LegendofDragoon

Can you imagine you order an Uber and the driver rolls up like "hey man, c'mon, I got you the day pass but the bus leaves in like 2 minutes"

Yup!

Excellent! I'll give it a watch/listen! Thanks!

Do you know any good actual plays? I'm only a straight ally, but I'll be damned if I'm not a sucker for cute as fuck queer love stories.

Whenever someone talks about fate there's this moment of fear, because it's so close in name to FATAL. It's only for a moment though.

It's not as bad as you're thinking. It's very much in the modern style of powered by the apocalypse games, but instead of investigate then combat, it's romance then combat. It's, perhaps obviously targeted at the LGBTQ community, and that shines through in the art and mechanics, with non LGBTQ relationships being almost an after thought.

If I had to describe it as simply as possible, I would probably tell you to watch She-ra and the princesses of power.

And it's not like American hospitals don't make money hand over fist

A VN/RPG that has romance and doesn't make it an after thought. Like in most persona games or fire emblem games or even like mass effect. When romance is a thing, once you hit that we're a couple button that's pretty much it.

But then VNs represent the opposite end of the spectrum where you make the decision to pursue someone and that's it, the entire narrative shifts to completely focus on that. I want a middle ground, where there is one structured narrative that asks the question "How might chasing down the big bad change if this person versus this person was the person most important to the main character"

Like for example of you wanted to woo the nerdy tech wizard, following his or her story might involve tracking down parts and materials to improve tech and brace against the coming of the bbeg. On the other hand of you want to romance the overeager hothead it might involve trying to take the fight to the bad guys while saving puppies and children along the way. Completely different paths with the same end goal of defeating the bbeg.

Ah yes, let's sacrifice grandma because it's what the economy would want. Oh but wait, let me guess the next rebuttal "it was just a cold".

All I want is what my grandparents had, the assurance that their labor would be enough to ensure that their family was fed, clothed, and homed while still being a meaningful part of their life.

I bet you were fine with the PPP loans being forgiven, weren't you?

Once upon a time it was the only concept that could get me back into a 5e game, but now pathfinder 2e has the automaton so I can play the same character concept there!