Happy Rom Com Drama Bomb Day!
A New Kickstarter from Elliot Davis and Zine Month Highlights
Rom Com Drama Bomb
Now Funding on Kickstarter!
Rom Com Drama Bomb is now live on Kickstarter! If you already know what that is, go check out the page and help make this game a reality! If you’re thinking “What in God’s name is that?” or some variation therein, read on!
What in God’s name IS that?
Rom Com Drama Bomb is a storytelling game for three players. Over the course of 90 minutes—the perfect rom com length—you will play out the trope-fueled scenes of a romantic comedy with a maniacal twist:
Play as two people who shouldn’t fall in love and the evil villain who will stop at nothing to make sure they do.
The story begins after the Villain has strapped bombs to the Leads’ hearts and explains that they must perform the perfect romantic comedy or explode trying.
But how do you play?
Play takes place over 6 scenes and 3 acts. At the start of a scene, each player rolls a 4-sided die called the Mood Die. This will determine your character’s mood for the scene:
1 - Rom - open to love and possibility
2 - Com - leaning into the absurdity of the situation
3 - Drama - willing to fight, argue, and question
4 - Bomb - breaking free from the guise of the rom com
As your mood changes and the story progresses, the Leads and the Villain will have different abilities at their disposal to either move the romance forward or stop the evil plot entirely.
Using mechanics of the Belonging Outside Belonging system and inspired by elements of Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, players use tokens to control their characters and the world of the game. Each playbook also contains two tracks which you will fill during play to unlock big story-ending moves.
Is there someplace I can hear this game being played?
I’ll do you one better: There’s two!
You can hear Brian, Abby, and special guest Superdillin play in the My First Dungeon Valentine’s Day Special.
Then, for a slightly more heartbreaking tale, head over to queeRPG’s Valentine’s Day Special featuring Kenzie Tartaglione, Louisa Blatt, and me (as the dastardly villain, of course)!
These two playthroughs give a great picture of the variety of stories you can discover in a game of Rom Com Drama Bomb. Both make use of the same demo playbooks, the first of five options for both the Leads and Villain in the final game set.
Let’s talk rewards…
Oh, we’ve got rewards! Here are some of the goodies you can grab when you back Rom Com Drama Bomb on Kickstarter:
$10 - PDF Copy
$15 - Print plus PDF
$25 - Signed Print plus PDF
$69 - Limited DVD Edition
$100 - Inspire a playbook pair
I’m sorry, did you just say DVD?
Yes.
There is a limited edition version of Rom Com Drama Bomb that will come in a classic 2000s-style DVD case. The game zine will be the booklet inside the cover and the disc will contain the PDF, any music BE/HOLD creates for the project, the My First Dungeon playthrough, and probably a few more goodies by the time all is said and done.
We’re starting with 10 of these available to grab, with 10 being added at each funding milestone.
I’m in! Where do I go?
Can you tell I’m excited? This game has already been so fun to make and I can’t wait for more people to play it. It is the culmination of everything I love about romantic comedies and over-the-top action flicks.
XOXO
— Elliot
Happy Zine Month 2024!
We’re officially halfway through Zine Month, which means we’ve only got 15 more days to explore and support the wave of cool new games and projects currently popping up on Kickstarter, Backerkit, and Crowdfundr. To celebrate the influx of awesomeness, Brian and Elliot interviewed the folks behind some of our favorite Zine Month picks for Talk of the Table, with new interviews releasing every Tuesday this February.
ARKYVR and The Stone-Flesh Gift
What’s better than one exciting new Mothership supplement? Two exciting new Mothership supplements! First, ARKYVR by Rhodrick Magsino, is a film-documentarian toolkit where players try to make a movie in an alien infested kill zone. And from Jordan Boschman we have The Stone-Flesh Gift, a living ship module with a focus on exploration and body horror. Hearing about these supplements is the reason Brian finally started reading Mothership—and there aren’t many better endorsements than that.
The Tower and The Hauntings of Hyde Park
In the second Talk of the Table Zine Month Special episode, Elliot and Brian are joined by Lola Johnson to discuss their system-agnostic puzzle dungeon crawl: The Tower. Then, Nico MacDougall comes to the table to talk about The Hauntings of Hyde Park, a supplement for The Between.