Probably Evil RPG Ideas

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[probablyevilrpgideas]

Note for potential readers-

Unless stated otherwise, characters in my writings are probably at least *a little* gay.

[thydungeongal]

I have posted before about how sometimes well-meaning attempts at running D&D without some of the more unfortunate dynamics can often backfire but in a way where most people don't even register it backfiring. Because when you take the step of "oh D&D's various 'evil humanoids' don't just exist in a vacuum and given the renfaire colonialism on display it's kind of impossible not to read them as somewhat racialized" many people will then go "okay but we still need some people who player characters should be allowed to kill guilt-free, so let's replace 'orcs' with 'bandits' because killing bad criminal people is perfectly ideologically neutral." At that point it's like "okay so your characters are no longer the racist kill squad, now they're just the Tough on Crime Vigilantes."

But I feel I should make clear that D&D the game itself is not exactly at fault here: like, okay, it is sort of at fault in the sense that it is a game of fantasy killing people with swords and magic. And it is easier for people to accept the killing with people with swords and magic part when they can imagine that their characters are at least to a degree justified. That is sort of just built into the game (and the game has built into its lore varying levels of making the fantasy of killing certain types of guy justifiable).

But D&D is not at fault for making people go "okay so it's bad when you kill orcs simply because they're orcs. It's better when you kill people who are bandits, who are a class of evil criminals where killing them is actually wholesome and sensible." Like, yeah, most people probably don't think about it that deeply, but the reason people don't think about it that deeply is ultimately ideological.

And the ideology is basically "it is bad to be racist but it's good to be a tough on crime vigilante."

[vixensdungeon]

My general solution to this is to acknowledge the problematic aspects of the game, let that discomfort pass through you, and just enjoy the game for what it is.

[probablyevilrpgideas]

I mean, my solution is to have antagonists who have done something actually bad, and use enemies that are actively malevolent by nature, such as aberrations, or just following an internal program that happens to involve killing the PCs, such as predatory beasts and undead.

[prokopetz]

Puzzle platformer that plays the whole "the robot needs to have boobs because they contain [insert vital system here]" trope 100% straight and allows you to modify the player character's capabilities by equipping various sorts of boobs. You have separate left and right boob slots, and some of the possible combos are hugely busted.

[transhuman-priestess]

[rohirric-hunter]

We laugh at how The Art of War is basically just, "An army can't fight if the soldiers aren't eating," but I'm reading this document about conservation of ancient yew trees and it legitimately says, "You should never fill the center of a hollow yew with concrete," so I think that probably making blatantly obvious statements is just the bane of being a specialist in anything

[v-spicata]

Ah yeah, that's actually not so bizarre when you know the reasons behind it. Still extremely wrong but understandable at least.

So yew trees are weird. They are extremely long lived with basically no known upper limit to their age. They do this by simply being extremely good at not dying like other trees do.

When a normal tree gets to an old age what usually happens is a fungus gets into their heartwood and takes hold. Their internal, dead wood rots away and they hollow out, lose structural support and collapse. Depending on the species this process can take decades or a good few centuries or so.

While yew trees do hollow out in this way they simply keep going afterwards. A ring shaped yew tree with most of its trunk missing is actually just middle aged and the most ancient yews get even weirder than that.

Wikipedia has this image of a Scottish yew where the start of this hollowing process can be seen. To be clear - for most tree species this would already have been fatal.

The thing is seeing a very old yew in this condition looks wrong to a tree surgeon, it's like the tree is constantly on the verge of death. So, if it's a well loved tree you try and do what you can to stop it from falling apart entirely.

A hundred years ago people tried all sorts of things like chaining up branches and also, yes, plugging the hollowed trunk with concrete. We know better nowadays.

Funnily enough there are even yews that survived this treatment and are still alive today.

This is a picture of the Tisbury yew in 1998 from the Ancient Yew Group, barely a minute ago from the tree's perspective.

Yews are fascinating plants with roots in European culture as ancient as the trees themselves. A few individual specimen trees are even estimated to be around five thousand years old - literally prehistoric in age.

Oh also they do weird things with sex as well sometimes. One of the oldest UK trees, the Fortingall yew appears to partially be turning from male to female on one side. It'll be interesting to see what becomes of it in the next few centuries of its life.

Sorry if this is all stuff you already know, I couldn't resist a chance to infodump about one of my favourite species.

[probablyevilrpgideas]

... Oh so that's why yew trees get their own rune in the elder Futhark and Yggdrasil is believed to have been a yew tree...

[probablyevilrpgideas]

Dumb character idea- An erudite and well respected dogfolk wizard named Erasmus Collie, who is secretly a necromancy with a focus on virulent diseases.

E. Collie

[prokopetz]

Open world survival game where if any of your attributes get too high, people who cultivate, worship, or oppose that attribute will show up to kill you. In some cases this is straightforward, like high firearms skill causing rival gunslingers to challenge you, or powerful psychic abilities attracting witch hunters, Caves of Qud style; for attributes like "Cooking" or "First Aid", the motives involved may be more eccentric.

[werewolfetone]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[werewolfetone]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[probablyevilrpgideas]

"Somebody Killed Ötzi the Iceman" is now firmly lodged in my head as a killer name for a, like, Prehistory Investigation RPG.

I need to work on this...

[rambrandt-the-painter]

reference sheet for for @sneksnladders

[biggaybunny]

I don't care about Dungeon Meshi otherwise but "Tallmen" is SUCH an elegant solution to placing humans in a fantasy setting that it's still blowing my mind. Just the term itself is enough to instantly recontextualize humans. They're no longer the default race. They're those big goobers with long legs, striding about all the time. I can so easily envision much more interesting relationships between humans and non-humans because of it. Like perhaps "tallmen" are stereotyped as shepherds by other races because they can watch over their flocks better, or as vagabonds because they are better suited to long travel on foot. And of course, they don't *literally* have to be taller than everybody else, they were just the tallest around whenever the label became the norm, or something like that. I just feel like it's so much better than what I've seen in settings like D&D that go "and humans are the... adaptable, generalist people :)!"

[stormtide-leviathan]

tags by @the-warlock-syndicate

[probablyevilrpgideas]

Side Quest Idea: Toad Migration

As the PCs are traveling through some random bit of wilderness, mention that they notice a large sign reading "WARNING: TOAD MIGRATION" and let them continue on thinking little of it.

Throw some minor stuff at them for a bit, a couple bandits, some wilderness hazard, maybe a troupe of goblins, and let them forget about the weird sign.

Then give 'em the toads. Giant toads big enough to swallow a man wandering through the area across whatever path the PCs are following.

Giant toads big enough to swallow a man who will not think twice about eliminating anything that could possibly be a threat on sight.

[bob-artist]

More Brotherhood of the Orb extras

[ramblin-tiger]

Another one! These tickle my soul with delight~

[xenasaur]

unfortunately while having a fucked up childhood sometimes adds some spice to kink it does sometimes also shut you off from very common kink stuff

[xenasaur]

I cannot put into words how much I despise punishment as a concept in kink. I get that it's cathartic for some ppl and I'm so happy if ur one of them but I'm not the one to go to for that

[xenasaur]

no I'm not going to hit you for failing to live up to my expectations I'm not my mother

[xenasaur]

thank goodness "I'm not hurting you as punishment, I just enjoy hurting you" is an incredibly hot thing to say lol because genuinely yeah I do feel that need to reassure sometimes

[strawberrylemonadeswagtourney]

PLEASE HELP A DISABLED LESBIAN WHO IS GETTING KICKED OUT INTO BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES

sorry if this is all over the place, my head is still pounding from yesterday but i tried my best to be coherent. this is the worst my situation has been in a long time. my father has a history of being violent and aggressive when he’s drunk, this time he went too far. i try not to get involved with anything involving my family, but last night i heard screaming from the kitchen and it sounded bad. my siblings and i all came to see what the commotion was just in time to see him swing a frying pan at my mother’s head. 

my youngest brother disappeared and me and my other brother tried to get in between our parents to stop it because my mother was already bleeding but he fought back against both of us, i don’t know what specifically happened to my brother but his face is all bruised and swollen and i got my head slammed against the wall multiple times. my phone ended up shattered on the ground broken beyond repair and i somehow got glass in my foot that i've since removed

idk if my younger brother called the cops or if the neighbors heard what was going on but they showed up, my father told them everything was fine even though several of us were bleeding and obviously not fine. my mother refused to say anything but my siblings and i spoke up and my father is now in jail. my mother told me that i shouldn’t have said anything, i’m a horrible influence, this is my fault as the oldest, i should’ve known better, and that i have until the new year to find somewhere else to live. i have three weeks to scrounge up enough change to try and survive in below freezing temperatures and i have no fucking clue what i’m going to do. 

i’ve reached out to a couple shelters to no avail and i don’t really have IRL friends who can help me. the only thing i can think of is my grandmother or extended family, but they all live 300 miles away and my parents sold my car without my permission so i can’t drive down there myself. i don’t know what to do. i’m so scared and i have nowhere to turn and i have less than a month to figure this out.

i’m going to reach out to my grandmother/family but if all else fails, the cheapest motel in my area is $45/night. i have $13 to my name at the moment. in the next few weeks, i need to secure a place to sleep at night, as well as transportation to get out and away from here, and at least a burner phone from the store, a flip phone will absolutely do and those are like $10-$30 i think. please PLEASE help me monetarily if you can, if not, you can also help just by boosting this post so more people see it. thank you for reading

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[strawberrylemonadeswagtourney]

it’s looking like i’m going to be on my own this winter. my grandmother told me that she would be condemning herself to hell by allowing someone who had been swayed by the devil into her holy house of god. but leaving her grandchild to survive out in the freezing cold because they're gay is surely going to get her into heaven. i tried to reach out to other family members and the only person who responded was my cousin, who is also struggling to stay afloat and can’t help

all of this is because i was trying to defend my mother, just for her to turn around and kick me out. i just don’t know what to do anymore. i don’t have enough money to consistently stay at motels since the cheapest rate around me is $45/night, and that’s going to drain through what i have saved up in only a few days. i know that a branch-specific subscription to the YMCA is $47/month, which will allow me somewhere warm to be during open hours and give me access to showers and drinking water at the very least. i’m scrambling to figure out how i’m going to survive this winter, but i know i’m going to be borderline living out of the YMCA and the library at this point

please PLEASE consider sending a few bucks my way, every little bit helps so much more than words can properly explain. please spread this post around as much as you can, i have a little over a week to get my shit together before i get kicked out into the freezing cold. thank you for reading

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[strawberrylemonadeswagtourney]

i'm not going to be able to reblog this post consistently any more after tonight. all i can do is queue it up and hope for the best. thank you for supporting me in these trying times. please continue to boost this post, consider sending a few dollars my way if you can, and keep me in your thoughts this winter. i love you guys.

[strawberrylemonadeswagtourney]

update 01/16: the last few weeks have been rough – i’m trying to take it one day at a time. i spend a lot of time at the gym, the library, and local eateries just to stay warm, the midwest winter is not being kind to me. motels are too expensive to stay at consistently so i’ve been sleeping in dumpster enclosures to keep the wind off of me. i don't have enough to afford a room and it’s supposed to snow tonight, if anyone could help me out, it would mean the world to me. thank you to every one who has reached out to me, it genuinely fills me with hope to know that there are still people in my corner. please consider sending a few bucks my way, and please boost this post so it doesn't lose traction again. thank you for reading

[ijichi-nijika]

hi um, i hate to do this at all because i feel so useless. I am a disabled trans woman who relies on my car to get around in a very unwalkable town. my front left strut has basically busted (I apologize for not exact details, i got blindsided by this and am not good with car stuff…) and out of pocket fixing it will cost at most $1,100 (we only got an estimate) I quite literally don’t have the money to fix this.

i rely on this vehicle for both upcoming work (that i wish happened sooner so i could afford this), and transportation for groceries. I am basically running off of eating with my moms paycheck each week and we barely are getting by since she has been working a job that doesn’t pay well.

i am also relying on this vehicle to help get my girlfriend @weepingcandies out of an abusive living situation to a place that will be safe but i am unsure of if the car can make the journey due to this…

i am not asking for you all to help cover this fully. I am going to beg my father for help (who i am unsure of if he will give any due to a history of abuse), and try my best to scrounge up some money on my own selling some of my old things that i can. any help would be appreciated if you can spare any at all

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[ijichi-nijika]

$330/$1,100 so far!! thank you all again!!

[pronouns-futanari-deactivated20]

i read dungeon meshi in one sitting and it was nice and all but the international attitudes towards it of putting it on a pedestal and going "finally a non degenerate manga" are disgusting

[pronouns-futanari-deactivated20]

i don't wanna put anyone on blast but dungeon meshi fans have been like this since 2016. this attitude was their whole identity since the beginning

[probablyevilrpgideas]

Main characters are an autistic furry who almost has a vore fetish, a manic depressive workaholic disaster lesbian whose main skills are "anyway, I started blasting" and "necromancy is just healing for non-quitters," a man so traumatized that he lives alone in a place where everything wants to kill him and his method of dealing with it is "not if I eat you first," and a depressed middle aged father whose marketable skill is "socially acceptable burglary"

Purity obsessed fans: "finally, a non-degenerate manga"

[probablyevilrpgideas]

Dumb One Page RPG Idea: ACTING!

All characters have two stats: Nicholas Cage and Willem Dafoe. Any time you do something in game, you choose one and roll, with maybe some GM granted bonuses based on what you're doing.

I don't know what the premise or concept is, but it would be insane and fun

[miamaimania]

Tracery: A Symphony in Bronze by Timothy Cleary

[probablyevilrpgideas]

Something something titan that is slain in a cathedral. The light that shines through the windows burns away its skin, but skin not touched by direct light becomes stone or metal, leaving a corpse like this. The cathedral falls to the ravages of time, but the metal corpse remains and becomes a new holy site