Fractured Gems

He/Him; I write stuff. Branded For Sacrifice available on Steam. https://dot.cards/fracturedgemsentertainment

[fracturedgems]

Branded For Sacrifice is officially on Steam!

Branded For Sacrifice on Steam

Slay demons that plague the world and discover the source of your mysterious brand. A short-form JRPG in the vein of SNES classics, Branded

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[starlitnpc]

Hit pause during the reactor scene at a random moment and noticed an oddly soft expression on Genesis while he's in the middle of infodumping about all of them being monsters.

[errantnight]

I feel like Genesis intended to finish this whole thing with 'but we are both monsters together, we have to stick together right, so that's why I need your cells and we can be best monster friends together' but the degradation fucked him up and he didn't exactly get it out the way he planned

[altocat]

[theylov3evie]

Me?

[cellberry]

Gongaga.

[psychhound]

if people are interested in getting more into ttrpg scholarship and actual academic conversations that are happening around ttrpgs some journals to check out (pared down from a list written by dr evan torner in the generation analog discord) are:

international journal of roleplaying

japanese journal of analog rpg studies

analog game studies

games: research and practice *

journal of roleplaying studies and steam

all journals are open access, meaning you can read them for free, except for the starred one, which is half open access. the two italicized journals are bilingual, the first in japanese and the second in spanish

theres a lot of interesting discussions happening out there that i think would be very enriching to some of the convos happening here, especially in indie ttrpg spaces. so, go forth. read. enjoy

[fracturedgems]

Think I’ve shared this before but it’s always worth a read

[fracturedgems]

Thinking about her *sigh*

[thydungeongal]

Ultimately an RPG that uses playing cards as a randomizer but doesn't actually utilize the cards for. You know. The things that cards can do. Is just using them as a fancy, weirdly shaped die.

A few things that cards can do that dice can't:

You know that dice superstition that people have about how if they roll enough low numbers they're bound to get a high one? That sort of actually works with cards provided cards aren't immediately returned to the deck and the deck reshuffled. Because there's a limited number of each "roll," good or bad.

You can hold them in your hand. It's basically like pre-rolling a bunch of numbers and then getting to spend those numbers as they become relevant. Maybe you only get to draw more cards by playing all your cards, meaning that if you don't conserve your good cards your character's luck is eventually bound to run out.

You can make poker hands with them. Added to the previous point, maybe you will be forced to play a worse hand and have your character flub a non-critical roll because you're hoping for that better hand that'll turn the tide.

There's suits as an added bit of information that can be utilized for some mechanics. Maybe matching suit with an action type results in an extra benefit?

[psychhound]

i did this a little bit with dead man's hand. its a solo journaling storytelling game where you divine tales of the weird west using poker hands. there isnt the element of playing the cards, but the story you divine is both based on the cards you pull and the overall hand you make with the flop, turn, and river. theres def stuff i would tweak about it now but its my best selling game!!

[fracturedgems]

A publi autho looks li

[fracturedgems]

Does the bit where I smash an aluminum can on my forehead like in cartoons but it’s a ceramic mug so it shatters, leaving me unconscious on the floor and bleeding profusely

[fracturedgems]

A publi autho looks li

[sexualassbutts]

If you're ever bored, here's a list of Studio Ghibli films you can watch for free.

Castle In The Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Spirited Away (2001) The Cat Returns (2002) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008) The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

If any of the links stop working, please let me know so I can fix it.

For Castle In The Sky, wait for the free user button to be clickable and it will send you to the video.

[allydsgn]

how do I not share this, though (HIGHLY RECOMMENDING HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE IT’S MY FAVORITE)

[zjoy-deactivated20190221]

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) The Wind Rises (2013)

[palindromic-geek]

These are so good if you need something to calm you down on a bad day or after panics :)

[pyxxie-nyxxie]

@tryanmybest

[necromosss]

Shb. Burden of a secret + bonus

[artchivary]

"THIS IS A-ABSOLUTELY *NOT* A-A DATE!!!"

My GabV1el fan VN is complete! (۶•̀ᴗ•́)۶

Navigate a hypothetical post-canon not-date with one suspiciously flustered archangel - pick from silly dialogue options, earn sillier +BONUSES, and listen to him yap about everything from favourite foods to past mistakes to his totally irrelevant relationship status why would you even ask about that machine.

Things you can do in this game: - Call him gay - Break the fourth wall - Get a P-rank - Show him tumblr - Remain silent - Acquire one (1) angel

Things you can't do in this game: - idk pretty much anything else, this isn't Ultrakill

Playable in-browser or downloadable for a smoother experience :) > https://artchive.itch.io/deus-x-machina

--- Notes: - Free to play & download - Not built for mobile devices; desktop recommended for proper sizing and rendering - Downloadable for Windows computers - Linux/Mac-compatible builds can be provided on request

[secretaary]

a collection from MCR madrid of a remarkably un-reconditioned vocalist

sources: 1 / 2 / 3, 4 / 5, 6 / 7, 8 / 9, 10 / 11 / 12

[altocat]

I also think Sephiroth, had he left, probably would have run into Genesis again. This would have inevitably resulted in either Sephiroth accidentally killing Genesis after Genesis escalates (again)...

...or them getting hitched in Gaia-Vegas and spending the rest of their lives lazing around in their cottage complaining about telemarketers.

[sapphirothcrescent]

I would be okay with Sephiroth gravely wounding Genesis and having to nurse him back to health and eventually go to the Golden Saucer, get hitched in the spooky hotel, then kiss on the ferris wheel.

[altocat]

Yesssss 😍

[fracturedgems]

Well I was writing out another long winded post about Angeal and the buster sword but tumblr mobile app crashed and didn’t save the draft lolol

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[kayla-denker]

Actual Greek people are way too brown for people like Nolan. It fucks up their worldview that the perfect Pinacle of Evropean Civilization™️ was the civilization of people that look like the guy selling tamales on the street corner that they wanna throw out of the country.

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

[ninewheels]

#at least once a month I think about that one post about laminating a paper towel#and how that makes it immortal but also forever prevents it from fulfilling its true purpose#yes you will live. but at the cost of everything that makes you You

(courtesy of noknowshame)