Game of Tomes Who Will Claim the Iron Tome?
Game of Tomes is a team-based event set in a modern, urban-fantasy world.
Writers choose a House to be their team and turn in word counts throughout the event month. The House with the highest word count at the end of the event wins the Iron Tome.
Events run three times a year:
NovemberGame of Tomes is a fast-paced competition where all the Houses of the living try to out-write the Undead Horde. The Undead Horde takes over the House with the lowest word count at each results stream and gains one third of the writers from the fallen House.
April and July
Tourney of Tales is a more relaxed, friendly competition between the Houses.
Power of the Word
In our Lore, writers use powerful magic based on the written word, called Literomancy, to affect the world around them. We chose this because we truly feel that the written word can change people and ultimately our world.What will you write today?
How to Play
Join a House
- Pick a House to represent
- Join a participating Game of Tomes stream
- Consider joining our Discord and pick up your House role in #role-selection
- Write (or edit)!
- Count your words using the rules to the right
- Select the Channel Point Reward for the House you are writing for
- In the text box, type the number of words you are redeeming
- If writing for a Minor House, type the name of the Minor House
- Hit enter, or the "Chat" button
- The bot will count your words. It will take 10-20 minutes for them to show up in your tally
- Words can be reported either one writing sprint at a time, or before the end of a stream
Additional Rulings
Power Writers
When a writer reaches 100,000 words in a event, they are considered a Power Writer. We celebrate their amazing accomplishments! At the same time, we also want to balance things out a bit between our power writers and our regular writers, while still allowing our power writers to contribute meaningfully to the game. This is the compromise we reached with counsel from some of our power writers. When a writer reaches these milestones (for their writing in the current event), please apply the following weighting to your words. This is on the honor system and you will need to track and calculate this. The bot is not currently able to calculate for you.Counting Your Words
Writing
The following is counted word-for-word:Heavy Editing
The following is counted at 30 words per minute, or 1/2 words written:Light Editing
The following is counted at 15 words per minute, or 1/3 words written:Research
The following is counted at 5 words per minute:Audio & Visual Works
The following is counted at 20 words per minute:RPGs
Handwriting
Handwriting is counted at 300 words per page, or at an average based on your own work.Game of Tomes has 79 Tome Knights
Follow Us
The Game of Tomes is not officially associated with Twitch.
It is a grassroots fan initiative run by enthusiastic volunteers.
It is a grassroots fan initiative run by enthusiastic volunteers.
All content not otherwise specified is copyright
2025
by Aradia Publishing. All rights reserved. All public Game of Tomes videos are released under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, No-Derivatives license.
The GoTverse map and the Iron Tome font are copyright 2025
by Makenzie Turney. All rights reserved.