Cinder Screen

Side blog for TTRPG doodles and ephemera or just nerd stuff generally. Some mature themes. Mostly PF1e, but I like plenty of other systems.

[sandmandaddy69]

[gojurt]

if anyone pisses me off im drawing us onto this base and then blocking

[shittishittibangbang]

[cinderscreen]

More Justine tests + her and her ghoul. Poor guy has to do her makeup and hair every night.

[cinderscreen]

Trying to figure out my Lasombra antitribu for a nostalgic VtM game. So many 90s ish lewks I might have to draw her outfit for every session.

[vinnart]

ran out of steam on this one

[thydungeongal]

D&D players are the USAmericans of TTRPG players <- a statement that makes perfect sense if you have the eyes to see

[thydungeongal]

Beyond just the incuriosity which a lot of D&D 5e players express often loudly ("Why would I need to learn about other games? D&D already does everything perfectly!") there's very much this learned helplessness that often rears its head during discussions about D&D's hegemonic position in the hobby: even people who realize that D&D is the elephant in the room and that WotC's position as the stewards of the hobby is probably not an unambiguously good thing people will fall into this pattern of learned helplessness. I already learned D&D and learning another game is too hard, how am I supposed to find these other games, and sometimes also basically saying that actually D&D players are the most oppressed of the TTRPG players because those other gamers are actually cool and know shit so they are actually the ones who hold all the power, when you think about it D&D is actually a plucky underdog fighting against those mean indie designers. I think I've lost the thread again.

[maximumzombiecreator]

You're so right. I think the example of this that most annoys me is how they'll confidently assert that something isn't possible when not only is it possible, it is.

Like, you'll be talking to a USAmerican about high speed rail, and they'll nod and say that tragically it could never work in a country as big as theirs. And you'll tell them that, actually, you're currently typing this message while on the high speed rail from Shanghai to Beijing, and China is basically the same size as the US. And then they'll shake their head and sigh like you just told them you still believe in Santa.

And this is basically what it's like trying to convince 5e players that you can have good mechanics for, like, social interaction or mysteries.

[buttonsgoblin]

Also, there seem to be a lot of DnD players who talk a lot about how they hate WoTC, but still only play DnD, do absolutely nothing to challenge WoTC’s de facto monopoly, and fully accept most if not all of DnD’s assumptions about how games work as universally true.

[whereserpentswalk]

I useally go with cis people of ttrpgs (think thier way of life is under attack when any alternative is brought up) but that works too.

[coolmaycroft]

If we study how ex-DnD players learned to play another game we might just be able to bring about the socialist revolution.

[vinnart]

New tokens, overdue

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Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

[ineed-to-sleep]

It's a good thing vampires regenerate amirite

[contemptible-scoundrel]

SADISTIC MUTUAL: it is a moral imperative to push the princess around, and punch her in the stomach, and roundhouse kick her in the throat, and cut her with blades ANTIMONARCHIST MUTUAL: [confused but enthusiastically going along with it] and line her up with her family and shoot her dead, and orchestrate a lie that they fled the country so that they are not remembered as martyrs

[villainwithacrush]

[70sscifiart]

Victoria Poyser, 1981

[cinderscreen]

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.

[fancygermancar]

trying to make unlikable characters

[creepycrag]

me: uh oh! if i fail to block any more of these spells, the evil wizard will take over my mind and make me suck him off!!! i need to be careful, i can feel it working already...

the evil wizard trying to blow my head off with lightning bolts: that's not what I'm trying to do

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Some of my goofing around from this game.

Khet and Enzo belong to @vinnart

[vinnart]

Giving some new stuff a try with my Oracle.

[cinderscreen]

they're great