An absolutely stonking playtest at Indiecon, the UK's premier con and showcase for indie RPGs. It’s amazing how the group builds a family unit, and then roleplays the family as if they really do exist. I think the Interval- where players discuss OOC how the PCs have behaved, casting judgment on them or sympathising, as I say, as if they were people we knew- helps with this.
In Saturday’s game we had twin brothers, one hippy dippy and the other straitlaced, sharing a house and clashing about how to bring up the children and being messy/tidy etc. Ultimately, after Franklin, 11- natural son of straitlaced family- was dared by Alice, 14- foster daughter of hippy family- to attend a teenage house party (where there was porn being watched and pot and strong alcohol being ingested), which ended up being raided by the police, things came to a head, straitlaced brother's wife announced that she was fed up with everything and the family broke up.
Those two paragraphs hardly do the game justice, but I hope gives folks the flavour of it. It's the sort of game where practically anything can happen. Let's see what sort of family the next group creates.