Episode Synopsis "Ep 13: First Game Ever with L. Skyford of Booklandia!"

The hosts of Booklandia, Sky and Ford, join me this week for a playthrough of Monsterhearts 2e by Avery Alder. Ford has played a little bit but still considers themself a new player, and Sky has never been around this hobby at all. So special thanks to them for taking the plunge with me! I have also never run a Powered by the Apocalypse game, and romance games are not really my thing. But Romance IS Booklandia's thing, so we give it a whirl. We played a one-shot that took about 3 hours to play and about 2 hours to create characters and set up our classroom (it's a monsterhearts thing). Special note: This is not an actual play podcast, nor is it about the game Monsterhearts (or any other game). So the formatting of this episode is a little weird. The first part focuses on how we feel before playing, and voicing the things we are nervous about. The second half is immediately following the game and we discuss how it went and if/how our feelings have changed. Keep in mind that this is after only 5 hours of play! Getting into character and really getting comfortable with game mechanics and tone can sometimes take several sessions. We call out problems we had with those things, but there is no real expectation for us to have mastered them already.

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