Bluebeard's Bride is a gothic horror tabletop role-playing game published by Magpie Games in 2017 after a successful Kickstarter campaign. It retells the Bluebeard folktale, in which a young wife is left alone in a castle and tempted to open the one forbidden door. The game master is called the Groundskeeper, and the players do not each play a separate person. Instead they play aspects of the Bride's own personality: Animus, Fatale, Mother, Virgin and Witch. Each room of the castle is a psychological ordeal, and as the Bride grows either more Faithful or more Disloyal she moves toward the fateful door. The rules are a variation of the Powered by the Apocalypse system. It was designed by Whitney Strix Beltran, Marissa Kelly and Sarah Richardson, and won awards at IndieCade and the Indie Game Developer Network in 2018.
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is a gothic horror tabletop role-playing game published by indie role-playing game publisher Magpie Games in 2017
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published by indie role-playing game publisher Magpie Games in 2017
Derived From: Apocalypse World, Description
The game uses a variation of the Powered by the Apocalypse game system first developed for Apocalypse World
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