I love Once more into the Void. My session some while ago was a total blast.
I can't wait for the new version to become available. On KS I saw the PDF is sent to backers. Will this new version also become for owners of the previous version?
What a wonderfull game. We played this with 3 Player (each controlled one faction with 2 PCs). This set-up worked like a charm for us.
The Characters and Moves are written just perfectly! They are super evocative and give so many ides.
We had such a dramatic story, a lot of back-stabbing, intruige, grandeur, omens and a super dramatic night-phase with the total destruction and downfall of house Prosh!
Clear 5 Stars for me.
Played this last friday, and it was an absolute blast. I couldn't prep anything, but the character and school creation, the prompts for the GM and the questions gave me so much to built on top, it was an easy to run session.
I also had the best charakter names ever in my group: Quäks-a-lot, an easily distracted duck, that enjoyed sounds very much. Sir Hazel-a-Nut a squirrel that was looking for it's misplaced zylinder.
My players wanted to play part 2 of our imaginary TV-Series right away. I'm very sure magical pets will be on my table again, quite soon.
As a former Chess Player I really had a hard time wrapping my head around what the game wants to do, but after reading it 3 times, setting up my board and just trying it in 'solo' mode I think I'm in love with this game =)
Just one think, that'd be interesting: How long does a Fake Chess game usually take? From just reading it, I have the impression it plays rather fast (~1hr).