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🐉🛸 Hey talented writers, poets and artists! Time is running out to get your submissions in for the next issue of The EB zine and see your work published before Xmas! FINAL DEADLINE is 30th November 🤖

Full submission details can be found here: https://theelaboratebackstory.wordpress.com/submissions

Can't wait to see what you've been working on!

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THE EB HAS A NEW HOME! Check out our new website to easily get the zine, check submission guidelines, and see what we're about 🦄🤖👾 See you soon!

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The EB Round 2

GET HYPED! The second issue of our lovely nerdy zine The Elaborate Backstory is now live - Round 2: In-Tents Heat! As you may be able to tell, it's particularly relevant to those LARPers amongst you

Existing subscribers, you should be able to see the new issue on your Gumroad account - hope you enjoy the wonderful new creatives we're so proud to feature!

If you haven't subscribed yet, what are you waiting for? It's only £6 for a year's subscription (4 issues with one free!) and it's nerdy, tasty, pretty and hopefully a bit inspiring too as well as giving a platform to some talented new creative people.

Either https://elaboratebackstory.gumroad.com

OR you can now pay directly on Paypal for a slightly cheaper year-long version with less taxes etc! https://www.paypal.com/instantcomm.../checkout/B2EVQVEY5XBNN

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Hey creative people! What are you up to this coronation bank holiday weekend?

We're working on Round 2 of TThe Elaborate Backstory showcasing new art, poetry, articles and nerdy creative goodness! Come and have a read of Round 1 if you haven't already 😆

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Hey creative people! What are you up to this bank holiday weekend? We're showcasing new talent and new works of creative nerdy loveliness! Come support these fabulous peeps and have a read 🥰

If you fancy being in the next one, get your submissions in pronto...! https://bit.ly/EBsubmissions

Eeby the cat drawn by our fabulous in-house cartoonist Faras Almeer 🤩

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Nivanh Chanthara

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Raziel by George Vostrikov

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Leviathan by Quentin Castel

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The Swordfish Cavalier for Gubat Banwa

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Wanted to repost some of my less recent stuff on here. Been recompiling my portfolio and having a good long think. I feel like I really pushed hard on this one and a lot of risks paid off. Super proud of this one~

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Having a flick through the sample book and the creators are absolutely committed to the bit. Gun blades, magic hugs, different-for-legal-reasons-chocobos.

Callings (classes) are look familiar, but are as above, committed to the source material.

Really cute art!

Looks fun, will pick up a copy.

I have very little to say about Break!! that hasn't been said elsewhere, other than to observe that if you're the sort who sees a character class called "Murder Princess" and picks it purely on the strength that it's called "Murder Princess", this game will probably interest you, because it has a character class called "Murder Princess".

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Lugbúrz by Adam Burke aka Nightjar

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LT Reads: The Wildsea RPG

We gotta talk about this game, y’all.

I’ve played and run a lot of this in the last year. It’s got such a unique setting. Here’s the basics.

Once upon a time, the Verdancy happened: an apocalypse of accelerated growth and acidic poison called crezzerine.

But that was then. This is now.

Now, ships with chainsaw prows and leviathan heart engines cut through waves of treetops. Their wakes disappear as the rapid growth repairs broken branches. Mutated wolves and foxes leap from limb to limb.

You build a character with three main elements: Bloodline, Origin, and Post.

Bloodline is what species you are. Maybe you’re a mothryn, recently emerged from your chrysalis. Maybe you’re an ektus, longing for desert sands. Maybe you’re a tzelicrae whose spiders have just finished sewing a new skin.

(Yeah, this is a weird game).

Origin is where you’re from. Did you grow up on one of the few solid landmasses in the trees? Were you preserved in amber for centuries and now have to contend with a foreign landscape? Did you grow up on the waves themselves, with a family on a fleet of ships?

Post is the sort of role you fill on a ship. Maybe you fight with guns. Maybe you brew strange concoctions that heal the soul. Maybe you carry the mail.

Each of these three elements is made up of aspects. Each aspect gives you a specific flavor, and each has a track associated with it. These tracks can be used for special abilities when specified, or they can be marked to designate injury done to your wildsailor.

Tracks in general are the way to measure progress, whether that be in journeys, in combat, or in projects.

You build your dice pool with Edges, Skills, and then any relevant aspects, resources, or environmental advantages you might have. The Firefly (GM) imposes cut if there are factors making the thing you’re trying to achieve more difficult. Your outcome is measured on a scale from triumph to conflict to failure. And doubles means a twist comes into play!

That’s to say nothing of ship-building!

I really cannot emphasize enough how fun and low-prep this game is. And guess what?

The basic rules are free.

There’s an expansion launching on Kickstarter soon for airships and submersibles.

Check it out!!

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Hard not to feel this as we try to encourage subscribers and submitters

#artists

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We'll give this a go

new game idea, building off of gubat banwa's THUNDERING TACTICS SYSTEM. ULTRAVIOLENCE AT THE END OF TIME [UV@TEOT] is very angry and very grungy and its hard distorted electric guitar riffs playing alongside light nujabes flutes and everyone is trying to kill the gods (capitalists)

extreme buddhacore aesthetics mixed with slipstream dirty grungy cyberpunk a la Digital Devil Saga where you play as Black Flame Wielding God Devouring Devil Fucking Martial Artists

DECAPITATE THE GODHEAD

Character Generation is based off an axis of your Zodiac-Tarot (known as KARMIC BURDEN) and MARTIAL COMMUNES (the ones that safeguard your consciousness so you can die multiple times, and also teach you and give you equipment)

Communes are inherently anarchist who steal from HEAVEN to get you equipped. They need Pros like you, so you fight in the grueling gladiatorial matches to get CLOUT, the universal currency. You will never survive without them

character advancement is based on your CLOUT, a la Runes or Souls in Souls-like. its both currency and XP, because you need CLOUT to learn new moves and get new augs. getting new shit is integral to gaining a new following

MARTIAL COMMUNES are slick philosopher-martial art communities that piece together esoteric martial arts. Each commune has a signature martial art that you learn. So far there's THE HEAD OF MARX, TWIN TRUNG ELEPHANTS, SAKAY'S SHADOW FLITTING STYLE, LIVING BODY CANVAS, FLOATING HUAYAN VIDEOMANCY, and THE DIAMOND BODY OF CHRIST-KRISHNA

k6bd is a huge huge inspo of course but unlike k6bd which is a bit more gnostic-buddhist UV@TEOT is more full on Esoteric Vajrayana Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism and an intense Techno-Animism, here's some aesthetic pegs

also no playable cops. they're souls chained to physical demons

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We're going to round up some people and have a play test.

If you're terribly curious and/or looking for a tag to follow, that God-eating game I'm fiddling with is probably just going to be called Eat God, and that's the tag I'm using for the time being.

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If you're terribly curious and/or looking for a tag to follow, that God-eating game I'm fiddling with is probably just going to be called Eat God, and that's the tag I'm using for the time being.

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🐉Did we mention there was a #cashprize for the top peer-rated contributor?! We want to publish your awesome work in our bespoke nerdy zine this summer! Full deets at https://bit.ly/EBsubmissions