I chose to defy tradition and ran this game back in July at my local game store, and it was a blast. Our story was more weird than heartwarming mostly, but I'd watch it as a movie. Not many Christmas films out there with Belsnickel and a time traveler trying to avert a coming apocalypse and help the out-of-town event planner with the big parade all in a few days. And Lurch from the Addams Family was in there too.
This is such a fantastic game and perfect for the season! A lot of fun and easy to jump right in! Just had a play though yesterday and we had a lot of fun creating a heartwarming story.
The character roles provide a lot of versitlity and guidance for play, the rituals are fun, and the Towns list provides a lot of seeds to jump into story-telling. This was my first No Dice No Masters game, but was easy to get into given the easy to read structure of the rulesbook. Highly recommend this game!
This is a lovely game that hits some wonderfully sweet spots. The ideas it conjures up just from reading the role options and example towns lend so well to so many stories told in cheesy festive films.
We made a lovely Christmas story about a city big shot finding his heart, a struggling small business owner finding his inspiration and a meddling journalist finding his literal Christmas Spirit!
Just played this with two friends and we came up with an incredible story where an Big City investor is planning on buying a small town paper crafts store and a meddling journalist (who turned out to be a christmas spirit) mediates them to remember Christmas is about family, love, and not capitalism. HIGHLY recommend as the system is very versitile and there is potential to play tons of scenarios. The only thing I'd really say is I wish there were more rituals to use to help as a backdrop for the stories.
It absolutely was solid, I wouldn't say anything needed to be taken away, I just wanted more rituals. idk if we were playing it right, but we were using the rituals as scenarios, or even scene intos/backdrops that helped with the story and how to progress through.
I think that's a really neat way to do things! I like the idea of using rituals in a specific way to guide to the story's progression. I'll think about that for this year's update.
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I chose to defy tradition and ran this game back in July at my local game store, and it was a blast. Our story was more weird than heartwarming mostly, but I'd watch it as a movie. Not many Christmas films out there with Belsnickel and a time traveler trying to avert a coming apocalypse and help the out-of-town event planner with the big parade all in a few days. And Lurch from the Addams Family was in there too.
I'm glad you had such a weird, fun game! Especially in the "off season" for Christmas stuff
This is such a fantastic game and perfect for the season! A lot of fun and easy to jump right in! Just had a play though yesterday and we had a lot of fun creating a heartwarming story.
The character roles provide a lot of versitlity and guidance for play, the rituals are fun, and the Towns list provides a lot of seeds to jump into story-telling. This was my first No Dice No Masters game, but was easy to get into given the easy to read structure of the rulesbook. Highly recommend this game!
This is a lovely game that hits some wonderfully sweet spots. The ideas it conjures up just from reading the role options and example towns lend so well to so many stories told in cheesy festive films.
We made a lovely Christmas story about a city big shot finding his heart, a struggling small business owner finding his inspiration and a meddling journalist finding his literal Christmas Spirit!
Just played this with two friends and we came up with an incredible story where an Big City investor is planning on buying a small town paper crafts store and a meddling journalist (who turned out to be a christmas spirit) mediates them to remember Christmas is about family, love, and not capitalism. HIGHLY recommend as the system is very versitile and there is potential to play tons of scenarios. The only thing I'd really say is I wish there were more rituals to use to help as a backdrop for the stories.
I think I can make that happen! Was there anything in particular you needed or thought should be there but wasn't?
It absolutely was solid, I wouldn't say anything needed to be taken away, I just wanted more rituals. idk if we were playing it right, but we were using the rituals as scenarios, or even scene intos/backdrops that helped with the story and how to progress through.
I think that's a really neat way to do things! I like the idea of using rituals in a specific way to guide to the story's progression. I'll think about that for this year's update.
Nice game to try at Christmas thanks
i'm so exciting by this christmas romcom game!
it seems so cool