![]() ![]() The game, which also raised more than 10 times its initial goal amount in crowdfunding, places players in the roles of permanent residents and rotating guests of a bed and breakfast managed by the witch Yazeba. In late 2019, Jay Dragon of Possum Creek Games and co-creator M Veselak started working on Yazebas Bed & Breakfast. It's the natural conclusion of thinking for 10 seconds about party composition, says Ruby Lavin, the art director at Possum Creek Games. It's natural that so many queer TTRPGs will center on the theme of found family, also an essential part of the TTRPG experience just look at any Dungeons & Dragons party. #THIRSTY SWORD LESBIANS KICKSTARTER SERIES#The Plant Girl Game's world-building process is highly collaborative and flexible for repeat play, with players empowered to explore the story and community they want to create together through a series of open-ended questions, from What do you love most about your town? to Whats your school's mascot? I think about open-ended world-building and open-ended safety tools, and I think about generosity in design. Following the success of Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Possum Creek Games' legacy slice-of-life, found-family-focused game Yazebas Bed & Breakfast, they hope to see even more queer TTRPG success stories and creators making a living from these stories.Äickey has recently completed a successful crowdfunding campaign for their latest TTRPG project, Plant Girl Game, a cozy game in which players take on the roles of plant children from tough haworthia to fearless agave of a gentle witch mother (the titular Plant Girl), working together to prevent an ecological catastrophe in their local area in December and March 2023. For example, Evil Hat Productions Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a role-playing game designed for telling queer stories with friends, not only met its Kickstarter fundraising goal in less than three hours, but also raised more than 10 times its initial goal and won a Nebula award forÄominique Dickey, a writer who has written a number of TTRPGs, believes queer authors are the ones I trust the most to tell queer stories because they are invested the most in making them come true. Today, a new generation of queer storytellers and game designers is bringing innovative, engaging games to the table. ![]() Queer people have used TTRPGs to tell queer stories for as long as they could remember. ![]() Sometimes, friends appear to be at a table, rolling dice, telling a story, and enjoying each others company. Sometimes, it appears like a team of plant children raised by a kind-hearted witch mother saving their community from Sometimes, family appears to be a team of bright, rainbow-hued Super Sentai-style heroes kicking ass with the power of empathy. Sometimes, family appears to be a runaway kid, a ruthless devil-child, a brave knight transformed into a frog, an aspiring rock star, or a robotic maid learning to live in community. ![]()
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