AUGUST 1, 2024
by Keaira
<aside> 🔖 This is my contribution to Autocratik’s event happening during the month of August aimed to talk more about the hobby of table top roleplaying games.
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After past years full of some more and some less reasonable purchases of RPG bundles - both to support multiple causes and while drunk on the sheer amount of stuff included - and then spending weekends in futile attempts to download and sort everything that was accumulating on my itch and drivetrurpg accounts, I said enough. Therefore finding the first RPG bought this year was harder than I thought, as there were not many. That cannot be - my first RPG purchase this year was in February ?!
So here it is - my first RPG bought in 2024 - which is technically not a standalone RPG, but a playset for the wonderful Gothic Society, by Gene Astadan (Martian Machinery)
Gothic Society is a hack of Good Society RPG - an award-winning Jane Austen RPG by Hayley Gordon and Vee Hendro, that stole my heart since I first stumbled upon its Kickstarter. Gothic Society pushes it into a genre of Victorian Gothic Horror and does it with great sense of theme and atmosphere. Adding a character roles like the consulting detective and the scientist, mechanic of Evil that lurks behind the characters stories, allowing characters to work for or against it, it makes stories possible, not only based on the classics of literature like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or Poe’s The Fall of the House Usher, but also with cinematic atmosphere of the Hammer Horror.
As most Good Society games and its hacks, Gothic Society uses playsets - sets of character roles, relationships and motivations that create a starting situation right out of a novel, tangled web of drama. In Dracula - as the name suggests - the playset is inspired of the character map and story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula - with new desires, family backgrounds and relationships while mixing them with those of both Good Society and Gothic Society. There are also two new character roles - The Vampire Hunter and The Count/Countess.
Unfortunately I cannot say more about how it plays, I tend to avoid playing games that involve vampires lately, but that might change and maybe one day I will try it.
Day 2 —>