[evegoldenwoods]

Have you played... The Creation of Wonder?

I posted about it when it came out, but I don't think I ever really described the Creation of Wonder, my new tabletop game. So let me correct that, and give you the proper pitch.

The Creation of Wonder is a gmless game for 1-4 players, slightly similar to games like The Quiet Year or The Ground Itself, but built from the ground up to be a unique experience. It's designed around The Book of Kells, a famous illuminated manuscript created at the beginning of the 9th century on Iona, off the coast of Scotland.

The Creation of Wonder uses a tarot deck, and it's played in three parts. First, you build out a world. Then you create characters and tell a story about their lives. Finally, you take on the role of scholars examining the art they left behind hundreds of years later. Across these three parts, your focus is always on the Great Work, an object of deep importance to you community.

The Creation of Wonder is meant to be flexible enough to tell stories in all kinds of different genres and settings, and I've found that it really sings when you use it to talk about places and times that are very far removed from 9th century Iona. It can describe distant space stations, or fantastic and magical universities, or anything else that your group imagines. I'm really proud of the work that went into this game, and I hope that you'll enjoy it too.

It's free/pay what you want on itch, so I'd love it if you gave it a chance. You can get it here.

(Selfishly, I'm also hoping to get to ten ratings by the end of February, so if you do read it, I'd really appreciate any feedback you have.)

[mephistopheles]

i LOVE shakespeares richard the third hes such a fucking creep he just goes through life lying like a smarmy little shit and after he says ANYTHING he turns to the audience like

[bellaswans-khakiskirt]

[guldentusks]

Two tiny unicorn experiments from a couple years ago! I never technically finished them, but kinda liked them as is!

[evegoldenwoods]

A red flame in Barad-dûr, drawn based on the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre ep

[ryebreadgf]

yayyyy

[jomiddlemarch]

[evegoldenwoods]

A red flame in Barad-dûr, drawn based on the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre ep

[detectivehole]

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

[detectivehole]

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

[anarchistmemedistro]

[self-loving-vampire]

[birdsareblooming]

Dorothy L. Sayers: Are Women Human (1938)

it's older than ripley

[katabay]

kay, mordred, perceval; introductions

[evegoldenwoods]

Realis spoilers

My most diabolical theory (probably somehow already disproven I haven't gone back and listened to part 1) is that all of part 1 happened in the brief period when the skipping stone was in realis, and that it all starts unravelling when the stone starts leaving realis again

[wizardarchetypes]

if u get into neopaganism u really have to spend the first like 2 years sorting out all the bullshit and finding out how much of it is either completely made up or outright stolen from other cultures and then go from there. u truly have to experience ego death, academic death, book collection death, and probably 47 other maimings or else you will be stuck believing something some guy said based on nothing in 1987 as your religion. it's harrowing. it's dire.

[wizardarchetypes]

also frustrating is whenever i talk about this i inevitably run into the edgelords like "well it's ALL made up anyway so who cares ha ha ha." do not interact with me.

[tim-official]

neopronouns are all well and good but as long as we're adding words to the english language there's much cooler things we could add too. lets add inclusive and exclusive "we." a variant of "we" that distinguishes between "we (including listener)" and "we (including the speaker but not the listener)". other languages have this. Let's add the obviative case to our third-person pronouns so that we can distinguish between two people of the same gender - a him-[salient] and a him-[less salient]. this would make it much easier to write sex scenes where two people use the same pronouns. why aren't our proud pronoun warriors working on this

[evegoldenwoods]

Romantasty Klondike - A one page RPG

The One Page RPG Jam is running at the minute, and I came up with a concept so compellingly me that I had to make it real. This is Romantasy Klondike, a solo journalling game where you use solitaire games to tell a romantic fantasy story. It works really astonishingly well, and I had a ton of fun making the big table. (A ton of fun in this case means: many hours cursing myself for the bright idea of writing 44 prompts each for people, places, things and events.)

Romantasy Klondike by Eve Golden-Woods

A solo journalling game that builds a romantic fantasy tale by playing solitaire

[unknought]

Higgledy piggledy, turning and turning as gyres are widening, centers unheld,

things fall apart and there’s anarchy everywhere; falcons fly freely and can’t be compelled.

Dimming the tide there is blood in the water and everywhere customs of innocence drowned.

Held by the worst is a fervent intensity; lacking conviction the best run aground.

Surely there must be some kind of apocalypse; surely epiphany must be at hand!

Visions unbidden from Spiritus Mundi of something awakening out on the sand:

Head of a man with a leonine frame and a pitiless gaze that’s as blank as the sun;

sleep became nightmare by passage of centuries long before eons of slumber were done.

Higgledy piggledy, beast of antiquity, imminent, just as the prophecies warn,

shambling slowly but revelatorily, slouching towards Bethlehem, there to be born.

[naidje]

Beth McCarthy gives trans fan new name

[queer-joy-detector]

Queer joy detected!

[badkarma1998]

[violentandmagnificent]

statting out gur sevraqs in realis. I am not intending to put gur sevraq into a realis game at this time. it's just for fun.

[hasdrubal-gisco]

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?