Hey Riley! Love your game. Was wondering if I could ask advice? I want to design some BoB/NdNM game ideas, but I usually try to write some homebrew for stuff I like that uses a system before trying to build a whole one myself.

I was thinking of writing up a few homebrew playbooks forVenture, and wondered if you had any advice for designing them? Like your personal "dos and don'ts" forVenture design.

Also if I have your blessing I might also release them here for free.

The ones I was thinking were: 

• Swashbuckler - my personal favorite, dashing fighter of derring-do and ruled only by their conscience.
• Shapeshifter - a person torn between two worlds, two forms, and two peoples.
• Enchained - a powerful being (dragon, god, demon, etc) that has been disempowered and bound into a human form.

Hello!Me and my game partner can’t stop singing praises for the game! I had sworn I wouldn’t get into a campaign ever again, so I naturally play as the Oathbreaker. We are on a quest and game friends drop in and out as they please. We’re not merely playing in a fantasy setting, but for the first timemaking epic fantasy.The playbooks are solid, I rest on them and moves activate effortlessly. Playbooks are inviting, poetic and precise. Sometimes, we read from our sheetsfor more impact!We regularly bring in techniques from other games, having our cake and yours, and eating to our souls content.I liked Dream Askew, but your game simply clicks with us, and even beginners joining us “get” BoB like with no other game.This is a love letter to your game, and when you feel like it, ask and I’ll write a dozen more. Also, I’d be glad to take part in a french translation.

Um by the way your purchase button on this page says the game is $300!

This game is special, heartfelt, and most importantly, true.

This is the game I would use if I wanted to play D&D. It is much more compact in the rules and engages every player at the table due to the gm-full nature of Belonging-Outside-Belonging.

It's really cool! Are there any plans to add "pick up/trade" suggestions to the setting elements?

Bard has a typo saying spend a token on weak moves also.

Hi! Really like this, I haven't read DA/DA, but everything is so evocative and is presented and written in a way that gives a sense of direction such that I think I could run it anyway. The "you also play as" playbooks is the only part that stumps me, but it seems easy enough to houserule how to integrate them.

One nitpick on formatting, the Rouge playbook presents the "Lure" and "Ask Other Players" sections in the opposite order compared to all other playbooks. Or is this some piece of meta commentary on Rouges? :P

My favourite part was the Fighter playbook. The idea that their weapon could be something like "words that cut like knives" or "the force of [their] reputation" gave me a whole new way of perceiving the class.

Thanks for the great game!

This is nice, but requires another game to play. Buyer beware.

I like this a lot! Can I suggest that you indicate that it requires Dream Apart/Dream Askew to play? I didn't realize it before buying.

This is the most insightful and compelling game for D&D-style “adventure fantasy” currently on the market.

If you are interested in the tropes of D&D and associated digital RPGs and the parts of play that interest you are the humanity of the characters, their relationships to each other, and the ways they interact with communities and great forces of the world, this is the game you should be playing.

It will serve you far better and give you far more than either Dungeon World or D&D.