Sooooo, as you guys might have noticed, I've been doing a lot of non-ttrpg stuff lately! What's up with that? Well, in July earlier this year, I became friends with a cool artist, Picopepin, who introduced me to a really neat art rpg called Stygian Shade! Being new to the concept of arpgs, I had no idea what was in store for me, but I'm so glad I did cause it's super fun! Basically you create a character (in this case a closed species called a stygian), and then you play the game with it by doing the drawing/writing prompts given to you in-game through quests, dungeons, or other events in game. Doing this nets you rewards that allow you, ultimately, to upgrade/alter your characters' designs with different traits and alternate forms! As mentioned, you can write about your stygian instead of draw them, if that's more your speed, but in the case that you can't draw your own masterlist art (official image you need to play with your stygian) you can do a trade or commission someone else to do it for you. The Stygian Shade discord server is full of really friendly people that are more than willing to help out if you need certain things, too! It's completely free, but from time to time they do host sales/auctions for premade stygians for real money, and they do have a patreon that you can get perks from, but it's completely doable without spending any money at all. There's frequent free raffles to earn all kinds of prizes too!
Stygians themselves, at least the standard subspecies, is kind of a mix of a deer and dog. Everyone (typically) will start out with a standard stygian they can get for free with a quest. My figment is Marceau, and I love him to death! Through questing you can earn skill points (typically abbreviated as SP/SKP) for the stygian you featured in your piece which allows them to attain new skills. Some of these skills are ones that give you more SKP under certain circumstances, give you items, traits, or even whole alternate forms! Each stygian gets an avatar form, either a human or animal form-- or if it's a legendary stygian, a mythical creature form! In lore, they're something like nightmares taking the form of these creatures, and they each have their own realm that they reign over, called a Nightmare Kingdom. There are also two more species of characters you can play with called treatlings (kemonomimi type characters which evolve from treats), and divers (humans who dive into the nightmare realm for research purposes), with a new species on the way called Labryinthians! Along with them, you can collect daydreams which are pets that you can attach to stygian for in battle effects!
Recently, they shortened the first quest for first time owners (FTO) to just one image of/writing about your figment(starter) stygian-- when I joined there was a whole quest with 5 whole steps to do-- so it's a LOT easier to get into it now! Still, if that's something you want to do, you can do a veteran figment quest for a BUNCH of goodies later on!
Right now, they have a huge event going on called The Singularity! It's themed around retrofuturism, with a main story quest line that takes you on a tour to different planets to explore! Aside from that, there's a free advent calendar, prompt quest generator, a different world boss everyday, free raffle and daily auction sales of premade stygians, event shop and more!
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