#anim ttrpgs

[heartfighters]

Character Spotlight: Gwen Wilson

TTRPG: Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy Creator: @transcribepaige on tumblr, https://artfight.net/~SwankyFlea Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/7968023.gwen-wilson

Fun Facts:

A 23-year-old trans girl born and raised in a small town in Texas.

Has a crush on her friend who is also a trans girl and is secretly a real actual catgirl with ears and a tail. Gwen has come so close to learning this secret but these two are so bad at being open with each other and expressing their feelings properly that she still doesn't know. This other girl is played by another player. Will-They-Won't-They, Only-One-Bed yuri in the middle of a murder investigation. This is surprisingly normal for Eureka.

Had a panic attack and tackled a bigot

Character Sheet Clipping:

Eureka is a game about mundane, ordinary people trying to solve a mystery. Traits are one of the most unique parts of each character- special abilities that heavily define their personalities and the way they investigate. Gwen's traits are "Cheerleader", "I'm Okay, You're Okay", and "The Truth Comes Out". "Cheerleader" makes her better at cooperating with other investigators; a bonus to help checks and the ability to spend her Eureka! Points on others instead of herself. She isn't trying to take the spotlight; she's too shy for that, she'd rather help others instead, it's an easy way to get others to like you, too. "I'm Okay, You're Okay" let's Gwen comfort herself as well as others; she's talking to herself a lot when she's stressed, but without this trait, she'd be a whole lot more stressed. This is partly because I gave her the optional fear of 'Upsetting Others', so she has a chance to lose Composure every time she thinks she's upset someone. This is a mechanical representation of her social anxiety; she has to convince herself it's okay every time she thinks she's annoyed someone or committed any sort of social faux pas. "The Truth Comes Out" is a really fun one; she gets a bonus to social skill rolls, but she can really lose a lot of Composure every time she tells a lie; that +1 bonus is a huge help on 2d6 that has gotten her a lot info she would have otherwise missed, but not being able to lie very well has also landed her in a lot of trouble. This one is also very clearly a representation of her social anxiety. In no other game is 'some girl who has severe social anxiety' a really powerful character, but Gwen has opened doors (literally and metaphorically) in the investigation that the other two investigators couldn't because of her specific skill set.

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[rockglocklobster]

Our group has now begun playing the fan-made and @anim-ttrpgs approved EUREKA module, The Rot of Osborne Estate, and now it's time to post my investigator to Tumblr once more!

Introducing one Nathaniel Hart, an aspiring writer from New York City who moved to the small town of Maplebrooke where the mystery takes place some years ago. He's a rather odd, but somewhat charming fellow.

Some spoilers about him below, so if you're in the game with me no peaking!

Nathaniel cultivates the odd, eccentric writer persona intentionally to obfuscate details about his past, as a worst case scenario for him would be if anyone found out that he was born a woman.

Years before the start of the mystery, just after returning to America from volunteer work with the Red Cross, he vanished without a trace from a suffocating life that he wanted no part of, and started a new one as a man named Nathaniel.

His traits are as follows:

Nathaniel is a writer after all! He's awfully curious and nosy as well- but has just enough charm to poke and prod about things to not raise any alarm.

He's got a quite a bit to hide, and lies with relative ease given his fast talking style and this specific trait.

Lastly, he's a bit of a superstitious fellow! He's taken to reading signs in tea leaves every morning with his breakfast.

He does this to intentionally present himself as a bit of a weirdo, insisting to others that the practice has it's merits- even though more often than not it presents him with faulty information. It's a brainstorming activity for him, if nothing else.

[rockglocklobster]

My character for @anim-ttrpgs's Eureka module FORIVA: The Angel Game.

Introducing Jesse Reed!

A college student who came back home to Shreveport to help find his sister who recently went missing.

Jesse was attending the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge. He's a pacifist, a bookworm, and generally prefers the company of animals to people, with a scant few exceptions.

He is also disabled. He had a knee injury that never healed properly and uses a cane to walk. In terms of game mechanics, he's starting with a Grevious Wound to the leg, which incurs a penalty to the Close Combat and Athletics skill. Unlike many TTRPGs, in Eureka there's no stat benefits or free traits for taking a disability at character creation. I really like the philosophy behind this design choice, so I'll just put the last bit from the Disabilities are Disabling segment here, as the people at ANIM put it better than I can:

Now, for his traits... (fellow players do not enter!)

Did You Know... - Jesse is rather bookish, but has... poor people skills, to put it lightly. He's a poor speaker and communicator in general, and much of what he does say can come off as dry, rude, or unnecessary. (see his -2 Social Cues and - 1 Charm for more information)

My Glasses! - Jesse has another reason to avoid physical confrontation, he's blind as a bat without his glasses. He's got a rather high prescription, and the weight of the thick lenses make it all the easier for them to fly off. But when they're on, he has a surprisingly keen eye for detail!

Predictable - Lastly, Jesse abhors the use violence(even if it'll help solve the mystery!) has no issue making his opinion on this known. (his Truth, in this case, being "Violence is never the answer.") This ties into his long history of being bullied throughout school.

[skiesquiggles]

Everything I have heard about Death Bed has made me so incredibly interested in it and excited to play it someday. It's a genuinely interesting and fully engaged approach to the dungeon crawling medieval fantasy rpg that I feel like is largely lacking in modern ttrpgs.