Play involves building momentum through acts of rebellion to break The City’s laws and gradually free citizens from corporate control. Underground Broadcast puts you and your friends in the skates of Rudies, young graffiti punks out to stick it to The Man and free their city from the megacorp’s trash-house rules. They feed the cops that chase you and your friends, and you know what? It’s just about time for a rebellion. Your city is controlled by The Organization, a major corporation stifling the creativity and beauty of the citizens with their bogus laws and iron fists. Underground Broadcast Skate, tag and overthrow the government in a stylish rebellion Inspired by games such as Jet Set Radio, Underground Broadcast is a Queer RPG about rebellion, style and self-expression. Plus, y’know, it pretty clearly gives you a delightful and intimate space to explore Queer relationships and to put yourself into those shoes.Ģ. The writing is warm and the subject matter at hand fully welcomes an exploration of Queerness, flirting and playfully getting to know someone that makes your heart flutter, all while embodying either characters from another story - like your long-running campaign in another tabletop RPG - or wholly new characters created just for this. One player acts as the Barista, another the Stranger, and both as side characters as you tell the kind of “Will They/Won’t They?” story you’d find in an adorable romcom anime or fanfic. Donnely’s game gives some tools and plenty of guidance to make that exact thing happen in RPG form, and it’s all the right kinds of cute, cozy and Queer that’s perfect in a game like this. Often romantic in tone, it puts the characters from a creator’s favourite story smack-dab in the middle of a coffee shop and just kinda sets ‘em loose to see what happens. You know about fan fiction, right? A common genre of the medium is the Coffee Shop Alternate Universe. Coffee Shop AU Low-stakes slice-of-life romcom fan-fiction “action”! Coffee Shop AU casts players in the roles of a Barista and Stranger during a classic coffee shop meet-cute. Some you may have heard of, others may be totally unknown, but all are absolutely wonderful.ġ. Coming to and engaging with LGBTQ+ RPGs, regardless of who you are, can greatly open your eyes to new ways of thinking about yourself and the world.īelow is a list of some brilliant roleplaying games that are fantastically Queer. There are so many deep, meaningful games (and plenty of hilarious works) filling the indie RPG space to the brim with both subtle and unsubtle metaphor and direct statements about their creators’ experiences and views. There’s a specific segment of the indie RPG space that we’re here to talk about today: Queer games by Queer folx about Queer things. They explore all sorts of aspects of life from all sorts of peoples’ perspectives. Something else that’s brilliant about tabletop RPGs is that the things they let us explore and express aren’t limited to the imaginary if you’ve spent time going through Itch.io’s Physical Games page you’ve very likely seen some magnificent works of art that allow their readers and players to explore different aspects of the human experience through these very same tabletop frameworks. If there’s one thing we could all agree on it’s that there’s really nothing like them. They allow us to explore things wholly imaginary through frameworks of dice, cards, pens, paper and people. Check our "Weekly Chat"-thread to discuss these.Tabletop roleplaying games are a world of wonder.
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