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How to play Good Society.

Hi everyone, this is a special episode of Firebreathing Kittens. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Good Society. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play Good Society yourselves.

I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections.

• Theme

• Tokens:

  • Resolve tokens

  • Monologue tokens

• Five tone setting questions

• Building your major character

  • Desire cards

  • Relationship cards

  • Family background

  • Role sheet

    • Reputation conditions

    • Inner conflict

    • Connections

• Public information sheet

• Eight phase cycle of play

1. 1. Novel chapter

   2. Reputation

   3. Rumor and scandal

   4. Epistolary

   5. Novel chapter

   6. Reputation

   7. Epistolary

   8. Upkeep

The theme of Good Society is that you’re playing as a character who would have fit in comfortably in a Jane Austen novel. This game is a fictional portrayal of the genteel social class in England in the 1810’s. These people aren’t royalty, so they don’t have any royal obligations, but they also are so rich that they never have to work a d