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Today we're playing Chymus, and something is happening to the workers in the new foundry
Obside Fables - Episode 8: The Song of Iron
Today we're playing Chymus, and something is happening to the workers in the new foundry...
[transcript]
Game system is Chymus by @probablybadrpgideas (half of which is Liz!). Check it out!
A game about class, industry, and humoral magic
was it silly to make the sale on my three full-sized ttrpgs end the exact minute i turn 30? yes
am i sad that i've only sold 2 copies of the new one, which took over a year to write and is folk horror based on british folklore including some more obscure creatures like the gwyllion, but all of the community copies are gone, because it makes it feel like people just want free stuff since the game is only a fiver? also yes
Poll: people who've bought Chymus, what are you planning to play?
Sanguine
Choleric
Melancholic
Phlegmatic
(and feel free to tell us your character concepts)
Today in RPG making: giving up on describing factions neutrally in the introduction because you're too left wing
The planet Chymus is a toxic hellhole. Its oceans are acid, reaching a maximum of pH of 4.5 at the poles, and awash with toxin-secreting microorganisms. The atmosphere is 10% carbon dioxide, warming the globe beyond an Earth climatologists’s worst nightmares. The few spots of dry land that do exist are uninhabitable when below sea level– CO2, heavier than the rest of the atmosphere, collects in the lowlands and transforms them into anoxic death traps. Any unfortunate oxygen-breather that wanders into a valley is swiftly suffocated. Not that breathing in oxygen-laden areas is safe, either; the acid is found in the soil and rains from the sky. Any unprotected, unaugmented organic would last no longer than a week before succumbing to lung damage. Even synthetic life isn’t safe; the pH can damage most casings over time.
Still, Chymus is teeming with life. All native organisms are well-acclimated to the acidic conditions, and both complex flora and fauna are present. Most of this diversity is in the ocean, but freshwater and dry-land animals exist as well. The anoxic death-valleys are popular with exotic flora and anaerobic bacteria, and most terrestrial animals have no issue extracting oxygen with their highly efficient lungs.
Regardless of environmental hazards, the appearance of the planet itself is striking. Firstly, Chymus has a small ring system that is visible from the planet’s surface. They make the planet measurably more difficult to land on, and present issues when attempting to establish satellites, but any fleet sufficiently familiar with navigating around the rings will find they have a territorial advantage against foreign invaders. Secondly, Chymus is host to several native species of green “algae,” which exist in such high concentrations near the planet’s equator that they stain both the ocean and the sky green. The effect is so extreme that it is visible from space; locals have named this green area of the planet “The Bile Seas.”
Song of Iron Part One transcript is up: https://lizpodcasttranscripts.wordpress.com/song-of-iron-part-one/
Chymus, our first ever full RPG, is live on itch! It'll be on drivethru RPG in a few days!
Industrial revolution! Humoral magic!
If you play it, tell us what you think!
It's also on drivethru rpg
Community copies!
Hey remember chymus the game we have mentioned once or twice maybe?
Did you want to play it but the economy was on fire? Don't worry! There are now community copies! Go nuts!
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