Glamour of Our Youth - Playtest
A downloadable game
Glamour of Our Youth is a roleplaying game based on the Forged in the Dark system. Drawing inspiration from media like Riverdale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina among others, it works to tell stories of supernatural teenage adventures.
ABOUT THE GAME
Glamour of Our Youth is for 3-5 players, and what really makes it shine is the customizability of it. The characters get to pick both a teen drama archetype to fulfill as well as an arcana that determines their magical abilities. You also get to pick a series playbook to use with abilities and special rules to really help the kind of story you’re aiming for. The full release will include even more options and tools for players to use.
Building on the FitD framework, Glamour serves to tell exciting stories with high stakes, putting the youths through their paces as they try to make their way through a strange and hostile world, struggling with conflicts both internal and external, arcane and mundane.
HELP US MAKE THE GAME SHINE!
This is a playtest version of the game. We'd love to receive any feedback, recordings and play notes, so please email them to us at witchbreak.rpg@gmail.com.
We've also decided to let people donate to secure a copy of the full game once that's out, as well as get their name credited in the book as a supporter! Even though the game is mechanically complete, there's a lot of work yet to be done from layout to tinkering with the mechanics to additional writing, and any support you can give will be greatly appreciated.
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Support
To help us through the production process, you can donate a few dollars. The game's nearing completion but there's still editing, layout and a few extra elements to work out, so any bit donated helps.
Anyone who donates will be credited in the book - be sure to leave a name you'd wish to be credited by alongside your donation.
Prepurchase
If you donate at least $30, you'll gain access to the full digital version of the game when it is released, alongside supporter credit in the full release.
The full version of the game will include 3 more Series playbooks as well as a supplement with 4 more Archetypes and 8 more Arcana. It will also include a gorgeous layout and a short story featuring the adventures of a group of teens discovering the secrets of the Sojourner's Saturnalia in Dawnborough.
Development log
- Glamour of Our Youth v0.3 update!Nov 30, 2023
- Progress on v1.0Mar 11, 2023
- v0.2 is out now!Nov 01, 2022
Comments
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Hi there,
Love the game, super excited to run it! Quick question: How do you regain Essences once spent? When you use them do you lose them forever and only gain them when you spend an advance on them?
Hello! There's a downtime activity called Meditate you can take to recover spent Essences. The details for it should be on page 83. I'll be sure to add a note to the essences section about that in the future!
Oh shoot, didn't realize I missed that, thank you so much!
Is there any kind of character sheet made up for these yet? A google sheet template or anything? I'd love to give the game a whirl, this is exactly our jam. Do you or Witchbreak have a discord server?
Heya! There's a google sheet link on page 88! I should also probably put that up at the top of the document again hahah. Currently there's no Witchbreak Discord.
Oh thank you! I could have sworn I'd seen it at one point but I couldn't find it and I skimmed through like 10 different RPGs yesterday before hyperfixating on yours so I convinced myself that was a different one. XD
Ran a 4 session game of this with some friends in a custom setting and it worked so well! I love how easy it is to get started with the scenes and setup, and how focused the game makes playing as a result of the abstraction of the larger "faction game" that comes with other Forged games like Blades. It was a lot of fun! Thank you!
Hell yeah, glad you had a good time!