Star Crossed

In Star Crossed, you and your fellow player will craft characters who are powerfully attracted to each other, but have a compelling reason not to act on their feelings. You’ll watch the attraction between them grow as you play out scenes, taking turns describing what your character says and does. Some of the things you’ll want your character to do are going to increase that attraction—and when that happens, you are going to pull a brick out from an increasingly shaky tower and place it on the top.

If the tower falls, your characters act on their feelings! You decide what happens; the rules will tell you what that means. How many bricks you’ve pulled will help determine if your love is doomed, triumphant, or something in-between.

Of course, that tower may never fall. If you make it through the final scene and the tower is still standing, the character never act on their feelings. Sometimes that’s the right thing to do.

Star Crossed takes about two hours to play. You’ll need the rules, the cards, some character sheets and a couple pencils. And a tower of bricks, of course.

She’s A Super Geek – Phil and Senda play a cyberpunk city’s Emergency Medical System and her flustered programmer

Heart Points Pod – Zack and Diana play a simple asteroid miner and her spaceship’s= artificially intelligent operating system.

Party of One – Host Jeff Stormer and designer Alex Roberts play a “match” made in heaven: two pro wrestlers with a powerful rivalry that leaves much unspoken.

Pod of Love – Meet Stephen and Christian, two gym bros with a special connection. Will their love make gains?

Breaking down the story/mechanics binary on War Rocket Ajax

Embracing limitations on Gaming with Gage

Star Crossed‘s earliest origins on Modifier

A history of romantic games on Curiosity in Focus

The structure of a romance plot on 3W6

A deep dive into the inner workings of Star Crossed, via its character sheet, on Character Creation Cast parts One, Two, and Three.