Lavender Marriage
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🏳️🌈 Why it’s here
What we found
- Queer storyline central to play
According to the game’s own description
“The Lord and the Lady are in an intentionally arranged marriage to cover the fact that one or both of them is queer” - Queer themes
According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io - Tagged queer by its creator
According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io
🤝 Inclusive design ⓘInclusive design is separate from a game’s queer labels. It marks games whose design is deliberately inclusive even when not queer-themed: romance or marriage mechanics with no gender constraint, character creation without a forced gender binary, gender-neutral rules language, or table safety tools. Each marker shows where we found it.
- Romance/marriage mechanics with no gender constraint
According to the game’s rulebook
“To play a Lord who is a closeted, straight, transgender woman, cross out “Homosexual” as if you picked it and write ‘Straight Transgender Woman’ on your sheet.” - Character creation free of a gender binary
According to the game’s rulebook
“To play a Lord who is a closeted, straight, transgender woman, cross out “Homosexual” as if you picked it and write ‘Straight Transgender Woman’ on your sheet.”
Description
London, 1899. The Lord and the Lady are in an intentionally arranged marriage to cover the fact that one or both of them is queer, with both the Lord and the Lady enjoying extramarital relationships with lovers more to their liking. All of this is completely and totally unacceptable to Society’s standards. Both the sham of the marriage as well as the two affairs must be kept secret or else everyone involved will be ruined. The four of you will play four primary characters: the Lord, the Lady, the Lord’s Lover, and the Lady’s Lover. You will also play the host of secondary characters that make up their world and with whom they interact. This is a GMful tabletop roleplaying game for one session, or for as long as you can keep the sham going...