[Lady Blackbird] Isa Yemer – a new character

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På Facebook skrev Lizzie Stark en interessant lille bemærkning:

Here’s what I’ve learned from the third Twilight movie: the only power of women is to kill themselves at appropriate points in the narrative.

Det gav mig en ide. Hvad med om man legede med denne evne? Hvordan vil historien i spillet forme sig, hvis en karakter har denne evne? I første omgang blev tanken at lave et scenarie, der byggede på, at en karakter havde denne evne, men egentlig manglede jeg bare et rollespilssystem og et scenarie, som jeg kunne proppe karakteren ind i. Det bragte mig i første omgang i retning af The Shadow of Yesterday/Solar System, som er mit go-to-system, når der ikke skal bruges et traditionelt adventure game for så bliver det typisk d20-systemet i stedet. Fra TSoY gik tanken hurtigt videre til Lady Blackbird, og så var det i første omgang nok bare at lave en ny karakter.

Det blev til karakteren Isa Yemer, der har evnen til at dø (og til at genopstå igen), og for at skærpe tematikken har jeg stræbt efter at bygge hendes traits og keys op over en satirisk tolkning af Twilight-bøgernes hovedrolle (uden at jeg dog har læst bøgerne eller set filmene).

• Download Isa Yemer – Lady Blackbird – Isa Yemer (pdf) og gå på opdagelse i Lady Blackbird-universet med denne kønsrolleudfordring.
• Download Lady Blackbird herfra – et forunderligt og fascinerende lille rollespil, som er et godt eksempel på, hvor enkelt det kan gøres – og prøv det med Isa for en anden oplevelse.
• Min egen oplevelse med Lady Blackbird en gang for længe siden.

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On Facebook Lizzie Stark wrote a interesting comment:

Here’s what I’ve learned from the third Twilight movie: the only power of women is to kill themselves at appropriate points in the narrative.

That gave me an idea. How about exploring this ability in RPGs? How will story be played out, if a character has this ability? At first my thought was to write a (Fastaval-style) scenario, that were build on a character having this ability. However all I really lacked was just a role-playing system and a scenario in which I could cram the character into. That brought me initially in the direction of The Shadow of Yesterday/Solar System, which is my go-to system when not using a traditional adventure game, as that would typically be a d20-system instead. From TSoY my thoughts went quickly to Lady Blackbird, and then it was really just create a new character.

That became the character Isa Yemer with the ability to die (and to return to life again) – and to sharpen the theme I have tried to build her traits and keys on a satirical interpretation of the Twilight books’ main character (without me however having read the books or seen the movies).

• Download Isa Yemer – Lady Blackbird – Isa Yemer (pdf) and explore the Lady Blackbird universe with this gender challenge.
• Download Lady Blackbird here – a strange and fascinating little role-playing game, which is a good example of how simple a game can be done – and try it with Isa for a different experience.
• My own experience with Lady Blackbird a long time ago.