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Bluebeard's Bride $13.99
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Yann k. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/18/2022 10:36:15

Great horror game. The esthetic is incredible, and the situations will drive you to the darkest places. I recommend for a group of persons ready to explose their sensitivity and feminine sides.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Michele F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/10/2021 11:35:26

Pretty nice, I've liked to periment with this RPG and stole some idea for my other campaigns.

Just let the plyers understand that has a woman int the olds time, there is no way that life is going easy on you AND thi only if you are one of the few lucky ones.

NB: This game could be going pretty dark, because nt only the Rulers wil show the Horror but others player will be encouraged in it too and theri fantasies could be wild. Remeber to everyone the rule "in any time, if you feel uncomfortable, let us know"



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Seamus C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/09/2020 23:07:52

"Bluebeard’s Bride is not for the faint of heart, but for horror fans or people at least interested in exploring it I haven’t come across another game that works as well within that genre. The content is genuinely scary, the rules all work towards maintaining the right vibe, there is a surprising amount of room for creativity (even for a PbtA game) on both the side of the Groundskeeper and the Sisters, and even the basic ‘How to Play’ text is written to start making the shadows seem deeper. Even the look of the book (which is very nice even in PDF form) helps with this: there’s weird, echoey-looking text all over the place, blood drips from section dividers, the art is extremely well done, and important text is often an eerie blue."

Read the full CHG review and interview with Marissa Kelly here: https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2018/11/30/bluebeards-bride-review/



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Shanna E. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/31/2020 12:33:36

Absolutely breathtaking. A completely singular game. I've played a lot of different RPGs, but this one is my absolute favorite. As a steadfast fan of horror, fairy tales, and the depth of human darkness (well, not a fan, but certainly fascinated), I think this game has it all. It's beautifully illustrated, wonderfully written, and I can't suggest it highly enough.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Queenie C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/24/2019 01:22:17

I found out about this game from the run Sarah Richardson did for the people at Oneshot RPG and I excitedly wait for the PDFs to go up for sale for months afterwards. Ran this with a few friends, had great fun. It's hard to find enough time to keep an ongoing campaign going week after week, so a oneshot campaign was perfect. It was my first time DMing as well, and all the materials were easy to use and follow. You're encouraged to make up rooms and other game elements on the fly as you run the game which can leave you feeling a bit panicked if you can't think of anything at the moment, but I enjoyed improvising alongside the players. Building a story together felt organic and engaging. I'm excited to run it again!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Steffie d. V. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/08/2019 04:46:33

This is such an amazing game! It's strange and disturbing in all the right ways. The game is committed to exploring one of the most brutal European fairytales from the viewpoint of its female protagonist, and really delivers.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Gabe S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/07/2019 21:49:56

The rare (though increasingly less so!) tabletop RPG that deeply considers the experience of being female; specifically, it evokes the horror of being bound helplessly to monsters of the literal and societal kind. I can't recommend this weird, compelling, terrifying game enough, but take care to choose a Groundskeeper (GM) who you trust to respect your personal boundaries--because the game goes to pains to delve into personal horrors.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Mathew D. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/14/2018 04:15:42

A richly-textured and persuasively-rendered version of the works of fabulists and critics such as Charles Perrault, Angela Carter and Hélène Cixous.

The game marries the doom-laden exploration and threatening atmospherics of the gothic fairy-tale (a faint echo of the snares and traps and player ingenuity of old-school dungeoneering here) to a stripped-back version of the single shot-improv-playbook style of the Apocalypse World engine (a touch of the deterritorialization-through-collective-effort of indie gaming here).

Well-researched, well-designed and well worth a small portion of the filthy lucre Bluebeard and his landowning descendants have handed down to us.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Nathan R. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/01/2017 14:10:10

I desperately want to run this game, but I don't feel I should, as I'm a male and don't believe I would offer my friends, some of whom are women, quite the same experience. It asks you to get into a woman's complicated psyche (men's psyches are complicated too, just different, perhaps). I would rather my wife run the game and be a player. I'm terribly curious to see where her imagination would take us. All this being said, no game has intrigued me like this one in a very long time. I'd love to hear from someone who has played it!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by Joseph D. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/28/2017 22:26:11

Buy this game. Buy it right now. It is a work of art. It is complete, perfect beauty. When I teach children what RPG design can be about (this is my day job, amazingly), this is the kind of thing I point to. This is what it looks like when you consider every element of your game both individually and holistically. This is what it looks like when you pare it down to the bare essentials, so everything communicates theme and message in volumes. It can be a difficult game, emotionally and practically. But it is beautiful. Buy it.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Bluebeard's Bride
Publisher: Magpie Games
by JR F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/26/2017 11:18:16

Simply beyond words. An exquisitely written and designed game-system. As with TRUE fairytales, this is not for the faint of heart, however; exploring some dark subject matter.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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