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Sometimes, for a brief, beautiful moment, I forget how profoundly racist Dungeons & Dragons is

Then I'll notice that every single post talking about orcish player characters specifies "half-orc" and I Remember Why That Is

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Idea: online game of Armour Astir, where instead of people piloting mechs you are magical girls*, to be played for c. two hours a week starting somewhere 8:00-16:00 US Central time Monday-Thursday

*(gender and age of said "girls" welcome to vary)

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Pictured: the druid, who is an actual literal bird, as a size comparison for the two ancient dreams the party invited out of the ruins.

Last time in our “D&D” group, the players shot down an ENTIRE DUNGEON that I had been CAREFULLY CRAFTING over the course of like A YEAR, and also invited an ancient dream into a 37000yo giant handgun. This time, the party teleported to the crash site of said dungeon, where the divine casters focused on manipulating water to quench some of the fires, and the scouts dug into the corpse of MY BELOVÈD DUNGEON. The former was fun because they saved about 250 square miles of forest from burning in wildfires, mostly using methods that don’t quite follow the rules but absolutely follow from the fiction. The latter was fun because they got to play cards with two dream monsters, and also spelunked the corpse which let them see some of the cool things about THE BEST DUNGEON I WILL EVER CONCEIVE OF IN MY LIFE, WHICH THEY DESTROYED WITH A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION INSTEAD OF SPELUNKING PERSONALLY WHILE IT WAS ALIVE. At least I got my fix of exposing friends to audio descriptions of body horror, which is one of my favorite parts of GMing >:^3c.

References: Gerridobalsis design heavily influenced by Tappy @taplaos​‘s Ostiarius (link), which is just a GOOD good alien worm Call-of-Duty design directly referenced from Laure Terrier’s Etsy shop (shop link, reference photo, photo of similar figure by same artist, Amazon page for out-of-stock ceramic figure depicted in reference photo)

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Y'all I'm HOLLERIN' there's only one encounter left in this dungeon so the estimate that past Lulav made 7 weeks ago as a joke was actually...accurate...

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Update on F R I E N D S E A R C H

After comparing what I knew of all applicants' narrative inclinations, experience, and availability, Mercury and I have collected three players: @lesbiantoccataandfugue, @queenofzan, and @skeletal-oozeling! Thanks to @kittyoverlord, @soundingonlyatnightasyousleep, @galacsin, @animesemplemcpherson, @4roseslikeprophets, @drcoxsredwingsjersey, @raisel-the-riveter, @marceline-abaqueer, and @musclebutch for all expressing interest!!! I wish I could play with all of you and I know that you have great stories to tell with friends. That might sound like a vague platitude but I'm looking at each of your urls one by one and like...I love you, yes you personally, and I wish I had enough time and brains to play a game with you. We decided to actually not do a future Elsir Vale, and instead create our own setting entirely. I'm stoked, bc that means 100% more bat people & maple syrup people. Anyone who's interested in following along, plz know that I will be tagging related posts with "#the muckin pit". Can't promise I'll make many, just because of who I am as a person, but that's the tag.

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Hello friends! Mercury Notontumblr and I were talking about playing a Dungeon World game set in the same setting of the game that I've been running for a year and a half, but approximately 200 years in the future. I will be GMing, and we are looking for two players other than Mercury! 

The setting is dominated by goblinoids, but kobolds, orcs, humans, and dwarves are also major players in the area. Characters should expect to be extraordinary, but not extrapowerful; adventures will be full of magic, much like the world itself, but not necessarily focused on it.  

As the GM for this game, my agenda is to:

Create a realistic world with fantastic underpinnings

Think small and play big

Incentivize risk-taking

Ask questions without expecting one answer

Play to find out what happens 

The principles I want players to hold are to:

Describe the world in explicit, rich detail

Take risks

Receive consequences

Muck things up

Together, I hope we can:

Hold on lightly to the lives of the characters

Collaborate to tell the story

Think outside the box

Have fun! :^)

If those agendas & principles sound interesting and you would like to play, please like this post! Even if two people have already responded! If you have limited availability or wanna be proactive for when we're deciding who plays, reply to this post/send me an ask/message me with times of the week where you could devote 2-4 hours to playing tabletop RPGs.

Minimum technical requirements:

A Discord account, and preferably the app because running it through a browser window is super buggy (free)

A sufficiently stable internet connection to communicate verbally

A sufficient command of spoken English to communicate verbally

A roll20 account (free) 

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HEY SO @soundingonlyatnightasyousleep woke me up at noon with a phone call asking if I wanted to RP with strangers and I was like “DO I EVER” and we just played Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands, a GM-less collaborative storytelling game by D. Vincent Baker set on a politically embattled backwoods planet with WARMECHS

It was extremely fun; Elly and I murdered all of each other’s closest associates and the only canon ship in a game mostly populated by lesbian players was a straight kismesissitude. 10/10 would tell stories with again.

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MAX @galacsin I love this comment a lot and it's honestly the best way to approach published settings. Also, if I didn't love my blog title so much I would change it to "Also Elminster sucks".