What is an addiction? Is it a chemical or mental dependence or is it a desire to return to a place where your hurts were less and you could be somebody? Why does the latchkey school boy day dream about faraway places and adventures on his own? Why does the junkie need that next fix? Where do you go when you dream? What about when you are high?
Faeries are real. They are not the sad sack parodies of life that some games make them out to be, nor are they merely carefree sprites that exist only ... (read more)
Twelve women, friends and strangers, happen to get into the same elevator. Enroute to important engagements, everyone has tough decisions to make. Nobody’s plans for the day included getting stuck in an elevator, but everyone now has the chance to pause, talk to some of the people who matter the most, get advice from strangers, and grapple with what to do next.
This game is about connections, conversations, hard life decisions, conflicting expectations among people who love each other, and the ... (read more)
It was a day like any other. The sun was shining through the trees. Birds were singing. You were going about your normal day.
*And then, without warning, there was a piercing wail. Was it the fire alarm? A siren? No, it was coming from your room. Your normal, ordinary, room. Specifically, from a shard of mirror that you’d picked up years ago, kept as a curiosity. That had never before done anything but reflect light. Now it was translucent and glowing in a strange color. Before you knew wha... (read more)
Finding your soulmate doesn’t guarantee a happy ending. Two friends met in college, got married and invented time-travel together, only to discover that it didn’t work quite as they had theorized, and that they hadn’t predicted the strain that time-travel would put on their relationship. How do you build a life together when one partner is always leaving the present to visit the other partner’s past, while the other has to care for their unconscious body until they return? What kind of relations... (read more)
Why do children have imaginary friends?
Sometimes imaginary friends are there to help kids work through issues they can’t handle alone. Sometimes a lonely child is looking for company. Sometimes it’s because their real friends have imaginary friends. And sometimes, maybe, they’re just for fun.
In Play Date, a group of kids have been left with a teenage babysitter for an afternoon. There will be toys, craft time, pizza, and maybe some existential angst.
Play Date is a game about children deali... (read more)
Graduation approaches for the students of Tokyo Mahou Shoujo Academy. The top six girls in the class will each form their own magical girl teams out of the lower-performing students and go out into the world to battle evil. Before doing that, they will attend the Ultimate Final Decision Prom of Destiny where they will each choose a mascot for their team from this year's Mt. Fuji Mascot Academy graduates.
*The students at the two academies have been segregated from one another and from the re... (read more)
You have journeyed long and far to find the fabled well said to grant wishes once every hundred years. Your carpet gave out back at the last mountain, and you're almost out of sandwiches, but you made it! Except now, the wishing well is broken. You and the talking squirrel agree: this is a most improper way for a quest to end! What's a motley assortment of wishers to do?
Wishing Well is a light-hearted LARP loosely inspired by Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles. There will be dis... (read more)