Sign the contract
The table revolves around bargains, clauses, obligations, and the cost of breaking or bending them.
Contract card game
Pactsmiths
Deals, loopholes, reputation, remedies, and the fine print that bites back.
Card game · In development
Pactsmiths in the Forge
Pactsmiths is a contract-driven card game about making agreements with dangerous patrons, exploiting loopholes, paying remedies, and surviving the consequences of clever wording. Every bargain offers an advantage, but someone powerful is always waiting to collect what the fine print says is owed.
Loopholes and remedies
Players use technicalities, counter-terms, reputation, and remedy effects to turn bad deals into advantages.
Patrons with teeth
The powers behind the contracts are useful, dangerous, and never entirely charitable.
The fine print bites
Clear card text keeps the table moving while the bargains grow sharper, stranger, and more dangerous.
Make the bargain
Every contract offers something
Take a contract from a patron, gain its benefit, and decide whether the obligation is a price you can afford to pay.
Find the loophole
Bad terms can be turned
Use clauses, counter-terms, reputation, and Remedy cards to escape a poor bargain or make another player inherit the cost.
Pay what is owed
Patrons remember broken promises
Ignore an obligation and the consequences may damage your reputation, close future opportunities, or give a dangerous patron reason to take a personal interest.