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Returning to the Creative World

Hello Friends! Starting to get back into designing and sharing progress on the creative work, such as an update on Armageddon Overdrive. https://www.patreon.com/posts/focusing-on-110790341?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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How is this for a pitch?

The Basics

Plunderdark is a Dice Game for Heroic Adventures in a Late Medieval Dark Fantasy Anti-Canon Sandbox. It centers play around underdog Heroes pursuing their Convictions to make their grim and perilous world a better place.

Dark Fantasy

Imagine the world at the start of Willow or The Dark Crystal. The world is in the grip of an Evil Despot. The forces of Good, insofar as they exist, are in hiding or on the back foot. Foolhardy scholars collude with the powers of the Hidden World to work sinister sorceries. Remnants of past ages dot the countryside, promising wealth and fame to those who plumb their depths, and doom to those who linger too long in their hollows.

Late Medieval

Imagine our world in the decades preceding the Protestant Reformation and the invasion of the New World. Armored knights exist alongside castles and early firearms. The printing press is a new invention, allowing information to move and propagate faster than ever before. The progeny of conquerors and despots have grown fat on the exploitation of the common folk for nigh on a thousand years. Wealthy merchant adventurers exploit the trust of their common kin and the greed of the nobility they aspire to surpass to amass their own great fortunes.

Anti-Canon Sandbox

The Gamemaster is not solely responsible for defining the setting of play. The entire table collaborates to define the contours of the world, and creates Heroes invested in that world. Play is directed by the Heroes and their Convictions. The Gamemaster does not compose a plot, but provides opportunities and obstacles for the Heroes to pursue their Convictions.

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Dev Editor for ttrpgs

I'm looking for recommendations for developmental editors for ttrpg games. Who is your top pick and for what product?

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MAU Hex Crawl

December 24, 2023

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Mutants in the Making: Introduction

So, recently I became aware of a cool game called Mutants in the Now (thanks once again to @ostrichmonkey-games for shouting it out, game good) that has since wormed its way into my brain and consumed my entire personality. Written by two-time ENnie-award winning freelancer Julian Kay (who has done stuff for Level 99 games and Pelgrane Press) with art by Fábio Fontes (Pixel Tactics, Millennium Blades, Buck Up and Drive!), Mutants in the Now is "a retromodern retake on the mutant animal role-playing games long past and left behind by licensing." It is clearly and explicitly inspired by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness by Palladium Games (which is, strangely enough, getting a revised reprint through Kickstarter right as we speak), but there are many other inspirations evident in the text. The one I picked up on most strongly was 13th Age, which Julian has worked on previously.

Anyway this game kicks ass. I haven't even gotten to play it yet, but I know I could have hours upon hours of fun with it just rolling up characters. It's one of those games like Gamma World 7e or Traveller where character creation itself feels like a fun game and not a chore. To demonstrate this process I will be rolling up a character with it today.

However, I also have access to the first companion book to the game, Mutants in the Next, and since this adds even more strange options into the game, you know I'm going to be using those!

I'll be tagging all character creation posts as #mutants in the making if you want to find them more easily. There are nine steps to character creation, so that'll be nine posts in total!

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MAU Hex Crawl

December 23, 2023

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December 22, 2023

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December 21, 2023

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December 20, 2023

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MAU Hex Crawl

December 19, 2023

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MAU Hex Crawl

December 18, 2023

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I’ve figured out that one way to stump older people that complain about the current generation is to have an inflation calculator app on your phone.

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Aunt: When we got our first apartment it was 300 bucks a month why can’t you-

Me: In what year?

Aunt: What?

Me: What year did you get your first apartment?

Aunt: 1973?

Me: Hmmm. Looks like that would be $1755 in 2021 money.

Aunt: *seems to go through seven emotions at once*

Aunt: Oh.

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Uncle: Why should minimum wage-

Me: What year did you start college?

Uncle: 1968?

Me: So if you scale up $1.60 to 2021 dollars that would be $11.94 and the current federal minimum wage is $7.25

Uncle: Bu-

Me: And it seems like from a quick google search the median rent in 1970 was $108 and today that would be $722 but this same chart tells me that the actual median rent in 2020 was $1,100.

Uncle: *confused silence*

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I HAVE DONE THIS AND IT WORKS

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About us and AI

Q: Why can't we as individuals or as corporations, opt-OUT of AI scraping for whatever we want?

[puppygirl-hornyposting]

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MAU Hex Crawl

December 17, 2023

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MAU Hex Crawl

December 16, 2023