Good Society (game)

Good Society
A Jane Austen RPG
Designers	Hayley Gordon and Vee Hendro
Illustrators	Raven Warner, Aviv Or
Publishers	Storybrewers
Publication	2018
Genres	tabletop role-playing game, live action role-playing game
Skills	role-playing, storytelling, letter writing

Good Society is a tabletop role-playing game based upon the Regency era novels of Jane Austen. A live action role-playing game version is also available. Good Society was created by the two-woman Australian indie role-playing game design team Storybrewers, consisting of lead writer Hayley Gordon and graphic designer Vee Hendro. In addition to role-playing, the game mechanics include spreading rumors and writing letters. It can be played with or without a gamemaster.^[1]

Reception

Good Society won the 2019 Indie Game Developer Network award for "Best Rules."^[2]

Dimension 20's ten-part actual play series A Court of Fey and Flowers used a combination of Good Society and Dungeons & Dragons for its campaign.^[3] Good Society was featured as a two-part series on One Shot Podcast Network’s flagship actual play podcast hosted by James D'Amato, author of Simon & Schuster's "Ultimate RPG" books.^[4]^[5] Chase Carter for Polygon recommended it for fans of Bridgerton and Our Flag Means Death.^[6]

In 2022, a Kickstarter campaign to reprint Good Society raised AU$148,059.

^ Writer, Alex Meehan Senior Staff (2021-02-15). "Jane Austen RPG Good Society comes to Kickstarter with a new reprint". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
^ "Previous Award Winners". Indie Game Developer Network. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
^ Hall, Charlie (2022-07-20). "A new actual play ports Jane Austen into Dungeons & Dragons". Polygon. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
^ "The Good Society Archives". The One Shot Podcast. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
^ The Ultimate RPG Guide Boxed Set. 2021-12-28. ISBN 978-1-5072-1834-1.
^ Carter, Chase (2022-04-16). "8 Tabletop RPGs for Bridgerton and Our Flag Means Death fans". Polygon. Retrieved 2023-04-11.

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