Re: [Where The Heart Is] An RPG about the families of tomorrow
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:42 pm
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.
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.