Questions tagged [golden-sky-stories]

For questions about Golden Sky Stories, a nonviolent RPG wherein players roleplay magical animals living in rural Japan. It was originally written by Ryo Kamiya and released in Japan as Yuuyake Koyake in 2006. Ewen Cluney then crowdfunded the English translation on Kickstarter, and it was released by Star Line Publishing in 2013. A number of supplements, both translations and original works, have also been released since then.

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How do Impression Checks work in Golden Sky Stories?

I'm about to run a game of Golden Sky Stories but the rules and examples have left me confused about how Impression Checks work. When you make an Impression Check, the rules seem to say that if the ...
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Where do Dreams come from?

Golden Sky Stories is pretty clear about how to award Dreams (p57, "Award Dreams") and mostly clear on how to use Dreams to strengthen connections (p67, "Strengthen Connections," but see here), but it'...
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How exactly does the spending of Dreams to strengthen connections in Golden Sky Stories work?

To clarify, I have read the book and on page 61 there is a section that specifies the actual cost in Dreams to strengthen a connection to each level, cost to strengthen connection to; 1: 5 Dreams (0 ...
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How do threads work?

In Golden Sky Stories, characters build Connections during a story, which can then be converted into Threads at the end of a story. I know that the Threads contain the contents of a character's ...