#muppetborn

[littlerubyrue]

[friskafriskito]

Commissioned for charity by my good friend DocOstego! The context: this is a dnd character for a muppet-based campaign I'm preparing to DM for a group of friends! Everyone has created amazing characters, so at this point there's just some fine tuning and scheduling left (and first time DM nerves :'D).

This is Cassie O' Pia, a monk who does not like cranberries. :')

Thanks for the very generous donation!

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Charity donated to: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund

If you would also like a commission or to donate, Charity commissions supporting Palestinians are open indefinitely

[tabletoptieflings]

new pc just dropped

[plalotaris]

Healing Hug

Muppetborn hugs have healing properties thank you and good night.

(REBLOGS ENCOURAGED)

[power-rangers-art]

Rainbow the DND muppetborn half-dragon Druid

[cafe--tables]

DND character, a muppetborn gunslinger. I love this guy

then I drew him as a human for shits and giggles

[romantichore]

tomorrow. tomorrow I will make the dm regret allowing me to play Elmo, the Destroyer of Worlds, GOOlock who made a pact in pursuit of deeper knowledge of the origins of his race, the muppetborn. my arcane focus is a little bag of old stuffing from when I was first sent to the seamstress for repairs. the surgery went well and I was allowed to keep a portion of my old self as a memento. my weapon is a mace whose tip is shaped like a cookie, in honor of my fallen comrade, the Cookie Monster, defeated by the menace of adult-onset diabetes. I will not rest until all secrets are revealed and I WILL fuck shit up

[cappadocius]

I *kind* of want to run an adventure fantasy game where the player character species are the muppetborn from Eat God, the tiny frog wizards from Tiny Frog Wizards, three raccoons in a trenchcoat from Three Raccoons in a Trenchcoat, sinister hovering orbs from Sinister Hovering Orb, and Jenna Moran's Ninnuani  from, well, most of her games.

The main obstacle, aside from finding a group on the same wavelength of serious shitpost gaming as I am, is finding a ruleset that embraces the themes of "phenomenal cosmic power, complete fuck-up lifestyle" that these games share.

I have a pinned post for my games in development, but it doesn't really describe what they're about, and apparently this is something we're doing today, so:

My games in development, in rough order of priority:

(Note: all of these have public playtest drafts behind the links.)

Eat God

A game about weird little anarchist muppets with reality-warping powers themed after classic Looney Tunes gags wandering around a classic sword-and-sorcery fantasy setting stirring up trouble. Roughly 50% character creation rules by volume, with provisions for randomising every part of it; the linked draft, above, includes an online character generator if you want to play with it. The mechanics are a sort of elaborated spiritual successor to Costume Fairy Adventures, a game whose development I headed up about a decade ago.

Current status: actively writing, hopefully zeroing in on a feature-complete playtest draft within the next month or two.

Tiny Frog Wizards

One of my customarily literal titles, this is a game where you play as wizards who are tiny frogs. Features elaborate semi-freeform rules for casting spells, lots of big stupid random tables for when spells go off the rails, and absolutely no mechanics for anything that isn't casting a spell; it's a very focused sort of game. Narratively, it's a game about being an overpowered little twerp sticking your nose into other people's problems and offering solutions no-one asked for. Portions of the rules crib shamelessly from @jennamoran's Nobilis 3rd Edition, for which I offer acknowledgement but no apologies.

Current status: setting development of the text aside for the moment to work on visual identity, with an eye toward crowdfunding an expanded hardcover edition later in the year.

Space Gerbils

A tactical mecha combat game with a very silly twist: the entirety of the tactical positioning occurs inside the mecha, because the game's premise is basically "what if instead of the Big Reveal at the end of Metroid (1986) being that Samus Aran is secretly a girl, Samus Aran was secretly 3–5 small gerbil-like creatures operating a person-size mech suit?" Players engage in positional jockeying and resource management to determine which stations they're crewing within the suit, which is boiled down to a single roll of the dice to determine what happens outside the suit. Includes papercraft minifigs.

Current status: essentially feature-complete, apart from some character creation options and a planned random mission generator; this will likely be the next game I crowdfund after Tiny Frog Wizards.

Indie RPG Prompt Generator [working title]

Essentially a joke that got out of hand, this is a big set of random tables of common indie RPG tropes that you can roll on to generate a description of a hypothetical game, complete with specific rules toys and setting beats. I probably could have finished this up already, but I decided to include examples of each rolled element, which turned into this big hairy research project I'm not able to give adequate attention to right now. If you've got a game of your own that you think would be a good fit for a presently unfilled example slot, please, let me know!

Current status: plugging away at it in bits and pieces as I'm able.

Three Raccoons in a Trenchcoat

This is an anthology consisting of three minigames: the eponymous Three Raccoons in a Trenchcoat, which is self-explanatory; Unfamiliar, in which you play as uncooperative wizards' familiars; and System Crash, in which you play as malfunctioning robots. More a series of formal experiments in character creation and group composition than proper full-featured games, all share the same core mechanics, with milieu-specific addons of varying practicality; for example, System Crash has specific rules for which senses each player is allowed to use when asking the GM for information, because it's completely possible to have a group in which only one of the robots can see. Large portions of Unfamiliar were later re-used in Eat God, above.

Current status: I have a list of notes as long as your arm on planned changes to integrate into the text, and I'm confident I'll get around to doing so one of these years.

Gone to Hell

Literally a Doom (2016) pastiche as a Belonging Outside Belonging game, which is just as silly an idea as it sounds; grown out of an earlier 24-hour RPG called Doomguy. The central conceit is that there's only a single player character, with players taking turns assuming the role of the Slayer, while everyone else takes ownership of the various hostile factions comprising the game's conspiratorial twelve-car pileup of a plot. Lots of pontificating about the implicit power structures of tabletop RPG groups. This one probably needs a full rewrite in order to lend a bit more formal structure to the "one player character, many GMs" conceit than out-of-the-box BOB offers.

Current status: I have not looked at this game in three years, which is actually a really long time for me.

Rotate Bird

Another of my "is this a formal experiment or a real game" titles, this one revolves around constructing characters out of abstract symbols, which are interpreted during play to retroactively define what your character is actually capable of doing. Even the title seen above is an interpretive approximation; strictly speaking, the game is called 🔄🐦. Possibly the most shitposty game I've ever written, which is saying something, but based on playtest feedback it seems functional.

Current status: the only reason this is listed as lower in priority than Gone to Hell is because I genuinely don't know what to do with it. It's probably publishable, with some cleanup editing and graphic design, but it feels like there's something missing. I'm open to suggestions!

Get in the Fucking Robot

A pamphlet-size, competitive, GMless title that's at least as much a board game as it is a tabletop RPG, this one is about a bunch of dysfunctional candidate mecha pilots competing to be the first to pilot the titular giant robot. The game is played under misère conditions: while each character's IC goal is to pilot the robot, each player's OOC goal is to avoid that fate, with the player whose character actually Gets in the Fucking Robot being accounted the loser.

Current status: playtesting suggests the current framework of play doesn't actually work – like, at all – so this one needs to go all the way back to the drawing board; I don't feel like doing that any time soon, which puts it squarely at the bottom of the list.

[ruhianna]

I’m playing in a DnD campaign btw, and this is my muppet born Mimsy. She’s a ex-criminal turned cleric who is the only lady of her group and is a sleepy chaotic gremlin. She also is only 3ft tall and is constantly shoved into bags. Her mace is shaped like a star wand and ribbon.  She also collects cursed skulls.

[0zzysaurus]

My muppetborn oc for a new campaign we started today!!

[baileyartblog]

recent thingsss

Muppetborn paladin oc, Fuzzkins McHand

des with his poor little meow meow, @crucfed 's Mezzo

@lizard-hair 's Scarlet boy

[arachnethebard]

Hey random modder out there who's definitely reading this. Add Muppetborn as a playable race.

You're stuck in a room with the last character in your gallery. How safe are you?

Do videos count? If so then I’m 100% safe, but I think I’m about to get fucked- hehe

Tagging: @an-excellent-choice @optimisticgrey (I didn’t know who else to tag sorry) anyone else is welcome to do it as well!

[endlessdoughnut]

Updated sheet with everyone I’ve played so far!

[plalotaris]

Getting later and later to the BG3 party but I doodled Astarion pining over Tutty-Tuts, my Muppetborn Bard.

(REBLOGS ENCOURAGED)

[kac29]

Rainbow never found peace or Community in their family , their street or their faith as a Half-dragon Muppetborn . But in nature they just might .

[modmad]

FINALLY GOT AROUND TO DRAWING HIM this is JJ! idk if I'll get around to using him but he's a real sweetie who does his best even though he's teaching in a reelkind area which is a little bit uh. well they don't really get the whole muppetborn/toon thing but he's doing his best to educate them and the kids and surely one day things will be just swell...