Merrow
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🏳️🌈 Why it’s here
What we found
- Queer themes
According to the game’s own description
“This is a game about a group of fantasy creatures, but it is also a game about being trans and living within a community that may or may not support you.” - Queer creator
According to our queer creator directory - Tagged queer by its creator
According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io
“itch.io tags: transgender” - Character creation free of a gender binary
According to the game’s rulebook
“Pronouns (Merrow commonly use he/him, she/her, and ce/cir pronouns)” - Explicitly gender-neutral rules language
According to the game’s rulebook
“Pronouns (Merrow commonly use he/him, she/her, and ce/cir pronouns)” - Safety tools (X-card, lines & veils, session zero)
According to the game’s rulebook
“Pronouns (Merrow commonly use he/him, she/her, and ce/cir pronouns)”
Description
Merrow You play a pod of merrow living near the land, where a group of humans live. At least one of you desperately wants to be human. The other merrow might also want to be human (as desperately as you do), or they might be indifferent, supportive, or derisive. This is about finding knowledge, finding yourself, and finding out what you are willing to sacrifice to get what you want. This is a game about a group of fantasy creatures, but it is also a game about being trans and living within a community that may or may not support you. It is heavy-handed and at times poorly worded. Language is an incomplete translator. I’ve done my best to speak from my experience, which is singular and not universally representational in any way. That being said, I hope you can find a way to connect to this game through your own lens. Credits: Merrow is based on Caltrop Core, published by Titanomachy RPG. The Caltrop Core SRD is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Viditya Voleti provided initial feedback.