Role Playing Games

Star Crossed is a two player roleplaying game about really, really wanting to, when you really really can’t. Craft characters who are powerfully attracted to each other, but have a compelling reason not to act on their feelings. You’ll watch the attraction between them grow as you play out scenes, taking turns describing what your character says and does. Some of the things you’ll want your character to do are going to increase that attraction — and when that happens, you are going to pull a brick out from an increasingly shaky tower and place it on the top.Playing Star Crossed will feel like being pulled in two directions at once — like when your head and heart are telling you two different things, or when what you want and what you believe in are impossible to reconcile. The game is simple, quick, and filled with delicious moments of excitement, tension, and occasional heartbreak.The rules are simple. Take out your Jenga set and construct a tower. Pull tiles according to how fated your love is. If the tower falls, your characters act on their feelings. Of course, that tower may never fall.Will your love be doomed, triumphant, or something in-between? Works with any standard tumbling-tower game such as Jenga (bricks not included)

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Love Letters is a supplement for Star Crossed, the award-winning two-player game of forbidden love. It’s full of beautiful illustrations, character pairings, settings, advice, and alternate modes of play to help your Star Crossed sessions feel fresh and exciting! In this cute little 6×9 booklet, you’ll find: Instructions to play with 3 players, solo, or online New sets of Scene Cards and Epilogue tables Bayshore Landing, a new setting featuring 30 new characters, for multi-table games of Star Crossed in which up to 15 pairs of players can play simultaneously Advice for playing Star Crossed with friends Advice for incorporating Star Crossed as a prologue, interlude, or epilogue to your longer-term campaign games Pre-generated character pairings, each in their own unique setting, from Alex and our fabulous guest contributors: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, Kieron Gillen, Banana Chan, Cecilia Tan, James Mendez Hodes, and Sharang Biswas! All-new illustrations by Jess Fink, HamletMachine, G.C. Houle, Bloomer, Milsae Kim, Ouhie, Mye Bi, and Sovanny Vorn!

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Microscope Explorer is a supplement for Microscope, the award-winning role-playing game of epic histories. Loaded with tools and strategies to get the most out of your Microscope games. One of the biggest challenges is picking an idea for your history: the possibilities are nearly infinite but game time is not. Microscope Explorer includes new step-by-step seeds to get you started playing more quickly. Want something novel to spark your imagination? Roll on an oracle to generate a random seed instead. There are also techniques for using Microscope for world-building, rules experiments and more.

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