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it rocks playing rpgs that arent dnd because you simply read the rules in the book and they explain the tools you have to move the narrative forward in a fun and satisfying fashion and you dont have to learn a secret real ruleset that exists as oral tradition

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EN LAS ELECCIONES DE MAÑANA PUEDEN ENTRAR LOS FASCISTAS EN EL GOBIERNO Vota aunque creas que no te afectará personalmente, PORQUE LO HARÁ. Vota aunque ninguno de los partidos de izquierda que se presente no sean EXACTAMENTE lo que quieres que sean. Vota por la gente que no es mujer, LGTBI+, discapacitada, inmigrante, racializada, o que símplemente quiere tener una vida DIGNA. ¡Votad porque pasado mañana será muy TARDE! ✊

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I fucking love these videos

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friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:

change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you're going to get blocked bcs people think you're a bot

this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)

you can set your likes and follows to private

checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing

follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric

drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally

DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won't be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won't get in trouble!!

tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7

be nice to the reddit refugees, they're our friends <3

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Just sharing this video because I haven’t seen it on hl tumblr yet 

Transcript: 

So, what’s your favorite PC game? 

NO not Quake

I’m talkin’ about HALF LIFE-

MEDIC

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a common misconception about power fantasies is that its about big damn heroes destroying bad guys easily bonk bonk wahoo but actually real power fantasy is being able to live in a reconstructed culture that's been wiped away by imperialism and colonialism

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Tone Is Bullshit

Terrifying.

"Bridewell", the Curse-of-Strahd-but-good adventure that Nova is currently writing and playtesting, features:

unsettling puppet people;

druids who practice bloody sacrifice, Wicker Man style; and

child-brutalising werewolves.

It also features Padru, a forest god shaped like a giant cuddly red panda.

10/10, full marks, no notes. When I encountered Padru during playtests, I was instantly charmed. It was a moment of wonderful relief, a ray of sunshine through cloud cover. In that moment I saw what the fog-ridden, werewolf-infested forest could be. Hope and tragedy.

If Padru didn't look cuddly---if she was all thorny and dark like a death metal album cover---she would've been predictably, boringly in genre, and I would not have cared about her at all.

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Tone is bullshit.

The film review I dislike the most is the kind of review that docks points for "tonal inconsistency":

"The tone of this movie is all over the place, the characters quip too much, breaks the mood, is this comedy?"

Why be boring? Why not be both?

I wonder whether this has anything to do with being in my context, growing up with horror comedy movies from Hong Kong and Malay-language cinema like "Zombi Kampung Pisang" and "Geong Si Sin Sang". But terrifying monsters are very much A Real Thing, where I live---so entertainment needs the relief of laughter. Maybe this is just personal aesthetic preference.

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In tabletop game design, especially for games that emulate genre (the horror RPG, the noir RPG, the dark fantasy RPG), there is a strong inclination to go:

It is important to design systems and mechanics that set up consistent tone and mood.

Respectfully: I disagree.

Mood rarely survives contact with players. Unless:

players / the GM are theatrically skilled; AND

your table is strict about enforcing a social contract of The Mood We Are Trying To Create For Each Other.

Gods know I'm ass at both the above. And I am willing to bet that a fair slice of TTRPG players are like me, if we aren't actually the majority.

The thing I consider more important than tone, that never breaks, is meaningful worldbuilding. Concrete details that feel true. Characters and geography that responds in living ways.

Padru is concrete. Our characters could touch her fur. Her soft autumnal red in a drab, monochrome landscape has purpose: she is designed to offer a glimpse of what the forest used to be.

Tone is bullshit. Contrast is where it's at.

Showing me a full reality outside horror makes the horror hit harder.

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Archol, guide architectural. Discover the architectural oddities of the Communal Aggregation of Archol. 26 illustrations and a Riso printed map. Available on my shop for 10€ : https://guypradel.fr/produit/archol

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Ai generated images need to be controlled and regulated!

The music industry has shown that this is possible and that music, musicians and copyright can be protected! We need this for visual art too!  The database scraps all art they can find on the internet! Artists didn’t give their permission and there is no way to opt out! Even medical reports and photos that are classified are being fed into those ai machines! It’s unethical and criminal and they weasel they way around legal terms!

Stand with artists! Support them! Regulate AI!

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Some more mech paintjobs from this week MechMonday on Salvage Union together with another pair of camos I forgot to post from last week. TOP to BOTTOM:

Mantis with a "Black Hack" night operations camo.

Mantis with "Section 9" urban recognizance paintjob.

Little Sestra with "Blue Knight" colors.

Little Sestra with "Red Queen" style.

All original lineart by Alex Connoly

There are lots of mechs on Salvage Union, and me painting each one more than one way is multiplying their amount to a near unmanageable proportions. But you know what they say...

GONNA CATCH EM ALL!!!

Sorry for the terrible pun... It will not happen again!

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84 new character for my Sci-Fi Character Portraits 3: Encounters on the Third Phase!

Only 16 characters to hit the big 💯 !

This time here are some aliens of different flavors: Vulcan/darrian, grey, bwap, varg, aslan, and super fun to draw hiver. This time I deviated from my usual Mothership RPG style to add some Traveller RPG and generic Space Opera aliens.

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more… More… MORE PORTRAITS!

72 portraits sketched, 28 to go!!!

Also, some Fist of the North Star inspiration this time. 👊

Sorry taking so long this time, I had a rough week for health related reasons and couldn't spend more time drawing my little characters. 🙏

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New project, can you help sharing it?

Hey folks it’s a big day today. After weeks of work the Wicked Wanderers Winter Bundle is live.

It kind of started a looong time ago. When I was a kid, I grew up in a super boring place, a small secluded village in a French island, and before discovering RPGs, the thing that gave me the most joy was a thing called Pochettes Suprises: Surprise Bags. Small paper bags containing a dozen random cheap plastic and cardboard toys: a plane, a soldier, a doll, a dino. They cost just a buck and we all loved them because they were modular: we could invent stories and games for weeks with just a single Pochette.

This sparked the idea behind this bundle I’m releasing today: bring together a pack of cool and beautiful zines and gaming accessories to make a cool grown up TTRPG enthusiast version of the Pochettes. The bundle has a strong vibe and a super modular structure, with 2 full zines, NPCs, adventure hooks, dice drop map, solo oracles and even a solo prisoncrawl game and more. It contains 15 items made by mostly emergent designers: I'm trying to support new voices with the store. You might know several of them: Philipp Teich, Foresight Studio, Christian Sorrell/Meatcastle, Philip Jensen, Nyhur, Alfred Valley. There are some super interesting and diverse takes on Mörk Borg, even a few mini adventures with a Mythos vibe.

Right now social media is in a bit of a turmoil, so if you feel like it could you help us give some visibility to it?

Here's a link, you'll find more info on the bundle here https://www.thelostbaystudio.com/products/wicked-wanderers-winter-bundle

BTW This a pochette surprise, the original childhood thing that sparked the idea for this bundle

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Keeping a good rhythm with the "SFCP 3: Encounters on the Third Pack" portraits!

As always, the portraits I didn't planned ended being my favorites... 🐠

60 portraits sketched; 40 to go!

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Salvage Union’s mech fan coloring part 3

Two camo patterns for he Solo: the elegant and simple "Not Found", and the "Dazzle", a great camo to blend in urban/ruins terrains (and confuse German submersibles)

Go check Salvage Union on Leyline Press!

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Salvage Union’s mech fan coloring part 2

The Brawler in "Queen of Spades" and "The Robot" cammos.

Original line-art from Alex Connolly. Go check Salvage Union on Leyline Press!