Single Player User Manual Mode
This gameplay Mode uses the Signifer Mod.
This gameplay Mode is based off the podcast Polyamory Weekly’s exercise for creating a “user manual” for yourself to better understand yourself and/or help others understand you and how you like to be treated in relationships and dating.
“Do you feel like everyone you’re meeting doesn’t get what you’re about? Have you ever wished that someone you liked or cared about came with a user manual? A user manual is a tool that provides detailed information on a system’s inner workings in order to optimize a user’s interactions with that system. Or, in this case, with a particular person: YOU! While you can’t change other people, you CAN develop a manual to help others understand just how you like to be treated in the world of dating and relationships. “-Polyamory Weekly
The User Manual created by the podcast Polyamory Weekly was made particularly with ethically non-monogamous individuals and relationships in mind, but it can be equally useful for monogamous relationships, aromantic relationships, friendships, and other forms of social relations. You can create a User Manual for yourself that is more general, or that is more targeted to a specific desired relationship or person.
- Choose who you are making this User Manual for and what relationship(s) you are interested in cultivating. Is it for yourself to better know yourself? Is it for a new friend, sexual or romantic partner?
- Choose which decks of FoF you would like to use for this gameplay Mode.
- Going through one deck of FoF at a time, pull out cards with prompts that relate to something you would like to write about yourself on your User Manual.
- Using a journal or a computer, write/type your answers to the card prompts you have selected to help you create your User Manual. Try to separate them into sections based on larger topics such as: Family Background, Personal History, Relationship Goals, Emotional Turn-Ons/Turn-Offs, Flirting, Sexual Turn-Ons/Turn-Offs, Kink History and Preferences, etc. See Polyamory Weekly for their example of a dating User Manual.
- If you created your User Manual with a person(s) in mind that you want to give it to, when you have completed it give it to them and ask for their feedback or thoughts after they have read it.
- (Optional) Play the Multiplayer Mode of this gameplay Mode with the person(s) you had in mind when you created your User Manual.