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Belonging Outside Belonging (No Dice, No Masters)

Image: Buried Without Ceremony
Image: Buried Without Ceremony

Avery Alder, who also designed The Quiet Year, established the token-based Belonging Outside Belonging system. Using narratives to reward people at your table, the system emphasizes interpersonal connections and relationships over anything else. Master-less (or Game Master-optional), the system allows for an intense collaboration among players, and allows for no-prep games where conflicts emerge and resolve naturally as tokens are given and spent in order to dictate narrative control within any given situation.

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