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Questions tagged [bubblegumshoe]

A teen detective story game based on the Gumshoe system.

BubbleGumshoe is a Gumshoe variant about teenagers solving the kinds of problems teenagers care about and notice, and their relationships to friends and adults they need to lean on to get the job done.

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What happens when I have zero Cool?

Bubblegumshoe 68, "Effects of Cool Damage," has entries labelled like this: Cool 5 to 0: [mechanical effects] Cool 0 to -5: [mechanical effects] Cool -6 to -10: [mechanical effects] Cool worse than -10: [mechanical effects] The first two…
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Being naturally unCool

Bubblegumshoe 68, "Effects of Cool Damage," talks about the negative effects of spending my Cool points down to 5 or lower. But it's totally possible (though understandably discouraged) to start with 4 or 5 as my Sleuth's maximum Cool rating (see…
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