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[aurosoulart]

space mushroom folk I designed for our Beam Saber campaign, All That You Know

*jangles characters at you from under my cloak like an old timey alley salesman* give it a listen....... you know you wanna new ttrpg podcast...... 'specially one with 30 eps out already............. what's da worst that could happen

[calamitycascade]

What dose it mean to be a psychic? can it be trained or are you just born like that?

Excellent question! So basically it's just kinda like this

Hope that helps! Thanks for writing in.

[aurosoul]

I’m making an extremely short animatic for a joke in the very last seconds of the most recent ATYK ep and it’s not done yet but I just really need people to see these dog drawings I just made

say hello to Little Bippo

[crowmagus]

Brief Hiatus for RANGER

Hi Everyone, the monthly update's for RANGER are going to be temporarily (I promise) suspended.

I'm currently working on an actual play project that's been eating up most of my creativity juice, but if you've enjoyed RANGER you may enjoy the podcast as well.

It's a science fiction + mech story about an unpopular war, and the typed of warped people who would fight in them. Currently we're playing beamsaber - an offshoot of Blades in the Dark.

You can listen to it in any podcast app, or on youtube (links below)

Link to Youtube Podcast

I may post some RANGER updates from time to time, but I just wanted to give all a heads up.

Thanks a ton!

[austinramsaygames]

Hey Austin,

Huge fan of Beam Saber. I was wondering what your own personal favorite playbook is that you’ve made for it?

A lot of the core playbooks are very inspired from core BITD, but have delightful twists on them - like the empath for instance.

With the Growing Conflict expansion, I can tell you really went wild with some of these playbooks. All of them bringing really cool ideas to the table (I particularly love the rookie, reminds me of the Mundane from monster of the week)

(This is Colin from ATYK btw, can’t send from the side blog)

You're absolutely right about a number of the playbooks in the core rulebook being twists on the Blades playbooks, however, Ace, Bureaucrat, Empath, and Mechanized Cavalry are wholly original. They MIGHT have a couple abilities that previously existed in Blades playbooks and have been modified to fit the game.

As for my favourite playbook, I'm a creature of recency bias when it comes to that. Whichever playbook I've worked on most recently is the one I'm most excited about, which is currently The Recluse (hopefully releasing this month or next, just waiting on the cover art). I also always love to see the different ways that players use any playbook.

While I've GMed a lot of Beam Saber, I've played very little as a pilot (only two sessions in separate one shots) so I don't have much hands on experience to form an opinion.

If that answer is too much of a cop out my three favourite pilot playbooks from the core book are Ace, Bureaucrat, and Empath because they are wholly made by me. My three favourites from Growing Conflict are Transformed, Forewarned, and Tuner.

You're correct that I went wild with Growing Conflict. A lot of the abilities and ideas in it are from rejected notes that I had while making the core book. I never delete any notes, they all go into a rejected notes section for possible recycling.

[deadlybeautydbz]

So the last couple days, I’ve been getting high on my own supply and have been reading back over all my old stories. And I have thoughts.

My very first story was published on FFN when I was 12 years old. 12! I am now 36. That is well over half my life ago. Those stories are objectively bad. The writing is awful, the plots stupid, the characterisations non-existent. But I am so proud of them. I am proud of 12 year old DB who stumbled into something she loved and went for it. I’m proud of that little girl for sticking by it and working hard and keeping at it and not letting the naysayers get her down. If 12 year old DB hadn’t forged that path, 36 year old DB would be missing one of the greatest passions in her life - writing. I keep those awful stories online as a reminder to not just myself, but to others, that we all come from humble beginnings, and that with hard work, dedication and passion we can all become something greater than we ever imagined.

As I was reading through the back catalogue, I got to a (not so) little story called And Then You’ll Know. It’s an absolute behemoth at 47 chapters long and coming in at just under 250 thousand words, and all I can think is god damn I wish I hadn’t written it when I was 15. Having re-read over it now, I can see it. The bones are there for something special, but in 2002, when I was just a kid, I was in over my head. Writing about themes that I understood in theory, but didn’t have the lived experience or life skills to fully execute.

There is some deep shit in there. Family trauma, sexual trauma, bullying, violence, betrayal, love, loss - all the dark and gritty things I love to unpack in the things I write now, but voiced by someone whose understanding of the topics was just ever so slightly out of reach.

If I was writing that story now, I could write the absolute shit out of it. My god it would be next level good. I would pick apart those themes, explore those characters, write those words with the experience of someone who has lived a full life. It would be raw and gritty and, just like my real life, full of swearing and inappropriate content.

I can see the beginnings of my future style in that story too, and the improvements I made to my technique over the course of 47 chapters was insane.

Seriously, pick a random chapter between 1-10, and another between 35-47 and I don’t think you would know they were written by the same person the quality improves that dramatically.

And I’m so proud of little me. She worked so hard and improved so much - and don’t get me wrong, the latter chapters are still very far from perfect or even good, but you can see the learning and growth right in front of your very own eyes.

My kids would never read my stories, they’re all way to cool for that, but I hope that the lessons I have taught myself over the years of persuing a creative hobby - courage, trusting in yourself, perseverance, picking yourself up and dusting yourself off, not listening to people’s negativity, finishing something that you started - I hope that they are all lessons I have managed to pass onto them as they navigate their own lives. And I hope that anyone who might ever happen to stumbled over to my little FFN page, and see those ancient stories and contrasts them against what I’m able to creat today might be able to learn some of those lessons too.

I hope my writing brings good into the world and puts smiles onto people’s faces. That’s all really.

Anyway, if I ever get the chance, should I rewrite and republish ATYK with the skills of someone who actually knows how to string a sentence together?

[breachtime]

Oh I actually love my new icon

[doglesshamster]

fina with plush meat 

[babysizedfics]

do you think that either of the littles would like Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom or maybe even Puffin Rock?? those are two that my baby loves lol- 🖤

i did actually consider ben and hollys little kingdom bc its v similar to peopa pig! i think it is safe for vee but he just doesnt like it that much, just random personal preference, but if it was on her interest would be piqued a lil and its okay to have as like background while she plays

idk abt puffin rock bc im scared of birds so i cant check it im sorry (⌯˃̶᷄ ﹏ ˂̶᷄⌯)ﾟ

BUT the art atyke just reminded me that one of vees fave shows is "guess how much i love u" !! thats about bunnies and its v soft and british and is about a father and child relationship so its v soft for him

but all of those shows are too young for roman!! he needs much more interesting plots, eg spongebob, curious george, steven universe -- dora the explorer is kind of his only exception for a littler show

[calamitycascade]

Thank you all for your attention and support. I know "a dream come true" is like the most generic thing a person can possibly say in this situation, but it really does feel like that.

It's been so rewarding to share this story with all of you, and just see where it goes.

That's all! Here's to another year.

(Art by Ewan @aurosoulart. THANK YOU!!!)

[samporterbridge]

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[eurooborudovanie]

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[sudocrypto]

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[zourite]

"Dans ma rue" by Lim, ATYK http://spoti.fi/2c8KfSh

[aurosoulart]

‘Little Bippo’s Brand New Skin’, from All That You Know ep. 3 (art by me, video editing by Ajakes!)

[aurosoulart]

I’m playing a dolphin PC in a mech tabletop campaign today and this is how he gets around on land