thy dungeon gal (non US citizen mode)

my name kiki, she/her (hän tai se suomeksi), 18+ years old. I like posting on the internet, it's full of fun people. Maoist struggle session enjoyer. silly Rolemaster girlblogger. my interests include RPGs (both of the Japanese and Tabletop variety) and languages. sometimes I cause problems on purpose.

[thydungeongal]

New post, gonna use this to document my journey as a trans woman

[thydungeongal]

Going to the store

[persbaderse]

[kropotkindersurprise]

[dragongirlbunny]

[doctorcurdlejr]

I can be normal about things. Don't look at my blog.

[mangonetics]

Why do people keep tagging my posts with "good post op"? I'm not post op. I don't think that's even the polite way to describe it anymore. And if I was most of you wouldn't ever know how good it is.

[cerastes]

People don’t even say w00t anymore.

[cerastes]

This sux00rz…

[autistobrat]

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

[vixensdungeon]

You mentioned that Magicians aren't allowed to wear the pointy hats that full Wizards are. Are there other badges of office that go with level titles that you've heard?

Oh for sure! The local monastery uses different colour sashes to denote rank, though I’m not certain how global that is. For clerics it depends on the particular religion, the High Priests of Aetherion (though no one here is of that rank), which seems to be a major lawful good one, wear something akin to the papal crown. The druids are a bit too mysterious for me to find out much, and I’m certain thieves and assassins don’t want their signs public either. But in general it seems at least name level carries a social significance, and that comes with various signifiers.

[vixensdungeon]

The tragedy of Dimension 20 is that half the episodes are really good because it’s just a bunch of funny people playing pretend with the occasional dice roll.

The other half are the combat episodes which are mostly just bad D&D.

[vixensdungeon]

The tragedy of Dimension 20 is that half the episodes are really good because it’s just a bunch of funny people playing pretend with the occasional dice roll.

The other half are the combat episodes which are mostly just bad D&D.

[gurps-dungeon-mommy]

Sometimes I ponder about this - how to make an actual play show about a game that has a lot of combat and make that combat interesting? I think it's in the same vein of "how do you make a boardgame session interesting?" and there are a couple solid answers that I have seen deployed(in regards to boardgames at least): a) Make it unique, make it something that the viewer can't experience on their own (a challenge, a unique inaccesable game, a silly premise etc) - Valefisk stuff is pretty good in that regard b) Make it so that hosts are very skilled entertainers, or *are* entertaining - No Rolls Barred for example

[vixensdungeon]

I continue to point at the original three podcast seasons of Acquisitions Inc. as the peak of D&D actual play in terms of being people actually playing the game. It's entertaining because they're funny people, but also because combat just is exciting! It doesn't matter that they have to look up rules sometimes or just have to do a bit of math every now and then, the game mechanics carry the stakes of the fight, and sometimes someone ends up in a big pool of acid and it feels like a real tragedy.

[anim-ttrpgs]

A.N.I.M. Income Quota July 13th 2026

The Income Quota has been updated for July 13th. For the like 50 new people, what this means is that A.N.I.M. (that's us, the indie TTRPG studio that makes Eureka and also runs/supports the discord server for all kinds of RPGs) needs to make a minimum amount of income each month in order for our team members to pay our bills (and thus keep making TTRPGs and running this server and overall supporting TTRPGs as real art etc.). The count of how much money we've made is updated every Monday and Friday and if it doesn't hit at least $2,100 before August 1st at least a couple of us will be in financial trouble.,

July Total Income Quota: $772.01/$2,100

Patreon Pledge Drive: $1,360 per month out of $2,000 per month.

I personally have been hit with almost $1,100 of unexpected and unavoidable expenses recently including a $375 car repair bill and really, really need this income quota to be hit this month and subsequent months.

[anim-ttrpgs]

Annie Foxworthy, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy PC posted with permission of her creator, Cassiopeia. Art by Beabea.

"Annie Foxworth! Daughter of a lawyer and absent mother named Sylvia Foxworth, herself a former PC. She takes after her mom in a lot of ways, but most crucially in a desire to be a lawyer, hence why she's an investigator at all. She likes to gather the evidence herself, and also she's 16 and has been isolating due to COVID and needs an excuse to get out of the house and prove that she's Intelligent. She's very green.

Also her mom's a fairy, but that's fine."

[targetedknowledge]

[vixensdungeon]

Is there a keep on the borderlands nearby? Those fuckers are everywhere

There is! Fort Griffon is part of a line of keeps that safeguards the realm from the Dreadlands. When the wilderness encounter roll indicates a patrol, that’s them.

[natalieironside]

The wizardposting trend feels a bit too specific to "the D&D 5th Edition character class known as Wizard" and/or "Merlin from T.H. White's The Once And Future King" to really reel me in. The wizardposting doesn't encompass nearly enough odinposting and/or solomonposting, imo. To say nothing of väinämöinenposting.

[natalieironside]

I gotta get you guys on the Väinämöinen hype train

[catgirlwheels]

You gotta show us how it's done Natalie

[natalieironside]

alright hold up lemme just

[matkahaltia]

Besides the above

I prefer Louhi wizardess posting myself, the great Queen of the North, Mother of Wolf and Serpent and her dozens of beautiful daughters, Team Louhi 4 Life.

[natalieironside]

The wizardposting trend feels a bit too specific to "the D&D 5th Edition character class known as Wizard" and/or "Merlin from T.H. White's The Once And Future King" to really reel me in. The wizardposting doesn't encompass nearly enough odinposting and/or solomonposting, imo. To say nothing of väinämöinenposting.

[natalieironside]

I gotta get you guys on the Väinämöinen hype train

[catgirlwheels]

You gotta show us how it's done Natalie

[natalieironside]

alright hold up lemme just

[tiffinposts]

VÄINÄMÖINEN POSTING!!!

Women, am I right? *sick kantele solo* Old men chasing after pretty girls are creeps. *boat building montage* Unless it's me. *destroys the prosperity of a nation for no particular reason* Oh shit here comes Jesus. *exit stage right, playing kantele*

[thydungeongal]

I have posted before about how sometimes well-meaning attempts at running D&D without some of the more unfortunate dynamics can often backfire but in a way where most people don't even register it backfiring. Because when you take the step of "oh D&D's various 'evil humanoids' don't just exist in a vacuum and given the renfaire colonialism on display it's kind of impossible not to read them as somewhat racialized" many people will then go "okay but we still need some people who player characters should be allowed to kill guilt-free, so let's replace 'orcs' with 'bandits' because killing bad criminal people is perfectly ideologically neutral." At that point it's like "okay so your characters are no longer the racist kill squad, now they're just the Tough on Crime Vigilantes."

But I feel I should make clear that D&D the game itself is not exactly at fault here: like, okay, it is sort of at fault in the sense that it is a game of fantasy killing people with swords and magic. And it is easier for people to accept the killing with people with swords and magic part when they can imagine that their characters are at least to a degree justified. That is sort of just built into the game (and the game has built into its lore varying levels of making the fantasy of killing certain types of guy justifiable).

But D&D is not at fault for making people go "okay so it's bad when you kill orcs simply because they're orcs. It's better when you kill people who are bandits, who are a class of evil criminals where killing them is actually wholesome and sensible." Like, yeah, most people probably don't think about it that deeply, but the reason people don't think about it that deeply is ultimately ideological.

And the ideology is basically "it is bad to be racist but it's good to be a tough on crime vigilante."

[vixensdungeon]

My general solution to this is to acknowledge the problematic aspects of the game, let that discomfort pass through you, and just enjoy the game for what it is.

[anim-ttrpgs]

May I Come in (Knock Version) - Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy OST

May I Come In but with the knock sound effect we used in Muted Swallow. "Listen and be amazed, fuckers!" - Dame, February 14th, 2026.

Composed by @imsobadatnicknames2