I’ve just come across this documentary about it https://www.blowbackproductions.com/triangle-remembering-the-fire

Hi Rev Casey,

Could you add my SRD to the list for the open source jam please?

My Retrospective Games SRD is for lightweight story games using a deck of playing cards to tell stories that have happened.

The SRD page is here on itch https://planesailinggames.itch.io/retrospective-games-srd

Interesting to read the impact of the playtest on the phrasing of the pious/profane move, and the relative simplification of the description that followed that.

My experience of the Brindlewood style games is that GMing uses quite a different set of mental muscles from more traditional games, especially with framing. I’m not surprised that tiredness was a bit of a problem there!

I like the idea of ‘mad lib’ Rumour Mills, in that it presumably allows the group to give a distinct direction to their version of the game

Born to the Purple

A sci-fi game of diplomats in space where power ebbs and flows between five major regimes. Either play as members of the same regime working together, or (for the adventurous or one-shots) play as diplomats from different regimes all with your own agendas.

Playbooks include

• Agent - the secretive spy
• Explorer - the resourceful loner
• Grifter - the silver tongued devil
• Mastermind - the planner
• Tinker - the maker
• Veteran - the retired soldier

There are no crews, but the regime you work for will influence some of your choices and missions

• The Gateway Alliance - ambitious capitalist explorers
• The Holy Republic - pious arrogant exceptionalists
• The Keron Federation - decadent weaponised archaelogists
• The League of Stars - plucky desperate outsiders
• The Martell Union - militaristic suspicious bastards

Facts

I love “Aspects” from Fate games, and I’m building those in as the name “Facts”. There are personal facts, scenario facts, world facts, regime facts, consequence facts - all of which can be invoked for additional dice on actions.

Actions

• Hack

• Spy

• Study

• Make

• Finesse

• Infiltrate

• Manouevre

• Skirmish

• Command

• Consort

• Lead

• Sway

Currency

Not coin or credits, the currency of choice is favour, which you can also bank into your Support Network to improve your lifestyle.