The Exponents of Love

The Exponents of Love is a game of relationships and intimacy set against a backdrop of melodramatic high-fantasy adventure. It's the kind of game where everybody has at least potential subtext with everybody and there's a lot of romantic drama, sexual tension, and unvoiced feelings. There's a structure that's fairly on the rails: a series of scenes and activities, including some mindscrew about what's actually going on as you progress. There will be a few pre-game workshops to build the group dynamic and teach the Ars Amandi method for simulating intimacy. All characters are written ungendered so that players may establish their characters' genders during workshop.

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You and your comrades have been through a lot together by now. Seven of you, bearers of mysterious ancient artifacts, with an evil empire breathing down your necks, having one misadventure after another. Hard-won victories and bloody losses, hook ups and break ups, defending innocent villages and robbing banks, learning who can't get along with who and who shouldn't be allowed to cook if your lives depend on it. Also one of you totally got kidnapped and replaced with a mind-controlled clone, and then one of the founding members betrayed the party to do something terrible and you wound up having to kill them yourselves, and that’s not even getting into what all that drama did to the love lives involved.

You've slunk off to the borderlands to lick your emotional wounds. But in that wilderness, you found a cave, thick with the same kind of magic as the artifacts you're bonded to. And in that cave, there's a maze of doors. Enter one, face a challenge so that you may continue, rinse and repeat. You sense that if you reach the center, you'll find something you all need. But what is it, and what is truly going on in this place? And can you handle the challenges issued to your hearts?

The Exponents of Love is a game of relationships and intimacy set against a backdrop of melodramatic high-fantasy adventure. It's the kind of game where everybody has at least potential subtext with everybody and there's a lot of romantic drama, sexual tension, and unvoiced feelings. There's a structure that's fairly on the rails: a series of scenes and activities, including some mindscrew about what's actually going on as you progress. There will be a few pre-game workshops to build the group dynamic and teach the Ars Amandi method for simulating intimacy. All characters are written ungendered so that players may establish their characters' genders during workshop.

Content: stupid party games, adventuring party conflict, having to talk about your feelings, and a lot of sexuality (though some characters are more engaged in that than others). Some character sheets will deal with torture, mind control or alteration, PTSD, grief, and profound guilt.