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Don’t you think you’ve ruined the whole game with Universes Beyond? There are a lot of people who want to play UB, and also many who don’t. Have you thought about how to separate them?

Magic has always been a game where we make a huge swath of cards and the players get to choose which ones they get to play with. Not everyone is going to like every card. That was true long before Universes Beyond.

For example, there are players that really dislike horror and are uncomfortable with some of the images on cards. Others don’t like cards they see as too light in tone. Others, just aren’t fond of particular settings/sets.

Having tens of thousands of game pieces to choose from is a huge advantage of Magic, but that means there will be things any one player won’t like. They can choose not to play with them. And if it really bothers them, they can choose not to play with others who play with them, but that’s something handled at the local level, not the game design level.

I get that the issue that matters to you seems the most important, but everyone feels that way, and I know there are things others would remove from the game that you love.

So no, I don’t believe Universes Beyond ruins the game. We have gone through the exercise of how we could separate them, but after looking through all the data, it’s not something the majority of players want.

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Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Unscripted Redemption Bracket — Round 6.5−1

Propaganda

Sammy Sinclair, the Scat King of Ganymede (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...) (Boba Count: 3 and 1 shared):

Listen: we have fun here but there are two things Sammy Sinclair does and does well, and that's play the saxophone and fuck like a freight train. There's a reason he's left a trail of ex-lovers across the entire solar system, and while it's true the majority of them want him dead, that shouldn't be taken as any indication of his abilities. It's just because he's an asshole

Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...) (Boba Count: 1 and 1 shared):

Spanks self-describes as a "himbo", but he's really not; he's highly intelligent and analytical, with a lot of shit in his past, and at the time you meet him the most effective way he's found to keep his own brain from overwhelming him is by beating it into submission with a life of hard drinking and violence

Sammy and Spanks as a team:

They thought they were taking us down but all they did was make us that much more powerful. Vote Sammy and Spanks, the real friends at the table

Sammy and Spanks' boba order:

Pineapple and Coconut spiked with homebrought rum.

Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity) (Boba Count: 1):

It's TRISH UNA TIME EVERYONE

trish gang. with your help and also the power of incredible violence we can do this

Can I get some votes on Trish Una here? Spare some votes for a violent woman?

everyone vote trish NOW

Mod Note: This is only the Trish Una from the podcast Riley Hopkins And Their Amazing Friends. Do not vote on the basis of any other Trish Una.

Art of Trish Una courtesy of @charaznablescanontoyota.

Art of Sammy Sinclair and Spanks Sinatra by @violetfoxsketches.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Sammy Sinclair, the Scat King of Ganymede (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...):

Don't be crass, it's scat as in jazz. Formerly known as the Sax King of Ganymede, before the loss of his prized saxophone in a debt to the Space Mafia necessitated a rebrand

Pansexual, pangalactic, personal pan pizza

4'10"; but it's not the size that matters, it's what you do with it

As a saxophonist, is good with mouth and fingers and can hold breath for a VERY long time

Say hi to your mom/dad/aunt for me

In-character audio propaganda from when he was against Lup.

you know what's sexier than being an umbrella? Making da fuckin corpos so mad they cancel you.

I heard that swearing is sexy, or something

sexiestpodcastcharacter lore

PLEASE VOTE FOR SAMMY SINCLAIR, SCAT KING OF GANYMEDE!!!!!

In-character audio propaganda with Spanks Sinatra from a previous round.

Husky: Vote for Sammy or else... well let's just say that you will not like what happens.

In character audio propaganda against Muldan Foxskull.

In-character cover of The Slur Song.

Alright here's my final appeal to vote for Sammy: a spoiler-free clip from after a very pivotal moment where shit has gotten real and he has to make a decision with far-reaching repercussions. It's not all goofs and gags in SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY…, Sammy can lock in too!

Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...)

He/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra impersonator

Is too old for this shit (is 30)

Loves to use his fists

Is so tired

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

When not performing, is drinking. When not drinking, is beating people up for money. When not beating people up for money, is performing. Life is purposefully structured to avoid encountering a thought for as long as possible

Don't forget that Spanks' name is Spanks Sinatra ok, this is very important. Appreciate my jokes.

Don't you want to reach over and give him a better reason to turn his brain off for a while?

Important note: Spanks is a woman, he just uses he/him pronouns for various reasons, most of which are that he's a butch drag king.

Also vote for him.

Vote for Spanks Sinatra!!!

Who are you going to vote for: the he/him lesbian who can bench press you, or the tangled bundle of Christmas lights in your attic?

Come ON, you're going to let the he/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra who is also a bounty hunter get beat by a pile of cold, unflavored spaghetti??? Seriously?

Audio propaganda with Sammy Sinclair.

Art propaganda of Spanks Sinatra being crushed by Husky, as mentioned in the above audio propaganda.

Vote for my sad messed up drag king

Spanks is a he/him lesbian. come on. look at him

Vote for Spanks, he doesn't need a psychic ghost to turn you to rubber

Anyway if it's rope/cable play you're into, Spanks has a move for that

Sammy and Spanks as a team:

The Dosage Tango Crew can tag team the finals, but only with your help!! This is how it was always meant to be. We can do this. Let's carry that weight together and show the finals what damage a couple of bad boys with nothing to lose can do. 👉💥

Sammy and Spanks might have a 20 year age gap between them, but they're each the closest thing either has to a friend. Despite being two extremely self-involved loners with very different personalities, they manage to understand each other better than anyone else in large part because they both agree on a simple guiding principle: where you came from doesn't dictate who you are, and there are some rocks you don't need to dig under. They might enable some of each other's worst vices but they also manage to keep one another from going too far off the deep end, and after having worked together for a very long time they know they can count on one another to watch each other's backs, which can be a rare thing in their line of work. There's no job the two of them can't manage together, and that includes the sexiest podcast character tournament if you help them tie today

Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):

Trish Una, from the universe of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, ensures that the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Trush Ina, from JJBA, fights Rachel from Animorphs and wins. T. Una Sandwich, from Jimmy John's Brash Accumulation, is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog and she's also my dad. T-Minus Uno, from Chipotle,

She is emotionally compromised and definitely not turning into her father

Trish "is it stands" Una is the type of motherfuckers you need to see to be believed. Trish & Carrie toxic Yuri. Trish the fucking Spirit of justice. Trish is the real one.

Please vote for my close friend Trish Una or else you leave without saying goodbye to her

TRISH "THE MONEY" UNA

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

#is that fucking shadow the hedgehog

yes! he's one of the main party members! listen to intersitital infinity on riley hopkins and their amazing friends!

Trish Una is a girl who is certain she knows what's going on. She shishkebobed Simon from Infinity Train. She is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog, Mob from Mob Psycho, Alphonse Elric, and technically Shoka Sakurane.

Please vote for Trish she is so so sexy

Trish Una could take over a position of leadership in a preestablished location but could Virtue have a emotionally fraught conversation with carrie white?

vote for trish una, girl who went to another universe, found out she was fictional / a tertiary character at best in her own story, and decided the proper coping method was to punch a guy to shreds

vote for trish una, girl who looked at carrie from the movie carrie and said "i could fix her"

vote for trish una, girl who fought a bear and won

vote for trish una, girl who put a part of herself into a machine in an attempt to control it and inextricably(?) linked the machine to her soul

vote for trish una, girl who might be the devil

Ok genuinely I'm gonna need some razzle dazzle for the Deal Great Harm queen, the beautiful mind, the arm through a little blonde boy with bad vibes, thumbs down, bad motherfucker l, head full of rocks heart full of emotions Trish Una

She's been left by everyone she cares about- are you going to leave her too?

trish una is capable of such violence it's beautiful. listen to those clips again i beseech you

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Physical Book sale! Promo code: WORLDISAFUCK

Wow! Interstitial 2E is mostly in my rearview now, but because of the Kickstarter I now have a backlog of physical copies sitting in my home!

So because of that, you can go to and use promo code "WORLDISAFUCK" to get 30% off! Wow!

There's also promo code "BORNTODIE" and that will charge you 30% more, if you want to help me replace my dying water heater.

Interstitial 2E is a game about crossover fanfiction, the relationships between people, and traveling between worlds.

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Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Unscripted Redemption Bracket — Round 6.5−1

Propaganda

Sammy Sinclair, the Scat King of Ganymede (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...) (Boba Count: 3 and 1 shared):

Listen: we have fun here but there are two things Sammy Sinclair does and does well, and that's play the saxophone and fuck like a freight train. There's a reason he's left a trail of ex-lovers across the entire solar system, and while it's true the majority of them want him dead, that shouldn't be taken as any indication of his abilities. It's just because he's an asshole

Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...) (Boba Count: 1 and 1 shared):

Spanks self-describes as a "himbo", but he's really not; he's highly intelligent and analytical, with a lot of shit in his past, and at the time you meet him the most effective way he's found to keep his own brain from overwhelming him is by beating it into submission with a life of hard drinking and violence

Sammy and Spanks as a team:

They thought they were taking us down but all they did was make us that much more powerful. Vote Sammy and Spanks, the real friends at the table

Sammy and Spanks' boba order:

Pineapple and Coconut spiked with homebrought rum.

Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity) (Boba Count: 1):

It's TRISH UNA TIME EVERYONE

trish gang. with your help and also the power of incredible violence we can do this

Can I get some votes on Trish Una here? Spare some votes for a violent woman?

everyone vote trish NOW

Mod Note: This is only the Trish Una from the podcast Riley Hopkins And Their Amazing Friends. Do not vote on the basis of any other Trish Una.

Art of Trish Una courtesy of @charaznablescanontoyota.

Art of Sammy Sinclair and Spanks Sinatra by @violetfoxsketches.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Sammy Sinclair, the Scat King of Ganymede (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...):

Don't be crass, it's scat as in jazz. Formerly known as the Sax King of Ganymede, before the loss of his prized saxophone in a debt to the Space Mafia necessitated a rebrand

Pansexual, pangalactic, personal pan pizza

4'10"; but it's not the size that matters, it's what you do with it

As a saxophonist, is good with mouth and fingers and can hold breath for a VERY long time

Say hi to your mom/dad/aunt for me

In-character audio propaganda from when he was against Lup.

you know what's sexier than being an umbrella? Making da fuckin corpos so mad they cancel you.

I heard that swearing is sexy, or something

sexiestpodcastcharacter lore

PLEASE VOTE FOR SAMMY SINCLAIR, SCAT KING OF GANYMEDE!!!!!

In-character audio propaganda with Spanks Sinatra from a previous round.

Husky: Vote for Sammy or else... well let's just say that you will not like what happens.

In character audio propaganda against Muldan Foxskull.

In-character cover of The Slur Song.

Alright here's my final appeal to vote for Sammy: a spoiler-free clip from after a very pivotal moment where shit has gotten real and he has to make a decision with far-reaching repercussions. It's not all goofs and gags in SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY…, Sammy can lock in too!

Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...)

He/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra impersonator

Is too old for this shit (is 30)

Loves to use his fists

Is so tired

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

When not performing, is drinking. When not drinking, is beating people up for money. When not beating people up for money, is performing. Life is purposefully structured to avoid encountering a thought for as long as possible

Don't forget that Spanks' name is Spanks Sinatra ok, this is very important. Appreciate my jokes.

Don't you want to reach over and give him a better reason to turn his brain off for a while?

Important note: Spanks is a woman, he just uses he/him pronouns for various reasons, most of which are that he's a butch drag king.

Also vote for him.

Vote for Spanks Sinatra!!!

Who are you going to vote for: the he/him lesbian who can bench press you, or the tangled bundle of Christmas lights in your attic?

Come ON, you're going to let the he/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra who is also a bounty hunter get beat by a pile of cold, unflavored spaghetti??? Seriously?

Audio propaganda with Sammy Sinclair.

Art propaganda of Spanks Sinatra being crushed by Husky, as mentioned in the above audio propaganda.

Vote for my sad messed up drag king

Spanks is a he/him lesbian. come on. look at him

Vote for Spanks, he doesn't need a psychic ghost to turn you to rubber

Anyway if it's rope/cable play you're into, Spanks has a move for that

Sammy and Spanks as a team:

The Dosage Tango Crew can tag team the finals, but only with your help!! This is how it was always meant to be. We can do this. Let's carry that weight together and show the finals what damage a couple of bad boys with nothing to lose can do. 👉💥

Sammy and Spanks might have a 20 year age gap between them, but they're each the closest thing either has to a friend. Despite being two extremely self-involved loners with very different personalities, they manage to understand each other better than anyone else in large part because they both agree on a simple guiding principle: where you came from doesn't dictate who you are, and there are some rocks you don't need to dig under. They might enable some of each other's worst vices but they also manage to keep one another from going too far off the deep end, and after having worked together for a very long time they know they can count on one another to watch each other's backs, which can be a rare thing in their line of work. There's no job the two of them can't manage together, and that includes the sexiest podcast character tournament if you help them tie today

Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):

Trish Una, from the universe of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, ensures that the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Trush Ina, from JJBA, fights Rachel from Animorphs and wins. T. Una Sandwich, from Jimmy John's Brash Accumulation, is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog and she's also my dad. T-Minus Uno, from Chipotle,

She is emotionally compromised and definitely not turning into her father

Trish "is it stands" Una is the type of motherfuckers you need to see to be believed. Trish & Carrie toxic Yuri. Trish the fucking Spirit of justice. Trish is the real one.

Please vote for my close friend Trish Una or else you leave without saying goodbye to her

TRISH "THE MONEY" UNA

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

#is that fucking shadow the hedgehog

yes! he's one of the main party members! listen to intersitital infinity on riley hopkins and their amazing friends!

Trish Una is a girl who is certain she knows what's going on. She shishkebobed Simon from Infinity Train. She is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog, Mob from Mob Psycho, Alphonse Elric, and technically Shoka Sakurane.

Please vote for Trish she is so so sexy

Trish Una could take over a position of leadership in a preestablished location but could Virtue have a emotionally fraught conversation with carrie white?

vote for trish una, girl who went to another universe, found out she was fictional / a tertiary character at best in her own story, and decided the proper coping method was to punch a guy to shreds

vote for trish una, girl who looked at carrie from the movie carrie and said "i could fix her"

vote for trish una, girl who fought a bear and won

vote for trish una, girl who put a part of herself into a machine in an attempt to control it and inextricably(?) linked the machine to her soul

vote for trish una, girl who might be the devil

Ok genuinely I'm gonna need some razzle dazzle for the Deal Great Harm queen, the beautiful mind, the arm through a little blonde boy with bad vibes, thumbs down, bad motherfucker l, head full of rocks heart full of emotions Trish Una

She's been left by everyone she cares about- are you going to leave her too?

trish una is capable of such violence it's beautiful. listen to those clips again i beseech you

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Again, was not expecting much from Under Dragon’s Wing (1984), owing to the fact that TSR cared so much about the book they just slapped part of Elmore’s Basic Rules cover on it. Not inspiring much confidence there.

The book defies expectation though. The protagonist is a kid wizard and a prince of a kingdom that is currently being invaded. He wants to help with the fight and gets some dragon-related summoning/controlling magic items to do so. His companion isn’t an annoying talking animal, either. Rather, he’s got his badass elven tutor/bodyguard along for the ride.

The paths are interesting. I feel like many of the choices lead to unexpected consequences, which is especially good because a lot of them impact the war, and battle is unpredictable! There are some high stakes with the magic too — one path has you permanently transforming into a dragon, a prospect that the text treats as both thrilling and kind of terrible. Weirdly, though, I feel like you have to work to get a bad ending in this one. I am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

I quite like Sam Grainger’s art. Really nice line work, this is the first EQ that has a whiff of Fighting Fantasy about its illustrations.

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Making the Werewolf: The Forsaken/Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist situation worse on purpose by running a game jam whose only rule is that each submission's title must abbreviate to "WTF".

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100% my favourite part of the d&d movie was that holga had pit hair. i zoomed the fuck in on that. YES your female barbarian has armpit hair YES she does YES you fucking get it, yes this makes her a million times hotter. good fucking lord

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So in tomorrow's D&D game I need to be ready to run a Soccer Match, because the player characters have challenged the Royal Family of the Autumn Fae and chosen that as the medium of conflict. I tentatively have a system together for this, where I've been lifting heavily from Final Fantasy X's Blitzball and also from Rocket League for soccer-adjacent games that have already had a bit of the complexity stripped out for someone who doesn't want to take the time to read the rulebook, and also since the Video Game structures in place do so much of the heavy lifting as far as translating the real world rules into a format that I can use in a TTRPG.

Currently I plan to have it work like this:

1.) It's Arena Soccer. Smaller field size, and much smaller teams. Only 6 people on a side (coincidentally the exact number of Player Characters I have). Each team may also have one Reserve member, because I forgot to account for seven of the eight Autumn Royals being alive and present when the challenge was levied (Prince Havelor was laid to rest from being a Banshee by the player characters, which is what earned them the goodwill from the other Autumn Fae that they were willing to accept this challenge). The youngest Royal, who is half-mortal and terrified of injury or death, will be their reserve, while the PCs will be given the opportunity to recruit their own reserve before the match... or to just risk going without one.

2.) The field is encased in a magic forcefield, so there is no out of bounds for either players or the balls, dramatically cutting down the potential sources of fouls. A ball that ricochet's off the wall is still in play.

3.) Magic is technically not allowed, but some magic is harder for the Referee to detect, and some traits are so inherent to a player's physical structure that it's hard to rule them as "unnatural". However, to reduce the complexity of the whole affair I have assigned each player three special maneuvers that broadly condense the themes of their ancestry, class, and background, which seemed more manageable than letting six level 14 PCs cut loose with their full character sheet of tricks.

4.) We're doing Zone-Based movement instead of Grid Movement... which is really just Grid Movement but the squares represent larger areas. Any character with a ground speed of 25 or 30 feet per turn can move two grid spaces (I rounded it up so the couple Small creatures on the team wouldn't get screwed).

4.) Basic maneuvers are performed as Strenth (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks depending on the Maneuver type. Straight Constitution rolls also come up a lot. Maneuvers include:

Shoot - An attempt to get the ball into the enemy's goal, defaults to STR (Athletics). This suffers a -3 penalty to the roll for every Zone Boundary it crosses.

Block - Performed as a Reaction, but can also be Prepared as an Action. If the enemy team can get it together enough to try shooting 3 times in a round though, watch out! An attempt by the Goalie to prevent a Shoot action from succeeding, defaults to player's choice of STR (Athletics) or DEX (Acrobatics).

Pass - An attempt to send the ball to another player on your team. Defaults to STR (Athletics). This suffers a -3 penalty to the roll for every Zone Boundary it crosses.

Take - Performed as a Reaction. An attempt to receive a ball being passed. Easier done if you are on the same team as the person performing the Pass maneuver, but the enemy team can try to intercept the ball in motion with the Take maneuver as well. Defaults to player's choice of STR (Athletics) or DEX (Acrobatics). If the ball passes through the Zone you currently occupy, you may spend 2 Endurance points to try to Take it... unless you're the player the Pass was originally directed towards, in which case Taking costs 0 Endurance.

Control - An attempt to move the ball while keeping it in your possession. Defaults to DEX (Acrobatics). Every round you maintain Control costs 1 Endurance point. A roll of 12 or more allows you to move the ball One square, 15 or more allows you to move it 2 zones, and 18 or more allows you to move it 3 squares. While you are maintaining Control, you do not get your default Run each turn.

Skirmish - Can be performed as an Action or Reaction, but you must be in the same zone as the target. An attempt to interfere with another player's Control, and possibly even prevent other players from moving, or actually cause injury (better hope the Ref isn't looking). Defaults to STR (Athletics).

Run - Every turn, a player can move 2 zones, unless they have Control of the ball in which case they have to roll to see how far they move. A player who's not doing anything else with their Action can also use it to Run, adding 2 more zones to their movement.

Fortify - A player who's not involved in the action may instead try to catch their breath and regain some Endurance. This is a straight Constitution roll with no Proficiency bonus. A 12+ regains 1 Endurance, a 15+ regains 2 Endurance, and an 18+ regains 3 Endurance. A failure loses 1 Endurance however, because you're stressing yourself out down there.

5.) Now here's where things get tricky. Each Maneuver can be performed with a Flourish, which changes the base Ability Score of the Acrobatics or Athletics check. All Flourishes cost 2 Endurance by default, and some of them have no effect on specific Maneuvers beyond changing the Ability rolled. Flourishes are evoked with Bonus Actions.

Aggressive (Strength) - You decide to get a little rough. Or a lot rough. The maneuver now has a chance to injure anyone who opposes it. If it's already a Skirmish, you're straight up trying to break their ankles.

Evasive (Dexterity) - You get extra fancy with your footwork and make it more difficult for anyone to interfere with whatever you're doing.

Efficient (Constitution) - Your motions are measured and economical, and you may partially or fully mitigate the endurance cost of the Maneuver, potentially including the cost of this Flourish.

Strategic (Intelligence) - You perform your maneuver in a way that sets up your teammates to combo off of you and receive bonuses, either the next person to act or the next person to take possession of the ball.

Observant (Wisdom) - You perform the maneuver in a way that forces the opposition to reveal information about their attributes, abilities, or plans.

Rallying (Charisma) - A particularly versatile maneuver type, but one with a higher risk of going bad. Can be used to restore Endurance to teammates, demoralize the opposition, distract the Goalie, or get the audience on your side.

6.) Each Audience zone can be swayed independently, and having them on your side grants a morale bonus to actions performed in that quadrant of the field. The crossover areas add together all bonuses and penalties, so in theory a team that really focuses on Rallying the crowd could enjoy a +4 bonus in Center Field. Luckily Prince Auberont of the Autumn Fae, the eldest son of the late queen Melpomene whose death the players came here to investigate, is an honorable man and has commanded his subjects to receive the players as his personal esteemed guests, rendering both teams Neutral in the eyes of the crowd to start. Unfortunately, most of the Royal Fae are really really Charismatic, and should have very little trouble Rallying the crowd.

7.) Matches have 2 halves, and 1 half will last no longer than 10 combat rounds (consisting of 1 turn for each of the 12 players on the field). Everyone's Endurance is restored between Halves.

8.) Players have special powers with their own activation costs.

On the Player Character side:

The Human Paladin can charge the ball with a smite-like effect that makes it painful for enemies to touch, can protect any nearby teammates from Skirmish attempts, and can use Rallying flourishes with greater efficiency.

The Cursewrought Fighter (think the enchanted denizens of the Beast's Castle, this guy was turned into a silver Gravy Boat by an egomaniacal Wizard who liked to decorate his house with transmuted foes) can use his prehensile gravy tongue to handle the ball because the rules only technically say no hands, perform bewildering antics to distract the ref, and use certain inherent spacial trickery gifts to cause the borders of the arena to "wrap" like a pac man stage, so he can move off one side and appear on the opposite side.

The Changeling Druid can swap what Ability Score she's using to her choice without having to invoke a Flourish by becoming an animal who fits that style, can take on the appearance of one of her opponents to cause passes directed towards them a chance to miss, and can use her secret psychic spiderweb magic to coordinate her teammates.

The Human(ish) Wizard (Witch) can douse the ball in the godawful special hot sauce she's been brewing, making it do ongoing damage to anyone who touches it, can act as Witchy as possible to intimidate the Autumn Courtiers from opposing her directly due to deeply held local cultural taboos about interfering with Crones, and can use her eidetic memory to recover scandalous details from the news about the Autumn Royals, all of whom are the kind of public figures who wind up in the tabloids a lot, and deny them the use of their own abilities by bringing up embarrassing shit to distract them.

The Lizardfolk Cleric can call on their Luck Goddess to actively fuck with the dice IRL, regain Endurance much more quickly as a result of having been raised in an alchemically polluted wasteland and being made of sturdy enough stuff to survive it, and can use secret toad spirit magic from another source to smuggle extra balls onto the field in their mouth, ejecting them when the ref isn't looking.

The Winter Fae Fox-Folk Ranger can make shots and passes at extreme ranges with reduced penalties, especially if no one else is near him, can send out his squad of loyal Pixie Hooligans to skirmish with people from a zone away (and have them infiltrate sections of the audience if they get spotted by the ref and ejected from the game), and pick one opponent in particular at a time to go "HEY FUCK THAT GUY" and gain bonuses to oppose them.

The planned Recruitable Secret Guest character to sit in reserve is a physically indestructible individual who can just barge through opposition without giving a single shit about his own safety.

The Autumn Royals on the other hand can do the following. To streamline things for me as DM, these are being built as Two powers each compared to the 3 each for Player Characters, but these powers will be just slightly more potent.

The eldest Prince is also King of the Werewolves (which is why he's ineligible to inherit his mother's throne), and can go Wolf Mode for bonus stats, generally intimidate the hell out of anyone, and ensure that the Refs are freed of any influence by reminding them how disappointed he'll be if they do anything shady.

The two oldest Princesses (Twins) are cursed to always oppose each other. Whenever one of them makes a roll, I'll take note of what's on the opposite side of the d20 and that will be the next roll from the other sister. They'll swap Initiative orders each round, and may also be able to swap positions, or pass the ball directly to each other without it having to travel through the space between.

The middle Princess is an incredibly proficient liar. She can lie so effectively that she can more or less rewind time by saying "That didn't just happen," and force a reroll. She can also fuck with the audience, the referees, or the player character's morale with incredible proficiency, and her Rally flourishes are always cheaper to use.

(The next youngest Prince is the Banshee, and he's not playing on account of finally being at peace with being dead. For now, anyway.)

The next youngest Princess is physically frail, but an incredibly gifted Oracle who has become so adept at foreseeing the future that she has somewhat lost the knack for communicating with the present. She will be the Goalie because she knows exactly where the ball will be. She can also Foretell to interfere with other people's dice, but whenever she splashes Doom around it tends to get everyone dirty, not just her opponents.

The next youngest Prince is still an adolescent in Fae terms, and has even stronger Serial Killer vibes than the rest of his family... but that may just be a Fae thing, or a Teen thing, or a Fae Teen thing. Regardless, pretty much any interaction with him will be unsettling enough to strip some Endurance from an opponent.

The youngest Prince is half-mortal, and the idea of hurling his fragile body around an athletics field frankly terrifies him. If he's forced to play, he will be nothing but a detriment to his siblings.

Hopefully this isn't too much bullshit to drop on my players, and hopefully it doesn't last more than one or two sessions of play... unless they're having a super good time with it, I guess.

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Please do not spend millions of dollars making a game without knowing why you’re doing it.

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Making the Werewolf: The Forsaken/Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist situation worse on purpose by running a game jam whose only rule is that each submission's title must abbreviate to "WTF".

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Look at this motley crew.

RP icons for what looks like a very interesting game.

@amuseoffirebane @bio-where @minyopompom @skxtyd @werewolftuxedo

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Are you telling me this is a teleport-a-potty?

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Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Unscripted Redemption Bracket — Round 5.5−1

Propaganda

Sammy Sinclair, the Scat King of Ganymede (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...) (Boba Count: 3):

Listen: we have fun here but there are two things Sammy Sinclair does and does well, and that's play the saxophone and fuck like a freight train. There's a reason he's left a trail of ex-lovers across the entire solar system, and while it's true the majority of them want him dead, that shouldn't be taken as any indication of his abilities. It's just because he's an asshole

In character audio propaganda against Muldan Foxskull.

Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...) (Boba Count: 1):

When not performing, is drinking. When not drinking, is beating people up for money. When not beating people up for money, is performing. Life is purposefully structured to avoid encountering a thought for as long as possible

Vote for Spanks, he doesn't need a psychic ghost to turn you to rubber

Art of Sammy Sinclair by @areyoshi.

Art of Spanks Sinatra by @violetfoxsketches.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Sammy Sinclair, the Scat King of Ganymede (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...):

Don't be crass, it's scat as in jazz. Formerly known as the Sax King of Ganymede, before the loss of his prized saxophone in a debt to the Space Mafia necessitated a rebrand

Pansexual, pangalactic, personal pan pizza

4'10"; but it's not the size that matters, it's what you do with it

As a saxophonist, is good with mouth and fingers and can hold breath for a VERY long time

Say hi to your mom/dad/aunt for me

In-character audio propaganda from when he was against Lup.

you know what's sexier than being an umbrella? Making da fuckin corpos so mad they cancel you.

I heard that swearing is sexy, or something

sexiestpodcastcharacter lore

PLEASE VOTE FOR SAMMY SINCLAIR, SCAT KING OF GANYMEDE!!!!!

In-character audio propaganda with Spanks Sinatra from a previous round.

Husky: Vote for Sammy or else... well let's just say that you will not like what happens.

Alright here's my final appeal to vote for Sammy: a spoiler-free clip from after a very pivotal moment where shit has gotten real and he has to make a decision with far-reaching repercussions. It's not all goofs and gags in SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY…, Sammy can lock in too!

In-character cover of The Slur Song.

Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...)

He/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra impersonator

Is too old for this shit (is 30)

Loves to use his fists

Is so tired

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Don't forget that Spanks' name is Spanks Sinatra ok, this is very important. Appreciate my jokes.

Don't you want to reach over and give him a better reason to turn his brain off for a while?

Spanks self-describes as a "himbo", but he's really not; he's highly intelligent and analytical, with a lot of shit in his past, and at the time you meet him the most effective way he's found to keep his own brain from overwhelming him is by beating it into submission with a life of hard drinking and violence

Important note: Spanks is a woman, he just uses he/him pronouns for various reasons, most of which are that he's a butch drag king.

Also vote for him.

Vote for Spanks Sinatra!!!

Who are you going to vote for: the he/him lesbian who can bench press you, or the tangled bundle of Christmas lights in your attic?

Come ON, you're going to let the he/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra who is also a bounty hunter get beat by a pile of cold, unflavored spaghetti??? Seriously?

Audio propaganda with Sammy Sinclair.

Art propaganda of Spanks Sinatra being crushed by Husky, as mentioned in the above audio propaganda.

Vote for my sad messed up drag king

Spanks is a he/him lesbian. come on. look at him

Anyway if it's rope/cable play you're into, Spanks has a move for that

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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

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So apparently they took orcs out of the new Monster Manual, and I get their reasoning. They’re in the Player’s Handbook now, and none of the others from that book, like elves or dragonborn, are in the Monster Manual.

But I think this was a mistake. There was actually another solution, something that literally every other edition of the game did. You want to be a return to the old ways, don’t you, 5e? I know you do you nasty little freak. So here’s what you should have done:

Put the other ones back in the Monster Manual.