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went to the pub for a drink on my first real day off in over a week and watched the girl behind the bar drop the entire cash drawer on the floor in the middle of the rush and then just stare at it at her feet for like a solid two minutes

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rotates rotates rotates

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all of the boop gifs, have them for free

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Eyes in The Void

An abstract improv RPG

(You can archive this one)

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Imagine your Avatar. Grant it an Archetype, such as KNIGHT, INNOCENT, or SPECTER. Never reveal it. Give the Archetype a Tell, such as "A shining blade" or "Eyes too bright".

Collectively, imagine The Void. Define its form, such as "Abandoned manor" or "Moonlit forest". This is now Reality.

Form a circle and pick the first Demiurge.

Each round, one Avatar is absorbed by The Void, becoming the Demiurge. As Demiurge, shape Reality with your viewpoint.

Create a scenario from your memories. Then Avatars exist, interacting through the logic of Reality and/or their Tells.

The round concludes when an Avatar can no longer act, the Demiurge's scenario ends, or a stalemate is reached.

Afterwards, the Demiurge contributes to The Void's form, such as "Spooky" or "Secret Basement". This is now Reality.

Everyone else assigns each non-Demiurge Avatar a fitting Archetype. Tell them and no others. Graciously accept the Archetypes, discarding duplicates, and give each a Tell.

Then, the player to the Demiurge's right becomes the new Demiurge and the round starts. Everything is born anew, but the Avatars remember everything.

Play ends when everyone escapes The Void together, or anyone gives up. What happens afterwards is up to personal preference.

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)

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SQUEAK MEGA ART DUMP

squeak is a little cat i used to draw weekly on twitter! she loves chaos and arson, has the ability to travel between dimensions (mostly so i can just draw her with whatever characters i want), and is very smelly

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Grow up. Make a fursona. Show me your fursona. It's time to get real. No more messing around. Act your age. Become a furry.

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Best fashion advice I can give is to dress like your favorite flavor of Arizona ice tea

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Thinking back on it, I think the real reason that we never got a good SBURB fangame is because they were the equivalent of building a house on a foundation of sand. It's always recreating the intentionally overengineered alchemy, sylladex, and kernelsprite systems. Then it all falls apart once they hit the lands because they were built as ACT 1 simulators, not actual games.

If I absolutely had to figure out something myself, I'd suggest making it a roguelike or maaaaybe a procedurally generated Zelda-like. Get a solid foundation of overworld, dungeons big and small, towns, etc… and then just go kinda crazy with it.

Add in a tag-based crafting system. Add like 5 billion ways to cheat death. Add in a "be the guy" system to swap between playable characters across time and(ohgodno) space. Add multiplayer to a game that won't even let your characters in the same room for 80% of the story. Add enough to the dreamself gimmick to make it worth not immediately killing half of your metaphysical being for a cool hoodie.

Would it be good? Probably not if I were making it. Would it be possible to make? Perhaps.

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ough.. found this really old drawing i did when i tried to draw all the G1 pokemon from memory, like design, name and order in the dex

I couldnt even tell myself how many where in the region or if the pokemon i was drawing even was from kanto lol,, this was a fun lil project

[Commission Prices][Etsy][Buy me a Kofi]

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My brother, where do you intend to go tonight?

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Saw a tiktok about how there's a difference between an author being good at worldbuilding and creating a fun sandbox, and that a great sandbox usually DOESN'T indicate good worldbuilding because what makes it fun is all the holes there are to work with. And so many things just clicked.