Category: Bluebeard’s Bride – A Horror RPG

I have imposter syndrome – both at work and when gaming.

I have imposter syndrome – both at work and when gaming.

I have imposter syndrome – both at work and when gaming. When gaming I generally feel like I am the least talented person at the table and I am just hoping no one notices. This is the case when I am running a game as well. I always feel like I didn’t prepare as well as I should (but I hate prepping – I don’t really get the “lonely fun” feeling) and beat myself up about it. Then I tend to feel like I am fumbling around when I am actually running the game. Finally when the game is over I am kind of relieved but just keep thinking about what I should have done better. Afterwards people say lots of nice things but usually I am thinking in my head “yeah, but you didn’t notice how I fucked up this or that.” I generally am in a not great headspace after running a game…

Last night though I ran Bluebeard’s Bride for the first time… I was running it for The Gauntlet (https://plus.google.com/communities/116329047011220562548) for a bunch of folks who had never played, some of whom had listened to / watched APs, but all of whom were super excited to play and had very high expectations. (One person was explicitly spending part of their birthday day-off playing and one had a cold but still wasn’t going to give up the chance to play.) So you know… No pressure…

It was fucking awesome. Hands down the best session of a game I have ever run and I had zero nerves before/during/after the game. Everyone absolutely raved about it – and somehow I really actually accepted and felt I earned the praise. (This is something I basically can’t do: accept and feel I earned praise.) Everyone had high expectations and they were all met, and then some. I felt like a million bucks afterwards (and especially after the raves in the debrief). Hell, I still feel amazing.

Sarah Richardson Whitney Beltrán +Marissa Kelly thank you so so much for designing this game. It is magical and it has helped me feel confident about myself – something I have rarely ever felt. The text is succinct and perfectly voiced. I felt absolutely supported by it. (Extra thanks to Sarah for all the APs and for running it at Dreamation – all of which just reinforced what the text so clearly teaches.)

I look forward to regularly performing the duties of Groundskeeper for a long time to come…

Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-gApvvVjCY

This also means we won’t be approving new members, but we’ll tackle that when we get back!

This also means we won’t be approving new members, but we’ll tackle that when we get back!

This also means we won’t be approving new members, but we’ll tackle that when we get back!

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I have a question about sharing trauma.

I have a question about sharing trauma.

I have a question about sharing trauma. The books states that every time a sister receives trauma she has an option to share it with other sisters. So in that case is the trauma distributed or do other sisters get the same amount of trauma? The examples seem to support both cases. Thank you for your support.

Thank you all for creating this amazing RPG!

Thank you all for creating this amazing RPG!

Thank you all for creating this amazing RPG! I got my core book last night, and it is gorgeous. Even better, I was talking to my boyfriend about the game, he went and read about it, and he’s looking at adding it to his book collection.

I do hope I can eventually get my hands on the rest of the books (as opposed to just the PDFs), and/or the objects that were unlocked. I could only afford the core book, and I want more!

More Sisterly Bonds to the same Sister

More Sisterly Bonds to the same Sister

More Sisterly Bonds to the same Sister

There is something I still have to figure out: can one player give more than one Sisterly Bond to the same Sister?

This is something I am asking myself because it seems to me that, in a 4-player game (3 Sisters plus the Groundkeeper), the Sisters are left with just a little choice: they could only choose which of the other Sisters will get the first bond, and the other one will surely get the second one.

Buried in my Big Bad Con 2017 Friday writeup is the Bluebeard’s Bride writeup from the 2-hour session April Padilla…

Buried in my Big Bad Con 2017 Friday writeup is the Bluebeard’s Bride writeup from the 2-hour session April Padilla…

Buried in my Big Bad Con 2017 Friday writeup is the Bluebeard’s Bride writeup from the 2-hour session April Padilla ran. Thoroughly enjoyed this session! (and was very lucky I squeezed in last minute due to a drop-out).

http://www.supernovembergames.com/tomes-of-tomes/2017/10/24/big-bad-con-2017-friday-feels

http://www.supernovembergames.com/tomes-of-tomes/2017/10/24/big-bad-con-2017-friday-feels

A pretty heavy question: do you think there’s room in this game to tackle trans themes and narratives at all?

A pretty heavy question: do you think there’s room in this game to tackle trans themes and narratives at all?

A pretty heavy question: do you think there’s room in this game to tackle trans themes and narratives at all? I know transmisogyny is a different experience in many regards to the experiences a cis woman faces, but a part of me wants to tackle what I know personally in play.

How much prep is too much?

How much prep is too much?

How much prep is too much? I know the groundskeeper has got to make the horror personal, but knowing my own strengths and weaknesses as a GM, I can trip up on full improvisation a bit if I don’t come in with some ideas.

Is it generally fine to have a collection of rooms and horrors thought out ahead of time, maybe a few servants, and jettison them if they really don’t match up well with wedding prep? I’ve noticed some common threads in some of the actual plays out there, horrors or rooms that the groundskeeper falls back on but twists to fit the table, but I am just as concerned with coming across over-planned as I am with coming across like I have no idea what I’m doing.