(RPG PDF Spotlight) Amici di Sempre

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Amici di Sempre

Core Rulebook by Yellow Mongoose

Amici di Sempre - A tabletop roleplaying game about quiet evenings with old friends

There is a bar you keep returning to. Not always for a specific reason: sometimes out of habit, sometimes because it's raining outside, sometimes because you know there will be someone there you don't need to explain yourself to.

Amici di Sempre is a game about that bar and those people. It is not a game of adventures or heroes. It is an "evening game": conversations that start in one place and end somewhere entirely different, silences that say more than words, small things that shift without anyone announcing them. Played well, it leaves you at the table with the feeling of just walking out of a place you love with people you've known too long to need to explain yourself to.

For 2-6 players. No game master. No dice.

Amici di Sempre emerged from a successful 2025 Kickstarter campaign where 53 people brought the project to 174% of its funding goal. The game was developed by one person: design, text, layout, and English translation.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Before you play, you will build the bar together through a few group questions. Then you will create your characters not through their history, but through what they always order, where they usually sit, what everyone here knows about them and what no one does. Between the characters, you will draw a map: a web of relationships that changes as the evening unfolds, with words that are crossed out and rewritten, carrying the story of how each relationship has shifted.

Then you play the evening with four simple tools: the Map that traces relationships, the Embers (a deck of brief sensory moments to shift atmosphere), the Coaster (a physical object that rewards listening), and the Tab (a slip where each player completes the sentence "Tonight I understood that..." when their character experiences something that touches them).

WHO THIS IS FOR

For players who want to tell stories about common people in mundane places and find that the ordinary has more to say than games typically allow. Perfect if you love games like For the Queen, Wanderhome, or Dream Askew. Equally well-suited for people who have never played a GMless game and want somewhere small and warm to start.

You are not seeking victories or challenges to overcome. You are seeking an evening that resembles real evenings with real friends.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

- Complete manual (approximately 78 pages)
- 8 fully developed example bars ready to play
- 12 fixed prompts and random prompt table
- Printable character sheet
- Peanuts deck (printable cards)

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Players: 2-6
Duration: 2-3 hours (first session), shorter afterward
Game Master: none (optional facilitator)
Dice: none
Format: PDF A5
Languages: English (also available in Italian)
Play Style: in person or online

Amici di Sempre is available through DriveThru RPG in PDF.