My orcfucker friend and I just played this and had such a fun (and unexpectedly sweet!) time! This game is really well designed to help you feel comfortable talking about fun, consensual orc sex and to encourage a good time for characters and players. I am obsessed with the top/bottom advantage/disadvantage mechanics, they were a really fun addition.
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Just played this with friends and had a wildly fun time, I can't wait to play it again!
A question — when moves instruct you to add someone else's success to your own roll, do you add their full roll results (ie 12) to your own, or just however much you need to hit a success, or something else entirely?
Hi! I'm playing this with a friend right now and we both have different interpretations of this instruction:
"When there are no more cards to turn, the hour ends. If there are equal or more cards in the Success Pile, mark it as Peaceful."
What are the number of cards in the Success Pile meant to be equal to? The discard pile, or the hour? (We're playing with an interpretation that it's the former, but I wanted to check!)
I ran this for a group of friends — we weren't able to finish (we ended after the first Visitor death due to time constraints) but we all loved it. The mechanics are so evocative, especially when it comes to the dice. I think it's incredibly clever to flip successes and failures the way Ritual does; I love it when successes and failures both come with strings attached, and the thematic intent works incredibly well here. Also, the art is fantastic.
I'm very into Those Letters To Nowhere and Lighthouse Keepers, but just want to check that it's not a faux pas to use covers other people are already planning on making games with? The first post says 'to avoid too many people jumping on the same covers' but I want to be sure that doesn't mean 'only one person per cover'!