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Great question! Any Role can technically Confirm (Yes and...) any other role. As long as a new statement is additive to the fiction, and doesn't conflict with a previous statement, they're good to go. The visual of the triangle chart is largely show contrasting relationships between the Roles.

So to your example, the Traveler can absolutely Confirm the Arcadian!

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

Thank you for saying so!

2 to 6!

Hello!! I'm Graham Gentz (he/they). I'm a game designer, facilitator, and occasionally a puppet. 

I wrote "Under the Autumn Strangely," a pastoral horror game of anachronistic Americana in a land that Never Was. My next game is Cabin in the Woods but for Hallmark movies. It's called "Love for the Love Gods". It's coming to Backerkit on Feb 14 (Love Gods Day).

I enjoy hip-hop, turtles, and surrealism.

I also love to playtest.

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Aw thanks Felix

Please do!

Of course! I hope you tell wild and exciting stories ✊❤️‍🔥🍂

Yes! There are more coming soon!

average all day

It's the perfect time to find it, as we're counting down the hours till launch!

We're very excited to have you. 

How will you express your appreciation for the Twink in or as a game?

Are they in space? Confronting essentialism? Perhaps adjusting for unknowable taxonomy? 

All is possible!

Or luxuriate in the stupidity of it.

This game rocks. I love a gamified people-watching in the ultimate liminal space: the airport. 10/10 would tragically fail my transdimensional ward repeatedly again.

awesome, I'll look for it

Woo! Are you part of any events?

So when is Top Tracks coming out jk thank you for everything so so deeply

Henry Kissinger is dead.

But he has been dead before.

Can you get him to stay that way?

https://grahamgentz.itch.io/immortal-lich-henry-kissinger

Happy New Year, everyone!

You bet!

I’d say, in general, the Arcadian’s Questions expand the world, the Traveler’s Questions focus it, and the Terror’s Questions tighten it.

Leading questions are always best. The players can cleverly imbed information: Ex, "Who died in the corn field?"; "What lives in the attic?"; "What is the weakness of the Bone Screamer?"

In Example 1, maybe we established a corn field, maybe we didn't. If we didn't, it exists for everyone now. And players are forewarned about a death, and are then prepared to comtribute narrative detail and/or imagry. In Example 2, something lives in the attic. It's a stronger choice than "Does anything live in the attic?" And most importantly, the ultimate payoff will be more exciting. In Example 3, I'm assuming we have established the Bone Screamer (but maybe not!), though no one said it had a weakness. Now it has to have one.

Sometimes the simple "Yes-or-No" question can do the trick, and similarly be foreboding. “Do we ever get out of here?” is not necessarily the most compelling question to drive a Chapter. The results are too binary. But what if the answer does end up being “No”? How did the players come to that consensus? What does that look like in the fiction?

When you’re the Arcadian, you give the environment and their intelligences life. You’re not exactly neutral, but as a player, you have decisions to make and discover about the surreal dream logic of the goings-on.

The Traveler is intended to be a point-of-view character, so your Narrations and Questions are fixed into the first person. How do you react to this world in front of you? How does it make you think about the world you left behind?

The Terror broods and builds. Once you’re, at last, in the driver’s seat, your Opening Question can be brutal. Look to leverage it. It can be a threat or an implication or an inevitability. Try to think of the worst possible thing that could happen. Or the best possible thing for you. Then imbed it into your Question.

I hope this helps!

This is my Game of the Year. 

I just wanted more lol. 

6 years is a long time to make a thing for sure. I just beat the game. Like a good sad, I'm sad that it's over. Wonderful work.

Thank you.

when did you play it?!

It's absolutely phenomenal.

This game was probably my favorite all year and easily the best thing at GenCon. Incredible. You deserve to play it.

"Eavesdropping on Ents" is fabulous meta game. Who doesn't want to idly think about what trees say as you take a walk? Incorporating the seasons is a beautiful way to tie together your mental musings of "what the heck does a tree even talk about"? You must understand, it takes a long time to say anything. And they never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

Great game or greatest game?

Bug Dish has such an excellent handle on what it is. It's a celebration of the aesthetics of cooking reframed with the diminutive perspective of traveling insectoid wonder. "Narrative Crunch" is the name of the game, sending players awash in an ocean of sensory adjectives to collaboratively build your fictitious creations. It is cozy, certainly, but it is also a grand adventure. It is epic but personal. Strange but familiar. There is so much to discover. So much to make for yourself. 

Bug Dish gets why TTRPGs are special and how to use them to build new and delightful worlds owned and invested in by the players at the table.

It's like Fear Within, but for two players

10/10

I can't wait to get Full Destiny and die.