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Have you played AT THE GATES ?

By Onyx Path Publishing

In the world of Gaia, magic is everywhere and in everything, but a danger from the Void outside the world has upended the balance. On the continent of Everend, seven nations vie for resources and influence in an uneasy peace after centuries of struggle. A year ago, in an explosive demonstration of power, one nation called forth daemons from the Void. Now all nations fear for their safety and rush to gain daemonic magic for themselves. As the nations struggle, common folk continue their daily lives amid uncertainty of an incomprehensible power and the brutality of war. All the while, magic collides with the Void tainted landscape to create dangerous beasts who threaten everyone’s safety.

Everend needs heroes to stop the march of destruction and help people understand their new place in the world.

Will you heed the call?

At the Gates is a high fantasy tabletop roleplaying game about burgeoning heroes struggling to survive, fighting for what’s right, exploring dangerous places, and saving the world.

Magic fuels all parts of Gaia, from fields of wheat to the people who sew them. Magic is rooted in the living nature of the world: the elements, the mind, the body, and the soul. The Void stands outside the world, and represents all the esoteric concepts such as order, entropy, and energy. Where the Void meets the world, Outlands grow. These places are warped by the intermingling of two opposite magics, and everything that lives there is tainted and dangerous. Hidden inside these Outlands are gates into the Void, standing as literal tears in reality.

You play as heroes who have chosen to buck the status quo and try to change the course of things. Your characters may attempt to change the course of the war, delve into the secrets of daemons and the Void, fight against tyranny to protect what they love in the world, fight to restore balance to Gaia, or all the above.

You stand at the gates, holding back the tide, changing the course of history.

Currently crowdfunding on on Backerkit

Have you played

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Voting ended onMay 22, 2024

presidentofbirds

I have not played it yet but lots of friends of mine wrote this game.

impernious

Hey Tumblr! My Backerkit campaign starts in 2 days. If you haven't signed up on Backerkit for notification on launch, that's okay. I WILL FUCKING NOTIFY THE WORLD ON LAUNCH BECAUSE I CAN'T CONTAIN MYSELF.

But also, maybe click the button so you get an email, because the algorithms might hate me.

Before you go, look at this fucking amazing art by Mel Uran.

This is our warlord signature character. He's from Talpidium, and he appreciates your admiration of his gorgeous blue eyes.

This is the harrier, they are excited to show you a good time. And also stab anyone who hurts you in the back.

impernious

At the Gates

I'm screaming, crying, throwing up right now. The Backerkit goes live on May 7th. It's real. It's really really real.

If you purchased the Ashcan and enjoyed it. If you didn't purchase the Ashcan because you were waiting for the actual campaign. If you are just now hearing about this game. If you hate me and want to spite me by pledging for a PDF and leaving fart jokes in the comment section.

Please go and sign up to get notified when the Backerkit goes live.

From Onyx Path - Get Ready for At The Gates

We're in our final days of funding for Exalted Abyssals. Please check it out - you can get the entire book free in the preview posts.

#ttrpg #exalted #ttrpgs #exalted rpg #indie ttrpg #exalted 3e #crowdfunding #goth aesthetic

ghostofcinders

The World Below, the brand new dark fantasy game Onyx Path Publishing made and for which I wrote for, is about to go crowdfunding on Backerkit.

I think we created a great game there and I certainly poured a lot of myself and my love for all things dark fantasy in there.

Expect me to talk extensively about it soon! In the meantime, here's a link to the Backerkit campaign so you can get notified when it starts!

(By the way, that big monster who made it to the cover? Yup, happy to say that's an original creation of mine. I knew it would make an impression, even become iconic, but getting the cover is quite the personal achievement)

From Onyx Path - Get Ready for The World Below tabletop roleplaying game

impernious

I'm so stoked about this game. I've been working on the system for it for over a year now and I can't wait for it to make it into people's eye holes.

dice-wizard

Should I write up the BG3 origin characters as Exalts? Would people enjoy that? Is this anything?

unseenphil

Honestly I think writing up characters from a popular D&D-based media as anything but D&D characters is the only appropriate response to years of "How to make X character in D&D", and "How to play Cyberpunk: edgerunners with 5E" articles

dice-wizard

I was thinking about this exactly lmao

impernious

Ooohhhh... this is already a fun thought experiment for me. Wyll is clearly an Infernal, but Karlach? She's probs a Dawn. Astarion as Abyssal. Shadowheart is a Chosen of Endings...

dice-wizard

Endings Shadowheart is such a big brain choice

I think I'll write up everyone with a sheet, since I'm feeling ambitious.

keirangoldenwatch

My first thought for Lae'zel was a Chosen of Battles. It suits her so well, and I can see her and Shadowheart fighting over which Maiden is superior.

It's going to take a lot of time to figure out what Halsin should be...he's definitely the hardest to place of all the companions...I just don't know... 🤔🤔🤔

dice-wizard

Thank God for your tags because I was absolutely about to be like, bruh, he is literally the easiest one lmaooo

moe-d-puff

hello. I am tired and the other post is probably slowing down, so here we are once more.

Unfortunately, then a filling fell right the fuck out of my face and took half the tooth with it. Right now I am looking for about 500$ for various dental fees and to keep groceries going while we do a stop-gap solution to keep any more holes from appearing in my face. as before,

130/500 kofi here

Paypal is kajichan AT gmail DOT com

I'm so sorry. thank you.

tlirsgender

Tired of dumbass nihilist shit. Been there done that Everything matters actually. Like just factually every god damn thing effects Something even if it's not anything huge or obvious. Things cannot exist without having any impact on anything else

tlirsgender

Saw a post in some space tags recently that was like. "The galaxy with the earth" "the galaxy without the earth" with the same picture twice and "the universe doesn't care" and that's Fucking Stupid! Ohhh you can't see this planet from that far away.. Shut up. Even ignoring everything going on On the planet, our gravity effects the orbit of the rest of the shit around here. You can't see the moon from that far away either but its gravity still pulls the tides. Eat my ass

tlirsgender

"Ohh in the grand scheme of things-" what about the little scheme of things? Huh? Ever thought about that, sadboy? The big picture is made up of brush strokes, fool

dice-wizard

Okay writers listen up

I'm gonna tell you about how I wrangled my shitbird brain into being a terrifying word-churning engine and have written over 170K words in under a year.

I wanna be clear that before unlocking this Secret Technique I was a victim of my unmedicated ADHD, able to start but never finish, able to ideate but not commit and I truly and firmly believed that I'd never write a novel and such a thing was simply outside of my reach.

Now I write (and read!!) every day. Every. Single. Day. Like some kind of scriptorial One Punch Man.

Step the First

Remove friction between yourself and writing.

I personally figured out how to comfortably write on my phone which meant I didn't have to struggle with the insurmountable task of opening my laptop.

I don't care if this means you write in a Discord server you set up for yourself, but fucking do it. Literally whatever makes you write!

(if you do write somewhere that isn't a word processor PLEASE back your work up regularly!)

Step the Second

Make that shit a habit. Write every day.

For me, I allow myself the grace that ANY progress on writing counts. One sentence? Legal. Five thousand furious hyperfixated words? Also legal.

Every day, make progress. Any progress.

I deleted Twitter from my phone and did my best to replace doomscrolling with writing. If I caught myself idly scrolling I'd close whatever I was looking at and open my draft and write one (1) sentence until I made THAT a habit, too.

Step Two-point-Five

DO NOT REWRITE. If you are creating a first draft, don't back up or restart. Continous forward motion. Second drafts and editors exist. Firsts are for ripping the fucking thing out of your brain.

If you're working on revisions after an editor or beta readers or whoever has given you feedback, then you can rewrite that's OK (and it counts as your writing for the day!)

Step the Third

Now that you've found a comfortable way to write and are doing it every day, don't stop. Keep doing it. Remember, just one sentence is all you need. You can always do more, but if one lousy sentence is all you can manage then you're still successfully writing.

Remember: this is what worked for me. Try things until you find what works for you.

You can do it. I believe in you.

biglawbear

So I went to read the Kids Online Safety Act, thinking that it couldn't possibly be as bad as what people are making it out to be, I mean I'm a lawyer and expert in statutory interpretation, it can't be that bad, right?

Oh no. KOSA IS that bad. It will literally eradicate queer people online.

The bill says that a "covered platform" - broadly defined as "anything on the internet a minor might use" which is literally the entire fucking internet- has a "duty" to protect minors from anything that might harm them, including "sexual exploitation" and other undefined terms

It also gives state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce it.

So here's exactly what's gonna happen:

Wacko republicans, as they've been doing with increasing force this year and last, are going to sue any and every website in existence, saying that the mere existence of LGBT people online constitutes sexual abuse of minors. And websites are gonna be so afraid of not doing the most that they'll just axe all LGBT everything.

Like. Republicans have been calling all LGBT people groomers and child molesters for years. The lead Republican literally admitted this bill will be used to attack trans people.

This bill is BAD bad. I'm appalled that democrats are lining up behind what is clearly a republican Trojan horse to eradicate LGBT people from the entire internet.

Call your senator

obstinaterixatrix

Cosponsors of S.1409 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Kids Online Safety Act

this is a list of senators who have cosponsored KOSA; under 'Give Feedback on This Bill' there's a link that lets you get the contact of your senators and representatives pretty easily. if your senator's a cosponsor, tell them to cut that shit out. if your senator's not a cosponsor, tell them to keep not being a cosponsor.

catbirdseat4u

➢ Traction please.

#ivy fire emblem #fire emblem #ivy #fire emblem engage #fire emblem fanart

hometoursandotherstuff

impernious

I'm going to make a few observations that should be obvious, but maybe they aren't. Anyway, this is inspired by some of my friends talking about DnD.

What you do with a game can have absolutely nothing to do with what the game wants you to do. And that's perfectly fine.

With that said, just because you do things with that game, does not make that game about those things. If I tell you that I use chess to woo strangers, this does not make chess an inherently romantic game.

A game is about whatever it lets you do with its mechanics. If the mechanics facilitate you doing a thing, then the game might indeed be about that. If they actively stand in the way of you doing a thing, then it is definitely not about that.

A game that does not help you contextualize your imaginative roleplay is definitely not doing you any favors. By all means, keep doing what you love, but there might be a game out there that absolutely helps you and facilitates the thing you want to do without leaving you out in the cold to make it all up on your own.

It is perfectly fine to houserule a game to oblivion and back to get it to facilitate the things you want to do. But at some point, you must admit you aren't actually playing that game anymore.

Don't encourage people to play a game without including the context that you are playing an entirely different version of it to have fun.

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