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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:

ONWARD TO STRETCH GOALS - DATING PROFILES
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 07:00:51 PM

Hey everyone! Sorry for the three updates in one day, but I'm just excited! I've just finished talking with Andreas and we are going to move forward with adding some Tinder-style dating profiles to the book. One of those profiles will include an undead villain from my other work, The Vineyard RPG!

If you are unfamiliar with how hot the villains are in The Vineyard RPG, I present to you Confessor Istillias, religious zealot and collector of Their Majesty's debts. I'll likely include 3 undead villain options in the upcoming poll, so keep an eye on your email for that. May you choose what your heart most desires!



$20,000

Now that we've funded the guidebook on how to GM romantic sessions, why wouldn't we give you more NPCs with which to create those special moments? We're going to add some Tinder-style dating profiles to the appendices complete with conversation starters, flirtatious dialogue, and beautiful art. That's 3 additional romantic NPCs to choose from, including an undead villain featured in The Vineyard RPG.

I'll be sending the poll soon on which undead smoke show our backers will be able to choose from.

WE ARE FUNDED!
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 05:13:42 PM

Thank you to everyone who has supported us!


We are working on our stretch goals and will update with our first soon. Please keep sharing the campaign with your friends so we can get ahead and stay ahead to unlock more great bonus content for the book!

48 Hour Update! 75% - Tough Times
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 10:14:56 AM

Hey y'all. sits in chair backward in front of the class

So we're only at 75% (11k) 2 days into our campaign. I know what you're thinking. We're almost there! But the reality is that the ideal budget that we want to make this project happen is quite a bit higher.

Where does that leave us?

Unfortunately, with how momentum for these campaigns work, without a strong start it can be very difficult for campaigns to succeed. Our "success" metric for us is $45,000, as that is the cost of production for the book. When I came to Andreas with this project, part of my ask was that everyone be paid a living wage. Andreas has graciously agreed to that - but it creates a different sort of problem. Furthermore, our newsletters and ads are performing a bit worse than expected.

For crowdfunding campaigns the vast majority of funds raised are within the first and last 3 days of the campaign. This means that we need to be at 20k by tomorrow morning, or we will need to make the difficult decision to tough it out (and work with whatever final project and cut content), or to cancel the campaign and spend more time working to build a bigger audience and launch at a later time.

How can you help?


  • Share this project with your friends and encourage them to pledge, even at our lowest tier.
  • If you feel passionately about what we're doing: Post about the book and why you're excited about.
  • If you are on the fence about backing right now as opposed to later? Please back us!
  • If you have already pledged, but want to support us more, consider upgrading your tier - we have opened up more spots for the Hopeless Romantic and Letters from a Romantic tiers!

Thank you to everyone who has supported us.