Road to Romance
By Alex White
- One minute read - 191 wordsRomance stories have one primary rule. They will end up 'happy ever after', even if the characters can be tormented along thte way. This game provides the tools to allow 3-5 people to enjoy collaboratively telling a set of romance stories.
Each of you chooses the setting for your game, which gives a general approach and some suggested names and locations for your stories and a style that you want to explore. Then you create your protagonist, considering their wounds and wants. Wounds are things in the protagonists past which cause problems for them. Wants are the desires that the protagonist wants out of life.
You also play the paramour (the love interest) for the player on your right, and the trouble (what is going to cause difficulties in the story) for the player on your left. So during the game each person is participating in three stories - their own as the protagonist, another persons as their paramour, and the third player as their trouble.
Seven chapters of play take you through the ups and downs of introductions, an encounter, complications, first kiss, catastrophe, comeuppance, and finally Happily Ever After.