the body is a blade

ʜᴜᴍ ᴠᴀᴊʀᴀ ᴘʜᴀᴛ! mystic materialist. GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/104421/god-obliterating-vajra-revolution-era-wuxia | vajrayana-anito-catholic maoist in the philippines.

[makapatag]

hingsajagra masterpost

an esoteric cultivation dark fantasy world.

imagine for a moment.

a world steeped in struggle. it has ended, now. but it struggles nevertheless.

what is this world called? in the tongue of the ancients: pakgara. in the tongue of the elders and of the far sages: hingsajagra. in the tongue of our brothers and sisters: wandering. this is the realm of the prince of attachment. welcome to wandering.

combine—1900s warlord era asia. ivalice. revachol. the lands between. esoteric buddhist, gnostic, and other mystical metaphysics. communist philippines and indonesia. throne. new crobuzon. morrowind. bulikov. camor.

A strangreal esoteric dark fantasy setting. Second world but not by much. Struggles of 11,000 years of human progress and evolution creating a world of mystic materialism, psychomagickal infranuclear esotericism. Quantum physics bleeding into magick. Spirits as hyperobject, eidoloweaves, arising of memories and entropies of objects together. Reincarnation as atoms dispersing into other atoms that turn into new sentient beings. Gods as hyperstrong entities with longer lives, stronger physical capabilities, and with sharper mental acuities. A world with the material conditions for revolution and post-revolution, in the face of burgeoning colonialism and hypercapitalism. 

hingsajagra is a world project built upon revolutionary ideals. An antirealist fantasy. Literary Fabula. New Weird. Magickal Antirealism. darkweird Fantasy. What if the world never developed automatic guns and mobiles? What if the world's colonial superpower was Indochina-Suvarnabhumi? What if the Buddha met Marx? What if the Virgin Mary was the Flower of Heaven Bodhisattva? What if the world ended because of the failed proletariat revolution? What if the breathtaking invention that kickstarted the Industrial Revolution was not the steam engine but the Karma Engine, where sentient-beings' karma is used for electricity and mechanic energy?

A world that has moved past the phantasmic fog of the Heroic Age and the God Age. A world that challenges ours in terms of integrity and movement. A world built upon the mystic esoteric tenets of sunyata set down by Vajrayana Buddhism. The synthesis of Nagarjuna's Emptiness with Camus' Absurd. The handshake of the Buddha's Bodhicitta with Marx's Communism.

A world not too interested in mytho-national reproduction, a world interested in being a place for us to express emotion and not just evoke it. Instead of epic odysseys, letters-never-delivered from a failed philosopher to his knight husband who died in war. The eternal grief arising from outliving your son and daughter. Hopeless love poems from a fisherman to the Company Heir of Ressen-Nalenji. Scribblings of a genocide victim. Suicide note of a failed actor. Drawings of a child in a war zone.

From it springs forth novels, serials, poems, paintings, RPGs and more. It is materialistic in its historical dialectic, built upon transcultural ideas and the overcoming of idealism-materialism as well as individualism-collectivism. It's a love letter to revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South Asia.

Go. A world to win. Do it for the ocean. Set your heart ablaze. Emancipate humanity. Until all the hells are empty. Until all beings are free.

Directory

Creations

all swords against heaven (ttRPG in wandering. WIP, on Patreon.)

God Obliterating Vajra (Webnovel)

Lore

Infraperegrination of the Utter Islands

Human Migration Patterns as of the Year 11664

Karma Engines

Sundang Langit: World Characters

Ultima Beam

Song Zalan Paragita

Akris Culture in the Utter Islands

What Do You Mean When You Say God?

Bidaran Culture

Alignment: Demonism

Alignment: Corporatism

Cultivation: Masangwan Blade Dialectic

Excerpt from Kafeng Masangwa's "THE COMMUNIST SUTRA"

The Heaven-Earth Megadeath

Research and Grounds

Violence, Work, and Butuanon Buddhism

[makapatag]

ultimaviolent cultivation! an action horror xianxia battle novel set in the mystic materialist world of hingsajagra.

wanjo is a college dropout jobhopper hunted down for demanding better pay.

as he is ripped apart, a sect of kungfu commie cultivators saves him...

the story of how the red gleaming saints, the vanguard party of the hingsajagran world council, came to be! and how they expunged the world of the five-armed demiurge, brought cultivation to the working class, and brought the world to feud with the intergalactic celestial empires!

16 chapters out now:

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"what the hell is vajrarev?" an evolution of GOV's dharmapunk, its explicitly an esoteric dialectical materialist spin on speculative fiction. i didn't want to use -punk bc increasingly that came with ultimately liberal/petit-bourgeois connotations, i needed smth more material

and not just that, i needed smth that conveyed machinery, degeneration, high-tech/low-life, but with a focus not on the individual but on class, on the party, on the workers and lumpen and peasantry

so -rev comes from "revolutionary". it's not a confident assertion that the work IS revolutionary—its still webnovel—but its a signaller that that's the intent, the direction, the goal "vajra-" on the other hand is the fantastical realist, violent, and forceful side of the dharma

vajra also connotes expediency, which means the integration of dharmic sunyata principles into local beliefs, which shows in the mixed-occultism of the Work: western, eastern, southern, and northern esotericisms are all used and applied, mixed with the cosmic horror of samsara

finally vajra- refers to the esoteric practices of the buddhadharma, which fits well into the cultivation sphere and lends itself well to high flying kung fu fiction. its impenetrable, immanent, self-negating, and empty—what is needed to commit the ultimaviolence of revolution

[makapatag]

// "existence is violence" //

zaji gozon, one of the main four red gleaming saints of ULTIMAVIOLENT CULTIVATION, the spirit cultivation action horror occult xianxia battle novel set in the end of the universe (where everyone is vaguely seasian coded)

[makapatag]

ultimaviolent cultivation! an action horror xianxia battle novel set in the mystic materialist world of hingsajagra.

wanjo is a college dropout jobhopper hunted down for demanding better pay.

as he is ripped apart, a sect of kungfu commie cultivators saves him...

the story of how the red gleaming saints, the vanguard party of the hingsajagran world council, came to be! and how they expunged the world of the five-armed demiurge, brought cultivation to the working class, and brought the world to feud with the intergalactic celestial empires!

16 chapters out now:

Ultimaviolent Cultivation — 1 - 16 | makapatag

Ultimaviolent Cultivation — 1 - 16 by makapatag on Patreon. Join makapatag's community for exclusive content and updates.

[makapatag]

"what the hell is vajrarev?" an evolution of GOV's dharmapunk, its explicitly an esoteric dialectical materialist spin on speculative fiction. i didn't want to use -punk bc increasingly that came with ultimately liberal/petit-bourgeois connotations, i needed smth more material

and not just that, i needed smth that conveyed machinery, degeneration, high-tech/low-life, but with a focus not on the individual but on class, on the party, on the workers and lumpen and peasantry

so -rev comes from "revolutionary". it's not a confident assertion that the work IS revolutionary—its still webnovel—but its a signaller that that's the intent, the direction, the goal "vajra-" on the other hand is the fantastical realist, violent, and forceful side of the dharma

vajra also connotes expediency, which means the integration of dharmic sunyata principles into local beliefs, which shows in the mixed-occultism of the Work: western, eastern, southern, and northern esotericisms are all used and applied, mixed with the cosmic horror of samsara

finally vajra- refers to the esoteric practices of the buddhadharma, which fits well into the cultivation sphere and lends itself well to high flying kung fu fiction. its impenetrable, immanent, self-negating, and empty—what is needed to commit the ultimaviolence of revolution

[makapatag]

ultimaviolent cultivation! an action horror xianxia battle novel set in the mystic materialist world of hingsajagra.

wanjo is a college dropout jobhopper hunted down for demanding better pay.

as he is ripped apart, a sect of kungfu commie cultivators saves him...

the story of how the red gleaming saints, the vanguard party of the hingsajagran world council, came to be! and how they expunged the world of the five-armed demiurge, brought cultivation to the working class, and brought the world to feud with the intergalactic celestial empires!

16 chapters out now:

Ultimaviolent Cultivation — 1 - 16 | makapatag

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10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a brutal occult martial arts ttrpg. you are a wanderer. martial artist, mystic, outcast the world is the corpse of a corpse, slaughtered by Heavenly Bourgeoisie's nuclear javelins

CHANGE THE WORLD DIE TRYING HEMOCLYSM AGAINST THE RULING CLASS

KILL GOD LOSE EVERYTHING LOSE EVERYTHING KILL GOD

as a wanderer, you must organize under one of the six Left Hand Sects that dominate the Martial Underworld, situated outside of the Pacified World Order of the Five-Armed Demiurge Array, where everyone is stolen from their capacity to Cultivate their inner Sidhi.

you will need to organize. you will need to return to the masses. you, laborer, lumpen, scum, subaltern wretch of the earth. the five-armed demiurge array is a last-ditch attempt by the ruling class to push down the material conditions for relentlessly violent revolution

the world is a tropical gothic occult-materialist world inspired by post-cold war southeast asia and east asia. you play as maggots upon the divine corpse what will you do with the world? or will you even survive long enough to think about a reason? UNTIL ALL BEINGS ARE FREE

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10,000 swords against heaven // 1.8

—pugilist praxis occult xianxia ttrpg. kungfu communists, diamat wizards vs heavenly bourgeoisie

> settlement, dungeon, etc. generator

> new damage system, survival cosmic horror @ L0

> MICROCOSMIC ORBIT progression > 6 slot FASHION system

> new lore—what if hingsajagra was a dead god that tried (and failed) to escape immortal cultivators that hunted her down by traveling to the end of the universe?

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10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a brutal occult martial arts ttrpg. you are a wanderer. martial artist, mystic, outcast the world is the corpse of a corpse, slaughtered by Heavenly Bourgeoisie's nuclear javelins

CHANGE THE WORLD DIE TRYING HEMOCLYSM AGAINST THE RULING CLASS

KILL GOD LOSE EVERYTHING LOSE EVERYTHING KILL GOD

as a wanderer, you must organize under one of the six Left Hand Sects that dominate the Martial Underworld, situated outside of the Pacified World Order of the Five-Armed Demiurge Array, where everyone is stolen from their capacity to Cultivate their inner Sidhi.

you will need to organize. you will need to return to the masses. you, laborer, lumpen, scum, subaltern wretch of the earth. the five-armed demiurge array is a last-ditch attempt by the ruling class to push down the material conditions for relentlessly violent revolution

the world is a tropical gothic occult-materialist world inspired by post-cold war southeast asia and east asia. you play as maggots upon the divine corpse what will you do with the world? or will you even survive long enough to think about a reason? UNTIL ALL BEINGS ARE FREE

FREE

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Pugilist Praxis Occult Xianxia Role-Playing

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you choose one of the SIX SECTS to be organized under, to properly strike a blow against the heavenly bourgeoisie.

below are the six, with expanded graphics for the internal elixir and the luminous mind sects

the six sects band together. these are not the only sects—the martial underworld is filled with them. but these are the largest andthe ones with the most infrastructure

THE PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR YOU, WANDERER

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[makapatag]

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a brutal occult martial arts ttrpg. you are a wanderer. martial artist, mystic, outcast the world is the corpse of a corpse, slaughtered by Heavenly Bourgeoisie's nuclear javelins

CHANGE THE WORLD DIE TRYING HEMOCLYSM AGAINST THE RULING CLASS

KILL GOD LOSE EVERYTHING LOSE EVERYTHING KILL GOD

as a wanderer, you must organize under one of the six Left Hand Sects that dominate the Martial Underworld, situated outside of the Pacified World Order of the Five-Armed Demiurge Array, where everyone is stolen from their capacity to Cultivate their inner Sidhi.

you will need to organize. you will need to return to the masses. you, laborer, lumpen, scum, subaltern wretch of the earth. the five-armed demiurge array is a last-ditch attempt by the ruling class to push down the material conditions for relentlessly violent revolution

the world is a tropical gothic occult-materialist world inspired by post-cold war southeast asia and east asia. you play as maggots upon the divine corpse what will you do with the world? or will you even survive long enough to think about a reason? UNTIL ALL BEINGS ARE FREE

FREE

10,000 Swords Against Heaven by makapatag

Pugilist Praxis Occult Xianxia Role-Playing

PATREON

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[makapatag]

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a brutal occult martial arts ttrpg. you are a wanderer. martial artist, mystic, outcast the world is the corpse of a corpse, slaughtered by Heavenly Bourgeoisie's nuclear javelins

CHANGE THE WORLD DIE TRYING HEMOCLYSM AGAINST THE RULING CLASS

KILL GOD LOSE EVERYTHING LOSE EVERYTHING KILL GOD

as a wanderer, you must organize under one of the six Left Hand Sects that dominate the Martial Underworld, situated outside of the Pacified World Order of the Five-Armed Demiurge Array, where everyone is stolen from their capacity to Cultivate their inner Sidhi.

you will need to organize. you will need to return to the masses. you, laborer, lumpen, scum, subaltern wretch of the earth. the five-armed demiurge array is a last-ditch attempt by the ruling class to push down the material conditions for relentlessly violent revolution

the world is a tropical gothic occult-materialist world inspired by post-cold war southeast asia and east asia. you play as maggots upon the divine corpse what will you do with the world? or will you even survive long enough to think about a reason? UNTIL ALL BEINGS ARE FREE

FREE

10,000 Swords Against Heaven by makapatag

Pugilist Praxis Occult Xianxia Role-Playing

PATREON

Patreon

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[makapatag]

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a brutal occult martial arts ttrpg. you are a wanderer. martial artist, mystic, outcast the world is the corpse of a corpse, slaughtered by Heavenly Bourgeoisie's nuclear javelins

CHANGE THE WORLD DIE TRYING HEMOCLYSM AGAINST THE RULING CLASS

KILL GOD LOSE EVERYTHING LOSE EVERYTHING KILL GOD

as a wanderer, you must organize under one of the six Left Hand Sects that dominate the Martial Underworld, situated outside of the Pacified World Order of the Five-Armed Demiurge Array, where everyone is stolen from their capacity to Cultivate their inner Sidhi.

you will need to organize. you will need to return to the masses. you, laborer, lumpen, scum, subaltern wretch of the earth. the five-armed demiurge array is a last-ditch attempt by the ruling class to push down the material conditions for relentlessly violent revolution

the world is a tropical gothic occult-materialist world inspired by post-cold war southeast asia and east asia. you play as maggots upon the divine corpse what will you do with the world? or will you even survive long enough to think about a reason? UNTIL ALL BEINGS ARE FREE

FREE

10,000 Swords Against Heaven by makapatag

Pugilist Praxis Occult Xianxia Role-Playing

PATREON

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[makapatag]

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a brutal occult martial arts ttrpg. you are a wanderer. martial artist, mystic, outcast the world is the corpse of a corpse, slaughtered by Heavenly Bourgeoisie's nuclear javelins

CHANGE THE WORLD DIE TRYING HEMOCLYSM AGAINST THE RULING CLASS

KILL GOD LOSE EVERYTHING LOSE EVERYTHING KILL GOD

as a wanderer, you must organize under one of the six Left Hand Sects that dominate the Martial Underworld, situated outside of the Pacified World Order of the Five-Armed Demiurge Array, where everyone is stolen from their capacity to Cultivate their inner Sidhi.

you will need to organize. you will need to return to the masses. you, laborer, lumpen, scum, subaltern wretch of the earth. the five-armed demiurge array is a last-ditch attempt by the ruling class to push down the material conditions for relentlessly violent revolution

the world is a tropical gothic occult-materialist world inspired by post-cold war southeast asia and east asia. you play as maggots upon the divine corpse what will you do with the world? or will you even survive long enough to think about a reason? UNTIL ALL BEINGS ARE FREE

FREE

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Pugilist Praxis Occult Xianxia Role-Playing

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WE HAVE CONQUERED THE HEAVENS

for 10,000 swords against heaven, the ultraviolent tropical gothic occult xianxia ttrpg

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN 1.7 | makapatag

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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG ON THE EARTH

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WE HAVE CONQUERED THE HEAVENS

for 10,000 swords against heaven, the ultraviolent tropical gothic occult xianxia ttrpg

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the ultraviolent tropical gothic occult xianxia

TTRPG 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is on its 1.7th revision!

with a whole slew of new mechanics that enforce that gritty action horror. play as occult commie assholes fighting demiurges, false buddhas, and bourgeois immortals—

it's southeast asian xianxia! it's got weapon upgrading like bloodborne, damage tiers like shin megami tensei, combat like devil may cry— 3 floating actions and no action lists! check it out!

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college dropout wanjo job-hops and scraps in clubs to pay bills and his grandma's meds. planning to kill himself when she dies

that is, until a capitalist sends ghosts to kill him, and a sect of commie martial artists save him

ULTRAVIOLENT CULTIVATION!! an action horror occult xianxia battle webnovel following a cadre-sect of college commie exorcist-wizards and martial artists wreaking havoc across neoliberal world order with one goal: Spirit Cultivation For All

set in hingsajagra's southeast asian tropical gothic occult horror xianxia setting, this shit is like if the raid and jujutsu kaisen and my sad republic and tropical gothic and bloodborne and shin megami tensei came together to make a high powered battle novel baby

first 10 chapters here:

Ultraviolent Cultivation! And Some Updates | makapatag

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An Ultraviolent Tropical Gothic Tabletop Role-Playing Game.

You play as Wanderers in a Dead World reanimated by the necromancer named Neoliberalism and the Godnamed Capital.

As Wanderers, you will travel far and wide, mastering technicks, magicks, and experiencing Reality so that you perform Spirit Cultivation to become stronger and stronger. For what purpose? Is up to you. But you will need to fight, lie, steal, cheat, kill, cooperate, save, love, and be human if you want to survive a world that is trying to convert The People into nothing but Labor.

Wanderers are an age-old literary character. The traveling xia enacting justice to those without it. The cowboy coming into town having to face injustice or gang war. The ronin dealing with a town’s local politics and shifting allegiance. The bandit liberating a sugar plantation from a haciendero’s grip. The shaman offering solace and revolution for workers in a cotton farm. The firebrand cadre organizing farmers in the countryside to march against the forces of Empire and Nationalism.

It is Ultraviolent because it deals with the wielding of violence to break free from cycles of violence. 10kSword’s World is a world reeling from Post-Calamity and burgeoning, unstoppable capitalism. Those exploited are even more exploited, those that benefit benefit even more. It understands that Violence is the only recourse against those committing Violence, but it is a pure, unalloyed Violence that wishes only to break free from oppression that breaks cycles, instead of Violence wishing to gain the power to oppress. It is Tropical Gothic because 10kSwords’ World centers cultures, aesthetics, ideas, and ideologies that resonate or look like the ones in our third world, in the neocolonies and current colonies and semicolonies and semifeudal states of our world. In the socialist states of our world.

Tropical Gothic is an old literary concept that blends gothic horror with tropical realities, dealing with colonial violence, marginalized indigenous histories, imperial faiths clashing with local cults, monstrous legacy of colonies and liberalism.

It is Xianxia because this world is a Dark Fantasy rooted in Buddhism, Daoism, and Folk Religion. Wanderers must cultivate themselves and, more importantly, their communities to create a force powerful enough to topple heaven—in this case, the neoliberal world order. Collect violence, esoterica, and lore to benefit not just themselves but the People. To cultivate for one’s own power is not Ultraviolence.

Put Them Together and what do you see? I hope you know when to look away. I hope you know when to look closer.

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN | makapatag

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[makapatag]

gearing up to run the second session of a twoshot for this and did some typo fixings and mechanic clarifications. two things i'd forgotten to add in for public release were more XP triggers and the Death mechanic, a fusion of Soulsborne and communism

Minor Fixes and an extra Death Mechanic - 10,000 Swords Against Heaven by makapatag

1.41 Fixes Hey all! Had some time this week to deploy some fixes and edits. Also some things I forgot to put in for the public release, so a

[makapatag]

working on the aesthetic manifesto again for hingsajagra for when i start getting artists for projects here

[makapatag]

An Ultraviolent Tropical Gothic Tabletop Role-Playing Game.

You play as Wanderers in a Dead World reanimated by the necromancer named Neoliberalism and the Godnamed Capital.

As Wanderers, you will travel far and wide, mastering technicks, magicks, and experiencing Reality so that you perform Spirit Cultivation to become stronger and stronger. For what purpose? Is up to you. But you will need to fight, lie, steal, cheat, kill, cooperate, save, love, and be human if you want to survive a world that is trying to convert The People into nothing but Labor.

Wanderers are an age-old literary character. The traveling xia enacting justice to those without it. The cowboy coming into town having to face injustice or gang war. The ronin dealing with a town’s local politics and shifting allegiance. The bandit liberating a sugar plantation from a haciendero’s grip. The shaman offering solace and revolution for workers in a cotton farm. The firebrand cadre organizing farmers in the countryside to march against the forces of Empire and Nationalism.

It is Ultraviolent because it deals with the wielding of violence to break free from cycles of violence. 10kSword’s World is a world reeling from Post-Calamity and burgeoning, unstoppable capitalism. Those exploited are even more exploited, those that benefit benefit even more. It understands that Violence is the only recourse against those committing Violence, but it is a pure, unalloyed Violence that wishes only to break free from oppression that breaks cycles, instead of Violence wishing to gain the power to oppress. It is Tropical Gothic because 10kSwords’ World centers cultures, aesthetics, ideas, and ideologies that resonate or look like the ones in our third world, in the neocolonies and current colonies and semicolonies and semifeudal states of our world. In the socialist states of our world.

Tropical Gothic is an old literary concept that blends gothic horror with tropical realities, dealing with colonial violence, marginalized indigenous histories, imperial faiths clashing with local cults, monstrous legacy of colonies and liberalism.

It is Xianxia because this world is a Dark Fantasy rooted in Buddhism, Daoism, and Folk Religion. Wanderers must cultivate themselves and, more importantly, their communities to create a force powerful enough to topple heaven—in this case, the neoliberal world order. Collect violence, esoterica, and lore to benefit not just themselves but the People. To cultivate for one’s own power is not Ultraviolence.

Put Them Together and what do you see? I hope you know when to look away. I hope you know when to look closer.

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN | makapatag

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[makapatag]

gearing up to run the second session of a twoshot for this and did some typo fixings and mechanic clarifications. two things i'd forgotten to add in for public release were more XP triggers and the Death mechanic, a fusion of Soulsborne and communism

Minor Fixes and an extra Death Mechanic - 10,000 Swords Against Heaven by makapatag

1.41 Fixes Hey all! Had some time this week to deploy some fixes and edits. Also some things I forgot to put in for the public release, so a

[makapatag]

An Ultraviolent Tropical Gothic Tabletop Role-Playing Game.

You play as Wanderers in a Dead World reanimated by the necromancer named Neoliberalism and the Godnamed Capital.

As Wanderers, you will travel far and wide, mastering technicks, magicks, and experiencing Reality so that you perform Spirit Cultivation to become stronger and stronger. For what purpose? Is up to you. But you will need to fight, lie, steal, cheat, kill, cooperate, save, love, and be human if you want to survive a world that is trying to convert The People into nothing but Labor.

Wanderers are an age-old literary character. The traveling xia enacting justice to those without it. The cowboy coming into town having to face injustice or gang war. The ronin dealing with a town’s local politics and shifting allegiance. The bandit liberating a sugar plantation from a haciendero’s grip. The shaman offering solace and revolution for workers in a cotton farm. The firebrand cadre organizing farmers in the countryside to march against the forces of Empire and Nationalism.

It is Ultraviolent because it deals with the wielding of violence to break free from cycles of violence. 10kSword’s World is a world reeling from Post-Calamity and burgeoning, unstoppable capitalism. Those exploited are even more exploited, those that benefit benefit even more. It understands that Violence is the only recourse against those committing Violence, but it is a pure, unalloyed Violence that wishes only to break free from oppression that breaks cycles, instead of Violence wishing to gain the power to oppress. It is Tropical Gothic because 10kSwords’ World centers cultures, aesthetics, ideas, and ideologies that resonate or look like the ones in our third world, in the neocolonies and current colonies and semicolonies and semifeudal states of our world. In the socialist states of our world.

Tropical Gothic is an old literary concept that blends gothic horror with tropical realities, dealing with colonial violence, marginalized indigenous histories, imperial faiths clashing with local cults, monstrous legacy of colonies and liberalism.

It is Xianxia because this world is a Dark Fantasy rooted in Buddhism, Daoism, and Folk Religion. Wanderers must cultivate themselves and, more importantly, their communities to create a force powerful enough to topple heaven—in this case, the neoliberal world order. Collect violence, esoterica, and lore to benefit not just themselves but the People. To cultivate for one’s own power is not Ultraviolence.

Put Them Together and what do you see? I hope you know when to look away. I hope you know when to look closer.

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN | makapatag

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[makapatag]

gearing up to run the second session of a twoshot for this and did some typo fixings and mechanic clarifications. two things i'd forgotten to add in for public release were more XP triggers and the Death mechanic, a fusion of Soulsborne and communism

Minor Fixes and an extra Death Mechanic - 10,000 Swords Against Heaven by makapatag

1.41 Fixes Hey all! Had some time this week to deploy some fixes and edits. Also some things I forgot to put in for the public release, so a