I've played a few games of Microscope and this was a delightful variation. I really enjoyed the streamlined scene-making rules and the opportunities to riff on each others' creative juices. 10/10 I will be absolutely be playing this again.
This game was a delight. My group played in a google sheet and had a lot of fun building mood boards for various parts of the city. The rules are great for creating opportunities for colorful and creative collaboration whilst keeping tight enough focus that nobody felt lost and we finished with a very complete feeling city.
i'm sorry did you say street magic is a surprisingly beefy one-session city-building game about the spirits of places.
It's got gorgeous and charming art and a simultaneously bold and soft layout that makes it super inviting to read and engage with, and it specifically builds game breaks into its flow in a way that I really dig.
Also, by the end of a session, you'll have a fully realized and vibrant city. This is fun in its own right, but probably doubly valueable to writers and designers and folks who benefit from having fully realized imaginary places on standby.
The game does tend to have one speaker defining facts about the setting at a time, so if your group likes very collaborative, discussion-based world-building, you may want to be a little looser with the game's structure. That said, there's also an extensive GMing advice section, so you'll have a lot of support for any other changes you want to make.
Overall, if you like games like Microscope and Quiet Year, or if you want a worldbuilding tool that will supply you with an extremely organic and lived-in feeling place (you could even use it for a dungeon ecology), get this game.
Thank you for your interest! Easy streets is well underway — some of the contributing writers have been dealing with health concerns so we've had to push back the PDF release to aggregate all of the work in one place, but I've been formatting and laying out all of the finished decks so far. I'm aiming for an intended release as soon as we receive the final text; barring any drastic upheaval it should almost certainly be finished by the end of the summer.
Hi there!! Been super out of the loop! I tried searching but can't seem to fin any sort of update on this, sorry to pester but I was curious about release/development? hope all is well!! :-D
this game was delightful and my first role playing game !! I’m a city planner and I loved building a beautiful city with my partner in the first session!! This would be such a cool workshop for planning schools!! Thank you
Street magic has it all, the rare game that allows me to be on my creating small human scenes bullshit and my girlfriend on her grand world building bullshit at the same time.
The different steps are really easing us into the environment of the game : everything oozes coziness and brings us closer to the place that is happening. Bewitching work !
This game is like a finely and tightly wound clock. Each piece is a delight, and the overall structure snaps together so cleanly. When I think about the future of ttrpgs, I'd like to see games as welcoming as this one in terms of balancing instruction and complexity. The text is spaced out so that you can learn as you play, taking in one new part of it at a time.
I often find ttrpgs vibrant, beautiful, overwhelming, and well... exhausting. I find myself floundering or burning out over the course of a session. This is a game where I can keep filling in details round after round, switching between different modes of play to rest and recuperate. I hope to play this game many times over the course of my life, it's an absolute treat.
This game is delightful! Great to play with friends over a video call, with our City in a shared Google Doc. We made a wholesome but surreal metropolis and had a blast creating places & people. I highly recommend this!
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I've played a few games of Microscope and this was a delightful variation. I really enjoyed the streamlined scene-making rules and the opportunities to riff on each others' creative juices. 10/10 I will be absolutely be playing this again.
This game was a delight. My group played in a google sheet and had a lot of fun building mood boards for various parts of the city. The rules are great for creating opportunities for colorful and creative collaboration whilst keeping tight enough focus that nobody felt lost and we finished with a very complete feeling city.
One of the coolest things I ever backed on Kickstarter! Love it as a session zero for RPGs set in cities and towns...
i'm sorry did you say street magic is a surprisingly beefy one-session city-building game about the spirits of places.
It's got gorgeous and charming art and a simultaneously bold and soft layout that makes it super inviting to read and engage with, and it specifically builds game breaks into its flow in a way that I really dig.
Also, by the end of a session, you'll have a fully realized and vibrant city. This is fun in its own right, but probably doubly valueable to writers and designers and folks who benefit from having fully realized imaginary places on standby.
The game does tend to have one speaker defining facts about the setting at a time, so if your group likes very collaborative, discussion-based world-building, you may want to be a little looser with the game's structure. That said, there's also an extensive GMing advice section, so you'll have a lot of support for any other changes you want to make.
Overall, if you like games like Microscope and Quiet Year, or if you want a worldbuilding tool that will supply you with an extremely organic and lived-in feeling place (you could even use it for a dungeon ecology), get this game.
when/will the supplement easy streets be available?
Thank you for your interest! Easy streets is well underway — some of the contributing writers have been dealing with health concerns so we've had to push back the PDF release to aggregate all of the work in one place, but I've been formatting and laying out all of the finished decks so far. I'm aiming for an intended release as soon as we receive the final text; barring any drastic upheaval it should almost certainly be finished by the end of the summer.
that’s amazing and I hope everyone is on the mend!!! Thank you for the reply!!
Hi there!! Been super out of the loop! I tried searching but can't seem to fin any sort of update on this, sorry to pester but I was curious about release/development? hope all is well!! :-D
It's out as of January 8th! Check under the downloads and should should see it now
this game was delightful and my first role playing game !! I’m a city planner and I loved building a beautiful city with my partner in the first session!! This would be such a cool workshop for planning schools!! Thank you
I'm so grateful to hear that you had such a great time playing! Thank you for the kind words :)
Street magic has it all, the rare game that allows me to be on my creating small human scenes bullshit and my girlfriend on her grand world building bullshit at the same time.
The different steps are really easing us into the environment of the game : everything oozes coziness and brings us closer to the place that is happening. Bewitching work !
This game is like a finely and tightly wound clock. Each piece is a delight, and the overall structure snaps together so cleanly. When I think about the future of ttrpgs, I'd like to see games as welcoming as this one in terms of balancing instruction and complexity. The text is spaced out so that you can learn as you play, taking in one new part of it at a time.
I often find ttrpgs vibrant, beautiful, overwhelming, and well... exhausting. I find myself floundering or burning out over the course of a session. This is a game where I can keep filling in details round after round, switching between different modes of play to rest and recuperate. I hope to play this game many times over the course of my life, it's an absolute treat.
This game is delightful! Great to play with friends over a video call, with our City in a shared Google Doc. We made a wholesome but surreal metropolis and had a blast creating places & people. I highly recommend this!
I didn't know that Community Copies was a thing. How cool.