Salt Mines of Flight Rising

This is run almost entirely on submissions, so please actually use the submissions option. Half salt, half drama, and half random dragons. 150% possibly not actually a drama blog anymore. I'm not the original drama rising. Why would you think that I was the original drama rising.

[rowanisawriter]

write insane shit that’s way beyond your perceived ability and skill level even if you don’t finish it even if you think it sucks

[prokopetz]

Squinting grumpily at the latest "system-neutral fantasy sourcebook" trying to puzzle out which specific version of Dungeons & Dragons the author is picturing when they imagine a perfectly generic RPG.

[rollingforstew]

@crackerjackalope exactly my immediate thought as well that I went to the tags first just to see is someone else was on the same page. Why did the do That.

[prokopetz]

Squinting grumpily at the latest "system-neutral fantasy sourcebook" trying to puzzle out which specific version of Dungeons & Dragons the author is picturing when they imagine a perfectly generic RPG.

[dukeofriven]

Flip to the section on elves, maybe you can tell by how many well-intentioned reparative racial subcategories there are.

[prokopetz]

Sometimes in spite of the complete absence of explicit game mechanics you can 100% tell that the sourcebook in question is situated in a milieu in which "elf" is a character class.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

[prokopetz]

We've had gacha RPGs about libraries and pharmaceutical companies as paramilitary organisations – I feel like the next obvious unexplored frontier is public transit. The player takes on the role of a route planning director for a puzzlingly well armed quasi-governmental transit agency. All of your agents have bus driver aesthetic.

[prokopetz]

You'd think providing free public transit would be a no brainer in terms of maintaining good relations with existing nation-states, but in practice a lot of them hate you because you provide bus service to places people aren't supposed to be able to leave. There's a whole quest line about keeping Route 666 to Hell up and running.

[pachelbelsheadcanon]

That route must cost a lot in road maintenance since you have to repave it using good intentions instead of asphalt.

[prokopetz]

You're working for an organisation that's willing to fight demons to keep a bus route open. Good intentions are not in short supply!

[prokopetz]

Inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons adventure premise #137: Diplomatic mission to a kobold warren culminating in a personal audience with what appears to be a shitty cardboard puppet made up to resemble a dragon, but is in fact a real dragon that just looks like that.

[maarvarq]

#for best effect the gm should put on their best muppet voice when speaking in the person of the dragon

[bowowark]

“character who gained weight to show how they are healthy now” trope my beloved

[demonadelem]

[panidanya]

comm

[kayvsworld]

most tragic thing about wanting to see more stuff of your oc is that the c is o and YOU have to make the stuff. devastating. why can’t art of my beautiful baby just appear in my hands. just materialize under my pillow, like from the tooth fairy

[heartofaspen]

i love it and hate it when a character in a story is so obviously created to be cool and awesome and then i do think they're cool and awesome. like fuck, yeah, ok, they're fucking epic. swag as hell. you got me you coolbaited me ok? i'm coolbaited.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Life must be a rollercoaster for the D class. You live in a shitty prison cell for the remainder of your probably extremely short life. One day some security guards show up and take you to a big room where a scientist tells you to copy an image onto some paper. You do. The scientist shrugs and writes something down and you're taken back.

One day a scientist hands you a poptart and says "eat this". You say "is it full of some kind of fucked up interdimensional poison". The scientist says "eat it or that security guard will tase you and tie you down and make you eat it". You eat the poptart. It is not full of fucked up interdimensional poison, but it is kind of stale. You describe the taste to the scientist and he shrugs and writes something down and you go back to your shitty cell.

One day a security guard takes you to a big room and there's a flute sitting on a table. A scientist tells you "play Hot Cross Buns on that". You explain that you do not know how to play the flute. You are instructed to try. You play the flute and get immediately get dragged into some incomprehensible shadow dimension and torn to pieces for no reason that makes any sense to you. You are very lucky to have survived so long and died so quickly.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This guy will spend hours staring at his blank wall and wondering what the fuck was in that chamber and why they thought he might know.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sometimes you get blindfolded and told to repeatedly roll a basketball across the floor of a room and then you have to draw pictures and learn piano and cooking and you accidentally become a big monster's beloved Emotional Support Human, though, so there are potential upsides.

[boiledegghole]

Commission I finished a few months back for @windwalkernorth ! I was asked to design these metal-eating heavy-bodied dinosaurian aliens, and this piece is a propaganda piece for these Zacinth warriors!!! Super proud of it!!! Got some concept art down under the cut, too!

[boiledegghole]

divine anguish, a heavy burden assigned

[boiledegghole]

that all-consuming void, everhungry, everdevouring

[boiledegghole]

survivorr

[boiledegghole]

my mantra while playing the new ultrakill levels

[vhs-rat]

a deer sits under a red moon

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Art trade with the lovely @seraphim777s

Who's music you should absolutely check out.

[ephemeralwizard]