Can You Host? is a game of messy queers who want to fuck but don’t want to host for 4-7 players that you can play in 2 hours or less. You might be a dagger with lickable boots, a flannel wearing bear, or a doll with a bag full of trading cards. Whoever you are though, you want to end up in someone else’s bed tonight. Everyone has one question on their mind...
Can You Host? is a diceless tabletop roleplaying game by Natalie Pudim, author of Sapphic Space Pirates and Warrenguard.
You all want to fuck, but none of you want to host. Spend tokens to Be Queer: a chance to be your best, most alluring self. Gain tokens by Being Messy: showing your rougher unpolished side. If someone asks you "Can You Host?" when you have no tokens, you're caught with your guard down, and you host the hookup! Oh, and be quick, you only have two hours until the bar closes! If no one agrees to host by then, you'll all go home alone! The game includes a two hour playlist of gay bar bangers to set the mood!
You'll also get to build the gay bar of your dreams to go to, and decide which patrons are there, and what complications are getting in your way tonight.
It also features contributions from Darling Demon Eclipse, Stephanie Anderson, Leslee Everett, and the late Mira Bellwether. Can You Host? also includes art by Silas Denver (sweatermuppets), Asho Buckingham, and Archie Bongiovanni.
Can You Host? scratches an itch that so few games do, of non-stop fun, flirty energy and queer chaos. And it does it so well. It's the kind of game where reading the playbooks is like walking through a (gay) candy store. -Dora Rogers, Designer of Drink My Seat and Sapphic Slumber Party
Can You Host? is co-hosted by sweet radical queer clown drag nun Sister Brother Freddie Anne Willing of the Boston Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
The Boston Sisters, are an areligious Order of Queer, Clown Nuns who pledge themselves to promulgate Universal Joy and to eliminate Stigmatic Guilt. They also pledge to serve their Community, the Fellow Sisters, and the Ministry of Perpetual Indulgence.
They do this through their five tenets of Ministry, Activism, Education, Entertainment, and Service.
10% of profits from Can You Host? will go towards supporting The Boston Sisters Convent of the Commonwealth and their charity work for the LGBTQIA+ community in the Boston area.
If you back at the Digital Date, Queer Hookup, or Hottest Person At This Bar levels you'll get a copy of The Moth Loves The Flame!
The Moth Loves The Flame is a 2-player game that requires each player to light 20 matches to tell a story of connection, flirting, touching, kissing, sex, afterglow, awkwardness, and loss between two femme sapphic women.
Featuring a stunning layout reminiscent of junk journals, The Moth Loves The Flame is hot, dangerous, beautiful and heartbreaking.
"The Moth Loves The Flame is laid out like a Wes Anderson vision board and plays like secret, thrilling sapphic exploration at a high school sleepover. While scene-based play only lasts for as long as a match is lit, the draw of that match is indescribable. Definitely pick up Natalie's game for a tender, fraught, embodied experience." -Jacqueline Bryk
Jelli Ghouls Studios is an up and coming game publisher co-founded by two black queer enby’s Brie and Bluu. These two Pisces have been friends for years and aim to create games that speak to their experience, meaning they aim to showcase black and queer voices and ideas. They are still getting started but have already released their first work within the Griot Anthology called Intergalactic Teaz, a love letter to queer ballroom culture, but in space!
Their expansion for Can You Host? is meant to be an homage to the black queer experience. This of course doesn’t mean that everything in their expansion is only for other black folk. In fact, they have tailored it in a way that makes it available for anyone to use while still having little nods to the culture for your black players to enjoy. These include, but are not limited to, anime nerds, the earthly black girl aesthetic, the bad bitch, the pillow princep and much more including complications such as The Cookout and The Kickback.
Sage The Anagogue is a pseudonymous demiurge, outrageous dyke, and hypersexual faggot. She occasionally takes a break from fucking in order to write tabletop RPGs (Praise The Hawkmoth King) and hypno erotica. She's been kind enough to toss some clothes on and write an essay for this project as well.
Sereia Spinner (they/them) is a niche genre creating lurid content within the larp sphere. They enjoy designing content with a focus on big feelings, aesthetics, and the unconventional. Their goal is to make the scene more diverse and inclusive for all larpers. Sereia is also a sensitivity reader and consultant and enjoys weaving in their lived and inherited experiences of being a Southern Black non-binary femme into the stories they tell.
They will be writing a modification for the game so you can play it as a LARP!
Jay Dragon is the lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games and editorial director of Possum Creek. She is best known for her work on Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, Wanderhome, and Sleepaway.
She will be writing a new Messy Queer (one of the playable classes)
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