really good !
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Every now and then I come back and read this comment. I read it a lot because y’all *get* this game exactly and it’s very flattering for me as a designer, but more than that it’s frightening for me as a person.
In my undergrad Ethics class we studied the ethics of Obligations, and my professor used a thought exercise that became this game: imagine you’re on a relaxing walk along the beach and you see a man drowning in a foot of water. Would you help him? We assume the answer is “of course, obviously!” Now imagine you’re not on a relaxing walk, you’re late for a meeting. Would you still help him? The thought experiment continues, adding or removing different contexts but always asking “in what circumstances and to what abstractions do we have an obligation to someone else?”
So uh, ha ha, sorry about that but I also wake up thinking about the jellyfish sometimes.
Hey thanks for the question! You can definitely play! TIAGAF is meant for everyone except bigots. I encourage you to play a queer character when you play, and if your friends are comfortable sharing their experiences as queer people I encourage you to listen to them and think about how you can explore in this space! I’d love to hear how your game goes, and if your group is ok with it I’d love to get a DM or email with how it went!
This is such an indulgent game, which is immense praise! It was a joy to dive into this world in our convention game at Big Bad Con. The Visigoths are melodramatic, the mall goths are melodramatic, the PUNS oh my goodness the puns. Every second of the game felt like the best moments from every 90’s teen mallrat romcom put in a blender with a medieval fantasy soap opera. It was joyously queer & superbly over the top. The game comes with the mall setting completely fleshed out, with punderfully named stores and shop clerks you can’t help falling in puppy love with. We played one of the premade scenarios in our game and it was a blast!
I cannot wait to play this game again, I adore it!
Hard Times is real dramatic, and real gay, and I love it! It's incredible, it uses the tumbling tower popularized by Dread & Star Crossed to create the sexual tension of two wrestlers in a melodramatic feud. I know very little about pro wrestling but this game does a great job at telling me what I need to make an amazing story. The text comes from a place of love, and inspires me with great gay feelings. I love this game!