Jan 2, 2025
Another year, another Wuvvie Wednesday <3
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Another year, another Wuvvie Wednesday <3
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If you want to run a Court of Fey & Flowers Game, dnd isn't what you need
...because it's not what the Dimension 20 cast played, either.
I talked about this a little bit once before, very early in the season, but now that it's done, it's really clear to me that they played Good Society by Storybrewers with a few Dungeons & Dragons elements hacked in, not the other way around. Aabria Iyengar loves Good Society, and it really shows. She merged the systems really beautifully to suit the expectations of D20, and that's why I think players at home will get a better experience by starting with GS materials than by trying to reverse engineer the mechanics Iyengar showed in action.
Things they got from DnD:
-Skill levels/stats.
-Rolling dice to determine success.
-The game master/facilitator (Aabria) playing most characters.
-Some creatures and spells (the dog that has an old man's face, the telepathy spell I can never remember the name of).
-Aabria giving out Inspiration.
Things they got from Good Society:
-The principle of having a character goal that may be kept secret. (In fact, some of D20's specific goals were probably even chosen from Good Society materials. The player character with a secret spouse? There's a card for that.)
-Social reputation tracked by degrees, conferring descriptions and perks. (They did not use GS's exact system. Whether it was a hack or a mix with a game system I haven't played, I don't know.)
-Trading tokens that can be burned to make strong moves. (Again, not GS's exact mechanic--GS uses tokens throughout instead of dice. That game lets you decide what your character is capable of. Tokens make sure everyone has fair chances to act, especially when players have conflicting goals.)
-Additional guidelines and mechanics for agreeing on how the table wants social events to work, as well as how to navigate the varying dynamics of relatives, friends, and rivals.
-Rumors and epistolary phases. (There's a fun post going around about Brennan asking about these because "he wanted to get a good grade in dnd," but I think he was sincerely curious how they worked, because they aren't dnd!)
-The overall cycle of play, dictating the order of phases and pace.
-Some mechanics for the reputations and interactions of fae courts as entities were taken from Good Society's Fae Courts mini-expansion.
-Monologue tokens. (D20 has Aabria as the only one who can use these, GS allows anyone in the game to ask someone to monologue.)
-Additional guidelines for determining world state, character creation, and keeping the story within a consistent style and tone that feels like a recognizably Regency story...even when giant owlbears can get gay married.
-Other flavoring and approach details.
Things Good Society has that Dimension 20 didn't get to show off:
-The ability for players to also choose a secondary character to control, allowing them to participate in more roleplay and experience multiple personalities or social roles in the same game.
-A really rich and thoughtful collaboration phase, before the story begins.
-The ability to share facilitator duties among the table, and to allow the facilitator to play a main character as well as supporting cast.
-Advice and expansions for adjusting the game to various tones, genres, and other historical periods.
So you're looking at buying Good Society:
What you need is pdfs. Definitely grab the base game for $21.00, that has most of what I just described. If you're excited to see their Fae Court specific materials, it's included in the Expanded Acquaintance bundle with many other pieces of content, or there's a bundle of the base game and every expansion they've produced. You do not need to buy the more expensive bundles that include physical books and cards unless professional physical versions delight you, the pdfs are designed to be printable. Storybrewers also made and provide spreadsheet templates for sessions meeting online, so you can all see your worksheet choices.
Good Society is a really fun and flexible system, and it's most of what we loved about how A Court of Fey and Flowers was structured. It's your best route to a recreation, and well worth playing in its original form. I love that it doesn't have stats and dice--if you've never played a ttrpg that doesn't make you do math, this is a great introduction. I'm so glad Aabria featured it on the show!
A passing glance
[Image Description: A digital drawing of Andhera and K.P. Hob from A Court of Fey and Flowers. Andhera is standing on the left, his back facing the viewer, and looking to the right at Hob with a soft expression. They are wearing a black robe with a gold collar, floral details on the shoulder, and swirls on the mid-back. Hob is standing to the right, facing towards the viewer, and gazing to the left at Andhera. He is wearing a black guards uniform with a red sash, gold epaulettes and detailing. The background is pale tan with a white circle representing the sun in between Andhera and Hob, vines and bushes framing them at the top and sides, and a thick white border surrounding them. End image description.]
the moon will sing a song for me
idk if someone else already posted this but
this is just the whole season in 1 screenshot
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if you zoom in real close you can see the backstreet boys
Lord Squak is who Fabian thought he was acting like that
Anyone else subscribe to the theory that the secret letter that Captain Hob wrote at the beginning of Episode 2 that he put in his pocket and did not send was to a dead love that he lost during the battle with the Unseelie Court? And that the reason that he did not kill Andhera during said battle was not because of anything like attraction or whatever but because Andhera witnessed said spouse fall and Hob go into a Reckless Rage, killing all within his path, but when Andhera was at the end of Hob’s halberd, he expressed empathy for the loss, thinking that their final moment should be the empathy and understanding they never got from his court. And it shook Hob out of the rage and Hob repaid the kindness by letting Andhera live? And that’s why KP wants to know so much about why the engagement did not go through? Because he lost everything in that battle, and yet it was all for nothing?