Imagine a small town in the Japanese countryside. There's only a single rail line with two car trains passing once an hour and no more. Most of the roads are little more than dirt paths. Rice paddies outnumber houses. Temples, shrines, bamboo groves, flower beds, and forests. It gets very dark a night, the people are outnumbered by animals, and the fireflies come out in profusion every summer.
This town is home to more than just people, even if they don't all know it. If you go out to the right places at the right time of day, some of the people you talk to might be something else in disguise.
What is Golden Sky Stories
Golden Sky Stories is a little Japanese tabletop RPG. It's a cute, heartwarming, and comfy game that's more about helping people in a small town with their small problems and maybe learning a lesson about friendship along the way. There's no big damn heroes, no mysterious dungeons and no slaying of terrible beasts. It's all about chill, laid-back fun. Quite the change of pace from most games.
It'd also be great for a forum roleplay, whether we use the rules or not. There are no dice to roll. Instead, success or failure is more a matter of resource management. Do you want to succeed at something now, even if you might not be able to handle something else later? Or do you think it would be funny, cute, or appropriate for your character to fail? That's the sort of game this is, so the mechanics honestly translate pretty well. Not much to keep track of, just pools of points to spend.
Anyway, I'm posting here instead of the Tabletop section because I may not even be using the actual tabletop rules, and just using the game's premise as a springboard for cute, laid-back stories.
The characters
Your characters are henge, animals with a bit of magic that lets them take on human form. Henge are still primarily animals, they live like animals, don't need housing, money, cell phones, and so-on. They get their food as animals, and when they transform ,they appear fully clothed.
Henge human forms aren't perfect. They retain their animal instincts in some ways, or their ears and tail might still be visible. It's not like it's a huge secret, though. Most of the older residents in town know about the henge and will pretend they didn't see your bigger slip-ups. Henge can speak like humans, even in animal form.
Henge can also perform other feats of minor magic, depending on what they are.
I addition to henge, there are humans, animals, local gods, and other spirits or youkai wandering around. It's a wonderful world out there in and around your little town.
The Town
The town is small-town Japan. Or small-town America, we can probably work with that and just change up the legends a little, but the game's set in Japan and uses a very Japanese concept. And we don't need to worry about being too faithful to actual Japan, anyway. A fantastical world is just fine.
I'll provide some locations in town, a rough map, and at least some of its inhabitants. But I also want players to feel free to add their own places and people. It's part of the fun. And there's plenty of folks in a population of up to 10,000 anyway.
Anyway, this is just to gauge interest. if you like the idea of cue, heartwarming adventures in a small town, either as a change of pace or just in general, you might like this RP.
This town is home to more than just people, even if they don't all know it. If you go out to the right places at the right time of day, some of the people you talk to might be something else in disguise.
What is Golden Sky Stories
Golden Sky Stories is a little Japanese tabletop RPG. It's a cute, heartwarming, and comfy game that's more about helping people in a small town with their small problems and maybe learning a lesson about friendship along the way. There's no big damn heroes, no mysterious dungeons and no slaying of terrible beasts. It's all about chill, laid-back fun. Quite the change of pace from most games.
It'd also be great for a forum roleplay, whether we use the rules or not. There are no dice to roll. Instead, success or failure is more a matter of resource management. Do you want to succeed at something now, even if you might not be able to handle something else later? Or do you think it would be funny, cute, or appropriate for your character to fail? That's the sort of game this is, so the mechanics honestly translate pretty well. Not much to keep track of, just pools of points to spend.
Anyway, I'm posting here instead of the Tabletop section because I may not even be using the actual tabletop rules, and just using the game's premise as a springboard for cute, laid-back stories.
The characters
Your characters are henge, animals with a bit of magic that lets them take on human form. Henge are still primarily animals, they live like animals, don't need housing, money, cell phones, and so-on. They get their food as animals, and when they transform ,they appear fully clothed.
Henge human forms aren't perfect. They retain their animal instincts in some ways, or their ears and tail might still be visible. It's not like it's a huge secret, though. Most of the older residents in town know about the henge and will pretend they didn't see your bigger slip-ups. Henge can speak like humans, even in animal form.
Henge can also perform other feats of minor magic, depending on what they are.
I addition to henge, there are humans, animals, local gods, and other spirits or youkai wandering around. It's a wonderful world out there in and around your little town.
The Town
The town is small-town Japan. Or small-town America, we can probably work with that and just change up the legends a little, but the game's set in Japan and uses a very Japanese concept. And we don't need to worry about being too faithful to actual Japan, anyway. A fantastical world is just fine.
I'll provide some locations in town, a rough map, and at least some of its inhabitants. But I also want players to feel free to add their own places and people. It's part of the fun. And there's plenty of folks in a population of up to 10,000 anyway.
Anyway, this is just to gauge interest. if you like the idea of cue, heartwarming adventures in a small town, either as a change of pace or just in general, you might like this RP.
