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Started a very productive playtest of my romance story game, Road to Romance last night. We got half way through and hope to pick it up after Metatopia.

There was a sports romance with @czamboni.bsky.social playing a tennis coach who lost her big chance because of injury, and is falling in love with the up and coming young star she is coaching.

An adventure romance with @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social playing Indira Jones, an entomologist falling in love with the rich sponsor of her Colombian expedition

A contemporary gothic romance with @sociable-turtle.bsky.social playing a timid researcher logging her grandmothers belongings while a clever lawyer working for other side of the family is taking a shine to her

And I was playing a wizard sent to persuade a rural community to leave their homeland because of the blight (which I accidentally created shhh) and I’m falling in love with the beautiful leader of the community.

The ‘trouble’ in my story is playing the mother of my love interest who _definitely_ doesn’t approve of this wizard from the high and mighty wizards tower, and is determined to keep us apart.

“I blighted the land so I could romance the community leader” definitely radiating “am I the baddy?” vibes! Interested to read the consent section for this game - like a lot of X card stuff this is often unwritte or informal but am presumably you needed to be explicit.

When creating the character of Lucien I drew a card that he wants Redemption for some bad thing he had done in the past. I decided that it was an accident, and nobody knows that he was responsible, and that’s something he has to come to terms with.

Because this story is in the Cosy genre, my mind went to the Renee Zellweger film “New in Town” where she is sent from the city to close down a factory and falls in love with the union leader there (as well as the quirky minnesotan townspeople)

Nice, strong Hallmark movie vibe 😊 Consent between players the players partners (present or not) - this seems to be well understood in #LARP circles but in my experience not so much in #TTRPG ones…