I’m very excited; I’m going to put some of the ideas from Collaborative Campaign Design to work with this Free League game. The YZE system is fine, but I’m going to use PbtA as it’s my system of choice (with a game called Offworlders). I had a look at The Great Dark’s quickstart and already picked out a few Givens I’d like to have in the game, but looking forward to kicking off Session -1 and seeing what shakes out!

There's something about moving Blades forward 100 Years that seems really appealing. Maybe it's just because I recently rediscovered the game Deathloop, or the more modern geo-political themes that can be woven into the narrative, I'm not sure. https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/bbd583d2-7c42-478b-a4f2-4c73f30e7022/landing

I like rules light, narrative and story games like PbtA, and have been thinking for a while about picking up Stonetop, but playing it with a Science Fantasy twist (Barsoom, Skyrealms of Jorune, some Ghibli inspiration thrown in, etc.). But after reading this: https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/the-pretty-good-dark/, I am very, very fired up to play Coriolis The Great Dark. Maybe using Foundry (there's a sale on). I play mostly Theatre of the Mind and don't really use maps that much, but I'm tempted, rather than hacking a PbtA game to play it.

I'm currently setting up to play Monster of the Week - Interdimensional Crisis Team (from Codex of Worlds), but after that 5 session run, I think I'm going to set up a Collaborative Campaign and a Proactive game to follow, in the online community I'm in-- the Open Hearth. I prefer PbtA as a system, though, so it will most likely be Stonetop, which as I think I've said before, seems perfectly suited to a game like this. Though I've had a bit of a Science Fantasy craving of late, so will likely encourage those kind of worldbuilding elements (like the venerable Skyrealms of Jorune, or Barsoom/John Carter, etc.).

I have waaaaaay too many of these types of things (I have a few storyengine decks, preordered the perpetually in funding hell Reckless Deck Psyche, bought the Tome of Adventure Design, etc.), but this worldbuilding game feels like taking Microscope or A Quiet Year and melding it with board game and those other generators I mentioned. It seems like it is trying to do a lot of the same kinds of things recommended in collaboratively setting up a campaign in the brothers' latest book, though, which is why I'm posting it here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storycaster/storycaster-fantasy-realms