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Love and hate are just two sides of obsession.

Toxic Sword Lesbians fight their shared enemies when they’re not fighting each other. They know they shouldn’t say something hurtful or give in to escape over responsibility, but they do. They lash out over disagreements on ideals and on expectations. They give in to their worst self-destructive impulses. And then they pick themselves up off the ground and go help their loved ones, because that’s the right thing to do.

Toxic Sword Lesbians is a game for telling stories about the most awful women you can make up to love, which is to say: it's a hack for telling spicier, more emotionally fraught stories in Thirsty Sword Lesbians. In it, you'll find the following tools for Making Her (Your Character) Worse:

  • Tailored GM and player agendas for running the game
  • Updated core moves
  • New Sex and Intimacy moves for each playbook
  • New relationship questions and GM moves for each playbook
  • More evil Truths of Heart and Blade
  • Recommended TSL-official settings and scenarios for running Toxic Sword Lesbians
  • Four new settings that highlight the fraught nature of many aspects of queer identity
  • Custom mechanics for experiencing body horror, monstrous hunger, and being put through an isekai timeloop

Community copies available below! If you can purchase the book, however, I'd greatly appreciate it since my day job industry is in shambles and also eventually it'd be nice to put some art in this book and maybe do a print run if people want it. Regardless, if you play it, I'd love to hear about it! That's the thing I want the most

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If you're interested in making your custom playbook compatible with Toxic Sword Lesbians, there's guidelines included; I'm also happy to write ones to be added to a free supplement on commission (email me at carly@smallbird.games!)

If you'd like to include Toxic Sword Lesbians in a charity bundle, also email me at carly@smallbird.games!

Purchase

Buy Now$10.00 USD or more

In order to download this hack you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Toxic Sword Lesbians - Booklet Singles 1.1.pdf 5 MB
Toxic Sword Lesbians - Printable Booklet 1.1.pdf 4.9 MB

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What I want most of all is for people to play my games and to give me feedback on them. If you're in a place of financial hardship (me too), please go ahead and take one and pay it forward someday.

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This is really awesome! I like so much here. One question: is “Obsessed” supposed to mean a character decided they’re angry? Or is it just Smitten, but implying it’s less healthy? I know you say love and hate are two sides of the same coin, but I’m not sure how I’d roleplay it. The Scoundrel for instance feels very different if they’re constantly deciding “I hate you” instead of deciding “I’m in love with you”.

Oh, good question! I was personally thinking of it as just shifting the tone a bit—it certainly can and does still encompass being “smitten,” but in changing the move name I wanted to imply that it could also include, say, being Cady Heron and becoming obsessed with Regina George in an all-consuming way, or stuff that edges more into gothic romance. Flat-out hate isn’t what it’s getting at, exactly, but the kind of enmity that might turn into an Adora and Catra situation.

Coolio! Thanks a lot.

holy SHIT

;) glad to be of service

I might have seen this and then immediately sent it to several women who I felt also needed to see it

Oh, I’m so flattered! Thank you 🙏

The new and updated Moves looks great. 

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Thank you! ‘v’