheets, no journal entries. Just you, the ticking of time, and the life of someone who exists between the fabric of our reality.

Create Your Echo

Your Echo is more than a character. They're a companion, a living being born from your imagination who will walk beside you through quiet train rides and anxious waiting rooms. Name them. Give them traits that shape how they move through the world. Then begin to live their life through moments,  chronological or scattered like drifting memories.

Check The Time

When you need to know what happens next, simply look at the clock. Add the four digits together until you get a single number. That's your oracle. Critical successes happen when the universe aligns at 2:22, 11:11, 4:44 etc.

Prompt scenes in your echo's life with an elegant table that weaves subject, action, and context into evocative moments: "A deep want or need is spoken aloud under the weight of silence" or "A past mistake returns in a new form during a change no one expected."

Perfect for: Commutes, waiting rooms, sleepless nights, or any moment when you need to step away from screens and into the quiet space of your own imagination.

What you get: 

• A beautiful letter-sized pamphlet (fold it in half) with xeroxed textures and a spiral-filled interior that feels like opening a secret manual for daydreaming.
• A unique real time clock based oracle system that can be used anytime and anywhere.
• A new companion to learn about and shape the longer you bond with them

If this game encourages you to spend your down-time inside your own mind and away from your phone, then it was a success.