Category: Pasión de las Pasiones: News

Good news!

If you’ve been waiting for a copy of Pasión de las Pasiones that you can carry around conventions or leave starring hungrily at your players (or if you just prefer a physical version!) it is now back in stock!

http://www.magpiegames.com/product/pasion-de-las-pasiones-ashcan-edition-print/

http://www.magpiegames.com/product/pasion-de-las-pasiones-ashcan-edition-print/

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!

You can now play Pasión de las Pasiones in the comfort of your beautiful mansion looking over the sea, the very sea that your handsome love disappeared into so long- Sorry, back on track.

I want to be fully clear on what’s going on!

The ashcan of the game is done!

An ashcan is like a ‘demo’ of the game that comes out before the final version gets it’s Kickstarter. This one has 6 of the playbooks rather than the 8+ that the final version will have. It has enough to play a one shot or a handful of episodes, but doesn’t have all of the campaign support the game will eventually have! It’s a little way to get a peek inside, see the process and what’s going on with it, and offer input into it as it is built! And, of course, it’s fully playable, so you can get some passionate play in.

The pdf of the ashcan is available currently for $5 on Drivethru RPG at:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/227009/Pasion-de-las-Pasiones-Ashcan-Edition

I’m not sure if that reduced price is just for the Black Friday sale or if it’s going to stick around for multiple days!

Also, there’s a print edition that’s currently out of stock available here

http://www.magpiegames.com/product/pasion-de-las-pasiones-ashcan-edition-print/

This one is $10 and it’s a delightful thing to carry around with you because… well, look at that cover.

The playbooks in a full on printable format are available here as well:

http://www.magpiegames.com/our-games/ashcans/#pasion

Thank you all for all of the support you’ve all given so far. Know that there will be more information coming as soon as I’m able to bring it AND I’m going to be DESPERATE for play reports or APs or just feedback!

http://www.magpiegames.com/product/pasion-de-las-pasiones-ashcan-edition-print/

Been having more Con-Crash/Crud than I expected… Those play-reports will be coming in soon.

That said… I have heard through the grapeline that a couple of people (including Magpie Games’s Brendan Conway and Kevin Petker) have gotten their hands on ashcans! So more news coming soon hopefully!!!

Bienvenidos, mi amores a Pasión de las Pasiones…

With another Metatopia come and gone, there’s a whole bunch of new data from playtesting! Thank you to all of the playtesters, designers chatterers, and people enthusiastic about this little game! There is no joy like having someone come up and declare in a dramatic voice, “I heard you’re the telenovela guy… I want to be in your game.” Thank you one and all.

I had 5 playtests and in the style of telenovelas, I’m thinking I’ll try to release them over the next week!

I know that at Metatopia there were a lot of questions about the ashcan, availability of play materials, and future plans for Pasión! I’m going to have that information together as quickly as I can!

Now that I’ve really ripped the heart out of Pasión de las Pasiones and replaced it with a new better heart, I’m also going to be trying to work out more playtests. I’m not sure the best way to figure them out yet, but if you are interested DEFINITELY get in touch with me!

Additionally, if you were in one of my playtests and want to send more thoughts, ideas, or critiques my way, hit me up!

News For Coming Changes

This is super unformated because it’s just grabbed and dropped from an editing session!

Flashback: flashback may be re-written in the future, possibly into more than one move. It isn’t working how I’d like it to and there’s not quite enough reason to do it. In playtest, it slowed the game down more than I’d have liked it to but it’s such an important part of telenovelas that I feel I can’t abandon it.

Flee The Scene: Definitely didn’t work how I intended. I think I’m going to remove this move entirely; now that there is an MC we can give them good instructions on how to shut down scenes.

Recaps

More of them.

Moves

MORE

La Abuela

Abuela isn’t working the way I want her to. She’s too much of a behind the pictures and would require a VERY involved player to make her sing.

El Caballero

This is one of the playbooks that I think is running best.

La Doña

She’s fun, but a couple things aren’t quite clicking.

Audience Reaction is kind of tough, but seems to be hitting. I need NUMBERS for this.

I Was Beautiful Once:

I’ll have to figure out how to rework this. Currently it’s purely narrative which possibly doesn’t work.

La Empleada

She works well in the game but doesn’t hit on some of the mechanics.

This is the playbook I’m most nervous about, it’s SO core to telenovelas but it is involved in a lot of the way that masculinity and femininity is portrayed in society. I’m hesitant to include her, but think she’s so important to have. Gotta tread carefully.

Her plot twist doesn’t hit enough at all. I think it /could/ hit all the time, but the player would need to really lean into it.

El Gemelo

El Gemelo seems to be working alright, but interestingly has so far ALWAYS been the twin of La Empleada. I’m not 100% certain why this is, but I’d like to figure out why if I can.

His (or I guess Her given what playtests have shown) Audience Reaction isn’t good enough. It triggers every scene once which is boring and maybe a little bit slow.

Recaps

Currently the recaps cannot both be true, given that players seem to really like the recaps that likely shouldn’t be true so that players can do more than one.

This also essentially functions to connect players, Hook style and make our family-web.

El Jefe

People get El Jefe and have played him perfectly. He almost seems too likeable, gotta bring other characters up to this level.

Marking XP is almost too easy for him.

Plot Twist: Plata o Plomo

Really gotta rework this one, removed the mechanical benefit (a holdover from previous version) but this still needs something better. Doesn’t feel quite brawny enough.

La Pirata

It’s a tempting character that I think people are interested in, but I’ve gotten a LOT of questions as to whether it fits or not. I really think that it fits and I’m going to try to work it out, but this is currently in the lowest tier of playbooks (right alongside La Abuela)

Sin Rostro

Definitely removing ‘never’ from that. I think this actually should have a full move.

El Vividor

People have been having some fun with this one, but I’m worried it’s a little bit unclear what you should be doing. I think the core issue is that the Audience Reaction isn’t quite hitting, though I want to keep that basic feel.

Getting Real

How did I miss that it had no downside on a 7-9? Come on, Brandon

An irritatingly suave goodbye: That is, for me, the core reason I want to play El Vividor.

Plot Twist: Corporate Takeover

This definitely isn’t coming across the way I’d wanted to… Basically my thinking was that you’re playing and El Caballero is all ready to catch you doing something or El Jefe is ready to disown you and then you go, “Oh, I’m sorry… Did you not get the call from the bank? I own this hotel now and you work for me now.” I’ll see if I can figure out how to reword this.

AUDIENCE MOVES

-When you hit a specific level, you take a big risk. Poll the audience for cheers (or explicit boos) If the audience goes along with it, it keeps going up. If NOT we get a twist move from the GM?

The reception for Pasión de los Pasiónes at Metatopia went better than I could have ever possibly asked and I just want to extend my thanks to all of you. I’m going to keep on thanking you, I feel just absolutely overwhelmed with the help from the community and can’t wait to keep building Pasión.

A full play-report of the three playtests will be going up tomorrow!