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I've caught up on Kill 6 Billion Demons. hey, that's a good comic

It was very refreshing to read something that actually pays off on the ideas it sets up and doesn't just shirk away from them forever. I'm excited to see how it wraps up.

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Solidarity

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Sorry I haven’t been annoying on the internet for a while. I have fallen ill

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every time someone says “look how they’re looking at each other! they’re in love!” about a non-canon ship i just think of the kuleshov effect for a second but then i come to my senses and decide to have fun

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new favorite AO3 comment dropped. short, simple, to the point. made me laugh so hard my stomach hurt.

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Y’all, I am so sick of people messaging me trying to ebeg for commissions.

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Jesus Christ. Polygon's done.

Plante is out as editor. Massive layoffs across the staff, including Nicole Carpenter, Petrana Radulovic, Michael McWhertor, maybe Charlie Hall...

Fucking hell. I wouldn't have even tried to start writing about games without that site. Goddamnit all.

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characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies

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Some people really love boy cats because they’re so sweet and nice.

But I love girls cats because they hate me. They have their own thoughts and political opinions

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Of course you have a bite attack and two claw attacks and two wing attacks and a tail slap and a breath weapon. And pronouns. 🙄

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i actually don’t give a fuck that transvestigation laws “will end up impacting cis women too” it should be enough that they impact trans women. you should care about that on its own actually.

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Blade Runner (1982)

Syd Mead's gorgeous Blade Runner's interiors

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This is an odd one, DQ1: The Shattered Statue (1988), the first and, to my knowledge, only DragonQuest product produced by TSR.

A little history. When wargame makers SPI got into the RPG scene, TSR pulled some corporate fuckery to basically put them out of business and seize their assets — it would remove a rival fantasy game, DragonQuest, from the market, and give TSR a leg up in wargames (which never materialized, because the wargame market had collapsed, so there was nothing to get a leg up on, really). So TSR was stuck with DragonQuest, and reissued the rules. And I guess they decided to produce some content for it, too. And get Jennell Jaquays to write and illustrate it, which, sign me up! Enchanted Forest, which I covered back in February, was a banger, so chances are this one is, too. Even if it is also a Forgotten Realms adventure? TSR was weird, man.

The adventure is pretty good. An alchemist hires the players to track down the missing pieces of a massive stone golem he is attempting to reassemble. About half the scenario involves scouring the countryside for the parts, which involves a number of excellent encounters — there is a red dragon that is very interesting, and a group of gargoyles with roleplaying notes. And a dragonwight, with a badass accompanying illustration. There are also logistical problems with moving the gigantic pieces.

The climax is brief — reassembling the construct reveals the reason it was destroyed in the first place: it has been possessed by a devil and shattered it to stop its rampage. Now it’s rampaging again. There is also a wizardly duel happening and a lot of civilian casualties, so the players need to find a way to stop it. Pretty good ending, really.

The rest of the book reprints some of the magic rules from the DragonQuest rules. I’m not entirely sure why, because I’d assume that if you were playing this with DQ, you’d already have them, you know, in the DragonQuest book? I don’t know and am not really motivated to find out.

Excellent illustration work from Jaquays throughout. I mentioned the dragonwight already, but the NPC portraits are stellar. Lots of zipatone. A delightfully bizarre Daniel Horne cover featuring what I can only hope is Buffalo Bill Cody riding a pterodactyl and wielding a runeblade.

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woooooaahh, happy birthday to me, time to put all my ttrpgs on sale over on itch!

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Damn, this one kind of blew up. Thank you all, o really appreciate the attention 🥵

Hey, my new game for the Eternal Jam is up. I'm pretty happy with it.

Play as a crew of gritty space rats that dive into an eternal storm to salvage ships. This ended up as an interesting combo of resource card game and narrative generation game. It also features some of my illustrations (a first for my games, be nice😅).

Come check it out.