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8-bitpixelheart · 1 year

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Looking for a DnD 5e game? I've got open slots in my paid games for:

Grim Hollow Monday 12pm pst

Rime of the Frostmaiden Wednesday 3pm pst

Grim Hollow Wednesday 6:30pm pst

Time of the Frostmaiden Thursday 10pm pst

Send me a message if interested!

#queer gm #paid game

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public-trans-it-deactivated20240 · 6 months

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I'm already know for being very opinionated and having some Hot Takes, but I still usually keep it in line and fairly reasonable. Typical "Unpopular (but still somewhat safe to voice) Opinion" territory, where I might get some blocks and some scowls, but like, nothing major.

However I'm... gonna be posting an uncharacteristically rancid take this time.

I cannot fucking STAND vibes based design. Its become a trend lately to explain game systems by vibes, and it feels EXACTLY like the tropification of romance novels. A thing so many other people have complained about far more than I have, where so many works of fiction are now just being advertise as "Its a queer little slow burn, found family story that features enemies to lovers" OKAY, BUT WHATS THE FUCKING BOOK ABOUT?

And I feel like over the past 15-20 years, the TTRPG industry has been having the exact same issue. I can go through dozens of listings on itch.io for indie games and not see a single fucking game mechanic mentioned, and its frustrating. "This game is about gathering your friends to turn your local farm into a sustainable commune!" WHAT KIND OF FUCKING DICE DOES THE GAME USE? DOES THE GAME EVEN HAVE A GM?

And like, this isn't just about the feel good warm and fuzzy games. OSR is JUST as fucking guilty in this. "This game is a black metal death crawl through your worst nightmares." IS IT A RETROCLONE? IS IT A RULES LITE D6 SYSTEM? HOW THE FUCK DO I RESOLVE AN ACTION? DO ENEMIES USE STATBLOCKS?

If a video game showed absolutely no gameplay in any of its advertisements, only showing concept trailers and cutscenes and talking about its plot, you would probably shy away and think the game isn't worth playing if it can't even stand on the merits of its own gameplay. So why the fuck are we accepting that as the norm in TTRPGs?

#special shout out to Avery Alder #Avery I fucking love your games #The Quiet Year is one of my favorite games ever #its pretty much my go-to for any campaign of any kind to give players control over the worldbuilding pre-session 0 #BOB is so well designed and such a rad way to handle diceless/GM-less design #and I ABSOLUTE understand the need for queer designers like us to carve out a space and stand our ground #in a hobby that has historically housed people who want people like us dead in a ditch #but the idea that BOB can only support inherently queer/marginalized stories is ABSURD #and the way every BOB game advertises itself/is listed on your site makes me want to tear my skin off #please #you designed a game #AN INCREDIBLE ONE at that!#please please let it stand on the merits of its own design instead of just the vibe its built for #I was about to post this on my game design blog...#but I really dont have the heart to do that. This isn't actually about game design and the industry its just... personal frustration #and the fact that the thing that makes me autistic about games to the point to where I have spent like 25 years studying them #is just... no longer even the main focus it feels like

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macbxth-pdf · 1 month

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Trying to figure out what campaigns I would wanna run for a group of covid conscious sapphics is lowkey trying me. I wanna give my potential group several games and campaigns to pick from but I don’t wanna fuck it up cause I haven’t ran a game in a while. I have 1 HB plot for Dungeon Bitches, 3 (1 HB, 2 from the book) for Thirsty Sword Lesbians and 2 (both HB) for Monster Hearts 2e.

Maybe I should just use the safety tool checklist and see what everyone likes?

#monsterhearts #monsterhearts 2e #thirsty sword lesbians #indie ttrpg #ttrpg #queer ttrpg #dungeon bitches #forever game femme 🎲#just gm things #safety tools

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pisshandkerchief · 5 months

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not to be a drama queen but it's the end of an era. it's so fucking over.

#our regional manager at work sent in an assistant gm from one of the other local stores to manage us and make sure we follow the rules.#he's very by-the-book and his presence has already raised the tension in the office by 100% after only two days. it's soooo over #the perfect queer autistic paradise my gm has built is being dismantled before our eyes and there's nothing we can do about it.#autistic queers can never thrive under capitalism #we tried to build a community in the middle of a corporate hellhole. and for awhile it worked! but now they've caught on and we're so fucke

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thejoysofdessert · 2 months

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Actual play podcasts that are all men, GM included, with one woman are a red flag for me. I really don't expect good things if the most diverse aspect of your players is the amount of gray hair they have on their head.

#maybe I'm jaded but I've seen too many actual plays with this formula turn creepy towards the one woman very quickly #i stop watching at the very first sign of misogyny.#as a GM of a group that is almost entirely queer and trans i really can't abide

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rusanya-does-edits · 6 months

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Something weirdly specific for at least some of us, that we've had in mind for awhile; unfortunately this was the closest we could get with a picrew tbh.

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Like, fortunately for us; while we have some things that irk us with this one, but this hits pretty close in a metaphorical sense at least for the people we're thinking of. Unfortunately for us, some of those are more obvious than others so we hesitated on weather we needed to share this or not LOL.

#stimboard #cn // highly personal #highly personal #GOD THAT PINK IN THE BACKGROUND. SO THREATENING.#THAT “SHE KNOWS” THING A MONTH BACK IN THE GAME SESSION. // OC-related tangent in the tags incoming #(<- hits differently in some situations)#(<- *stares at the plural OCs who we made an entire past for.*)#(<- *stares at the fact their whole thing is. dysphoria made them plural. and THEN they became functionally immortal.*)#(<- you don't skip town for no reason. they lived in a generation where being both would throw them in The Loony Bin)#(<- but only the QUEERNESS became more acceptable later on.)#(<- these bozos are a mirror to our own life and frustration. and that realistically. people are starting to accept endogenics to a degree.#(<- but the world we want and how endos are treated is NOT going to happen next yer. it MIGHT happen in like 20 years.)#(<- “she knows” has been and always will be our greatest fear and pushing through that is HARD.)#(<- So what would it look like INSTEAD to be hiding under queerness. which is still stigmatized as hell)#(<- but you can AT LEAST find a margin of community somewhere that isn't full of abusers and bootlickers/idenity-medicalists for that ID)#NONE OF THIS IS NEGATIVE we're actually kind of glad the GM saw the full implications of that even implicitly -#- getting the shivers just remembering that. But also it's interesting to implement that onto their younger singletsona lmao.#WERE SO PISSED THO THAT WE COULDNT FIND A GREYSCALE MASK THAT WASNT. HORROR OR PARTY. THESE FUCKERS ARE NOT VILLAINS YNKOW.#like how the fuck do we have a hoard of gifs in our tumblr likes and found NOTHING for that specifically lolsob?#yes these ARE the same two chucklefucks we blabbed on and on about for like a week on our main account.#but its their “singletsona”. kind of. kind of sort of. we have wholeass ideas on this narratively.#like we just need to WRITE as in actually write but the issue is every time we do we hit A Wall(tm)#but yeah. anyways. we have headmates playing a TTRPG and we may have projected our frustrations onto two OCs that we don't even play. 😭😭😭

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poisonousscribe · 1 year

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Only one last week before our session 0!

#book #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academism #dnd #dungeons and dragons #fantasy #pathfinder #ttrpg campaign #writing #queer ttrpg #lesbian GM

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beantownbrownie · 11 months

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An unreleased and unfinished FlipFlop/Peel for my friends on Tumblr! This big lad’s an ‘88 Chevy Caprice wagon that’s graced my turntable about 2 or 3 times now! Real charmer - runs well and has all the fixings of a good family truckster, including power adjustable driver and passenger seats, a rear-facing/foldable 3rd row, powered tailgate glass, and more! A boat to drive, no doubt, but a dang comfortable one for sure!

#car photography #cars #cars of tumblr #cars and bids #usdm #chevrolet #gm #chevy #chevy caprice #chevrolet caprice #wagon #station wagon #carblr #queer car enthusiasts #queer gearheads #retro cars #80s cars

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swallowtailed · 2 years

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ok i don’t wanna jinx it but it’s looking like the foresters might be getting a game of pathfinder together. relatedly does anyone have any hot pathfinder tips

#sometimes you stumble into a friend group of queer forest scientists with a ten year age range between you #and they become some of your closest friends #and it’s great #hello world #field season #also sometimes you go for mimosa brunch and discover that you all play ttrpgs and two of you are gms #so you immediately start planning a game about it #the wildest part is that we’re now trying to actually pick a day for session 0 lmfao #there’s a google form involved

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ribstongrowback · 1 year

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Sometimes you just gotta know when to quit, so now all four issues of my zine Tools of the Trade are available for only 10$! Get your hands on a some queer gaming theory, art and poetry

#ttrpg #sale #cheap #queer #disabled #GM help #game master #game design #art #poetry

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blusical · 1 year

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on a more serious note, the whole controversy surrounding ovechkin's recent comments is just yet another reminder that the NHL (and other hockey leagues but ESPECIALLY the NHL) still needs to make some changes in order for queer fans, players, coaches, gms and every other person involved to truly be accepted. NOT some performative profile picture changes. NOT simple social media posts from NHL teams. NOT some feel-good story over someone coming out. NOT introducing special jerseys. NOT getting rid of said special jerseys anyway in order to get rid of "distractions" (still furious over that). ACTUAL. CHANGE.

#serious #repitition #nhl #alex ovechkin #<-filter reasons #seriously though ovi what the fuck #i know it was taken out of context but even with context that was BADLY worded my guy #this shit combined with [censored because this is a mostly politics-free blog] is slowly starting to make me lose respect for you dude #also i'm not saying that special jerseys or pro-lgbtq social media posts or coming out stories *aren't* making a difference #because they are making a difference don't get me wrong!#but they're not actual change either #we need shit like stricter rules on bigoted comments and more inclusive language when it comes to players fans gms coaches etc #we need people in hockey to be educated on queer subjects especially if they come from places that aren't queer-family (like ovi himself!)#we need the nhl to actually start kicking out fans who spew out homophobic shit at players!#THAT kind of change

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infinitedungas · 2 years

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i am begging dimension 20 to do a season 2 of A Court of Fey and Flowers. that shit was incredible and i need more

#aabria iyengar is a NEXT LEVEL GM #her narration! her npcs! her worldbuilding! the props!#the party is such a good mix #and everyone there played it with the EXACT right balance of comedy and sincerity #brennan and oscar getting legitimately choked up and emotional over their pc/pc romance??? holy fuck #the queerness! the way none of the characters or players really give a fuck about sexuality or gender!!!#everything i want in a good actual-play narrative is here #stunning #no notes

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macbxth-pdf · 3 months

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I wanna run a campaign, so TTRPG junkies here me out

Magical girls but Princess TuTu style. Every PC is a magical girl is a certain fairytale character come to life/reincarnated etc. Nobody is aware that they are that character at first. It takes place in a arts university and everyone is a dance major. Not everyone has to do ballet, all styles of dance are appreciated. But everyone is doomed by their narrative.

#mahou shoujo #ttrpg #forever gm with too many ideas searching for a queer party #maybe I would run it on thirsty sword lesbians #magical girl #princess tutu #indie ttrpg #forever game femme 🎲

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maximum-entropy-games · 2 years

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Introducing: Musical GM! I don’t have art for this one, sorry :(

Musical GM is a one page TTRPG party game focusing on improv and chaos

Features:

-quick setup

-the most barebones stats I could conjure

-various expansions to different setting such as: magical school, cryptid hunter, magical girls, slasher, space adventures, totally not Monty pythons holy grail, everyone is a monster, SCP, Lovecraft without the racism, and if I don’t die there will be a homestuck one too but it’s taking a hot minute

Playtesting was fun and yielded the weirdest stories about talking sandwiches in labyrinths

This game is finished and ready for sale as soon as we figure out how to get the website to give me the money instead of the other Alex.

#indie ttrpg #ttrpg community #queer owned business #one page rpg #musical GM

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cuntwrap--supreme · 2 years

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Well, he was talking to me again. Now he's gone. Approaching three days now with no word. Legitimately don't understand. How can you be telling someone how much you want them and then not say shit for several days? This is what happened last time he stopped talking to me, too. It's as if he has to go do a hard reset for a week any time he shows vulnerability. I get that so many men are taught that emotions = weakness, but this is wack. Pack that toxic masculinity bullshit up and fucking kiss me already I swear to god.

#leon bitches #like this man knows I'm trans and shit. he doesn't care. but maybe he does on some level and that's why?#i just don't know #all i know is he's fairly conservative so it's weird that he has any interest in me whatsoever #like. i have blue hair - and pronouns! I'm covered in piercings and tattoos. I'm queer as queer can get. yet somehow we like each other?#despite being total opposites?#i think it's a thing of shared trauma and using humor to cope because despite the differences we're basically the same guy #it's bizarre #i don't even care if he doesn't want a romantic relationship with me. i just want him in my life somehow.#i have no problem being friendzoned or whatever. just don't tell me how much you want me and then ghost for a week. the fuck?#the happiest I've been in my adult life is when i was just chilling with him at work #guy knows how to cheer me up in just a few minutes. helps too that he's incredibly attractive and hilarious #and leaving that job felt like a mistake simply for the fact that I'd no longer see him daily #that was what kept me there for years. but the gm was a bitch and i eventually couldn't take it anymore #and i left. and it was 6 months of hell. i drive by that old job somewhat frequently and I'd cry every time #and then my friends insisted we go there one night. and we did. and i got his number. and i thought things were looking up.#and then he said he'd liked me for the better part of two years and i said I'd liked him for about 2.5 years.#i told him he's the only person I've met who I'd willingly sleep with. which isn't a lie. i don't get it but he's different.#and i thought things were looking hopeful. and then he didn't talk to me for a week.#comes back saying i deserve better than him. i say i disagree. shit starts up again.#and now he's gone once more and i feel... nothing. somehow. just empty.#i can't even cry. I'm not sad. i am completely void of everything but the depression and anxiety i can never shake.#he's been everything to me for years now. he's never acted like this. so i just do not get it.#but I'm not giving up on this. i can't. he means too much to me. he's been my inspiration for art and shit too #i think this is the closest I've ever been to being in love with someone truly. I'm not leaving just because he's wanting to be an ass #even though dipping out seems optimal. seems like the logical thing to do.#i had some random woman at a gas station trying to get me to go home with her the other day and i gotta say it was tempting #just so i could feel like i have some control over events happening in my life #but i didn't because what if she was really cool and i didn't want to hurt her by randomly leaving when guy starts talking again?#anyway. been sitting on my kitchen floor writing this for too long now. ass is cramped. im just big sad and don't know what to do

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ashironie · 2 years

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Does anyone wanna do a dnd campaign with me? I’m a new gm and I just wanna do something, tho most of my friends either don’t have time or don’t want to.

So if anyone wants to join please just comment and we’ll figure something out

#dnd #dnd campaign #does anyone want to play dnd with me?#queer representation #disabled representation #any and all representation #please I just wanna gm a game #it’s mostly home brew #home brew dnd #I’m just making this up as I go #dnd player #dnd dm #game master

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