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How to GM Romance

Created by Friday Strout, Austin Taylor, Nala J. Wu, and Metal Weave Games

Set your hearts ablaze. Learn to make romance in your tabletop games accessible, fun, and easy for everyone at the table. Including 🔧mechanics,🖋️how-to essays,🎲tables, &🎨art created by leading designers in the field.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

November Update!
6 days ago – Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 11:57:32 AM

Hey y'all! I apologize for the long wait in updating. I've had a lot going on in my life but things are progressing well. Here's our check in for GMROM:

Art
  • About 50% finished!
  • Per the vision of our Art Director, we are working with a very large and diverse team, which means that organizing everything takes longer!
  • We have a large variety of different styles being presented in the book intentionally.
Narrative
  • Our Romance System (tracking, dating, dispute, serenade, intimacy) is 80% finished with 4 of our designers having turned in their drafts. Sensitivity/cultural checks and then editing are our next steps.
  • Essayists have begun their process of writing!
  • Additional "splat" content will be drafted soon. (NPCs, date locations/ideas, gifts, conversation/dialogue.)

Additional Add-Ons
  • Backers who chose the Art Deco Card add-on with their pledge are currently being worked on. If you have not responded to our email about this, please reach out and we'll get you sorted.
  • Letters From A Romantic backers please reach out via email so we can get you sorted! Drafting these will begin soon and we want you to receive your reward.

art credit: Savanna Mayer (they/them)

New timeline
Due to some chaos on our backend and the overall state of the world, we are expecting that our timeline might be pushed slightly later than first anticipated. I had initially estimated that we would be finished with production by the end of December, but now it is looking more like February for post-production. From there Metal Weave Games will begin layout and pushing our book to printer in the Spring of 2025, if not sooner. Digital fulfillment will occur before printing. Again, I apologize for the delay.

All that being said: thank you for supporting our project and we are looking forward to delivering a quality resource for GMs everywhere.

Want to support the project?
We'd love to ship you this wonderful project soon. Please support queer art with a pre-order of How To GM Romance today. It's not too late!

Surveys Starting to go out!
2 months ago – Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 08:09:42 AM

Hey all!
Andreas (publisher) here,
The team is already hard at work on the book, and I apologize for the delay on not getting the surveys out sooner.

I've just sent out the initial 'smoke test' of the surveys (which go out to a small portion of you). If you see any issues or things don't seem right, please free to comment about them here. I plan on sending out everyone's survey later this afternoon (if you still see things, still please let us know).

For those who are getting named, illustrated, or deco cards, we'll be reaching out once you complete your survey.

Thanks, and hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Andreas and the GMROM Team

WE DID IT! (3 STRETCH GOALS UNLOCKED)
3 months ago – Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 06:19:35 PM

With $40,600 - we are funded!


Thanks to all of our backers and supporters! Whether you pledged money or shared with your friends, you're a big part of our success. I'm so excited to finish development on this project that has been 18 months in the works! You can expect that we will wrap production by December - from there we'll begin fulfilling to our backers after manufacturing.

You'll be hearing from us with updates as we gets sections wrapped and we'll try to provide some sneak peeks without spoiling the entire book. :)

I'm gonna go take a nap.

The FINAL 24 hours! PLUS: Idol Deco Cards!?
3 months ago – Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 05:58:37 PM

Our final 24 hours!

Wowee what a campaign. We're excited to bring you How To GM Romance soon and it wouldn't be possible without your support. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Please nudge your friends or people you think would be interested in this. Every little bit helps! Also, we have something special to offer! Limited in quantity, get yours today.



alt text: Pay homage to a favorite character of yours with a custom Idol deco card, hand drawn by Ivy. This is a traditional (not digital) illustration drawn on thick multimedia paper, colored with markers, ink, and/or watercolors and accented with color pencils. The illustration and all stickers will be placed directly on the card itself. Backers for this add on will be able to submit character references and general aesthetic to the team so Ivy can create a unique one-of-a-kind card! The cards are a physical add-on, and will be mailed with the rest of your pledge.

@SpaceElf_Art, Ivy Tubbs, he/him

Example Cards: Two traditional illustrations of fantasy characters decorated with stickers in a frame around the edges-- just like an idol card! Each card measures 2.5 x 3.5 inches (standard trading card size).

How To GM Romance Last 48 Hours! Download the Preview PDF!
4 months ago – Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 12:06:37 PM


Final Campaign Streeeetch!

Help out your local romantics by sharing the campaign with your friends. Thank you to all of our supporters so far, this book wouldn't be possible without you.

Download the Preview PDF!
You asked for it - it's now here. Get a sneak peek of what you can expect in the book with some samples from a few of our chapters. You can expect flexible mechanical systems, great advice, and beautiful art. CLICK HERE. 

But wait, there's more!?

We have a special add-on coming soon - to be announced tomorrow. Stay tuned and be the first to check it out tomorrow so that you can get your hands on this limited quantity goodie.