Amazing! I hope it goes well 😊 Also a ref sheet and some character sheets is a great idea 🤔
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LGBT is a queer one-shot tabletop role-playing game inspired by a charming post on everyone's favorite fandom hellsite (Tumblr). You'll play a queer character with a weapon of your choice racing to make their upcoming pride celebration the best one they possibly can. Slash, Swing, Spray, and Zap your way through a variety of scenarios across a breadth of genres.
LGBT is inspired by Rowan, Rook and Decard's Havoc engine. Under the hood, it's a d6 dice pool system with a few simple ways to mark progress through the game and introduce complications to scenes. It's really just an excuse to spend an afternoon 1-upping each other with goofy, queer antics with a little help from some six-sided dice.
You're more than welcome to release an Ashcan version of your game and update it later! Games are still games without art.
I'll also say that if you want to pick up some art assets, Bri de Danann also has some generic fishblade art packs for use in the Jam (Or other games) https://ko-fi.com/s/44090c8d60. There's also a black and white pack.
If you're stuck making your own system but you have a solid idea for a game I always recommend trying a hack! It's a great way to take the pressure off yourself for the design aspects and focus on writing the game you want to make. If not a hack, deciding on what the most essential experience is/the core gameplay is and then looking around at other systems you like for inspiration is a good bet.
I dont think it has to be specifically Fish and Blade! If you've got aquatic creatures and sharp implements, I think you're on the right track. I tried to leave it intentionally vague so that people could interpret that prompt as they liked!
Another poster mentioned putting "Fishblade" somewhere in your game title or subtitle, and as they said, that might not be a bad idea for discoverability purposes. That's up to you! 😊