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Get in the Frame. Obey your Handler.

GIRL FRAME is a TTRPG using the Powered by the Apocalypse Engine (specifically the version designed for Apocalypse Keys) to tell a story about lesbian pilots, forced into half-living mech suits and sent by their Handler to kill Gorgons - eldritch beings from outside reality.

This is an Ashcan, but is a fully playable game, including:

  • 10 Girl Playbooks, including the Mockingbird, the Newgirl, the Stim-Blissed, and the Casualty.
  • Frame Playbooks, including The Prince, CONSUME, and Wyvern 0.4
  • Handler Playbooks: the Mistress, the Dogrunner, the Scientist, and the Frantic
  • 6 different classes of the eldritch Gorgons and 6 different types, including Mother, Incubus, and Doppelganger.
  • 1 Harpy (corrupted Girl) Playbook, and 5 different Rebel Playbooks

Use Tags, Permissions, and Punishments to get your way. Mess with each other's Status to become the Ace or the Dog. Give orders, and have messy relationships. Die horribly in battle, or be corrupted into something beyond human. Get in the Frame. Obey your Handler.

Inspirations: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam, Armoured Core, 86, Heaven Will Be Mine, the Mechsploitation Genre.

If you want to chat about Girl Frame or find a group, there's a link to the discord in the game, or feel free to send me a DM on @anxiousmimicrpgs on bluesky or tumblr.

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Press

Girl Frame won the 2025 Independent Transfeminine Award in the TTRPG category.

Updated 12 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(77 total ratings)
Authoranxiousmimicrpgs
TagsLesbian, LGBT, LGBTQIA, Mechs, mechsploitation, PbtA, Queer, tabletop-role-playing-game, Transgender
ContentNo generative AI was used

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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $15 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Girl Frame 2026_06_02.pdf 13 MB
Girl Frame Sheets 2026_04_22.pdf 3.7 MB

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I love everything about this system and concept. My partners and I are currently looking through the rules and trying to pull a group together. One thing I wanted to mention is that the Discord link in the book comes back as invalid. If it would be possible to update that I'd love to be able to join the Discord <3

The discord link is valid (just double-checked with a couple people), that appears to be an issue on your end?

Just my Discord being grumpy then I guess; thank you for checking anyways <3

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Will this ever come to print? I love hard copies.

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This game looks so incredible, I'm trying to get a group of t girls together to play. One comment: I found the use of you/me pronouns confusing on the 11+ result of Flirt. My instincts tell me it's the same "you" and "me" as in the 8-10 results but it's hard because unlike with the 8-10 options, the flirter isn't asking the flirtee a question. Also if that is the case, the logistical part of the 11+ uses "you" to a different person (the flirter) a second earlier. 

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If you need one more i'm unemployed, gay, and pst

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Aw, we're doing an in person game in a different time zone. I hope you can find or start a game for yourself

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I've been playing gf solo for months now because I haven't found a group willing to play it but I love this game so so so much. It's really something special. It just hits really hard and in a weirdly cathartic way.

I have been trying to find a liveplay of this game because i have wanted to figure out how this works. its easier with examples x.x

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The Zero Angels podcast will be starting soon I believe! There's a couple APs coming out

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I got to play two sessions of this and it was incredible. I was a Casualty in CONSUME. Part of my body was remade of our dead Alpha friend.

One thing that came up was a confusion over the sticklerness of "when you gain Void". Does "grow a new void asset" count as gaining Void? Handler ruled that thematically it counts, and I was fine with that, so we were marking off Casualty's body parts more often, once from defeat and once from something else that added a void asset. But there were quite a few times I was growing void assets without the keyword "gain" and I wasn't sure how my character could last a third session if it counted. But that might also be on-point for a Casualty.

We also ruled that Handler was "regular people". That was a good ending.

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It makes sense to me that growing a new Void Asset counts as gaining void

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Reading Girl Frame as a cis-het male was a very interesting experience. From the very start it made me uncomfortable imagining myself playing out the results of Plays, especially in mixed gender group (though a bunch of cis-het guys playing this on their own seems inappropriately weird in its own way).

I have seldom been hit with my own position in the patriarchal sexual hierarchy quite as hard by a piece of written media. To play this kind emotional, sexual and social abuse and toxicity as cis-het guy, inside a fictional story about lesbians... I truly felt that this was simply not a place where I should or even could be without it carrying heavy out of game connotations and effects. 

This led me down an internet rabbit hole reading blogs and posts from all over about trans-feminine and lesbian life experiences and while I can't say exactly what I've learned I do think I learned a thing or two, and I have more things to think about and learn. 

So thank you for making Girl Frame. It has impacted me and made me think about my own gender and sexuality as they exist in the real world in a way I had not expected it to do. I'm not sure I'll ever play it, but it has given me something and I was deeply moved.

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Incredible to hear, thank you for sharing <3

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I think it's less of a gender thing and more of a kink thing? Being into Abusive relationships is not unique or even associated with the female gender(Although putting up with physical abuse often is, but thats not exactly a positive association, and emotionally abusive relationships tend to go the other way and occasionally even develop into physical abuse), all in all it's definitely not for everyone but I personally might go beyond just reading the rules and minmaxing builds if I ever found a group I actually trusted to respect boundaries with(On retrospect, a really sad sentence)

But honestly this particular branch of thought experiments/Psychology/etc is rather interesting.

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I, at least, think about this as a game about gender. I don't think of it as a game about kink, really.

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fair enough opinion

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Are there going to be any descriptors included for various assets? I really wanna know what QUIET SEA is.

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No, they're left open to interpretation so people can come up with their own cool descriptors (and also so I don't have to write 155+ descriptive sentences)

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Content Notes: Misgendering/transphobia, homophobia, sexism, abuse, sexual assault, drug abuse, toxic relationships, dehumanization, fascism, body horror, torture, brainwashing, ableism, nonconsensual surgical procedures, suicide, lobotomies, hallucinations, memory loss

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Ooh... This is going to be FUN!
So many things to hit my players with!

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Been playing this weekly for a few months now and it's phenomenal!  Some of the language in the rules is just... chef's kiss

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Hi! My partner is putting a game of this together, and the players have had different interpretations on the timing of marking tags.
Some felt that "To shift your result +1 or -1" meant that marking happened once a result was generated (so after rolling), while some felt that it should be done before rolling to shift the result of the roll.
Could I please get the designer intent? ^^'

“Result” in this case means “after rolling”

Thankyou! 

Does the Princess's "To a Higher Standard" status increase on mission end get applied before or after determining who gets an additional Permission for being the Ace?

I'd ask the group I was playing with, but it makes more sense to me that it applies beforehand

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I'm a bit surprised this was left ambiguous in the text, as it would seem to have a pretty big impact on status jockeying. From the Princess's perspective, increasing status first means a smoother transition from 3 -> 2 -> 1 Permissions (for Ace / 1st Wing / below), but for the rest of the cadre, it makes earning that Ace permission much harder - not only do you need to excel yourself, but you also need to either make sure the Princess isn't right behind you, or bait it into breaking one of its rules.

(That said, perhaps a good Girl should know to stay out of the spotlight when in the presence of a star, rather than struggling against the current - more total Permissions across the cadre means more/stronger assets and more success in the war, which is what really matters, right?)

hi, clarifying question for the ‘go for the core’ move, do gorgons count as NPC’s for the 11+ result? Or are they gorgons first and foremost?

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NPCs has a very specific meaning in this game! On page 121 it says "NPCs are: Not a Girl (including Rebels and Harpies), Not a Gorgon, Not the Handler"

So, no, Gorgons never count as NPCs.

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that’s the consensus we reached in game after referring back to said passage but I wanted to make extra sure, thank you!

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:3 My friends love this, came to show some love!! 

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Everyone is excited to try this one. I love to see that you're still adding more updates. I'm subscribed and will look forward to more additions! 

I wonder if you've ever considered about making a girl playbook that is more feral and where she likes to bite back and be disobedient and feels like she loses control more often. I see something kind of like that in the frame consume. 

Maybe after some playtests I can try to design some playbooks for concepts that excite me. 

Either way,  I love the stuff and I look forward to seeing more

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Got together a group to play this and we just had our session zero! There was a lot of discussion around consent and aftercare and I've never had a session zero turn into straight up scene negotiation.

Standout quote was "I'm basically treating this like we're forming a time-restricted polycule"

How do I get the updated file? I just purchased it a few days ago from here.

it should be linked to your itch account. If not it’ll be in the email you got when you bought the game

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I second this! I'd like to be able to update without having to rebuy the game!

Edit: kinda figured it out, found it in my emails (as I now see anxious said, lol)

At the top of this page you should see "You own this game" with a Download link, too. If not I'm not sure what's blocking it.

Are thre any plan for when the game will be done/finalized, ie when there will be no more planned updates?
I am going to buy and print the game and would like to not have to re-print it

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When an official print comes will be when the text is definitively finalized. Unfortunately the game's only been out a month so I can't give any answers for how soon that might be yet

Fair enough. I got it anyway, I figure I can just print and replace pages that get updated :)

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Going absolutely feral over this. I need to get this on the table.

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fought through the cloudflare outage today to buy this like my life depended on it 

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Hey, trying to figure out which of my friends would be interested in playing- I still need to buy the book, but I'm trying to describe it to them and I'm hoping for a clarification, is the Handler supposed to be a Player, or GM role? I just want to give my players as many options as possible, but also I feel like the role of Handler is easy to end up fighting over, if it's a player role.

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It's both. You're taking on an MC/GM style role but you're also a PC

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Its insane how much this is exactly what I was searching for, truely the most Girl game ever

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need to find people to play this with, it sounds so peak

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Possible typo or very unclear text.


Last sentence of the Put Someone Beneath You basic Play, just kind of trails off.

"She unmark an identity of her own and pick one to ask you." 

I am unsure how to interpret that. Ask you about? Ask you about it? About an identity of yours?

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This is the Flirt play, and not Put Someone Beneath You. Flirt has a number of questions listed of which you can ask some on a hit (listed under 8–10). On a miss (7-), you get asked a question instead.

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Amazing game.

Couldn't put it down once I started reading it!

Incredibly excited to see what's coming!

How many people is the game designed around?

Basically, I know 1 person and am hoping  that its 2 minimum and not 3 like I suspect. So yea, its probably 3 or 5.

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3-4 Girls and 1 Handler is the recommended amount. You could do it with 2 Girls and 1 Handler but some rules would be a bit odd? 2 player or solo is not supported by the rules. I have seen some people play multiple characters but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.

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I really like what I've read, but it would be a good idea to put the content warning found in the front of the book on the store page. Sex being a core mechanic and the presence of slurs really aren't something I enjoyed being surprised by.

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Reading this with my partner was honestly incredibly fun, I kept making scenarios in my head of how each of these interactions could happen and interact.

Super excited to try the toxic yuri mech game!

(Also the harpys remind me a lot of madoka magica!)

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hey um I'm looking for people who may want to play this and i dont know where else to look heh.. You can find me on discord: niobetheplant

You can be looking to play as a player or as the dm either is fine with me :>

sent a friend request, btways! you should see one from a "sunny.cloudaura" <3

I'm so down!! My discord is kinoghost

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I would love to join
My discord is Heller, the Faded hope we can play together!

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This game is amazing, and just added two new really wonderful playbooks on top of what already felt like a complete package. 10/10

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Reading these rules is giving me the same experience as reading erotica. ++rep 10/10 recommending to every mentally ill, damaged tgirl i know as we speak

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I DIG ITTTTT When will it be ready in like a first edition rather than an ashcan? Will it have community copies? Wanna translate it to spanish?

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was skimming the tag, as i am wont to do for ttrpgs i have a passive interest in, and saw a tumblr post calling it "alarmingly lesbophobic", knowing i immediately had to read it. and golly am i glad i did because this shit fucks. cried multiple times getting through the book, can't wait to organize a game with it

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LMAO that's so funny. Was it a bit or were they being serious?

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after a week of losing our minds over this game my local girls server made characters and started playing. i described my character to a cis friend and felt the need to insist afterwards "this is not self-harm, this is catharsis, i promise".

i was lying. playing this game is self-harm. it's also the funniest ttrpg i've ever played and it's not even close. before even being briefed for the first mission three characters had sex twice and both were catastrophic psychological disasters for everyone involved. characters in this game are like the roleplaying equivalent of the two halves of the demon core and if you smush them together they make funny sounds and colors.

(+13)

mmm toxic yuri yummers

(+8)

I miss my wife tails… I miss her slightly less tho because girl frame helps fill the void :3

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This is Girl Frame bitch we obey mistress in this mothafucka. take your altruistic ass back to lancer

(★★★★/★★★★) - Suki L

(+6)

this is rad as hell, one look at the bad at being a person move caused me to instantly buy it

(+4)

The text constantly surprised me with how much work the tiniest phrases did. Truly, I'd say, a masterpiece of TTRPG writing.

Also, it's hot as hell.

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Visceral, Pointed, and Very well written. The rules text is oozing with flavor and implications. Im so so excited to play this

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