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Thirsty Sword Lesbians
Kickstarter campaign complete. 8152 backers brought this game to life!
Love, swords, and adventure.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians battle the Lady of Chains when her enforcers march down from the frosty north. They rocket through the stars to safeguard diplomats ending a generations-old conflict. Even when swords are crossed, they seek peace with their opponent—and sometimes connect more deeply than anyone expects.
A sword duel can end in kissing, a witch can gain her power by helping others find love, and an entire campaign can be built around wandering matchmakers flying from system to system.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a roleplaying game for telling queer stories with friends. If you love angsty disaster lesbians with swords, you have come to the right place.
In this book, you’ll find:
- Flirting, sword-fighting, and zingers in a system designed for both narrative drama and player safety.
- An innovative take on the Powered by the Apocalypse family of games.
- Nine character types, each focusing on a particular emotional conflict: Beast, Chosen, Devoted, Infamous, Nature Witch, Scoundrel, Seeker, Spooky Witch, and Trickster.
- Guidance and support for running the game, including how to make appealing adversaries, set the tone, pace the game, and structure play.
- Tools to create your own settings and stories, alongside a dozen pre-written options including the cyberpunk Neon City 2099, steamfunk poets battling oppression as Les Violettes Dangereuses, laser swords and intrigue in the Starcross Galaxy, and more.
- World building worksheet for custom scenarios and starting scenario seeds to play with: Best Day of Their Lives, The Constellation Festival, Gal Paladins, and Sword Lesbians of the Three Houses
- Variant rules to highlight different identities, emotional connections, and setting elements.
- Strategies to adapt any setting where swords cross and hearts race for Thirsty Sword Lesbians.
Ready? Let’s go!
GAME INFORMATION
Number of players: 3-6
Age of players: 13+
Length: 2-4 hours
Type of Game: Roleplaying Game
Languages Available: English
Product Number: EHP0069
ISBN: 9781613171974
Page Count: 224
Format: Hardcover and Digital formats.
Release Date: June 7, 2021
Availability: Check here
Game Designer: April Kit Walsh
Early playtest draft review here: https://libromancersapprentice.blogspot.com/2019/12/review-thirsty-sword-lesbians-beta.html
I get an incredibly Revolutionary Girl Utena vibe off of reading about this one. (And I hope there’ll be a better name when this gets released …)
Just wanted to say, reading through the playtest, this is fantastic and I’m really looking forward to running it with some friends. I love how it’s so accessible to brand new TTRPG players, and scaleable to one-offs. It can be tricky getting folks together, this helps with that a lot.
I’ve never felt more valid or called out in a game text, and the psychological safety systems are a huge win, as an autistic nonbinary person with some past junk.
These make running a game much much more relaxing knowing the systems and emotional group processing are part of the experience. Love it all, can’t wait to give you all my money once this is out!
Will you be able to buy this after the kickstarter is done? Just asking to make sure, money is tight right now but I’d love to play this.
Hi Tam, yep, it will be available through all our normal channels (online, retail, roll20, etc).
Absolutely! Like all the stuff we kickstart, we will release this to the gamestore distribution network (for them to sell to FLGSes everywhere, at least, those that order it) and put it up for sale on our webstore (and prior to that, up for preorder on BackerKit) after the backers have been shipped theirs.
Thanks! Excited to try it out then, and happy to see the massive support you got on kickstarter :3
I’m a backer for the kickstarter, and I’ve already run a few oneshots using the draft we get. My friends and I love it so much we’re doing a campaign! This is SUCH a fun and accessible game.
I wish that I had known about this game, it would have been great for a B-day gift to my dm/gm friend.
If I sign up for the newsletter with Evil Hat, will I get updates about this game as well, or is there another place I need to sign up for updates on the progress of the game?
We will announce on the newsletter when we open up preorders. Probably sometime in February! Mailing list signup: http://evilh.at/1TnZya5
Cool, Thanks!
Hi! I was wondering what the different versions of the game have in them? for example does the hardcover version come with the early access pdf and does the roll20 version come with any version of the rules book?
Hardcover version comes with the PDF.
Roll20 version is not a compendium, so it doesn’t give the rules (tho the character sheet implementation there, freely available, is robust); Roll20 version provides tokens and other assets to support the various settings and adventures found in the separately-sold book.
Hi Lemon,
The Early Access PDF was just for backers when we first launched the Kickstarter.
The final PDF (just released in BackerKit) will be the same content in the print book.
The Roll20 campaign module does not include the book, it has tools for playing the settings and adventures on Roll20 (tokens, playmats, handouts, cards, etc).
Hope that helps!
Thank you Fred! I found this while working on familiarizing myself with Roll20 and I’ve fallen head over heals with this idea. I love the inclusivity. I LOVE the safety check ins. I find myself very curious how I can adapt this to helping to teach about consent as well. <3
this was recommended to me when I was doing some maintenance on my Roll20 Starfinder game. As a straight, married, caucasian guy I can say this…
I’m legitimately curious about this game. The cover art has me intrigued about the content and I’m always looking for systems that are easy to run for friends who might not be able to meet up as often as I’d like due to current events.
Reading over some of the synopsis I get a vibe that feels like Acquisitions Incorporated where it’s a game that is meant to be somewhat mature, but still doesn’t take itself serious enough so that everyone can throw in a few fun jokes every now and then. There’s been few games that I get this intrigued about and thanks to my purchase of the Dresden Files RPG books I know you guys do good quality work when it comes to RPGs. My only question is whether the game would only be about one kind of demographic (the aforementioned thirsty sword lesbians) or if other demographics would be represented in gameplay as well? (as I do have several Ace and Gay friends who might be interested in the game as well)
Kris, I think if you scroll down to the “Your Queer Adventures” section, and read those “what if…” paragraphs, you’ll find your answer: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/thirsty-sword-lesbians/description
Thank you Fred, I will admit, I don’t often use the Kickstarter website so I didn’t realize the “What If…” sections were there when I first took a look.
Thank you for the quick response and I certainly am thinking about grabbing it. With recent events, I don’t have the spare cash to grab it… but now it’s definitely on my “Will possibly get because I like getting niche games” list.
I am a lesbian, in Houston Texas, and I was wondering if there is an online version of this game?
It’ll be available for sale in PDF format starting in June, and is currently available for play on the Roll20 virtual tabletop.
Hey Fred
Do you know of any Game Masters that would be willing to run Thirsty Sword Lesbians at our Women+ RPG Online Con June 26 & 27, 2021 please?
This is our second year running.
Really would like to have this game run for us.
Here’s our con on Tabletop Events.
https://tabletop.events/conventions/women-rpg-con-2021-online
We’re creating a two-day, female/queer-centric, role playing gaming convention FOR WOMEN (cis and trans), non-binary, gender fluid, genderqueer, LGBTQIA2S+ and gender-questioning people.
I’ve worked with you folks before on the RPGA-Con last November 2021 Online.
Thanks very much;
Vicki
Organizer for the
Women+ RPGA Con
RPG Alliance Con
I wonder if The Scoundrel’s “Heat of The Moment” is something that other Playbooks can’t pick, it has orange squares but no pre-check or any explanation
TSL, page 69, immediately before the move: “Non-Scoundrels cannot take this move with Advances.”