Golden Sky Stories: A non-violent RPG about friendship and puzzle solving

KathyGaele · Feb 28, 2017

Just what is says on the tin - GSS is a game I was made aware of a few weeks back and I can't stop thinking about it. Check out this synopsis, okay:

Golden Sky Stories is a heartwarming, non-violent role-playing game from Japan, by Ryo Kamiya. In this game, players take on the role of henge, animals that have just a little bit of magical power, including the ability to temporarily take on human form. You can be a fox, raccoon dog, cat, dog, rabbit, or bird, and each kind has their own special magical powers. Players will then attempt to solve problems around a small enchanted town with ingenuity, co-operation and friendship.

Golden Sky Stories requires one Narrator, 2-4 players, pencils and paper, and tokens to keep track of Dreams.
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It's so endearing! And there's a ton of supplements for it too, with more planned in the next year or so. I'm most interested in Faeries Skies and Fantasy Friends.

Faerie Skies:

Faerie Skies is an alternate setting for Golden Sky Stories that moves the action to a small town in the English countryside, where there are fairies about. It introduces six types of fae: brownies, elves, gnomes, nymphs, pixies and pucas. You’ll also find some new characters for your stories, people with connections to the fae, animals of Britain, creatures of Faerie, and the Old Gods. To round out the book, there is the town of Westwick, some story seeds, and some suggestions for using other kinds of Golden Sky Stories characters in your Faerie Skies stories.
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Fantasy Friends:

Fantasy Friends is an alternate setting for Golden Sky Stories that takes place in a small village in a high fantasy world. While great heroes are fighting the Dark Lord in distant lands, your village is peaceful, and although it won’t always be easy, in this place unlikely friendships can happen.

This book adds six new character types: aberrations, constructs, dragons, elementals, shapeshifters, and slimes. Each one has a full set of powers and weaknesses, and each can be reskinned as various types of specific monsters, allowing for dozens of different sorts of creatures. You can also use other Golden Sky Stories character types in the Fantasy Friends setting, and the book includes some suggestions for using those as-is or to represent various types of monsters.

You’ll also find rules for 36 different magic items to include in your stories, plus fantasy-themed NPCs to populate the town, the peaceful but quirky town of Grassdale, and some ideas for stories. All together, these let you use the rules of Golden Sky Stories to spin heartwarming tales in a fantastical world.
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Have you played Golden Sky Stories and/or any of the supplements? Tell me about it! I can't afford the books myself but I'm in love with the premise of this adorable game.

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