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I am a pretty new game designer. Last year I ran a Kickstarter and released my first game. Wise Women is inspired by Slavic folklore. Specifically, I got the idea for the game when I was reading a book about plants in Polish folklore.

I thought I'd like to use the beliefs about properties of plants as bases for abilities in a ttrpg. I ruminated on the idea for several months and then one day I got inspired, and basically sketched the concept and key elements of the system of Wise Women in a day. Of course, it required refinement but I was quite amazed by how fast the ideas flew when they did!

In Wise Women players play witches living in a remote village, where life is difficult and people often fall prey to supernatural creatures. The witches can use plants to cast spells and protect their community, but their abilities are viewed with suspicion and prejudice. Drawing enough suspicion can result in being chased out of the village, into the wilderness, where nobody can survive on their own.

The game is inspired by PbtA but instead using playbooks, it has moves tied to plants that characters possess at any given moment. As such, what PCs can do changes over the course of the game. It also has mechanics for tracking Social Standing of characters.

It is a game about survival, prejudice and community. About having power to help own community but being marginalised by it. About the effect on social pressures and prejudices.

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Because that's uhhhh… not why I 'Like' things, on any platform (but maybe I'm the weird one?). I just do it to indicate that I appreciated the thing and want to deliver a little dopamine hit to whoever made it.

Or, in the case of Twitter replies, sometimes as a "friendly read receipt" (which is a thing that I *know* my weird brain thinks about differently than a lot of folks loudly do). Or, occasionally on platforms that give you a way to see your Likes, as kind of a form of bookmarking.

But yeah, I've *never* thought about using a Like to "boost" something, other than in the abstract sense of doing my tiny part to increase the *count* of Likes/Notes/Upvotes. Literally just to make that number bigger for the next person who stumbles across the post, not with any direct intention of spreading its reach.

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Because that's uhhhh… not why I 'Like' things, on any platform (but maybe I'm the weird one?). I just do it to indicate that I appreciated the thing and want to deliver a little dopamine hit to whoever made it.

Or, in the case of Twitter replies, sometimes as a "friendly read receipt" (which is a thing that I *know* my weird brain thinks about differently than a lot of folks loudly do). Or, occasionally on platforms that give you a way to see your Likes, as kind of a form of bookmarking.

But yeah, I've *never* thought about using a Like to "boost" something, other than in the abstract sense of doing my tiny part to increase the *count* of Likes/Notes/Upvotes. Literally just to make that number bigger for the next person who stumbles across the post, not with any direct intention of spreading its reach.

Not much posted so far, but I'm working on the larger follow up to One Way Ticket and hope to begin posting soon!

Everything I write ends up NSFW so jot that down...

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