#project backlog

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From @cloaksandcapes:

🌼Share something beautiful from one of your games (name the game, or let me choose).

The text from the first page of Galatea:

Perhaps you were a statue, as was the Galatea of old. Perhaps you were an artificial intelligence. Perhaps you were a doll, or a painting, or the main character in a novel. Perhaps you were created to be an ideal lover, an ideal child, a replacement for a lost sibling or parent, or a reflection of the best parts of humanity. The important thing is: you were made to be perfect. Perfect by the standards of your famously brilliant, irascible and self-critical creator. Perfect enough to be his crowning accomplishment, the justification of all his toils and life’s work. Perfect enough that you took on a life of your own. How long can you stay this way?

Content Warnings:

Galatea is a solo journaling RPG about bearing the weight of unrealistic expectations. It contains themes of narcissism, helplessness, despair, co-dependence, self-mutilation, and suicide. If you are sensitive to these themes, please look after your mental health and make sure you have someone trustworthy to talk to, and/or stop playing if you feel overwhelmed.

[sunlit-mess]

coping real hard

[uhohbigyike]

ruikasa heathers au does anyone hear me i said ruikasa hea

[zondearts]

I drew a Ichika dragon for a request and I really liked the design, so I drew the rest of leoneed aswell

[sandflakedraws]

I know it might be an odd question but do you have any art of hickory crying or like angry? I’ve seen the one were he’s chasing those other trolls but don’t have another m?

oh.

anon,

buddy,

the more i like a character,

the more likely i am to have a backlog of Them Goin Thru It.

[tartetasin]

💖 GIRLZ RULE !!!!!!!!!!! 💖

[cirquecarte]

don't wanna stop, there's no need!

vbs print for one of my fave songs from them!!

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[swingstep]

just what are you?

[fluffy-starlaxy]

Various Deimos drawings I did

[dailyfalsesymmetry]

day 42

this might be the finest piece of Art i have ever created. truly captures the essence of falsesymmetry

[moodlemcdoodle]

Silver the Hedgehog backstory concept me and @pollyannawog brainstormed together >:)

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From @drakeanddice:

☔Is there a game idea you have that you’re not sure you’ll ever write? If so, what is it?

Two. The first is a game based on both Wretched & Alone and the Second Guess SRD, and vaguely inspired by the final chapters of the book Wolf Tower by Tanith Lee. You're a Babylonian cleric-scribe tasked by the King of Kings with reviving and translating the old law code, which is written in hieratic characters that no one but the priests understand anymore. The problem is, the old law code is savagely and needlessly cruel, and the King of Kings is more concerned about his legacy and the glory that reviving the ancient law will bring him than whether this is good for the well-being of his people.

So you have, of course, agreed to... "translate" the law.

When I first got the idea for the game, it came to be all in a rush, and I was really, really hyped to write it. The problem, I found after I set it aside to focus on more urgent projects first, is how to make it not just yet-another-Wretched&Alone-game. I cannot pick up an SRD without tinkering with its mechanical guts in some way, and given that I've already written Galatea as my "answer" to Wretched&Alone, I'd have to take this in a sufficiently different direction and still stay thematically coherent. My original idea was to provide roll tables to generate the punitive laws and to allow players to change the "translations" for each individual segment, but is that going to be enough? Will it be fun rather than tedious? Will pulling from the Jenga tower sufficiently evoke the desired theme of undermining the code of Hammurabi?

The second game is mostly just vibes so far. It's an epistolary game for two to five players, where each PC is a poisoned scholar kept amiably-hostage in a Tower within a city riven by factional politics. Each Tower has proprietary antidotes for its own poison, which is how the Towers prevent the scholars from running off with Tower secrets. The PCs are friends who became scholars in different towers, writing secret letters to each other. When you start, you choose a candle and you light it every time you write a letter. When the candle finally burns out you stop writing.

The challenge with this one is figuring out everything else. I'm not sure the vibes are strong enough, distinctive enough, worthy enough to try to build an entire rest of a game around them.

[worm-fanon-polls]

make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it!

Context below:

tumblr user @rebel-sqrrl and the moderator were discussing the parian interlude where she describes rachel as blonde and rather than assume authorial error, sqrrl wondered if parian might be colorblind and genuinely not know rachel had red hair because she couldn't tell the difference.

[charcarts]

//squints// arlefurry-

anyway would u guys let me cook-

[cappycodeart]

have you told your local eldritch time traveler he is loved and appreciated today? it could help his facial complexion

[myiayse]

toya time