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[vintagerpg]

The Riddling Reaver (1986) is another Fighting Fantasy series oddity. It is the lone support for the Fighting Fantasy RPG and while it advertises itself as four scenarios, it is really more like one scenario in four parts, chasing the titular trickster (he’s a bit like FF’s version of Arcade, or Mr. Myxlplyx) through an increasingly implausible gauntlet. If you ever wondered what the unholy offspring of Fighting Fantasy and Looney Tunes might be like, this book gives some suitably zany insight. It’s not really my cuppa. Lots of puns. Lots of silly stuff like powdered monsters (just add water!) and stuffed “decoy” Reavers. It certainly doesn’t work as a sit-and-read gamebook like the rest of the series. I can see it maybe working in group play, though, the way a funhouse dungeon might, but I also, like a game of Toon, I can’t imagine sustaining a group’s interest for more than 90 or so minutes at a time. That’s partly just down to how rigid the linearity is — it’s still structured like a gamebook, so players have limited options at every junction and they all have clear results. It reminds me a lot of the board game versions of Choose Your Own Adventure books, actually! Those are good fun, too, though we would set it aside for the night at the end of each chapter.

Cover by Peter Andrew Jones. Interior art by Leo Hartas and Brian Williams. I like some of the looks at the more surreal rooms. The maps are good, too.

[lisarpgofficial]

ARE YOU A REAL LISA EXPERT? ANSWER THIS QUESTION….

Why is these games caled lisa if his name is bradlay

[rustedleopard]

What are your thoughts on Chujin? Your posts don't really paint him in the best light (for understandable reasons)

I think he is a FASCINATING character. The living embodiment of the proverb "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

The man loves his family, so much so that it inspires him to go out into the Underground and do volunteer work to make the world a better place for his child to grow up in. Yet, he also kills himself over his commitment to crafting a serum that would protect his daughter/monsterkind from humans and leaves his wife a widow and his daughter fatherless. According to Ceroba, he wanted to raise a big family with her, so he poured his all into building a massive, elaborate house for his family to grow up in. But that also blew through all of his savings leftover from his former job at the Steamworks and instead of taking up another job to support his family financially, that task fell solely onto Ceroba.

He also has quite a bit of an ego as well. He doesn't want Ceroba to think poorly of him for being fired, so he lies and says he retired. That ego blinds him to the fact that he isn't always right. He was the only engineer in the Steamworks who wanted to build guard robots. Fair enough since monsterkind did declare war on humanity and it would be good to have extra troops when the time came to break the barrier and start fighting. But as the failures piled up and each of the Axis models malfunctioned in front of Asgore -- sometimes in ways that were a danger to others -- he kept insisting that he would get it right. Asgore gave him eight chances (if we go by the idea that each iteration of Axis would be presented before the King before being rejected). Eight is an extremely generous number of chances to prove that Axis would be worth something, and when his final attempt lit Asgore's child's grave on fire, instead of reflecting on if his Axis idea was misguided or sympathizing with Asgore (since Chujin is a father himself, he should know how much that hurt), he asks for yet another chance. Then after he gets fired, he keeps working on Axis iterations in private because he's certain that he's right and everyone else is wrong. Did he eventually make a successful guard robot? Yes. Axis Model 014 works debatably well. But it cost him the respect of his colleagues and his job, which at the time was his family's only source of income.

And then there's the Boss Monster serum that he crafted. He was working solely off a theory, and when his experiments on himself started to kill him, instead of stepping back and reflecting on if making a serum that could turn any monster into a Boss Monster is feasible/questioning his methodology, he blamed the problems on the SOUL that he used being impure (with no evidence/explanation as to why "SOUL purity" was the problem, which to me feels more grasping at straws more than a well-founded conclusion). He gave his grieving wife the impossible task of:

Finding a "pure" human SOUL (humans rarely fall into the Underground, there's no guarantee that a human wouldn't dust some monsters while navigating the Underground, there is no guarantee that she'd be able to get close to them with the Royal Guard patrolling/attempting to capture them, what does it even mean to be "pure"? A human could fight their way through the Underground and spare monsters when they're weakened instead of outright killing them, would that still count as being "pure"?)

Killing that human (humans are notorious for being difficult to kill yet can easily kill monsters so reaping their SOUL is incredibly risky business. She would also have to take the life of an innocent person.)

Having a Boss Monster nearby to work with (Boss Monsters are incredibly rare, the only known ones are Asgore, Toriel, Asriel (who is dead), himself (who is dying), and Kanako. Also, even if Ceroba knew another Boss Monster, why would they be willing to be subjected to a science experiment?)

And she also has to craft the serum as well (Ceroba has no experience with SOUL science, she doesn't know what she's doing).

It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Clover came into the Underground, ended up in the Wild East and remained a pacifist (in a Pacifist Run), and decided to travel with her. It was more likely that Ceroba would've spent the rest of her life unable to make progress on the serum and feeling like she failed her husband. As unintentional as it was, Chujin set his wife up to fail.

He also resents and fears humankind and that influences a lot of his actions and decisions. Chujin kept building Axis models, even when they would fail/be a danger to others, because he wanted a way to give monsters a fighting chance in the war. He crafts the serum because he wants to make monsterkind strong enough to stand up to humans. He leaves Kanako and Dalv behind to go fetch Axis and sicc him on Integrity instead of being there for a very sensitive time in her life (I assume that he only did that after it was assured that Kanako wasn't in any physical danger, but still. That's just an assumption. Also, that was a time when he should've stuck around and have been a comforting presence for her, not run off with his own agenda). While he was taken aback by how violently Axis killed Integrity and seemed somewhat remorseful, he still experiments on the SOUL of a human child. Instead of being proud of Martlet for getting a job as a Royal Guard and putting the carpentry he taught her to good use, he disapproves and is wholly unsupportive (I can understand him having reservations about his friend joining the Royal Guard as the job can be dangerous, but he could've at least been proud of her for accomplishing that/had some faith in Martlet's abilities). He calls humans incapable of decency in any form, yet hypocritically he acknowledges that it's possible for a human SOUL to be "pure."

What do I think of Chujin Ketsukane? He is complex and morally grey, and to call him entirely evil or entirely good does a massive disservice to his character. He did some really bad things but those bad things were done with good intentions. He did some good things (building Martlet's deck, the Honeydew Resort heater, likely the bridge between Starlo's farm and the Wild East, his family home, probably some other things, was working on methods to protect monsterkind) but that work came at the expense of his family. He never intended for things to go horribly wrong the way they did but he also didn't know when to back down. He was a kind individual and well respected by Martlet, Ceroba, Axis, even Starlo -- who doesn't like the man -- for a reason. He only ever wanted the best for his family, for Monsterkind. But at the end of the day, it's the actions that are judged. Knowing all I do about him, he is not someone I would call a good person.

There's another version of the proverb I dropped earlier that I feel suits him a bit better: "Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works."

[puzzlednd]

Here is a fun puzzle for you next DND session

Before you there are two guards and in the next room over there are two doors. (Blah blah blah) one always tells the truth and one always tells lies.

BUT HERE IS THE TWIST. The one who can only lie is actively trying to point the party in the correct direction.

He will try to actively try to provide correct information through lies and deception.

Meanwhile the other one is trying to provide incorrect information through honesty and logical fallacies.

[redlettermediathings]

[kelocitta]

Tangentially related to some of the discussion i posted earlier but quiet literally the first RW Art Month i participated I did it completely on whim like, one day before it started. And I mostly did it because I hadn't drawn a ton of rain world and wanted to draw more. Fandom presence was a lot smaller than and I was one of a handful of artists who did the entire thing. Fast forward and I still do Art Month and I've gotten to work with VC directly. But it was quite literally something I decided to do completely on whim that set the ball rolling, and for something a lil more niche and certainly with a lot more dev/fandom art involvement than most. It's really random how and why you might get noticed more than usual, especially with the "toss it into the search and hope it pays out' mechanism of Socmed

[tamietora]

Amelia Malfoy X Mattheo Riddle

[micechicken]

dev update. I have planned out the puzzles for the game! This made me realize that I have some more rooms to add or modify but the biggest aspect of the game is figured out! so now I can also start work on finalized sprites and graphics + splash art it also is WAY better story wise than what I started in 2020 and allows you to actually connect to the antagonist of the story. The main reason I abandoned the project 4 years ago was cause I was intimidated by the amount of characters I had to design and create sprite + art for as the plot originally involved the player saving a bunch of people. But I couldn't also think of interesting things to do regarding that either so I sat on it (it pretty much involved bring a character a specific item it was boring lol). Now it's story is more focused on the themes of friendship and betrayal I intended from the start. While having puzzles related to the items you collect to beat the game.

[aria0fgold]

Procrastinating sleep sure is something, but alas... I am.

[assassinmosseye]

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[vintagerpg]

This is M2: Maze of the Riddling Minotaur (1983), another invisible ink solo adventure like M1. As large swaths of the interior text are “blank,” I’ve not read it nor can I really comment on it. It looks cool though. I like Greek Mythology and I especially like minotaurs.

Another Timothy Truman cover, though I’m a little meh on this one. Inside is full of Keith Parkinson art, which is truly a gift.

[theworldcalledhollow]

It is that time of year again! Time for our Annual Egg hunt. This year, we have gotten feedback that our usual hunt is getting a little vanilla. Hopefully, our changes will spice up this year’s event. Login and read our welcome message for more details!

[prokopetz]

RPG which initially appears to take place in a Dark Souls style shitdark setting, all crumbling ruins and brooding skies and asshole skeletons posing cryptic riddles, but then you get past the tutorial and it rapidly becomes apparent that literally only the player character's home region is like that.

[redlettermediathings]

[tamietora]

[theselfshippingrose]

Edward honey please stop making my life harder and just give me the god damn trophy🙏