#firebrandsrpg — Public Fediverse posts

This weekend I played @ashcheshire and @GlaiveGuisarme's Magical Repair Shop, which has been on my list for quite a while! It was a cozy, convivial time filled with delightful magical mishaps. Such a wonderful job adapting Firebrands to a gentle, collaborative tone

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I watched The Man from UNCLE the other day, and my brain has been absolutely on fire about rival spies ever since. Is there a spy vs spy (vs spy) Firebrands game out there yet, or do I need to write it?

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Some of the advice I've gotten for playing Firebrands:

- It works better if you lean into self-indulgence and the tropes you want to see
- Treat it like the middle chapter or random episode of a story

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More Firebrands thoughts today, a thread of reflections and miscellaneous thoughts

Since the last time I posted about it, I've played one "fine but shallow" one-shot, wrapped a 4-session game that I loved, and am about to wrap another few-shot I adore

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A bit of advice got about playing Firebrands (+hacks) is to treat it like a middle chapter or a random episode in a long series. Don't make it the pilot and don't try to solve the conflict; assume the characters *already* have complicated relationships

I'm still trying to get a handle on all of it, but it helped my feeling that we need to come to a satisfying conclusion on the story rather than just a glimpse into it

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I've been on a Firebrands (+ hacks) kick lately, and while I'm having a lot of fun, I have no idea how you could run these games as a satisfying one-shot

Anyone have tips or tricks on playing shorter Firebrands games?

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I wish Firebrands had its own moniker for games in that format, in the vein of "Powered by the Apocalypse," "Descended from the Queen," "Rooted in Trophy," etc. It's most common to call them "Firebrands hacks," and while I know "hack" isn't/wasn't considered derogatory by the indie ttrpg community, it still feels like it belittles the derivative work

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