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Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

that-house

I say shitty not to demean the quality of my work but because it’s less an exercise in good game design and more an attempt to induce paranoid internal conflict that turns into murder (in game of course). It has like three mechanics and one of them actively encourages you to murder the other PCs

that-house

Great news!

It’s done

I put like three braincells into this, so if there’s anything about it that outright sucks, uh. Sorry not sorry, L + ratio + let’s use the 1-page restriction as an excuse for any unfun mechanics

that-house

“What if there was a game about being a genre-savvy slasher protagonist murdering their way to the role of Final Girl?”

“Sounds cool when exactly does the PvP start”

“character creation”

that-house

With 10 point font I can fit the last mechanic I want to include, Gear, adding another layer to the backstabbing and manipulating mess that is character creation.

canmom

honestly a solid one-page RPG, and it isn’t another Lasers and Feelings hack, so points for that as well! I like the gradually ratcheting up difficulty, it is reminiscent of Pandemic.

the only point that feels like it needs elaboration is “multiple people can win by teaming up to defeat the Killer”. is this the same is the Final Stand mechanic, a skill check for each player? and is there a limit to when it can be triggered? otherwise the winning strat is blatantly to team up and attack the Killer as soon as possible while their power is low. horror-movie narrative logic says premature attempts to attack the killer should fail, but reveal something important about the nature of the threat. I suppose the narrator’s job is to forestall such an attempt by inserting as many skill checks as possible and offering bad decisions.

that-house

Yeah attempts to attack the Killer only truly work during the Final Stand. Notably, that’s also when throwing your buddy to the killer is a wayyyy easier option than making those checks

that-house

I can’t promise that the system math, like, works. I didn’t test it at all. For a more drawn-out and difficult experience you could switch to 3d6 + bonuses, keeping the three highest, have the Killer’s power range from 4 to 18, the difficulty of killing an ally be 11 (or 12 if you want to discourage infighting a little more, and the number the Final Stand begins at be 18. That’ll usually result in longer games with probably only one winner.

mallosoar

@that-house I could not stop thinking about this all day

(edit: updated image - minor tweaks)

that-house

This fucking rules.

2peachy

buckwheeler

it’s like I want you to be Chris’ parent but I can only ask you to do that if I am dead. It’s like I want to move into your house but I can only do that when you’re leaving. we can only have a funhouse mirror version of our true desires. we can only act out a crudely drawn version of the life we want. we’re Best Friends. I just keep drawing horses

fibro-memes

blu3b3rryj4mp1r3

beanie baby dragon is crossing your dash

newsmutproject

Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

beatrice-otter

This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.

ghostofhallownest

#empower people to make the changes they want to see#don’t feed their fear that they are one wrong decision away from being the evil they despise (tags via @rum-and-shattered-dreams)

lastoneout

I keep thinking about all of the disabled activists and people before me who stranded themselves on the 4th floor of buildings for weeks and crawled up stairs and fought with airline staff and schools and doctors and refused to stop existing in the face of injustice and bigotry no matter how big and scary and hopeless it seemed. Every time I get angry and scared the protests that lead to the creation of the ADA pop up again and remind me that disabled people are so much fucking stronger than anyone has ever given us credit for, and I can't help but be proud of that. And I know not all disabled people feel like we should take pride in our disabilities and have flags or whatever, but I think not just living, but thriving, in spite of a world that wants us dead and gone, in the face of both illness and persecution, and how we've not only bought ourselves forward, but uplifted the disabled people around us, secured more equal futures for everyone who will come after, and truly changed the way so many abled people have seen us for the better is something to be damn fucking proud of.

We have always been here and we always will be, there will never be a world without disabled people because being disabled is not bad, it's a natural part of the human experience and yeah it sucks some times but even when it sucks we have fought to build beautiful, unique, happy lives with people, both like us and not, and that should be celebrated.

The first sign of human civilization is the healed femur. The body of the profoundly disabled person who would have needed help to even just eat being carefully laid to rest after decades of a full, happy life. The medicinal plants showing even before we were entirely human we were doing what we could to not just survive, but alleviate suffering while we're at it. Above everything, evolution selected not the baby who can walk and eat and be quiet, but the one that can ask for help.

Disabled people are not just angry cockroach motherfuckers who refuse to die, we are proof of humanity's HUMANITY. Proof that natural selection selected a species that takes care of each other. From healed femurs and medicinal plants to vaccines and IVs and insulin to now, we are driven to help one another, we are at our strongest when we don't leave our most vulnerable behind. And I am living proof of that. My mother is living proof of that. Every disabled and chronically and/or mentally ill person I know is living proof of that.

And I don't know about the rest of you, but will carry that shred of humanity's true nature inside me like it's my fucking soul. I am scared and angry and hurt, but I have a lifetime's experience being scared and angry, and I can shake off the kind of pain that would make Atlas crumble to dust like it's nothing but a stiff fucking breeze. Disabled people have always been here, turning fear and anger and pain into joy and beauty and connection, and I'm not going to let everyone who came before me down. I'm not going to give up. Not now, not ever.

It's okay if you're disabled and you've hit your limit, you're too scared and tired and hurt, I won't blame you. But I won't abandon you, either. I might not be able to right all of the wrongs in the world, but I'll be strong, I'll carry all of you with me, I will not give up.

As I've said before, society hates a cripple who won't die, so we must spite them and live anyway.

Please, live anyway. I know if anyone can, it's us.

foxbirdy

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

hjarta-deactivated20260124

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

scienceoftheidiot

They existed *before beetles*

somethingaboutsomethingelse

spacedandelions

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

ignescent

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

sepdet

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.

modernvintage

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

y'know how big the holes in the grates at the bottom of dishwasher inserts are? they're Just small enough that the thicker end of a chopstick doesn't fall through.

So, idk. Maybe civilization isn't the worst thing

#a thought on civilization #are all dishwasher inserts like this?#was this intentional?#if so Huge #maybe I shouldn't be putting my wood chopstick in the dishwasher anyway #but this brings me a deep peace #and existential satisfaction

thehomebakery

Add some flavour to your weird and wonderful characters with this eldritch appearance table!

ur-daily-inspiration

Rain in anime appreciation post

2flowerz

Hotarubi!

wormsmybeloved

Here's some dnd character Ideas in case you need them:

1, Grung Oath of Vengeance Paladin, born in the lower caste you were able to escape, but now adventure to one day become strong enough to free your friends.

2, A genderfluid Warlock (the subclass and race of which doesn't matter) who uses the Mask of Many Faces Eldritch Invocation so their body always matches their gender.

3, An Echo Knight Fighter (the race of which doesn't matter) who was never able to make friends, so they simply learned to manifest an Echo to be their friend. (also works with Shepard Druid)

4, A Dwarf (the class does not matter) who grew up in a massive underground city, but one day got lost and arrived on the surface, and now searches for how to get back home.

5, A Chronurgy Wizard (race doesn't matter) who saw something beyond what they should know, so wiped their mind, and all they have now to go on is a half completed note.

6, An Oath of Devotion Paladin who really really loves his wife, and tries to contact her whenever he can, he should be human so his lifespan is shorter, and thus has less time to spend with his wife in the long run. Name him Anthony cuz that's a neat name

#Name him Anthony cause that's a neat name

mossymossman

Dnd Idea

The bodies of dead god-like creatures are mined for valuable resources.

In the mountains where a great purple worm was slain a dwarven city was built on its corpse. Houses are built into the bones and armor of the worm, and bridges cross between them because the bottom is filled with great worm poison. The people mine the corpse for it's valuable resources. It's a hub of chemical research.

petertheundermedicated

this reminds me of the Titan body that made the Boiling Isles in Owl House!

a place where magical energy just flows.. a place like the knee!!