MORAN'S MIRACULOUS ROLE-PLAYING MULTIVERSE
Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 03:05 pmI'm going to tell you about a bunch of games by Jenna Moran!
FOR FANTASY FANS: These are games with complex symbolic landscapes, a million little glimpses into larger stories, and they're literally designed for building OCs with strong personal aesthetics.
FOR TTRPG FANS: These games are largely diceless, with strong narrative infrastructure, and plenty of fuel for drama that can't be simply be solved through combat
You WILL have extended philosophical debates during play. This is a significant appeal for my particular circles.
Nobilis and Glitch
( These are the stories of the Age of Pain, and the war between Creation and the void... )
Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, and the Far Roofs
( These are the stories of... what comes after. )
The Community
The Apocynum Press Itch collection gathers homebrew and fan materials that get posted to Itch.
Karma Chameleon is a pillar of the community. As well as their lovely art, they've made the Quest Set builder for managing Chuubo's and Glitch quests, and an interactive overview of recurring miraculous traits.
Here on Dreamwidth, we have the Jennafans Community!. On Discord, there's the Ninuan fan server.
Jenna Moran herself can be found at her personal site, Tumblr; and on Patreon, where she sometimes posts draft or preview material for the games mentioned. Her older fiction can be found at the Hitherby Dragons wiki
Finally, The Flood is not set in any of these worlds. It's a game about something else entirely (poetry farming). But it does feature its own version of the recurring Arcs scaffolding, so it may be worth a look.