{"product_id":"an-altogether-different-river-by-aaron-lim","title":"An Altogether Different River by Aaron Lim","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has been some time since you’ve left home, but now it’s finally time to return. To what, though?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe home you held in your mind, and the home you will encounter will not be the same. You are not the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can’t step into the same river twice. You can’t go home again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a GM-less roleplaying game meant for 2 to 4 players and a single session of about 3-4 hours. It is inspired in parts by Downfall, by Caroline Hobbs and Microscope, by Ben Robbins. Cover and interior art is by Venessa Tang. You will need pencils and paper and maybe a deck of cards to pick randomly from lists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is about a Town, the people who have left it and returned, and the people who stayed behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is about returning home and grappling with what has and hasn't changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the start of the game, you will collaboratively build a Town out of several elements. You will draw two maps for the Town: one for the Town Then, and one for the Town Now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou then create your characters and choose whether they left the Town and returned, or stayed throughout the period. You also highlight certain questions you want to explore through your characters and relationships. You will track this through a relationship map which you draw between the Towns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen you introduce and explore different aspects of the Town and play through different scenes to flesh out the Town and the characters, seeking to answer the different questions you have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can look to Town card prompts to add different aspects of the town, then highlight how the Town has changed by picking an aspect and showing its form in both the Town maps. Based on what you know of the Town and its history, you can pick questions to form the basis of scenes between various characters to explore the Town in more detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce you've answered a few questions, you'll move to end the game, even if you have questions left unanswered, as time passes on for the inhabitants of the Town.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aaron Lim","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57214951096664,"sku":"GME588","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/0340\/7448\/files\/AnAltogetherdifferentriver_1.jpg?v=1777574780","url":"https:\/\/iglootree.com\/products\/an-altogether-different-river-by-aaron-lim","provider":"Iglootree","version":"1.0","type":"link"}