It's about time I made a promo post: my original comic Cursed Book Club is live! We got books, we got curses, we got horror and paranoia and TWEEN PROTAGONISTS 😱
Updates Mondays. Link in the comments because Tumblr is allergic!
The first major post-Kickstarter update focuses on replacing placeholder elements of previous drafts with full-featured – or, at least, greatly expanded – content, as well as giving the Forms, Arts, and included playset material a much-needed layout and technical editing pass to reduce the oft-remarked-upon "wall of text" effect.
The major changes are as follows:
A number of Forms have been simplified and clarified, and several Form abilities which previously lacked any clear game-mechanical effects now have them.
The placeholder d6 table for your God-eater's Creed in the Character Creation chapter has been replaced with a full discussion of the topic, including eighteen worked examples and a full page of advice on how to devise your own, both courtesy of @cryptotheism.
Most Rebellious Arts have seen at least minor revisions, including a full rewrite of the Art of Ascension.
The "Dramatic Scenes" subsystem has been greatly expanded.
The placeholder "Western Fantasy" random inventory milieu has been reworked to bring its entries more in line with its own premise, and augmented with tables for seven additional milieux, ranging from gothic horror to drawing-room mystery.
The single-page prototype character sheet has been replaced with an expanded three-page version, designed by @ribstongrowback.
The Online Character Generator beta has also been updated to reflect these changes if you'd like to give it a spin! If you have any suggested adjustments (or typo corrections) for version 0.7.1, please let us know, either here in the comments or on the Penguin King Games Discord.
A complete list of changes follows below the cut. All page numbers refer to the PDF version.
Introduction: Revised and condensed the game's preamble. (p. 7)
Introduction/Inspirational Media: Added several new entries and revised existing writeups. (pp. 10–12)
Introduction/Glossary: Corrected some alphabetisation errors, and added glossary entries for "advancement", "Creed", "disaster", "Personal Idiom", "playset", "Secret Technique" and "time-consuming action". (pp. 13–24)
Character Creation/Traits: Various wording clarifications throughout. (pp. 28–48)
Character Creation/Traits: The jet propulsion ability of Aquatic Aspect now has a mechanical effect. (p. 32)
Character Creation/Traits: Clarified what the Threat-ignoring effect of Defensive Dermis actually does. (p. 34)
Character Creation/Traits: The effortful effect of Dizzying Display now only exhausts the Form if the associated test succeeds. (p. 35)
Character Creation/Traits: The description of Fluttering Flight now explicitly defines "short range". (p. 36)
Character Creation/Traits: The effortful effect of Hearty Humours now only exhausts the Form if the associated test succeeds. (p. 37)
Character Creation/Traits: Clarified the effortful effect of Masterful Mimic. (p. 38)
Character Creation/Traits: Removed the alternative burst-fire effect of Menacing Missiles. (p. 39)
Character Creation/Traits: Clarified the startup time of the effortful effect of Peculiar Poise. (p. 40)
Character Creation/Size & Appearance: Explicitly stated that your lifting capacity defaults to your weight. (Various rules assumed this, but the text didn't actually say it anywhere – whoops!) (p. 49)
Character Creation/Facets & Philosophy: Replace the placeholder d6 table for deciding your God-eater's Creed with a full discussion of the topic, including eighteen worked examples and advice on devising your own. (pp. 53–58)
Character Creation/The Rebellious Arts: Various wording clarifications throughout. (pp. 59–68)
Character Creation/The Rebellious Arts: Clarified that you can activate the secondary effect of the Art of Abundance multiple times. (p. 60)
Character Creation/The Rebellious Arts: Full rewrite of the Art of Ascension; the new version should suffer from much less overlap with mobility-granting Forms. (p. 61)
Character Creation/The Rebellious Arts: Removed the caveat about "impossible" acts of consumption eventually correcting themselves from the Art of Indulgence. (p. 63)
Character Creation/Finishing Touches: Added a note about tonally appropriate God-eater names, with a reference to the new section discussing this (see below). (p. 69)
Character Creation/Miscellany: Added a note directing players to the optional Random Quirks table in Appendix B: Additional Tables; this table was always present but had previously gone unmentioned. (p. 70)
Playing the Game/Making Tests: Various wording clarifications throughout. (pp. 74–83)
Playing the Game/Making Tests: Added a sidebar to "Describing the Outcome" discussing deferring to the GM when a successful test's outcome would introduce new information. (p. 80)
Playing the Game/Making Tests: Expanded "Taking Six" to clarify when doing so is permitted and discuss a couple of common edge cases. (p. 81)
Playing the Game/Effortful Actions: Added a sidebar discussing how the special timing rules for combined effortful actions apply to cooperative tests. (p. 88)
Playing the Game/Obstinacy & the Rebellious Arts: Added a new section discussing how to invoke NPC, location, and unique item Traits when performing Limit Breaks, as well as limitations of Limit Breaks when faced with imperfect player information. (pp. 103–104)
Running the Game/Tone & Expectations: This new section discusses some basic assumptions about managing the game's tone. (pp. 115–116)
Running the Game/Position & Effect: Added a sidebar clarifying that players may make effortful use of a Form purely to offset an impact penalty without invoking the associated special effect, if they wish. (p. 126)
Running the Game/NPCs & Locations: Added a section discussing how NPCs with Stress Limits interact with effects which would cause them to be involuntarily removed from play. (p. 136)
Running the Game/NPCs & Locations: Added a section discussing groups of characters as NPCs. (p. 137)
Running the Game/NPCs & Locations: Relocated the discussion of the visibility of NPC qualities for better text flow. (p. 140)
Running the Game/The Calamity Clock: Renamed the event which occurs when the Calamity Clock runs out from "catastrophe" to "disaster"; playtesting indicated that the terms "calamity" and "catastrophe" were too easily confused. (p. 147)
Running the Game/The Calamity Clock: Clarified that the clock resets to zero after the present disaster is resolved. (p. 147)
Running the Game/The Calamity Clock: Clarified that the Calamity Clock may not be marked while a disaster is ongoing. (p. 149)
Running the Game/Dramatic Scenes: Greatly expanded this section, including more detailed discussion of action timing, interfering with NPC actions during the GM spotlight, and how to handle complications and certain potentially troublesome Form effects at various scales. (pp. 150–155)
Running the Game/Advancement: Added discussion of several potentially useful "generic" effects when devising one's own Secret Techniques. (p. 159)
Appendix A: Playsets/The Clockwork City: Clarified how the forced-roll effect of gizmos interacts with effects which allow starting inventory selections to be made during play. (p. 168)
Appendix A: Playsets/The Clockwork City: Simplified location quality "We Have the Technology" on DeLeon's Automatonics. (p. 173)
Appendix A: Playsets/The Clockwork City: Simplified NPC quality "The Dirt" on The Drunken Attendant. (p. 180)
Appendix A: Playsets/The Clockwork City: Expanded writeups of disasters Chain Gang, Sic Semper Tyrannis, and Picket Line to include full writeups for associated NPCs. (pp. 184–186)
Appendix B: Additional Tables/Random Inventory: Reworked Random Inventory I: Western Fantasy. (p. 191)
Appendix B: Additional Tables/Random Inventory: Added seven more random inventory milieux. (pp. 192–198)
Appendix B: Additional Tables/Random Quirks: Expanded Random Quirks table from 36 to 72 entries. (pp. 199–203)
Various typographic fixes.
Replaced placeholder single-page character sheet with expanded three-page version.
Updated online character generator beta to allow choosing how many mastered Rebellious Arts each generated God-eater should have, selecting a Random Inventory milieu, and optionally including a random Quirk.
It's about time I made a promo post: my original comic Cursed Book Club is live! We got books, we got curses, we got horror and paranoia and TWEEN PROTAGONISTS 😱
Updates Mondays. Link in the comments because Tumblr is allergic!
To celebrate, we are proud to release the 4000th issue of The Stellar Stargazette, the premier publication for Board-sanctioned entertainment! Brought to you by nine creators citizen-employees who dared to ask "how can you translate an improv podcast into comics?", this anthology features more than 80 pages of stories celebrating the world and characters of Stellar Firma.
Download The Stellar Stargazette here!
We hope you enjoy! May the Board preserve and keep you. 🪐🔨✨
It's about time I made a promo post: my original comic Cursed Book Club is live! We got books, we got curses, we got horror and paranoia and TWEEN PROTAGONISTS 😱
Updates Mondays. Link in the comments because Tumblr is allergic!
I'm sorry, but I cannot take your fanart of your blorbo as seriously as it clearly wishes to be taken. I recognise what it's going for, but the fact that you've drawn them streaked in blood and emerging from a wall of flames entirely fails to counteract the fact that you've also given them the fluffiest hair I have ever seen.
a tabletop roleplaying game about causing problems on purpose
Eat God is a (mostly affectionate) parody of all those tabletop RPGs about reality-warping martial artists with complete sentences for names on a quest to dethrone God, casting players as gender-ambiguous muppety things sticking it to the Man through the power of gratuitous cartoon violence. Using its extensive (and fully randomisable) character creation system, you might play as a blue-furred social justice advocate with detachable limbs; an amorphous, many-eyed horror with strong opinions about the nature of the cosmos; or a jet-powered telepathic crab whose interpretation of "eating God" is strikingly literal.
Backers will receive an expanded e-book version including illustrations, examples of play, bonus content, and (in the PDF version only) a professional full-colour layout. Alternatively, those with money to burn can pledge for a limited edition hardcover which will not be made available outside of this campaign. In either case, those who supported Eat God in early access via itch.io may receive special discounts – so if that's you, be sure to read the reward tiers carefully!
(Want to try before you buy, so to speak? You can download a free 160-page playtest draft from the game's itch.io page right now. You can also learn about and discuss current playtest activities on the Penguin King Games Discord, or give the beta version of the Online Character Generator a spin if you'd prefer to dive right in.)
a tabletop roleplaying game about causing problems on purpose
The Kickstarter pre-launch page for Eat God is up. This one has been a long time coming; while it's not expected to launch for another 30 days, you can follow the page linked above to be notified as soon as the campaign goes live, or grab a free 160-page playtest draft at the link below to find out what all this nonsense is about:
Featuring characters belonging to @kirakiragalaxy, @starlitskvader, @scarzzypanman, @creativepup, and @helge-dopplers!
[ID 1: Drawing of a person with wing-shaped ears and fluffy hair floating in the air. She has a big smile and is wearing a frilly white shirt and pumpkin-shaped shorts with shoulder straps. Two long glowing orange pigtails extend from the back of her head and coil through the air behind her. She is drawing a spiral of glitter in the air, and more glitter circles her head. End ID 1.]
[ID 2: Drawing of a seal-person looking up. She has short hair that floats as if in water, and many white whiskers extending from her face. She is smiling gently. The background is dappled with light and circular shapes, suggesting bubbles. End ID 2.]
[ID 3: A drawing of an orange dog-person wearing a red and blue parti-color outfit with matching knee-high boots and dark glasses. Her hair is floating upwards like fire. She has one leg raised to step on a pile of books and is reaching towards the viewer with one hand. The background has red splatters. Text on the image reads "let's take ibuprofen together." End ID 3.]
[ID 4: A drawing of an octopus-person wearing a green suit and black top hat. She is holding a small shrimp-person in her tentacle hand. The shrimp-person is dressed in a pink dress and sun hat with a big bow on the back. The shrimp-person is reaching up to give the octopus-person a kiss. A pink heart and a green heart float in the background. End ID 4.]
[ID 5: A drawing of a lion-person with red eyes, dark blue hair and a light blue beard sitting on a surfboard in the ocean. He is wearing a light green swimsuit and several water drops are falling off him. He is looking over his shoulder at the setting sun. End ID 5.]
ID: A six panel comic showing the artist attempting to make a comic.
Panel 1: The artist is sitting in front of a computer displaying the words "#makeaterriblecomicday". Artist: "Oh cool! IDK what this is but I want in!"
Panel 2: The artist looks excited, with stars in the background. Artist: "Gonna make a COMIC!!!"
Panel 3: A close-up of the artist's hand holding a tablet pen. Artist: "…About what though?"
Panel 4: The artist's inner editor, represented by a square with a red X in the middle, appears with a poof. The artist looks troubled. Editor: "Aha it's me! The villain of this day!" Artist, weakly: "Nooo"
Panel 5: The editor's eyes bug out as it punches at the air with a starburst behind it. Editor: "I will shoot down ALL the ideas!" Text on the side of the panel reads "h/t hyperbole and a half".
Panel 6: The editor laughs loudly in the background, while the artist turns away and sheds a single tear. Artist: "Alas… I could not make a-- WAIT"
End ID.
So yesterday was Hourly Comic Day and I actually remembered to do it this year! I posted these on Bluesky as I drew them (because I have a Bluesky now), but here they are all together for Tumblr.
[ID: Six images showing the life of the artist. Individual image descriptions follow.
A two-panel comic showing the hours from 12:00 to 7:00. First panel shows the artist in bed with very wild hair, looking determined. She thinks, "I forget every year. Well not this time!" Second panel narration says "Recently started playing Wordle and comparing results with family. Got it in 5 today!" The image shows a text conversation between Aunt, who guessed the word in 3 tries, and Me, who guessed the word in 5 tries.
Three-panel comic showing the hours from 7:00 to 10:00. First panel narration reads "Breakfast," with a side note reading "(cranberry-orange muffin)." The art shows the muffin surrounded by glitter. Second panel narration reads "Shower," the art shows the artist behind a shower curtain washing her hair. Third panel narration reads "Social Media," and the art shows the artist sitting at a desk with her hair wrapped in a towel, eating the muffin. A thought bubble reads "oh yeah I should post these." A splash in the lower right corner reads "RIVETING!"
A two-panel comic showing the hours from 10:00 to 3:00. First panel narration reads "I did a few Productive Adult Things TM…", art shows the artist folding laundry, framing a poster, and cleaning a fountain pen. Second panel narration reads "…and got a treat." Art shows the artist sitting at a table wearing a jacket, drinking a boba tea. Dialogue on the side of the image reads "boober <3".
A one-panel comic showing the hours of 3:00 to 6:00. Narration text reads "Comic drawing and podcast listening." The art shows an over-the-shoulder view of the artist sitting at a computer, drawing a comic about some sort of wormy creature. Off-screen the podcast is playing, and speech bubbles read "Perhaps so we do not get lost, we should hold onto each others' tails."
A two-panel comic showing the hours from 6:00 to 9:00. First panel narration reads "Lunchbossed too close to the sun and now I have a tummyache." The art shows the artist leaning back in her chair with a tired look on her face, her stomach is grumbling and she is weakly saying "nooooo." Second panel shows the artist reaching towards a bowl, saying "Save me, ice cream!"
A two-panel comic showing the hours from 9:00 to 12:00. First panel narration text reads "Finishing off the day with some BG3!" The art shows the artist sitting at her computer and playing the game. Second panel narration text reads "It's my second playthrough so I'm going after Gale this time. (I still think he's a dipshit but now it's /affectionate)." The art shows Gale eating a magical cloak while the halfling player character looks on, thinking "ohhh I can't NOT fuck him."
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