Game with Pride
The tabletop has become a wonderful place to come together and enjoy the games and stories we all love. For Pride, we recommend supporting some of the wonderful queer creators that have made excellent games that all can enjoy for your next game night.
Created by Andi Licht and published by Heart of the Deernicorn, Between Clouds is one of those games! It is a colorful, queer, biopunk roleplaying game about a family of misfits navigating the open skies atop their beloved flying beast.
Between Clouds is set in a future post-apocalyptic world where humanity has retreated to the clouds away from the dying surface of The Old World. Now, only mega skyscrapers and mountains scrap the bottom of the new floating cities connecting the past and present of the planet Empyrea.
This new sky-bound life is made possible by the Kirin, oversized animals that possess volatile genetics and the gift of flight.
Their still-beating hearts are used to power the mightiest cities and vessels.
However, humanity must learn how to sustainably coexist or risk—figuratively and quite literally—falling into its past mistakes, as the Kirin are paramount to the fragile ecosystem.
Players will experience the world as Symbiotes, outcasts who form a found family with fellow Symbiotes and a Kirin they all have bonded with.
Kirin transforms Symbiotes as they spend time near them. Growing mutations, such as wings and powers like sparking lightning from their fingertips, set Symbiotes apart from typical Empyreans, intensifying the outcast treatment many Symbiotes already faced.
Players and the Game Master will collaborate to design their unique Kirin and saddle, which will serve as the group’s mobile home and base of operations.
Free League’s Mutant: Year Zero game engine facilitates play, which has approachable rules and allows for a narrative focus. A pool of 6-sided dice are rolled to complete an action — 6’s mean you succeed! If you fail, your bonded Kirin can come in and help with the use of a Unity Point gained at the beginning of each day.
Intrigued?
Then grab your playgroup and a copy of Between Clouds here to begin your adventure among the clouds — helping those in need, exploring, learning about yourself and the world, and bringing balance to Empyrea using your unique Symbiote family’s perspective and personalities!
