Assemblage Game Night

Join us at Hive Mind Books for a special game night to celebrate the release of Assemblage, a brand new queer science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG (table top role playing game). Meet the creator, Nat Mesnard, who will share about the process of how they created the game, and then we'll play Assemblage!

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ABOUT THE GAME

Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive?

Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG by Nat Mesnard in which 2-6 players use prompt cards and a guidebook to collaboratively build the story of an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of environmental disaster.

In Assemblage, you play not as a single character, but as an entire species. As each player imagines their own unique and fantastic creatures—deep sea leviathans, magical bacteria, insect cryptids, psychic cats, sentient moss—you will craft the story of an ecological assemblage: a group of species tossed together in a strange habitat, finding interdependent ways to survive.

Following along with the guidebook, and taking inspiration from your deck of prompt cards, you’ll come to understand the history, shifting present, and possible futures of your assemblage.

Then it will be time to encounter an epic environmental disaster—and discover how your assemblage responds.

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ABOUT NAT MESNARD

Nat Mesnard is a game designer and writer based in NYC, and a co-founder of Scryptid Games. They write TTRPGs, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and have taught creative writing, game design, and interactive fiction for the last 14 years.

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Hive Mind Books is a queer and trans bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Our coffee and tea bar will be open for the duration of this event.

Subways:

(L) Dekalb
(M/L) Myrtle-Broadway
(M) Knickerbocker

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