Finally had the opportunity to start this game this year after a few couple years of searching for someone else who was interested in the concept...and I am so madly in love with it. This game has inspired me to read history like I never have before, it has taught me more about people in different times than any class I have ever taken, and I'm currently seriously weighing whether or not I could mentally handle playing two different campaigns at once because I just want to explore more queer history. Bravo, truly a triumph of a game
OK, now that I've got that out of my system, I'll provide a bit more of a review. We set our campaign in 1919 in Weimar Germany, at the inauguration lecture of the Institute of Sexology, the brainchild of Magnus Hirshfeld, who helped found the first LGBTI rights organization, the Scientific Humanitarian Committee. So far we have each written one letter (and done an unquantified amount of private worldbuilding), one from lover to lover and one from a lover to their mother, discussing their excitement over their new connection. While at first we were uncertain if we wanted to have our first letters be randomly decided by the cards/dice, it turned out to be very inspiring and we immediately set off writing.
One lover, Ottie, is a local German living with their family and sneaking off to explore the community growing around the institute, and the other lover, Nasra, is a traveling scholar from Alexandria, the child of an English diplomat and a fiery Egyptian women's rights activist. While we communicate in English as a favor to Nasra, we have found opportunities to weave in German, Arabic, and even some hieroglyphics, along with sketches of scenes from our daily lives. I can't wait to learn more about this little world, barely begun, and I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating it Rufus!