#confluence ttrpg

[anonbeadraws]

Some of the many bits and bobs and odd and ends that will be filling just one of the Confluence Atlases, this time focusing on the Motley Coast, a region full of pirates, floating islands, science and fallen gods! What's Chrona, or Tensomancy? And What's that little pin and why won't they wear it? Cure your intrigue on our Twitter, where you can keep up to date with the Confluence TTRPG! I'm so proud of the work we're doing! All the above work is mine and the test background by Crislv on twitter!

[worm-dark]

Logo for @publishinggoblin's tabletop role-playing game Confluence! This TTRPG explores a dynamic world where many cities from across time and space converge to create vibrant combinations of characters and settings.

[publishinggoblin]

Finally making its way to crowdfunding, Confluence: The Living Archive now has a landing page for our October 2024 Backerkit project! Click here and you can sign up to be notified on our launch next year!

Confluence is a ridiculous project. This TTRPG features a fantastic system for making your characters to go experience all that Ajurea, the land of Confluence, has to offer, but it also features diegetic Atlases (yes plural) that are massive books at 9 1/2x11". Diegetic meaning in-world, as if they were written by, used by, and doodled in by people from the world.

Some mechanics will be in the mechanics books, the catalog, but some will only be findable in particular locations within the Atlases, prompting you to explore the world at the table, and take pieces of the world into your character through unique regional specialties and traits.

We have been working on this for a while, a team of 14+, and are working our way through our playtests now, and making sure the material we put forward is everything you need to really delve into the incredible world of Ajurea. Come check out our team, see more art, and more over on the website!

[ostrichmonkey-games]

I'm deep in the writing Dark Confluence mines, so as a treat for me and you, roll d66 (two d6, but treat the results as separate integers, i.e. rolling a 1 and a 5 is 15), and tell me if you want to know your Fragment's Fate or if you want a Curse.

[duckprintspress]

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! Meet 8 Trans Authors We Work With!

Today, March 31st, 2023, is International Transgender Day of Visibility! To celebrate, we’re spotlighting eight trans authors who work with Duck Prints Press. The individuals included in this post either indicated in their biographies that they were trans, or they volunteered to be included. We’re delighted to be able to share their work with you. 😀 We work with other trans authors who chose not to be included in this post, and we support them too! It’s scary times to be out in a lot of countries, we get it, and protecting the anonymity and privacy of the people who work with us is one of our top priorities. To be visible on this day, in the current international climate, is an act of bravery, and we salute everyone choosing to publicly celebrate their identity today, and we respect everyone choosing not to. <3

Adrian Harley

Works:

Editor on He Bears the Cape of Stars and She Wears the Midnight Crown

“Some Sparks That Are Like Wit,” in the anthology And Seek (Not) to Alter Me (has a trans male main character!)

“So a demon walks into a party…,” in the anthology She Wears the Midnight Crown (has a main character for whom gender is complicated)

Adrian Harley is an almost-lifelong North Carolinian and a fantasy fiction aficionado who didn’t start delving deep into fandom until adulthood. They are an editor of research by day and an aspiring novelist, also by day. They go to bed early. They have short stories forthcoming in OFIC Magazine and future Duck Prints Press anthologies. They live with their husband and a perfectly reasonable number of cats.

Link: Twitter

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Stephen G. Krueger

Works:

“On Not Going to Parties,” in the anthology He Bears the Cape of Stars (includes a trans male character, an agender character, and a non-binary character!)

Stephen G. Krueger (he/him/his), fandom name WithBroomBefore, is queer, trans, and aroace; he is an academic librarian in the northeast United States. His other writing includes the book Supporting Trans People in Libraries, a handful of professional chapters and articles, and The Trans Advice Column (a co-authored blog that is exactly what it sounds like). Stephen holds a B.A. in English from Warren Wilson College and an M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; he is currently making leisurely progress towards an M.A. in Arctic and Northern Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He knits and sells hats, some with pride flag colors on them, and enjoys watching figure skating while his three cats take turns claiming lap space.

Links: Archive of Our Own | Etsy | Personal Website

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Puck Malamud

Works:

“Confluence,” in the anthology Add Magic to Taste

A Shield For the People (has a trans male main character!)

Puck Malamud (pronouns: ve/ver/vis/verself or they/them/theirs/themself) is a librarian, writer, and poet who has lived in a variety of large East Coast US cities since immigrating from Ukraine in the 1990s. Ve is co-author of a chapter on being L.G.B.T.Q. in the library profession, and author and co-author of multiple fanfics in various fandoms, though primarily The Untamed and Mo Dao Zu Shi. When not desperately trying to keep up with vis Libby holds, Puck can be found practicing dance, playing TTRPGs and board games, hanging out in various Slacks and Discords, and shitposting on Tumblr.

Links: Tumblr

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Alec J. Marsh

Works:

Editor on our upcoming anthologies Aim For The Heart and Aether Beyond the Binary

“To relish a love song, like a robin redbreast,” in the anthology She Wears the Midnight Crown

Aether Beyond the Binary author contributor (forthcoming)

A Mutual Interest

To Drive the Hundred Miles (has a trans male main character!)

Heart’s Scaffold

Study Hall

Alec lives in the Pacific Northwest, where they write romantic adult fantasy and self-indulgent fanfiction. They make candles inspired by their favorite characters.

Links: Etsy | Instagram | Twitter

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Catherine E. Green

Works:

Editor on our upcoming anthologies Aim For The Heart and Aether Beyond the Binary

Aim For The Heart author contributor (forthcoming)

Aether Beyond the Binary author contributor (forthcoming)

Of Loops and Weaves (trans female main character, this is Patreon/ko-fi exclusive)

Catherine E. Green (pronouns: xe/xem/xyr or they/them/their) is an agender person, one who’s had an on-again, off-again love affair with writing. Xe began writing when xe was a wee thing, when xyr other major pastimes were playing xyr mother’s NES and roughhousing with the boys next door. It’s only in the past few years that they have begun writing consistently and publishing their writing, fanfiction and original writing alike, leading to their first published short story titled “Of Loops and Weaves.”

Outside of writing, xe is a collector of books and sleep debt and an avid admirer of the cosmos. Playing video games, reading a variety of fiction genres (primarily fantasy, queer romance, and manga and graphic novels of all kinds), and working on wrangling their own personal data archiving projects occupy most of their free time. Xe has also started meeting up with a local fiber arts group and is excited to be crocheting xyr first scarf.

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S. J. Ralston

Works:

Aether Beyond the Binary author contributor (forthcoming)

S. J. grew up in the distinctly weird town of Athens, GA, bounced around in the American southwest for a while, and landed in Houston, TX, where they currently work as a Mars Research Scientist. They’ve been writing original works and fanfiction since they could hold a pencil semi-correctly, and continue to write both whenever possible (as well as still holding a pencil only semi-correctly). They’re currently working on developing a portfolio of published original works. In their clearly copious spare time, S. J. enjoys hiking, tabletop RPGs, jigsaw puzzles, and enthusiastically crappy sci-fi.

Links: Personal Website

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N. C. Farrell

Works:

“Eldest Daughter Seeks Her Wife,” in the anthology She Wears the Midnight Crown 

N. C. Farrell (they/he) grew up in California’s Silicon Valley, where they spent long days hiking the coastal mountains, reading an impressive number of books about dragons (and cats, and spaceships, and magic, etc.), and creating stories with their friends. He moved to Massachusetts for college, where he studied psychology while reading more books (some of which were even for classes!), participating in LARPs, and ensuring that the SF/F club’s student-run convention had a solid schedule. Since graduating, N. C. Farrell has worked in various education-related roles. They currently spend much of their free time reading (more translated webnovels than paper books right now), writing (a lot of fanfic), practicing aikido, playing TTRPGs, and being supervised by a small shadow in the shape of a cat.

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Alex Ransom

Works:

“Flowers Bloom Even Then,” in the anthology Add Magic to Taste (has a non-binary main character!)

“A Midwinter Night’s Dream,” in the anthology He Bears the Cape of Stars

Alex Ransom is a longtime fan writer and translator recently expanding into original fiction. Her favorite trope, as both reader and writer, is “Earn Your Happy Ending,” in which characters fight through perhaps inordinate amounts of difficulty to come out happier and more content on the other side. She is especially interested in the intersection between social circumstances, personal history, and the formation and maintenance of identity. Her favorite genres are space opera, fantasy, queer romance, and poetry.

As a child, Alex thought everything was better if it was more complicated and that the best answer to a yes or no question was usually “both”. Consequently, today she is bi/pansexual, trans/nonbinary, has worked a variety of jobs, and has three degrees in completely unrelated fields. When she isn’t writing or doomscrolling on the internet, she likes to travel, hike, and build marginally functional furniture. She lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, with her spouse and adult daughter.

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Thanks for joining us in celebrating gender diversity and supporting trans creators on Trans Day of Visibility!

Who we are: Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher based in New York State. Our founding vision is to help fanfiction authors navigate the complex process of bringing their original works from first draft to print, culminating in publishing their work under our imprint. We are particularly dedicated to working with queer authors and publishing stories featuring characters from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Love what we do? Want to make sure you don’t miss the announcement for future giveaways? Sign up for our monthly newsletter and get previews, behind-the-scenes information, coupons, and more!

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[professor-doc-emeritus]

Its weird how viscerally unappealing I find d&d and ttrpg content in general considering it's the confluence of lots of things I really enjoy individually (creative writing, improv, sci-fi/fantasy, games, hanging out with friends, math)

[burningbrother]

Confluence is a sci-fi and fantasy world made of other worlds. A core rulebook and setting for a to-be-released assortment of settings, Confluence pits future tech with magic, overcoming the dead, new outer governments, wild adventure, and more! Check the Kickstarter today for a free, 300 page early version of the rulebook and see if it’s something you want to support!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicmirrorgames/confluence-cosmic-mirror-games-core-rulebook

[cosmicmirrorgames]

Tomorrow is the big day, and now we talk about what's coming up. 

We need to make $15,000. Preferably, we'll make closer to $20,000, but we can make the 15 work for us real well.

If you want one of those free hard copies, be sure to be one of the first to get the tier for it!

When we go live tomorrow, please share the hell out of it. The more backers we get on the first day, the better idea we'll have of what the rest of the campaign will bring. Bigger than that? We'll have a better placement on the Kickstarter website, so people can find us more easily, which is key!

No matter how many ads we run, nothing will be as useful as being visible on Kickstarter. Please reblog here to pledge your support, and we'll see you tomorrow! 

This link below is a preview link. It will show you the campaign before it goes live. However, once the campaign is live, it will take you straight to the real campaign, so keep it on hand!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicmirrorgames/426744924?ref=357608&token=4315aec9

[siderealsandman]

Hey is your username a reference to the board game sidereal confluence at all? O.o

It’s actually a reference to Sidereal Exalted, a class of reality bending ninjas from the TTRPG Exalted. 

[anonbeadraws]

More confluence work. The Motley Coast is full of what some other planes might think are aquatic life, but here, airracuda, sluice manta and the majestic and vast skywhale's populate the skies!! Find out more about these creatures on our twitter! All work here is mine!

[publishinggoblin]

Hey check it out-- I have my big book TTRPG, CONFLUENCE: the World That Steals, up as an alpha playtest for anyone who wants it for free. It’s a fully illustrated 180 pages with a new robust TTRPG system, 11 races, 100s of items, traits, and spells, and so much more to come.

(And yes, you can play a ratfolk!)

Confluence is the flagship project of all my projects. It’s a world made up of the other 40 worlds I have been making through my other projects.

Liked Moth Children? Generations? NuAether? Zoetrope? Dogs? Or how about the new law making card game I’m making, or the city building one? They are all unique worlds in my mythology, and each pours out pieces of itself into Confluence. With every future game release, there will just be more options to port into Confluence, a large core system.

Alongside the Playtest Core Rulebook is a Playtest Atlas, with info on the world, maps, more races, and more! 

And don’t forget the form fillable sheet!

It’s free or PWYW, but mostly I just want people to see and try it out at their leisure!

See you all in 2021 for the full release and Kickstarter!

[ostrichmonkey-games]

Posting the list of Fragments (player backgrounds/classes) that you can pick from in Dark Confluence to remind me to post more about this game tomorrow, and also because I think they're very good :)

[anonbeadraws]

Confluence TTRPG art The fallen God of Decay and their temples All art belongs to me, follow us on twitter for more!

[anonbeadraws]

Confluence: Motley Coast City! Commerce and crime and the Crew helping out, nothing but a day in the Coast's capitol! Also very excited to mention that we've opened alpha testing for Confluence (folks are actually gonna be playing!!) and that we have a webpage open for Confluence itself! Here you can sign up to a newsletter, pre-save on backerkit and discover more about the world we've made so far! I'm so excited to start sharing it with people, me and the team have worked so hard to make something exciting and diagetic and intriguing to read! See the site here and if you like, follow us on twitter and insta! Also, who's your favourite character in this busy scene??

[anonbeadraws]

Confluence art! Some of our many PC's created through our thorough (and fun) playtests! A robot gardener, a roguelike Bhande Dhaben, a strange Fathing and a Divling who gained their godlike powers through the loss of their beloved. Just some of the varied ways you can be in our system! Find out more on our twitter!!

[anonbeadraws]

Confluence: Snapshots across the Coast Abandoned shrines of forgotten gods being cared for. A newcomer to the Colour dome, deeply nestled in the sea. A scientific research center balanced on floating rocks high above the farmland. The coast is so colourful in hue and experiences. Our Site! Join our newsletter and keep up to date!