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547:"a heavily customizable game" with the goal of building relationships instead of fighting bad guys or rescuing princesses; Rude commented that players experienced with Powered by the Apocalypse games should find this game easy to pick up. Rude wrote that there are nine character types, and characters "can adapt to any kind of flirting style, whether it's sexually charged sword fights, hilariously intense pun battles, or deep and dramatic heart-to-hearts. Even if you don't like romantic or sexual flirting, you can still play the game and make it about friend flirting and building a chosen family". Rude also highlighted that "the game is loaded with sexy and stylish art. 1830: 311:; the Kickstarter was fully funded within three hours of its launch. The final total raised by the Kickstarter when it closed on November 12, 2020, was $ 298,568, with 8,152 backers, which exceeded "its initial goal fifteen times over" and unlocked "nearly 50 stretch goals". It was also Evil Hat Productions' "second largest Kickstarter" to date. In an interview on 529:
adventures is something near limitless". He wrote that the biggest modification to the Powered by the Apocalypse system is "the use of 'strings' – tokens that represent emotional influence over another person. These are the fuel that keeps the romantic bonfire burning, and while the practicalities of
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in this game, and a group of player characters tell a collaborative story of thrilling heroics, but it's one that urges you to 'follow your heart,' and not get so bogged down in the intricate details of planning out an adventure or campaign as is often the case in this hobby. This is a wonderful and
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in 2022, rated the game 3.5 out of 5. Langhout praised the game's safety tools, such as the new Palette tool, and the writing of the book; they highlighted that the sourcebook includes a glossary of "queer terminology and a special section devoted to how to respectfully tell trans stories". Langhout
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has since become its own 272 page expansion that players and games masters can use to alter and enhance their sessions of the game". The two-week-long Kickstarter had raised a total of $ 97,403, with 1,762 backers, when it closed on November 23, 2021; the expansion had an estimated delivery of March
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I also adore the cadence of narrative down beats from low rolls and up beats or mixed beats from higher rolls. Being able to focus the mechanics on the narrative, rather than on tasks or simulation, is a design tool I really appreciate, and so is the randomness of the dice, to help tell stories that
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can enact various defined "Moves" during a scene: Moves fall into several categories, such as Danger Moves, Heartstring Moves, Recovery Moves, and Special Moves. Characters can also gain narrative "Strings", which "represent emotional influence over another person. This could be the affection of a
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can be played by as many people as possible without compromising its vision of a game for queer stories". Langhout found explanations of some mechanics, such as the Strings mechanic, confusing; in their test session, their group found the Strings mechanic "difficult to use during play". Langhout
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attorney April Kit Walsh and illustrated by Kanesha Bryant; Walsh began development in 2017. Walsh wrote that her "primary inspiration was urgently wanting to tell stories about dashing queers having adventures and connecting emotionally and finding that the game I wanted wasn't out there yet".
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in 2022, highlighted that the game's world is geared towards "intense melodrama and extravagance" and that it celebrates "the antics of disaster lesbians". Meehan commented that "if players are not fighting, then they're probably flirting. Sometimes, player characters are doing both at the same
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The base game includes nine queer-coded character archetypes: Beast, Chosen, Devoted, Infamous, Nature Witch, Scoundrel, Seeker, Spooky Witch, and Trickster. "Each of these character types comes with its own strengths and weaknesses, with players needing to work together to cope with whatever
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Its goal is not to produce realistic portrayals of lesbian characters – most gay women don't brandish swords and stash hidden tools about their person, unfortunately – but to provide an outlet for players to embrace a messier, but undoubtedly more fun, side of
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which they'll have to seek out a source of emotional closeness in order to cure". Conditions are both physical and emotional challenges; these emotional conditions have "both narrative and mechanical effects", including adding a penalty to dice rolls.
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the system can be a little fiddly – if you have a large cast of NPCs you can end up with masses of different tokens – it does a stellar job of keeping the table focused on kisses as well as the adventures". Jansen-Parkes commented that
592:.... There are guidelines for adjusting the rules to accommodate not playing with a lot of romance, but the default rules do assume a large amount of flirting and romantic connection, so that's how we played". Langhout respects 525:, about sword fights, and about being super, mega gay" and that the sourcebook contains "just over a dozen sketched-out settings" spanning "almost every genre you could imagine". Jansen-Parkes commented that "the scope of 588:
commented that playing as the Gamemaster is a very "different experience" from other games as the Gamemaster needs "to be comfortable running lots of NPCs that can be romantically appealing to the player characters
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Participating in romantic role-play can be very emotional and requires communication and respect for boundaries that aren't necessarily in everyone's personal toolkit when they show up for a game.
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very inviting gay-as-hell game that can serve as the basis for an ongoing campaign, or just a ruleset you turn to when you and a bunch of queer friends want to make some narrative noise".
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The books are worth the purchase just to look at the gorgeous sapphic art inside them. It's filled with a variety of women, queers, and lesbians in a wide variety of situations".
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2022 "10 LGBTQ+ TTRPGs To Play With Your Friends This Pride Month" list – Rebekah Krum highlighted that "this Nebula Award winner includes exactly what the name would suggest:
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while stretch goal content was developed, the company "went forward with production and backers received their core copy of TSL five months ahead of schedule".
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builds consent and collaboration into the mechanics, as well as centering safety and communication practices that help groups explore more emotional themes.
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isn't a game for everyone, but if "you want something joyously fun and disastrously romantic to play, this might be just the game you want".
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has nine character types for players to choose from, each centering on a particular kind of emotional strife. The beautifully illustrated
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Avery Andruszkiewicz, Kanesha Bryant, Naomi Castro, Trivia Fox, Chelsea Geter, Kiku Hughes, Ryan Kingdom, Faith Schaffer, Hanna Templer
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safety tool by John Stavropoulos. The sourcebook outlines both of these safety tools and introduces a new safety tool called the
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The game's scheduled delivery for backers was in June 2021. Evil Hat Productions stated that instead of delaying publication of
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that development began "slowly" due to her work as an attorney – the development of the game "was inspired partially from queer
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Each of them did something neat in using mechanics to evoke feelings and I wanted to adapt those elements and build on them.
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friend or lover, or it could be blackmail material". Characters can spend Strings as a Move to influence other player and
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sourcebook includes various setting options and story seeds for gaming tables to build off of and turn into adventures".
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is special because it's explicitly a TRPG about celebrating queerness". Meehan also praised the game's safety tools.
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In November 2021, Evil Hat Productions launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the first expansion, titled
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wrote that "keeping the language fun and inclusive throughout shows a genuine commitment to making sure
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swashbucklers taking on alluring enemies and making emotional connections with the people around them.
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highlighted that "initially a collection of stretch goals for the original RPG's Kickstarter campaign,
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emotional, romantic and personality issues they may face throughout their adventure". Ana Valens, for
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in 2021, highlighted that "the name makes it clear that this is going to be a game about romance
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writers can 'explore the feelings that never get represented by legacy media cartels
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2022 for backers. This Kickstarter campaign also included a hardcover edition of
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Free copies available for people who cannot otherwise afford the game.
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The Kickstarter also funded community copies, which are available on
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and support for Ukrainians negatively affected by the ongoing
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RPG学研究: Japanese Journal of Analog Role-Playing Game Studies
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was released in PDF, POD softcover, and hardcover editions.
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Johnson, Grace; Dithrich, Carolin (October 19, 2021).
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safety tool was originally created by Ron Edwards and
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is a narrative-focused role-playing game built on the
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Jonaya Kemper
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Cyberpunk
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queer
Kickstarter
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Monsterhearts
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Kickstarter
EN World
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