I edited an excerpt of my solo playthrough of Tangled Blessings to be a standalone chapter on AO3! Feel free to share as you wish, thank you again for creating this system!
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Tangled Blessings has been such a special game to me ever since I backed it during its original crowdfunding. I was immediately enamored by the premise, a journaling ttrpg based in a magical dark academia setting with prompts based on tarot cards with a focus on academic rivalry. Since then, I have played through the game throughout different mediums, from running it as a casual one-shot for my ttrpg group in addition to writing the longest piece of fiction I have ever completed (185 pages / 70k words!!!). The system is so elegantly brilliant, with the prompts being so evocative for mystical scenes with the basis of the tarot to weave an interconnecting narrative. I have gotten so much inspiration from this game, and I look forward to my second playthrough where I can use more of the expansion book (especially now that I have the gorgeous physical copies of both books!) Thank you so much for giving life to the magical world of Brackroot Academy and letting me day-dream about angsty rivals.
Clean Spirit is a lovely and charming game that delivers on its premise -- a cozy exploration of a space and revealing hidden truths of characters.
I ran a 3 hour session for my D&D group one week when some of our players were travelling and to give our DM an opportunity to play as a character. The rulebook is gorgeous and lays out the rules in a clear and easy to read manner. The rules itself are simple, but evocative as it helped bring up stories and questions that created deeper connections between our characters, letting us learn about quirks and anecdotes that were only hinted at in the dramatic fantasy storyline of our main campaign. For virtual play, I recommend using the online whiteboard Miro as a pseudo-VTT. It was easy to upload the pdf, write on the handouts, copy-paste tokens based on events, and even has some simple drawing tools for people to doodle with.
I really loved Clean Spirits and had a great time bringing it to my table!