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There's Only One Bed is a two player card prompt writing game about two characters losing themselves in each other. The game is designed to facilitate writing a romantic, emotional, and/or spicy scene.

It is inspired by The Defiant Fallen, the romance series Sebastian Yūe and I have been writing between my Dragonborn Peace Cleric Mengdivad Vimshaaxud and their Drow Artificer/Chronurgy Wizard Ptemfuzhi Vioclarukheo.

We have so much fun writing spicy scenes between our blorbos and I hope others will be inspired by this game to do the same.

You Will Need

  • a standard deck of playing cards with jokers removed
  • a notebook, chat room, or shared word processing file
  • a friend you trust

What's Included

  • a 10pg illustrated PDF zine
  • a 7pg plain text PDF and Word document

Attribution

Written and illustrated by Morgan Eilish.

Edited by Sebastian Yūe

Page border by Ramona at Alderdoodle.

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorMorgan Eilish
Tagsjournaling, LGBTQIA, Romance, Tabletop role-playing game, Two Player, writing
Average sessionA few hours

Purchase

Buy Now$10.00 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:

There's Only One Bed-v2.pdf 2 MB
There's Only One Bed-Plain Text.pdf 208 kB
There's Only One Bed-Plain Text.docx 22 kB

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I've played a couple times now and loved it! It provides a great framework for intimate scenes. Do you have any advice for playing with more than two people?

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I'm glad you're enjoying it! I think it could easily expand to three or more players. Character creation would go the same and then after Player 1 resolves a prompt, the other players can both have a turn having their characters respond or react to what the first player wrote before Player 2 plays their own card. Then Players 1 and 3+ can have their characters react/respond to Player 2's answer to their prompt before handing it over to the third player.

If at any point in the scene it makes sense that only two of the characters are involved in a prompt or series of prompts, you can have those two players pass the document between themselves until it makes sense for the third player to jump in as well.  You can easily add or remove players as necessary. But for the most part, because it's a game about reacting to what the previous player did, I think you could easily play with as many people as you want. Just make sure everyone is on the same page wrt safety and consent.