Hey, y'all! It's November, and that means we're in the 8 week period where it isn't completely unreasonable to be playing a game centered around Christmas. To that end, I've released an updated and expanded version of A Christmas Belonging.

• Pretty much every page has been changed for the better. Some minor, some substantial. Most notably, an expanded explanation of the small town/big city character dynamic.
• Three new Roles! Journalist, Event Planner, and Time Traveler (that's right, let's get weird with it)
• Every Role's move list has been edited to be more compelling or to be in line with that Role's themes
• A new ritual, Decorating the Town Tree
• Guidelines for setting your story somewhere other than a small town, if that's your thing
• Example combinations of Roles and the stories you could make with them
• A stronger condemnation of Christmas movies

I've always been inordinately proud of this game. I design games on fairly niche topics that usually deal with unexpected intimacy. But this game is fairly broad, and based off a type of media that isn't particularly deep. I'm still not sure why this one stuck, or why I put so much work into it. I'm not even that big a fan of Christmas movies. I hesitate to call any game of mine good, but this game is definitely better than it needs to be.

I wanted to get this out there now, because again there's 8 weeks you can reasonably play this game, but there's one more minor addition on the way. Let's just say you'll be getting a switch for Christmas