The Governance of Desire

For a limited time, The Indulgence Trials™ Official Handbook of Play is free to claim.

This is the full guide to the consent-first adult game system connected to The Rule of Pleasure: structured, negotiated, boundary-aware, and built around voluntary play rather than impulse.

During this event, the novel that began it all is also available for just $4.99, down from $8.99.

The Rule of Pleasure is an adult erotic novel about ritualized power, desire, consent, control, and the intimacy of chosen surrender. The handbook turns the fictional system behind the novel into a playable framework for adults who understand that trust requires structure.

The Complete Book + Guide Edition is also discounted for anyone who wants the full experience.

The guide is free. The novel is $4.99. The door is open.

Not a party game. Not a fantasy.

A system where:

nothing begins until consent is written

nothing expands beyond what was declared

nothing is negotiated once it starts

Desire doesn’t lead.

Structure does.

I wrote about the Indulgence Trials—what they actually are, and why they change how people enter a room.

They’re not.

They’re about power.

About control.

About the space between who you are in public… and who you are when no one is watching.

Between Power and Silence — a real BDSM autobiography

The Rule of Pleasure — consent, structured and tested

Druid of the Dragons — ritual, transformation, and purpose through power

These aren’t one-off books.

They’re serialized. Ongoing. Evolving.

From the outside, it looks ordinary.

A gathering. A list of names. A roll of the dice.

From the inside… it’s something else.

Each invitation is intentional. Each interaction is negotiated. Each moment unfolds inside a system where nothing is accidental—and nothing is without consequence.

The Rule of Pleasure is not about falling into desire.

It’s about stepping into it— knowingly, deliberately, and under rule.

You’ve played tabletop RPGs before.

You’ve rolled the dice. Taken on a role. Followed the rules of the game.

But what happens when the table isn’t just for the dice?

When the role you play isn’t fictional… and the outcome isn’t imagined?

The Indulgence Trials™

The dice may define the moment— but your consent defines the game.

Read the novel that started it all - The Rule of Pleasure https://deanarayagon.itch.io/the-rule-of-pleasure-book-only

You might want to call it a tabletop role-playing game. And it is… but it isn’t.

You might want to call it a social party game. And it is… but it isn’t.

You might want to call it a structured negotiation game. And it is… but it isn’t.

The Indulgence Trials™ Not a game you play. A system you enter.

“spicy game ideas for couples” usually means the same three suggestions

this isn’t one of them

The Indulgence Trials™ for couples—and couples together where consent is explicit, power is structured, and every move matters

Most people come to a story or a game with certain expectations.

This isn’t built on those assumptions.

The Rule of Pleasure + The Indulgence Trials™ explore what happens when intimacy, consent, and power are structured—and carry consequence.

Story + system. Same framework.

The Rule of Pleasure was a novel.

It asked what would happen if power had architecture.

The Indulgence Trials™ is the answer.

What began as story became system.

Momentum is persuasive.

A raised pulse is not clarity.

The Ledger exists to slow the moment — to separate desire from coercion.

Consent is strongest when it is calm.

I published a new essay today: Why Fantasy Fails Without Consequence

It’s really about the difference between imagining power and building a structure strong enough to hold it.

Momentum is persuasive.

A raised pulse is not clarity.

The Ledger exists to slow the moment — to separate desire from coercion.

Consent is strongest when it is calm.

I wasn't sure about returning to the world of writing adult books and erotica, but sometimes you just have to get the stories out you have inside.

With the Rule of Pleasure and the Indulgence Trials Handbook on itch.io I have a good distribution hub that is getting lot's of attention. Others have asked for something different though, so I am also serializing The Rule of Pleasure on Ream Stories, along with:

Between Power and Silence

Druid of the Dragons

Lust & Leather: Chronicles of Desire

This group has apparently signed up to play the in the INDULGENCE TRIALS

Many adult party games aim to create a single memorable evening.

The Indulgence Trials were designed for something different.

They were designed to create an ongoing system of play, one where consent, structure, and strategy intersect. A game where participants are not simply reacting to chance but actively shaping the experience together.

That philosophy is what ultimately connects the novel The Rule of Pleasure to the real-world framework that followed it.

Stories sometimes imagine systems.

Occasionally those systems decide to exist.

Article V: No Improvisation Under Duress

Momentum is persuasive.

A raised pulse is not clarity.

The Ledger exists to slow the moment — to separate desire from coercion.

Power is not assumed.

It is accumulated.

The Trials measure: • restraint • precision • consistency • accountability

Rank is not dominance.

Rank is proof of discipline.