Ever feel like the world is out to get you? It is.
A TTRPG of unheroic teens facing down the end of the inevitable world. You're the main character, with all the misery that entails. How will you make your life matter before it all ends?
Ever feel like the world is out to get you? It is.
Five radical teens with attitude should not be responsible for saving the world. Yet we’re told this story over and over. It’s a story that frequently bleeds into tabletop RPGs. Playing teens that can defeat the ultimate evil has become a classic narrative. Last Kiss does not embrace that narrative.
Instead Last Kiss embraces flawed characters and poor choices born of inexperience. Your character is a god-damned teenager. They might act like they have it all figured out, but they don’t. How could they when there is a literal evil force making their lives harder?
The main characters will seek out some normal high school goals like dominating on the sports field, kissing the mean girl, or becoming class president. While they play pretend, the darkness will seep in. The darkness colors the world so nothing is quite right. This is a world where disputes can be resolved via duels, where the next town over seems a world away, and where monsters live in secret. Normal doesn’t have a chance.
What will you do before it all ends?
In Last Kiss, you play a senior in high school, with all the pressures that any teenager faces, plus the literal embodiment of entropy and evil lurking in the background watching you struggle before the world ends. Do what you can to control your little piece of reality, and keep a grip on your own identity before it all ends. Includes heavy themes of queer identity, self awareness and hopelessness.
Last Kiss uses a unique blend of Powered by the Apocalypse and Belonging Outside Belonging. Our Main Characters will gain and lose Main Character Energy. Too little, and you’ll find it hard to exert your will on the narrative. Too much, and the narrative will remind you what happens to main characters on top of the world.
Last Kiss is a surreal exploration of queer teens powerlessly facing down the end of the world inspired by Revolutionary Girl Utena and I Saw The TV Glow.
Everything is Hopeless. Darkness is encroaching. The end is inevitable. but…
Last Kiss strives for simple, fresh takes on mechanics that always work towards the central themes of the game. There are no shared core moves. Every playbook is a truly unique experience, using elements inspired by Belonging Outside Belonging to drive dynamic choices. Gain Main Character Energy as you take actions that leave you vulnerable, and spend it to make difficult story choices. Hold onto too much Main Character Energy, and risk the darkness growing bored, and lashing out.
Powerlessness and Identity
Labels are at the center of your sense of self, and how everyone else sees you in turn. They might be emotional, social or judgemental, and it’s up to you to try and maintain a balance, as you navigate the web of high school relationships. In Last Kiss, even your gender serves as a label, inviting players to explore themes of fluidity, anxiety, queerness, dysphoria and trauma.
Safety and Consent
Last Kiss was designed to begin and end with tools that invite players to traverse their own discomfort. Every game session begins with the Ritual of Reason, to establish tone and expectations. Custom tools have been designed to empower awareness and advocation, and Last Kiss is one of the first systems to reach crowdfunding with direct Palette Grid integration, taking ideas developed by Jay Dragon and helping you implement them at your table.
Fragility and Death
We made sure that choices feel dangerous, but still worth pursuing. Fights are fast and narrative focussed, with effects that go beyond hit points and physical injuries. Side characters that get too interesting, are doomed to suffer and die. Should a player character die, they unlock a swath of new content in the Deathborn playbooks.
What will you do before it all ends?
You cannot stop the end of the world, so how will you choose to spend the time you have? Will you cope with your own lack of authority by trying to control those around you? Will you seek out comfort and acceptance in the arms of a lover? Will you embrace the darkness as the only agent of change in a world that feels cold and unforgiving?
Be vulnerable. Be messy. Be queer. Get in one last kiss. The end is inevitable, but the story is in your hands.
Brian A Liberge is a game designer from Boston Massachusetts who has worked on such projects as Ace Adventure, Can You Host?, and The Midgard Bestiary. They’ve used their position in the industry to lift others up, hosting panels on game design, queer identity and mental health, as well as being one of the show runners for Games on Demand. They currently serve as the Abbess for the Boston Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence where they run the charity actual play series ‘Dungeons and Drag Nuns’.
About the Publisher
Luck of the Harbor is the small publisher behind Sapphic Space Pirates, Can You Host?, and Warrenguard They are focused on publishing roleplaying games that tell stories from a queer perspective. Luck of the Harbor wants to publish games that invite people to play rather than being objects on the shelf.
The Last Kiss Quick Start is available immediately, and can be downloaded as soon as you back. Start playing right away with everything you need to run a one-shot including: five base playbooks, facilitator handouts, all the principles and core text, custom safety tools, and even some art!
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