Gallerie TTRPG: Queer Stories of Beauty, Horror, and Hope

Hello everyone! We've got new stuff to see and new people to meet! 

First off:



A lunch-break-sized video for your longform watchers! This gets into the other requested piece of content: Gallerie's manifestations and how they relate to themes of queerness, neurodivergence, and therianthropy. Its mostly me yammering on a hyperfixation tangent about esoteric gender concepts so if you like that sort of thing you're in for a treat (and I'm hoping you do, because this game's kinda built on it).

We are just over 6K away from funded, with 4 days left till the 20 days remaining mark!  I would be *very* pleased if we funded by then, it would give us a lot of time to reach stretch goals and really help boost visibility. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD! WE CAN DO IT!

On the subject of meeting goals and getting some queer visibility in the gamespace, I wanna show you some cool projects!

Yall may have noticed we're collaborating with Wet Ink Games on their new project! That's super exciting, it means new rewards for all of you if you support over there. I'm going to drop the link here for you but this is just the tentative announcement. The colab reward is currently being designed and it's cool af, so I'll be waiting till its ready to do the big reveal.  For now just know their game Our Lives, Our Fortunes is about the minority experiences and stories during the American revolution, legends and folklore, and is headed up by a company that *also* found Kickstarter's unionbusting bullshit to be pretty friggen gross, so they're out here Backerkittin' and I'm here for that.



I also want to give a shoutout to these peeps! Brightbard was kinda enough to feature me in an update and I love to see more unabashedly queer voices in the game space. Go check out their project, it's a quick and easy 40page one-shot with a cheap pdf buy-in so give it a peek!

Hey all, thanks for chiming in about the videos! I've got one up for you as of RIGHT NOW, which should give you a fun overview of several cool abilities in the game (though the sampling is pretty small, Gallerie has hundreds of abilities before you even touch the Brushwork). CHECK IT OUT AND LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS WHICH ONE'S YOU'RE STOKED ABOUT!




In addition, I want to take this opportunity to pass a huge thank you to Mercedes Lackey and Zombie Orpheus for their feature! This is incredible. As many of you have heard me say before, reaching your audience is the hardest part of this entire process. Yes, I'm including 2 years of development in that statement. Because I know how to *do* that. I know how to iterate and adapt, test and design, build and re-build. Ultimately every challenge there is just time and persistence and skills I've spent years cultivating. But marketing is a whole different beast. Projects live or die on marketing. It's a job that takes teams and I'm a single person already doing a team's worth of jobs. So when someone influential comes along and is willing to offer support like this:


It means the absolute world. Because they have an enormous audience I don't have and have no realistic chance at reaching without their help, and that's what we need more than anything else right now. I can't thank you enough Mercedes and ZOE, this was a hell of a mood booster.

ALL YALL SHOULD GO CHECK OUT THEIR CURRENT PROJECT!


Likewise, We've gotten some amazing features over on Insta from Phil Brucato of Onyx path and Jeremy Spray, THANK YOU BOTH! 

Hey all, guess who showed up in the mail today! (I'd love to embed this vid right here for you but Backerkit is really grumpy about anything that isnt a youtube longform link and youtube catagorizes this a short so it's a whole...thing).

SO INSTEAD CHECK IT OUT HERE! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyzwawwf7tsqt6a5bh6eal2b/post/3mnnv2faj5k2v

Hey all! I plan on having some games to stream this weekend for you, but tonight lets check out some videos you may have missed so you can get some in-depth info on how to play Gallerie!


I feel like y'all probably have a pretty good feel for the content in this game, so I want to start you off here: A playlist of a bunch of the core mechanics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZPKnPg6BB0&list=PLrpjOokRdIn49dJojW7MtvDPUAZoTEO6X

There are 5 videos in here that are each between 3 and 10 minutes long that will give you the rundown on most if the core dice mechanics in the game, as well as some neat side features. There's also one of several character creation examples done live at the end so you can see them used in real time. Check them out either before or during our live games so you better understand what the dice are doing. Gallerie's a very simple game mechanically; you'll have a good enough idea of how it works after these that you could drop right into a live game and not be lost.


From there, you could proceed through the tomb of the silver monkey through the prelude document videos! These were released during the campaign spinup and involve going through the Prelude document (that's this guy if you missed it:
https://www.weaponsgradefunk.com/_files/ugd/5bb3e8_ae7f5b97cab9409090b0010338efd9b9.pdf )
spread-by-spread and explaining thought processes and ideas behind the game and design. There are fully 13 videos in this list so there's lots to see! Most of them are between 7-10 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwM3c2uHTFo&list=PLrpjOokRdIn7zALtMyABe9REp9_hDUR4c


At this point you're pretty well-versed in the overview of the place, so dive in with some actual play! We have a whole weekend's worth of live play videos stored on twitch right now where you can see these ideas put into practice with some truly original and creative characters. A stuffed snake made of yarn, a late 1800's trans glassier, a living shotgun who just wants to be loved, a jailbreak of 300 raccoons on a steamship, come check them out!

https://www.twitch.tv/weaponsgradefunk/videos

Starting next week, I'll also be working on a new set of videos that are diverging a bit from the mechanisms of the game and getting deeper into why I wanted to make it and what they mean to me. Here's the list of ideas I'm currently tumbling around!

Favorite Brushwork

 Favorite Manifestation and Motiff powers

 Favorite Favor

 Favorite Enemy

 Manifestation videos (All 6 motiff options broken down)
The nature of Manifestation and how it pertains to queer and therian experiences

I'd love to know which one's you'd all like to see first! Hit it up in the poll below, but do it quick! It ends Sunday!

Hey everyone, welcome one welcome all! We're continuing our game from last Saturday tonight at 7pm PACIFIC, and even better news: the Backerkit stream mirror seems to be working! 

Come join us either at https://www.twitch.tv/weaponsgradefunk or right here on backerkit!

If you'd like to peek in on last Saturday's session (which had a full combat in it) you can check that out here! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2785473391

Joining in is a great way to see the system run in real time, check out some of the drama and interest of the setting, see some of the diversity of abilities, and ask questions if you'd like! We'll see you there!