A woman piloting a space ship ponders the future fate of the universe descending into heat death.
The Immortal Who Saw The Death Of The Universe is one of the all-time top manga for me and I'm not even kidding. It's a three-issue Touhou fan comic and yet also one of the most emotionally affecting science fiction short stories I've ever read.
I'm going to make the Death Stranding of Terraria.
We're doing a sneak peek on Inkvein's factions! murkdice.substack.com/p/48-hours-d... #osr
Our @morkborg.com megadungeon is in it's last 48 hours: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Come see what it's all about, we've had praise from @nohr.se, @yochaigal.bsky.social, and @bastionland.bsky.social.
Every year, I reread the LotR trilogy. This last year's reread amped me up and I started keying Middle-earth 12 miles at a time
Concurrently, without meaning to, I wrote a game to run the hexcrawl
I call it Lore - a Lord of the Rings Adventure Game retroclone
Here's what I think is fun about it🧵
Bluesky CENSORED me yesterday by just fucking up and not working, but here is a new blog post where I propose a procedural method for generating hexcrawl terrain, inspired by both Mausritter and the original DMG
#osr #ttrpg
New episode! Yet with bittersweet tastes upon our tongues we must announce that this will be the final episode of Rose Playing Games: we've had fun making them, but future schedules preclude continuing the series. Thank you all for watching, and watch for the next new project on the way.
New episode! Yet with bittersweet tastes upon our tongues we must announce that this will be the final episode of Rose Playing Games: we've had fun making them, but future schedules preclude continuing the series. Thank you all for watching, and watch for the next new project on the way.
Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs.
I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!
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The ancestral task (skill challenges that aren't boring) is now complete.
Null space booklet
Null space gig work packet
NULL_SPACE physicals are here! The basic rules are a square-bound stapled booklet, while GIG_WORK; is a little folio containing four Jobs.
(links downthread)
I've only just begun playing, I haven't found any cheese yet. I'm even beneath the level of ogre.
TTRPG with old-school "you can die in character creation" mechanics, except most terminal events are stuff like "reached adulthood with no major traumas" or "found a love of carpentry", so your goal is to make enough bad life choices that your character is a big enough loser to become an adventurer.
they should make me smaller so i can be put onto your shelves and you could give me a cookie every now and then for sustenance and a pepsi can in special occassions
VALIS page 394: "i.e. before full term. This was the dark or Yin twin. Therefore it was defective. At full term the wiser twin emerged. Each twin formed a unitary entelechy, a single living organism made of psyche and soma, still rotating in opposite directions to each other. The full term twin, called Form I by Parmenides, advanced correctly through its growth stages, but the prematurely born twin, called Form II, languished. The next step in the One’s plan was that the Two would become the Many, through their dialetic interaction. From them as hyperuniverses they projected a hologram-like interface, which is the pluriform universe we creatures inhabit. The two sources were to intermingle equally in maintaining our universe, but Form II continued to languish toward illness, madness and disorder. These aspects she projected into our universe."
The Amazing Digital Circus (2023)
Our page appears frozen but *you can still pledge.* Please, please, please tell everyone you know that the Public Access campaign is still going, despite this catastrophic glitch.
Please re-post.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
I'm starting to be concerned that, in addition to the current KS meltdown, our 48 hour warning email also did not go out. If you saved Public Access but did not pledge, please reply here letting me know if you received your 48 hour warning email from KS.
PLEASE re-post this message.
Wowwwww Kickstarter is borked right now. Please continue to look at the TTRPG Public Access because it is so seriously an amazing game, and you want it in your collection. Don't miss out!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
The verb "check" (to examine) comes from check (to hinder/stop, in the sense of a mandatory search), which comes from the metaphor of putting into check (from chess), the game itself being named from the Latininized form of the Persian "shah", or king.
The king is watching you.
an rpg. 202█
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I've heard good things!
I said immediately afterward "that would have given me nightmares if I saw it as a kid".
Models predict stable "superheavy levels" beyond 20, but they've never been experimentally observed.
Finally watched The Dark Crystal and in addition to being a tour de force of puppetry and practical effects, I never realized how much of a source text for later fantasy it is. Skeksis are Halosians of course, but also Garthim are mirelurks, Mystics are Mu Mou... and they sing the Oath to Order!?
A revised version, more refined and complete with layout, is now available.
binary-star-games.itch.io/death-has-co...
This week I put on my witch hat to take advantage of geometric mage progression. Episode 6 of Rose Playing Games is out!
New Blogpost: Play Is Canon
What are the sources of "truth" about the world of your tabletop setting? For me, the paramount truth derives from play itself. This is my synthesis of blorb and anti-canon.
#osr #ttrpg
There are perhaps three people in the world who will find that funny. Maybe even four.
Hard at work harmonizing the Aarne-Thompson and Oakeshott typologies. Is a type XIV (short, broad, sharply pointed) equivalent to a type 302B (Life Dependent on Sword)?
Oh wow, I've been following Glass Scientists for over a decade. I used to keep up with dozens of webcomics in their high era, but that number has dwindled down to just a handful of holdouts, now minus one further. Although bittersweet, I do not regret the journey.