#grant howitt

[thecitrusvamp53]

it's that time of year (rusty quill gaming sexy battle wizards holiday special)

also these are from memory so if hair colors etc are wrong apologies in advance

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

[theballadoffinchesandsaints]

how the fuck is sexy battle wizards holiday special the second grant howitt rqg special to have a whole fucking train dimension?????

[angelmaking]

welcome to orc borg city USA

[avoicebehindthestars]

So I'm just listening to one of the RQG specials - Spire, and I'm so smitten with how Grant immediately broke out of character to make sure Helen was okay when he'd accidentally done something to her character that she then admitted was difficult for her to handle irl.

I can't with those people, how are they all they walking ideals of integrity, wholesomeness and care?! T_T How is this real play TTRPG podcast my comfort show time after time?!

[codassential]

More Weird Stats Please

One of the things that I love about non-D&D/Pathfinder TTRPGs is the propensity too make very specific, highly evocative, and extremely funny stats. Grant Howitt's One pagers are great examples of this like honey heist only has two stats: "bear" and "crime" which

Is easy to understand and use, especially for new TTRPG players

Encourages the players to think within the constraints of acting as an inconsistently intelligent wild animal (something they may not be used to)

immediately communicates the tone of the system

Makes me laugh

This isn't just for systems designed for one shots, Golden Sky Stories is a system where you play as a shapeshifting animal called a henge solving problems for humans in a nearby town. GSS has four stats: "henge," "animal," "adult," and "child," the first two used for your animal form and the second two used in human form to imitate their behaviors. I don't think I've played another system with any of those four stats, but they do such a good job of putting a player in the right frame of reference to tell the kind of stories GSS is trying to tell.

There's a reason why every PBTA system makes slight tweaks to apocalypse world's "cool, hard, hot, sharp, wierd," there's real power to the specific name that you use to describe a character's qualities. A Monster of the Week character with +2 charm, +1 wierd, and -1 cool gives me a much more evocative picture of how a character acts then "18 charisma" ever could.

obv there are benefits to the dnd str/dex/con/int/wis/cha spread, but whenever I open an RPG and see a stat named "grink" or somethin my heart is set aflutter

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript: 1. “I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey, if you stay, you'll be forgiven; nothing you can say can stop me going home."

2. "Prior: Dreaming used to be so… safe.

Harper: It isn't, thought, it's dangerous, imagining to excess. It can blow up in your face. Threshold of revelation."

3. "He thought about wanting to feel like he had been made for something more than dying."

4. "You must fix you heart, and you must build an altar where it swells."

5. "Here is the game: today you are not going to die."

6. "Yes, it comforts me much more, yes it comforts me much more to lay in the foundations of decay. Get up, coward!"

7. "You will save yourself. You cannot help it."

8. "I don’t want to die in here. I don’t want to die in here."

9. "O plunge your hands in water, plunge them in up to the wrist; stare, stare in the basin and wonder what you've missed."

10. "Say that it is the impulse of the soul to endure forever. Say it again." /End transcript]

my chemical romance– famous last words/tony kushner– angels in america/maggie stiefvater— mister impossible/my chemical romance– the foundations of decay/grant howitt/my chemical romance– the foundations of decay/molly brodak– bee in jar/the mountain goats– heel turn 2/w. h. auden– as i walked out one evening/joyce sutphen– say it

[rqgender]

Today's gender is a disembodied tit.