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[Event] Writeblr Secret Admirer 2023

THE EVENT

Welcome to the FIFTH annual Writeblr Secret Admirer event!!

Let’s spread some love and positivity on Valentine’s Day! This is an event where we are going to send and receive some secret admirer messages to people’s ask boxes.

By signing up, you are agreeing to send someone a really nice and loving ask on February 14th, 2023.

I, Undine (@pens-swords-stuff) will be assigning you a person to send a secret admirer message to via asks.

I will also be assigning someone to send YOU a secret admirer message, so you’ll have something to look forward to on Valentine’s Day.

There is no particular criteria about what you have to send, as long as it’s kind and positive. It doesn’t have to be romantic or anything, just send them something nice! Some potential ideas include: sending them compliments; telling them that they’re amazing and loved; comment something you love about their blog; send them a sweet Valentine’s day poem, the options are endless and the only limit is your creativity.

HOW TO SIGN UP

Complete this survey. It basically just asks you to put in the Writeblr URL you would like to participate with for organization purposes, and a couple other reminders. If you do not complete this survey, you will not be signed up for the event. So be sure to fill it out!

Reblog this post to spread awareness!

RULES

Your ask box must be open!

By signing up, you are promising to send someone a secret admirer message. This is all based on the honor system, and it will not work if people don’t send them. Please make sure that you are committed to this event.

You must send your ask in on Valentine’s Day, February 14th.

No hate or negativity of any kind! Send only nice things!

You can send your ask anonymously, or not. It’s up to you!

When you receive your ask, please post and publish them on your blog with the tag [#writeblr secret admirer] so I can check that people have received them, and to spread the love!

Please follow my blog (@pens-swords-stuff). Important updates will be posted here, and the tagging system is unreliable at best. It’s the only way to make sure you’ll see important announcements.

The deadline to sign up for this event will be on February 13th, 5PM CST.

Assignments will be given randomly, and will be sent out prior to Valentine’s Day. Depending on when you sign up, you may receive your assignment today, the day of or anytime in between. Be sure to keep an eye out for it in your inbox, be patient, and to make a note of who your assignment is!

If you have any questions, please check out the FAQ here.

For anything not covered in the FAQ, please send me an ask.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone, I hope you’ll consider joining and spreading the love!

Even if you decide not to sign up, I would love and appreciate a boost!

sprintingowl

What Non DnD TTRPGs Feel Like

Okay, quick thread about what playing different non DnD ttrpgs feels like.

Pathfinder

This is DnD. It feels like DnD. It's like going to a slightly different church. Some of the words used during the service are different, but at the end of it the pulpit turns out to be a mimic and you cast Entangle and summon your direwolf.

Fate

This is Rule Of Cool with additional rules. The GM has powers to one-up you or lead you into temptation, but you have powers to one-up the GM, and all these powers use the same kind of token that you ultimately shuffle back and forth.

Savage Worlds

Handwave-style DnD (positive connotation.)

The GM has a lot of freedom to pick genre and setting, and the gameplay is sleeker, rule-of-cool-ier without losing meaningful combat or character building.

Call Of Cthulhu

You may not be an old librarian, but you sure are built like one. Most acts of violence can flatten you in a couple of hits, but violence doesn't happen often. It's the punctuation mark at the end of a long sentence. Atmosphere and pacing rule over this land.

World Of Darkness

This is a game about getting deep into your character's headspace. It's about figuring out who they are and roleplaying them passionately. Your backstory choices and powers have a huge affect on how you interact with the world around you.

Warhammer Fantasy / Dark Heresy

You are Scrumbles McGrumbles, a walking heap of morbidity and washed-up soldiering. You are trying to find your place in a world that's having an even worse day than you are. Your best friend is a ratcatcher. Together you will be heroes.

OSR (Mork Borg, Mausritter, Into The Odd, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Labyrinth Lord, Cairn, tons more)

DnD boiled down to two components: GMing + Making A Guy. GMing is made as easy as possible and PCs are somewhat disposable, so the story is the hijinks you get into together.

The goal is to get into trouble and stir up drama. Succeeding on a roll with no consequences is rare, but when you fail you fail forward into even bigger, messier drama.

Blades In The Dark

You go on missions and then return to your base. The missions are about choices as much as about rolls, and you build your base together to make yourselves more powerful as a squad.

Trophy

Your goal is to lose. Specifically, it's to lose in a dramatic and harrowing fashion that sticks with everyone at the table. Think movies like Annihilation, but as oneshot games.

Golden Sky Stories

You like everyone at the table with you. When someone does something adorable, you can award them exp. The highlight of the session is someone getting flustered and/or speaking in a squeaky voice.

Ryuutama

You are going on a journey and helping other people along the way. Important choices include packing lunch, wearing appropriate clothing, and completely filling your canteen. Combat is a cozy, pastel color jrpg.

The Indie

There are so, so many games that are just completely their own thing, and that I can't squeeze into a single thread. If you discover you like game mechanics and you want to Get Weird with seeing what they can do, there is an entire scene here waiting to welcome you.

Stuff I Missed

There's lots of stuff I haven't played, or didn't remember in the moment, or absolutely love but it would take a whole thread to explain why I love it. I will do more game recommendations in the future, but you can also comment systems you like below!

#this is beautiful #what the people crave #how can i get me into some of these games

angelonmainart

recently my players met strahd at dinner 😇

corndogswhenever

I've never played Curse of Strahd, but if this is what he looks like... wtf have I been waiting for.

angelonmainart

i mean i certainly… dilfed him up

but the good news is that a lot of DMs dilf him up too 😌

corndogswhenever

So in summary...

Bad news: Strahd is canonically a pathetic incel Good news: The people know what they want, and what they want is for Strahd to be a dilf and so it shall be. What's canon now? The winners write history ;)