[ID: a banner for a game. it is light tan with a crumpled paper texture, and reads "with breath & sword" in large blue font, and "a solo-journaling game that helps you fight anxiety as you fight monster" below it in smaller font. there is lineart of gauntlets lying over a sword with some flowers at the bottom. end ID]
You find yourself tied to the monsters. The scratchy feeling in your chest. The way your hands tremble. The sweat that dots your upper lip when your senses are telling you a monster is close, again, now, and it’s your job to fight it. To stand up for your ideals and stand up to the threat. Whether you tame it, or this is truly a monster that needs to be slain, only time will tell.
You know you will succeed. You always have before. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be a challenge.
Grab your gear. Put on your boots. You know how to find it. You know what to do.
First, you just need to steady yourself.
[ID: a page spread from the game. it shows "step four" on one side, which goes over the five aspects of the game's oracle. on the other side it shows the first oracle component, where something you can taste determines what your heroic core is. the page is minimally designed, with a blue border and text on a white background, tan accents, and one image of a dragon. end ID]
With Breath & Sword is a solo-journaling TTRPG to help players combat anxiety.
In the game, you play as a monster-fighter, who is being summoned once again due to the presence of a new monster. Each time a monster appears, you struggle with the emotional effects of the magic: effects that look a lot like anxiety. You must steady yourself before you go off to fight: in the game and in real life.
Over the course of WB&S, players will participate in grounding methods and breathing techniques to calm themselves from an anxiety attack. These methods also serve as the game's oracle in order to determine how the story goes.
What You'll Need:
A safe space to play
A method of writing or recording
[ID: a page spread from the game. it is the section called "the science" and goes over the psychology behind the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique, the 4-7-8 breathing method, and destroying journaling. it has a few lines about narrative and play therapy, and that the creator of the game used these methods in his social work with neurodivergent teens and adults. end ID]
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🧑🍼100 Question OC Family Dynamics Ask Game👨👩👧👦
Get into the weeds of your OC’s family relationships with this game! Can be applied to blood, adopted, and found family dynamics.
Remember to send an ask to the person you reblog it from to make sure everyone gets to play!
🔢How many parents/guardians did they grow up with? How many do they have now?
🤝Did they get along with their parent(s)/guardian(s) in childhood? Do they now?
💞If they had more than one, which of their parents/guardians did they get along best with in their childhood? Is that still the case?
⚠️Do they go to their parent(s)/guardian(s) for advice regularly? Only in emergencies? Never?
📞Do they speak with their parent(s)/guardian(s) regularly?
🪢How did they bond with their parent(s)/guardian(s) in childhood? Do they still bond that way?
🏈Did they pick up any hobbies or interests from their parent(s)/guardian(s)? Which ones?
😤Did they ever intentionally go against their parent(s)/guardian(s) in a fit of defiance? What did they do?
🫵Were they often grounded by their parent(s)/guardian(s)?
📖What values did their parent(s)/guardian(s) really drill into their head?
🤔What are things they picked up from their parent(s)/guardian(s) that weren’t intentionally taught?
✂️Have they completely cut off one or more of their parents/guardians? Why?
🚼How many siblings did they grow up with, if any?
🛝Did they get along with their sibling(s) in childhood? Do they now?
📅How far apart in age are they and their sibling(s)?
😡What’s the dumbest sibling argument they’ve ever had?
😇What’s the fondest memory they have with their sibling(s)?
😋Do they have any goofy inside jokes with their sibling(s)?
💝What do they like most about having sibling(s)?
💔What do they dislike the most about having sibling(s)?
👍What’s a situation where they really appreciated having their sibling(s) around?
👎What’s a situation where they wished they’d been an only child?
1️⃣If they’re an only child, have they ever wished they had siblings?
⚔️Are they protective of their sibling(s)? Are their sibling(s) protective of them?
📢Do they speak with their sibling(s) regularly?
🎹Did they pick up any hobbies or interests from their sibling(s)? Which ones?
🙅♀️Were they the type to do the complete opposite of whatever their sibling(s) did? Why?
🚩Have they completely cut off one or more of their siblings? Why?
⭐Did their parent(s)/guardian(s) show favoritism between siblings? How did that impact the siblings’ relationships? The child-parent relationships?
🫴Did they have trouble with being asked to share their friends with their sibling(s) growing up? Vice versa?
2️⃣Are they a twin/triplet/etc.? Identical or fraternal?
🌍How did being a twin/triplet/etc. impact their relationship to their parent(s)/guardian(s), their twin/siblings, and the world?
♊If twins/triplets/etc., did their parent(s)/guardian(s) obsess about making them exactly the same? How did that impact their relationships/personalities?
🧓Do they have living grandparents? Did they ever meet their grandparents?
🫂Were their grandparent(s) a big part of their childhood?
🏠Did they go over to their grandparents’ house often?
🪑Were their grandparent(s) regular caretakers when their parent(s)/guardian(s) weren’t available?
✨Did their grandparent(s) show favoritism between siblings? How did that impact the siblings’ relationships? The child-grandparent relationships?
🌪️Did their grandparent(s) show favoritism between their parent/guardian and one of their siblings? How did that impact the family?
⛈️Have they completely cut off one or more of their grandparents? Why?
🤯Do they have aunts/uncles/piblings and/or cousins?
🥳Do they get along with a particular aunt/uncle/pibling best?
🙋Do they get along with a particular cousin the best?
👋Were they close with their aunt(s)/uncle(s)/pibling(s) in childhood? Are they still?
🫰Were they close with their cousin(s) in childhood? Are they still?
🤪Do they have a “fun uncle” type family member?
❌Have they completely cut off one or more of their cousins? Why?
😵Have they completely cut off one or more of their aunts/uncles/piblings? Why?
📏Do they know their extended family well? Are they basically strangers?
👀How often do they see their extended family members? Which side of the family do they see most often?
💗Do they prefer one side of the family more?
👨👩👧👦How would they define “family”?
‼️What’s the most important part of having a “family” to them?
🙏Are there things about their family they wish were different?
💪Do they identify strongly with any family terms? (i.e. big/little sibling, a parent, Aunt/Uncle/Pibling [name])
💒How do their cultural values inform their relationship with their family?
⁉️Do they have a family relationship that’s considered unconventional in their culture?
🫄Do they want to start a family of their own one day? Have they already?
📝Do they want to emulate their family’s dynamics? Do they want to avoid it as much as possible?
🏫What would they teach their kids about what family means if/when they have any?
🚸Would they want their kids to be involved with their other family members, or as far away as possible?
🎭Are they worried about “becoming like their parent(s)/guardian(s)” as they age?
🤐Are they keeping any “family secrets”? How serious are they?
🙊Are they keeping any secrets from their family? Why?
🔮Do they have any “family curses”? Are they real?
😉Did they have any family friends growing up that they saw regularly? Do they still?
🏆Is their family well-known where they grew up? For good reasons or unfortunate ones?
💊How much caretaking did/do they do for their older family members? Is it more or less than is expected of them?
🧼How much caretaking did/do they do for their youngest family members? Is it more or less than is expected of them?
🩺Do they expect their kids or other family members to take care of them when they get older?
😱How would they react to being asked to care for an ill and/or elderly family member long-term?
🏡When did they move out of their childhood home? Have they moved out? Do they plan to?
🏢Would they ever want to live in the same house with their family members long-term? For their whole life?
📌Do they live close to their family? By choice?
🗺️What’s the maximum distance they’d ever live from their family?
🦺Can they count on their family members to help in an emergency?
😢Have they ever disappointed any member of their family?
😔Have any of their family members disappointed them?
🎖️What’s a time they felt extremely proud of their family?
🎉What’s a time their family celebrated one of their achievements?
💢Do they argue with their family a lot? About anything in particular?
🙈How many embarrassing stories would their family be able to tell about them?
🗣️How many embarrassing stories could they tell about their family?
📚What’s a family story they always tell people?
💛What’s their favorite story that their parent(s)/guardian(s) have told?
🪦Were any of their partners given the “if you hurt my kid, they’ll never find your body” talk from their parent(s)/guardian(s)? How embarrassing was it?
👌Were their parent(s)/guardian(s) accepting of their partner(s)?
✌️Did their sibling(s) accept their partner(s)?
🤗Do they consider their partner’s family to be their family too?
🤢What kinds of traits in other families are they jealous of, if any?
😄Is there any trait they particularly appreciate about their family?
🫡Are they proud to talk about their family to other people?
👂Do they enjoy listening to other people talk about their families?
🎳Are their friends welcome among their family? Only certain friends?
🎈Do they celebrate any extremely specific holidays that their family pretty much invented from scratch?
🐕Did they have any family pets growing up? Do they have any now?
🐈Were their parent(s)/guardian(s) opposed to having a pet? Did it ever change?
🐸Did having a family pet encourage them to have pets if/when they moved out?
🐭Do they consider pets to be a part of the family?
🃏Wild card! Ask anything you want!
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