Three-player Star Crossed has been one of the most requested features since I first started playtesting the game. I’m very pleased to offer some solid (and relatively simple!) rules for 3PSC in Love Letters.
But maybe you’d like a trio of characters to play? And a romantic setting for them to swoon in? Well, ask Jason Morningstar and you get this:
I’m a big fan of Night Witches, Jason’s Powered by the Apocalypse game about women at war. More specifically, it’s about the real-history 588th Night Bomber Regiment, a group of Soviet women pilots who bombed the German military in outdated wood-and-canvas biplanes from 1942-1945.
In this scenario, a trio of characters meet at a Soviet psychiatric hospital (known as a "psikhushka") in the mid-forties. Given that homosexuality was one of the “illnesses” that could get you locked up there in the first place, there’s a lot on the line for our would-be lovers.
I love this setting, and these characters. Star Crossed can be fanciful, silly, adorable - but stories of forbidden love can be truly heartbreaking, too. Jason gets the full range of the game, and really delivered on the more tragic side of SC. I mean just look at this:
We promised some very special content just for Backers, and here it is! Backers can see the download link below!
If you play these miserable characters fighting for a scrap of joy in a cold and heartless world, please be sure to tell us all about it.
