@mrundkvist Ah, yes, I've facilitated Fiasco before. Descended from the Queen games like the one I played yesterday have fewer mechanics than Fiasco, so they don't need to be guided along as much. No dice rolls, just question prompts. Though I did sort of feel like I was wearing my GM hat still, as I would ask my own questions to elicit more information from the other players on their turns.
#DescendedFromTheQueen
@IcarusGames We're going to try out For the Ship and its Crew for the first time.
https://forthedrama.com/games/for-the-ship-and-its-crew-v2
My wife and I have played a few other #GMless #ttrpg like this one, but it will be the first time some of our friends experience ttrpgs of this sort.
Ringmaster Review: A Circus Troupe Descended from the Queen
Royal clowns? Well, not quite. From The Queen has taken quite the journey since Jason first looked at it. It got itself a second edition, and moved from Evil Hat Productions to Darrington Press, true. From near the start, though, it offered an SRD and the Descended from the Queen moniker to allow others to use the mechanical framework, and as it turns out there a lot of games under that tent now. This time we're dealing with a dark and supernatural version of the greatest show on earth, with Ringmaster from Pascal Godbout/Spotless Dice Games! […]
J’ai reçu mon exemplaire de #SurLaRoute hier, c’est beau hein ? J’y suis presque pour rien j’ai juste participé au logo, tout le reste est de Laëtitia Van Gasse.
C’est mon premier #DescendedFromTheQueen, dans le boulot et dans ma ludothèque, et maintenant j’ai très envie de faire mon baluchon. Big up Nico Le Vif & #ForTheStory et merci de m’avoir invité à participer à une petite étape.
Edit : Ohlala j'avais oublié de mettre un lien !
https://forthestory.fr/jeux/for-the-story-sur-la-route/
Want to take a look at #VivaLaQueerBar and its setting for yourself?
English: https://plotbunnygames.itch.io/viva-la-queerbar-english
German: https://plotbunnygames.itch.io/viva-la-queerbar-de
Oh wow, #VivaLaQueerBar is nominated for an Indie Groundbreaker Award (Best Setting)!🤩🎉🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
The game about a queer bar and its team was written by @TentacleDuck and @curiouscat with gorgeus cover art by Hannah van den Höövel!
We are super honored and happy to be considered! 🥰
@dedalusroot If you only speak English and want to support the crowdfunding, note that #VivaLaQueerBar and #AgainstTheMonster, two awesome #DescendedFromTheQueen story games, are also on offer as PDFs and zines. Grab the 1 € pledge and you can add them as add-ons.
Looking for a last-minute, zero-prep Halloween #TTRPG?
"Against the Monster" is a story game about a monster hunt, the good of the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters.
Your characters, your monster, and your setting develop through your answers to randomly drawn questions. From werwolves on a space station to tentacle monsters at sea to flesh-eating plants in the desert, anything is possible!
So, quite a bit of gaming happened in the last weeks and I really wanted to talk about it more on here.
Let's start with #VivaLaQueerBar, a #DescendedFromTheQueen game by @plotbunnygames. When I went to visit my #Monsterhearts group, we didn't intend to actually play any rpgs that Saturday. Unfortunately, public transport is kind of a clusterfluffle right now, so when we left at 9 in the evening, we spent about four hours getting home, with a "fun" mixture of trains, trams, busses and platforms. Luckily, I was traveling with two great friends and had the small Viva La Queerbar booklet with me.
When the conversation died down, I slapped the little booklet on the ICE table, they downloaded an app for drawing from a virtual deck of cards and we imagined ourselves in a better world, where the onboard restaurant of the (punctual!) high-speed train between Berlin and Cologne is actually a well-known #queer café, beloved by the revelers returning home after #ChristopherStreetDay parades. Conductor Max (close to retirement age, still looks dashing in a uniform, impressive mustache) keeps an eye on the café and cook Rita (pink highlights in grey hair) is always there to patch up celebrants who just *maybe* have overdone it a little.
We didn't play for very long, but I felt like imagining ourselves in that space definitely helped us get through the mix of annoyance and boredom that usually accompanies travel with late departures, cancelled trains and other problems.
06 - Easy to use?
I can't think of any game that is easier to use and to learn than #ForTheQueen and most other #DescendedFromTheQueen games (including #VivaLaQueerBar and #AgainstTheMonster ). Draw cards, answer questions, magic happens!
Beyond GM-less games, I still think #BrindlewoodBay offers great support for both the GM and the players.
Are you at Gen Con this year?
You can get our GM-less, zine-sized games #VivaLaQueerBar (about a queer bar and the team who runs it) and #AgainstTheMonster (about a monster hunt, the good of the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters) at booth 241 from the wonderful people of @ipr !
I'll be running a free workshop at the Douglas Hyde Gallery next Thursday afternoon where we'll be playing a collaborative storytelling card game I made about the ability of institutions and individuals to help or hinder political change. It's called THE INSTITUTE and you can sign up to play here: https://thedouglashyde.ie/event/creative-lab-gabriel-coleman/ #mastodaoine #Dublin #rpg #DHG #DescendedFromTheQueen
Now available on Itch.io: Against the Monster / Gegen das Monster! A story game about a monster hunt, the good of the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters. https://plotbunnygames.itch.io/against-the-monster
Game Design: @Bratapfel & @curiouscat, Artwork: @curiouscat
#pnpde #TTRPG #ZineMonth #ZineQuest #ZiMo24 #DescendedFromTheQueen #GegenDasMonster #AgainstTheMonster
Jetzt im Shop bestellbar: Gegen das Monster / Against the Monster! Ein Erzählspiel um eine Monsterjagd, das Gute im Monster und das Monströse in den Jagenden.
https://plotbunnygames.com/shop/gegen-das-monster/
Game Design: @Bratapfel & @curiouscat, Artwork: @curiouscat
#pnpde #TTRPG #ZineMonth #ZineQuest #ZiMo24 #DescendedFromTheQueen #GegenDasMonster #AgainstTheMonster
@nickwedig @ludopolitics We'll do a substantial reprint of Viva la QueerBar which will then be available through @ipr ! We're just waiting for our other #DescendedFromTheQueen game Against the Monster, so we can ship everything overseas together!
There's sooo much art in AGAINST THE MONSTER (story game about a monster hunt, the good in the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters)! Here's a preview!
Crowdfunding starts on Tuesday: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plotbunny/against-the-monster?ref=2hfsqz
Game design by @Bratapfel and @curiouscat , based on the #DescendedFromTheQueen mechanics by Alex Roberts, artwork also by @curiouscat
#AgainstTheMonster #GegenDasMonster #pnpde #TTRPG #ZineMonth #ZineQuest
AGAINST THE MONSTER is a GM-less story game about a monster hunt, the good in the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters.
Crowdfunding starts on Feb 6th during #ZineMonth #ZineQuest
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plotbunny/against-the-monster
Written by @Bratapfel and me, art by me, to be published by @plotbunnygames in both English and German.
Just played The Wizard's Tower #DescendedFromTheQueen game for the first time.
Great game to evoke grim stories of secrets. We liked it very much!
We get the most amazing feedback sometimes! 🥺 🥰
So happy to hear that #VivaLaQueerBar does exactly what we ( @TentacleDuck and @curiouscat ) intended!
#pnpde #TTRPG #ZineMonth #ZineQuest #ZiMo23 #DescendedFromTheQueen
(Screenshot shared with permission from the author of the DM.)
Neuer Blogpost: Wie nutze ich die Vorlage für playingcards.io beim Spielen von Viva la QueerBar? https://plotbunnygames.com/wie-nutze-ich-die-vorlage-fuer-playingcards-io/
Die Vorlage selbst findet ihr auf unserer Website unter Downloads! https://plotbunnygames.com/downloads/
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