fae has hinge-adjacency bonuses

Absolute clown shit, as if we had to wait for AI to be able to make fucking awesome jam games in a weekend, what the HELL are they talking about "wait months to prototype" NO? FUCK NO? Make a game RIGHT NOW you can MAKE A GAME ANYWHEN what the *fuck*

You don't even have to make a videogame just make a fuck-ugly boardgame with pen and paper, or like make up rules for a solitaire with a 52 playing cards deck and write them on lose paper and scan those and post the screencap RIGHT NOW and draw like funny doodles in the margins or whatever

The dressmaker OST is just CONSTANTLY playing in our lesbian living room

Also holy shit I've made my first € from game design doing freelance work????? And the clients were super nice and chill and the mission was really interesting and fun and intellectually stimulating and they were really happy and put my work to use??? What do you mean I'm not completely worthless???

Fuck it's hard to go back to regular PbtA gameplay now that I've played some Forged in the Dark, I keep thinking in the position / effect framework even when I don't say it, but not being able to say it now feels weird???? But in some way I realise I've ALWAYS thought position / effect

It's such a natural little bit of design, once you lay it bare on the table it just feels like such a powerful tool for the conversation. I love saying things about the fiction with rules words. Also I can't stop making clocks all the time, but I think that's a feature actually.

Ran a full season of Girl by Moonlight over 5 days to get the hang of FitD systems with a handful of friends, it was EXCELLENT stuff. (Modded the game quite a bit on the fly and kept calling everything "moves" though.) We were all crying during the last few scenes

So having her be out there, fighting, back in her old engine, at the same time as the PCs but on a completely different battlefield and getting to have cool cut-offs to see her being badass or in dire straits also felt really like a pay-off of the players' actions.

Ran a full season of Girl by Moonlight over 5 days to get the hang of FitD systems with a handful of friends, it was EXCELLENT stuff. (Modded the game quite a bit on the fly and kept calling everything "moves" though.) We were all crying during the last few scenes

And so, off-screen, she got the science team to jerry-rig something to transcend with the FLAGSHIP and I had her do that right when threatening harm-4 on another NPC pilot after a failed PC roll, and right as I was going to announce it the player who had informed the admiral earlier got SO excited

Ran a full season of Girl by Moonlight over 5 days to get the hang of FitD systems with a handful of friends, it was EXCELLENT stuff. (Modded the game quite a bit on the fly and kept calling everything "moves" though.) We were all crying during the last few scenes

And then I was running like a parallel fight scene going on back home with the NPC pilots that everyone was super attached to, with like, stuff happening after PC action rolls (sometimes even on a 6+), and flashes of what was going on, with them spending their armor, transcendance tracks...

Ran a full season of Girl by Moonlight over 5 days to get the hang of FitD systems with a handful of friends, it was EXCELLENT stuff. (Modded the game quite a bit on the fly and kept calling everything "moves" though.) We were all crying during the last few scenes

fuck i love magical girls and i love giant robots and i fucking love lesbians

Ran a full season of Girl by Moonlight over 5 days to get the hang of FitD systems with a handful of friends, it was EXCELLENT stuff. (Modded the game quite a bit on the fly and kept calling everything "moves" though.) We were all crying during the last few scenes

We were playing the "in the sea of stars" series setting, absolutely lovely, I kind of needed to write some aimless thoughts here just because I'm still so steeped in all the characters and crunch I feel like an orphan - like when you're done with a long LARP. It really was a LARP-like experience

Ran a full season of Girl by Moonlight over 5 days to get the hang of FitD systems with a handful of friends, it was EXCELLENT stuff. (Modded the game quite a bit on the fly and kept calling everything "moves" though.) We were all crying during the last few scenes

I kind of modded in some FATE adjacent aspects because I've been using them in the system I'm designing and I was missing them too sorely, it's such a good tool. I've also been using clocks more and more these days so it was fun playing with a system that almost exclusively uses them

Ran a full season of Girl by Moonlight over 5 days to get the hang of FitD systems with a handful of friends, it was EXCELLENT stuff. (Modded the game quite a bit on the fly and kept calling everything "moves" though.) We were all crying during the last few scenes

It took us a little bit of fiddling to find our comfort zone between the rigid structure of the game and our roleplaying habits. It felt like the book *hinted* at some form of free play throughout obligation/downtime/fallout but didn't really *say* it, other than "the GM should ask questions"