Not Your Mother's Shire

Hamlet meets Sharknado. A dark romantic comedy set in a fantasy world ruled by unusual dragons. Comparables: Dragon Age, Rick and Morty, Monty Python, Discworld, LotR.

     -500k words over 11 chapters.

     -Play as male, female, non-binary; straight, gay, bi, pan, ace, poly.

      -7 gender-swappable, player-sexual romantic options.

     -2 factions: Dragonsworn or Dragonfall.

     -(In)finite cosmic powers(!): choose your alignment--Yin, Yang, or Yolo; harness Timeliness with pre-cognition, post-cognition, or scrying; master a psychological fighting style by choosing a Psycho Path.

     -Choices matter! Multiple endings. Relationship meters. Opposed stat system: muscleness vs skillfulness; unbreakable vs. untouchable; magnetism vs. omniscience; taskmaster vs. shiny!

I originally live-dev-ed this on the Choice of Games forum from early 2021 to 2025: https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/full-beta-not-your-mothers-shire/94274

Hosted on Dashingdon during playtesting: https://dashingdon.com/play/dwsnee/not-your-mothers-shire/mygame/

At the time of posting on itch.io, the original forum page had: 100k views and 15.7k unique clicks for play via DashingDon--pre-publication, no advertising.

Thanks to the many lovely playtesters over the years. 

**I developed art for each companion (each gender for each) and for each dragon, but haven't figured out how to display it here.  I might update in future to include. You can find the art in the drop-downs of the first post in the forum hyperlink above.