This stream was way funnier than I, or anyone else, was prepared for.

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Cortex Prime Community Licensing

RUSTY SELLSWORD DESIGN X CORTEX
Huge news for fans of the Cortex system and more news to come. I’ve been working for a long time to get to this point and I’m thrilled to share the announcement!

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Don't bury the fucking lede, tell us if it's better.

You have three stats:

LMAIVDS, UNGNIET, and KDITTXR.

Which one are you maxing out and why?

Playing Endfield is like watching a dumpster fire crash into another dumpster fire.

Zhuang Fangyi casually penning a notice of termination (for her life)

They really hit us with "Press 1 to sign Tianshi Zhuang's last will and testament". I will never believe this game is real.

Their relationship is so funny to me. It's delightful.

I recently found a "fleshly" in the wild and I was so pleased.

*Gunship ceases. Scandroid starts playing and gets gradually louder until it is definitively Too Loud*

My brain is so poisoned by the crew of @thatguttershow.bsky.social that when the song Danger Danger by FZMZ says "Who do you think we are?" my brain sings it as "Who do you think you are... I am?!" even though it doesn't fit the tune at all.

And I think that's beautiful.

As someone who does all my RPG work in markdown, and can make websites but doesn't bother to, I think I may be the specific target demographic for this.

That's for the fit.

Coward shit. Fight it hand to hand in an honorable duel.

As an aroace, im particularly dangerous, because I won't fuck or marry. I only know how to kill

Happy International Asexuality Day

i dunno if you've heard this before but honestly if i'm being honest: Tabletop Role-playing Games

Beautiful day for INTO THE WARP by cousin of the show, Gio Benedetti.

This is the pin number my food delivery app keeps forcing me to use.

I am always wondering what kind of day for GUTTER it is, but the helpful and benevolent Internet always tells me 🥰

I'm really zoning in on the way fight and fright are the same font but with critically different curviness. It's real good. Whose work is that?

Whom I do NOT explode.

These rule

Anime, claiming it hasn't given up on achieving supremacy over the West.

When anime looks deadass at the camera and says the quiet part out loud.

Plight!

I cannot stress enough that Veravita takes inspiration from across the entire isekai genre, but -especially- the fucked up and weird shit.

The way Onee-sama And The Giant goes from a story about a Catholic guilt-driven breakup obsession to a story about a lesbian Mafia of freedom fighters called the Sisterhood of Blood is the most tonally-aspirational thing to happen in any media.

This is where I want Veravita campaigns to end up.

Reddit post titled: "What's the most elegant mechanic you've ever seen?" With the body text: "Elegance" meaning the most complex/nuanced outcome from the simplest input

A post from Reddit user fluxyggdrasil: The moment I think I "Got" Realis was a session where they were protecting a noble kid at a feast. Good kid, super naive, super surrounded by usurpers. One noble was found stabbed in the main hall. "Does anybody have a counter for the sentence "I always take drastic measures to achieve my goals?" The intent is to kill this woman." Naturally, the doctor of the group ran out and into the hall to save her. ...what they then learned was that this was a ploy to separate the doctor from the noble kid. "...The Doctor is busy, it's just you two now. And now I need to ask you: Do either of you have a counter for the sentence "I always wield an undetectable poison?" Their intent is to poison the child to death." No 'dice' or random chance, but watching those players SCRAMBLE over their sheets to try and find a sentence they could leverage in a way to counter this sentence and un-poison the kid. (Which credit where it's due, they managed to do!) But man, I never thought Diceless gaming would have any stakes or "High-Pressure" situations until I pulled that admittedly mean trick on them. Consider me a Realis believer. That entire mini-campaign was fantastic.

A follow up question from Strayl1ght: What was the counter? Now you have me invested A response from fluxyggdrasil: My Duelist PC countered by invoking their sentence +0 "I always carry a beautiful and distinct (weapon)." Their intent was to do some medieval-style bloodletting to get the poison out of the blood (or at least keep them stable long enough for the doctor to come back) as their weapon would be sharp as any scalpel, so it would be a much safer and easier cut to stitch back closed.

This is suuuuuch a good example of how Realis works. Both the way that it allows for a sort of narrative maneuvering /and/ the way it pushes everyone to really get creative with what they have on their sheets.
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Thank you. This is the kind of thing I need to see in order to be invested in a new system. Just hearing people say a lot of "Wow. Sentences." was intriguing, but not doing it for me.

"How do you feel about women?"

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*visibly sweating*