Genuinely BEGGING anyone who loves Dimension 20's A Court of Fey and Flowers season to get into Bards of New York's current show, Gilded Thrones.
Instead of DND, they mixed good society mechanics with kids on bikes and some extra homebrew to make a VERY smooth game. While I will accept NO Aabria Iyengar slander in this house, I think we can all admit there were times where the good society and dnd mechanics and vibes seemed to be fighting each other a little bit. This is NOTHING against that cast or creative team surrounding that season, I just think it's the truth. But Bards have really developed on the idea to make something special.
You like romance? Boy do we have many options for you! U haul lesbians, seemingly doomed pining, we've got it all.
You want political intrigue? OH BOY DO WE HAVE IT! Nation against nation, all striving for the same goal in different ways, attempting to unravel ancient history they don't understand.
You want fey vibes? BABY YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!! While our cast are not fey themselves, Arcadia is a land full of magic and most of our pcs have very different manifestations of it!
You want combat? We have it, but it's different. Arcadia is a world where you don't solve your problems merely by fighting. Combat rules were used in the Mage's Duel (which is an incredible batch of episodes and often referred to as the soft magic olympics) but nobody was aiming to kill and that's not really how this game is structured.
You want INCREDIBLE HEARTWRENCHING PERFORMANCES???????
HELL YEAH!!!! With a table full of mostly trained theatre professionals and the implementation of the monologue tokens, used to get a peek inside a character's head that anybody can play at any time, the Bards are here to stomp on your heart all day long!
This is my impassioned plea for y'all to give Bards a chance, because this is currently their ongoing campaign and can be watched, TOTALLY FOR FREE, on their youtube channel!!! If you decide to get really invested in the Bards, check out the Regolus: Dark Age campaign to watch guest of the century Aabria Iyengar herself play one of THE pcs of all time.
