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rolling badly is something that can be so good for developing your character, actually 

#white knuckle gripping the desk repeating this to myself whenever my character fucks up something they’re supposed to be good at #eh I have thoughts on this but broadly yes I agree even if I have a hard time living by it sometimes fjdjfjf #tabletop

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

#photography #current events

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ID 📸

#scooby doo

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#guns #sob

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Hi! I don't Tumblr much, so, no idea how to respond to tags properly. Anyway, Flying Circus, yeah, base game's a fantasy setting. One character type's a straight spellcaster, the Witch, and the Fischer isn't technically a spellcaster but -does- have Yog-Sothoth on speed-dial. Cut those and some of the enemy types and the only magic that's left is whatever's keeping the Christmas Bullet together through two entire turns.

The author's distractable but she's mostly finished a variant that's just straight historical World War I. It's got rules for dying in character creation, because World War I.

Oh that’s awesome!!! and I do love a game where you can die in character creation…

Thank you! Now I’m definitely going to grab it when I get a chance.

#asks #lindhrive #tabletop #tabletop systems #flying circus #it’s not that I hate magic or anything—I just have such a hard time finding games that interest me and work for more grounded settings #it feels like there are so many that feel the need to be science-fantasy or modern-fantasy or historical-fantasy like there must be wizards #and granted. everybody does love a wizard. but sometimes I want there to not be a wizard jfjdjcjs

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i love how you break down rpgs and i really wanna try some indie ones, but i really like crunchy mechanics i can sink my teeth into and find that a lot of the popular ones tend to be very rules light (thats not a bad thing! its just not my thing). do you know of some crunchier ones?

It depends on what kind of crunch you're looking for. Indie games tend not to be maximally crunchy in every sphere of activity the rules choose to address in the same way that big names like Dungeons & Dragons or GURPS are because they don't have the ability to throw large teams at the task of designing and writing them, so the rules-heavy ones are typically heavy in one particular area.

For example, Sarah Newton's transhuman space opera game Mindjammer is a Fate Core derivative, so its conflict resolution is fairly light, but it has one of the most baroque character creation systems I have ever seen in a published game – and I'm including shit like HERO 6th Edition when I make that assessment. Everything from a baseline human to a sapient starship to an entire planetary culture can be represented as a character with a character sheet, and you can at least hypothetically play as any of those things.

Conversely, Erika Chappell's flying-ace drama Flying Circus is an Apocalypse Engine game, and outside of aerial combat it plays roughly as you'd expect, with a handful of lightweight player-facing moves and a whole four stats to remember, but then you get into an aerial dogfight and your combat tracker sheet looks like this:

So it's really a question where you need to be very particular about what you mean by "crunchy"!

#tabletop #tabletop systems #seconding the recommendations for lancer in the notes #but also this combat tracker made me go 👀 and then I looked at the system and it’s got. magic. #truly why is it so fucking impossible to find a tabletop game that doesn’t have wizards in it #anyway I might pick it up anyway and see if the magic is optional/reskinnable #just purely based on the fact that this combat tracker sheet rules so hard

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Having anotheg 'gork we have got to get out of bed faster then this' morning

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I think one of the things Dungeon Meshi is definitely about is how different people deal with being an outsider/marginalised/neurodivergent/what have you and basically what im getting at is that Kabru is TEXTBOOK "high functioning [insert diagnosis here]". Its that how they say it still? Don't care.

Basically. This man shows up and you listens to him talk and see how his party treats him and you think. Oh this is a cool guy who has his shit together. And then after like two pages you find out that he has constant flashbacks to Utaya that make him completely freeze, anxiety attacks, thought spirals, is incapable of analyzing his own feelings, is a stuttering mess when the stakes are high, has never done a chore in his life, keeps putting himself in triggering situations and re-traumatising himself, and the icing on the cake is when you read the extra material and it turns out he regularly forgets to eat and lives in a depression nest of dirty clothes and self-medicates insomnia with alcohol and also is 22. Which also kind of puts Misilril not wanting to let him go in another light - yeah for sure she's controlling and infantilising and also its not like she was really helping his issues but also she was not entirely wrong in her judgement. This man does NOT know how to take care of himself. He knows how to do the bare minimum so when he shows up at work the next day he can fool his coworkers into thinking hes got it together enough. For a bit.

He is DEEPLY unwell and he knows it but he is carried by the desperate wish to avoid another catastrophe. If he stops for a moment he KNOWS he'll collapse so he doesn't.

I also think this is why him acting nurse to Mithrun is such an important part of his arc. Its like. This person who has spent all of his adult life focused on a single objective disregarding everything else is faced with what happens when you do that for too long. And the result is a wet tissue of a creature who looks like he doesn't know where he is most of the time.

He is a man on the brink. I have no doubt he felt relieved when he decided he could trust Laios - not even in a Labru way, straight up because he knew he could not keep going like this.

But also like. Of all the characters in the manga, I think Senshi and Kabru are the most lonely ones. Except Senshi seems to be OK with solitude - for sure it's not entirely healthy to be alone for as long as he was but he definitely did well enough. He is very good at taking care of himself. Meanwhile Kabru *knows* a lot of people but can you really say he has friends? Rin, maybe, arguably, but even she does not seem to truly know him, you know? He keeps himself hidden from everyone. I think the only time we see him entirely honest is when he says to Laios that he wanted to be his friend, and hes so shocked when it comes out, you can tell he did not mean to say it. And differently from Senshi, he does NOT fare well alone. He likes people, he needs people. Again compare with Mithrun - he has like a squad of people taking care of him. If Kabru had a breakdown of that size can you say his party would go out of its way to help? Im not sure. Not because they're bad people, but because he's simply not that intimate with any of them.

Idk man it just struck me all of a sudden. Laios is weird and offputting and doesn't care about other humans the way Kabru does and YET he is infinitely more successful at building deep, meaningful relationships and taking care of himself as well. I think this is part of why Kabru is so fascinated with him as well. He can tell Laios has something he doesn't have. Wait this is turning into a whole another post I'll write this next time.

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers

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Murderbot I love u

Original post by @lavenderlemniscate

#the murderbot diaries #bfjdjfjejfjsjfn

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#fallout #new vegas #hfkvkejfjsjfj yeah…

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

#polls #do you guys know how fucking expensive toilet paper is. I’m picking infinite toilet paper that never has to be changed.

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Unfortunately, Gilgamesh was too cool. He oppressed the people of Uruk, taking their lunch money and getting real friendly with all their moms. And so the people cried out to the gods for deliverance. "Save us," they said. "Gilgamesh is much bigger and hotter than us and we cannot stop him."

The gods heard their pleas and sent Bigfoot to kick Gilgamesh's ass. However, the gods overlooked one very important fact, which is that they were both bisexual.

#gilgamesh

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#lancer #tabletop #get blink anchored

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Chilchuck the struggling girl dad🥳

#dungeon meshi

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That feel when your fandom has to start a '#no dissection' tag on ao3

#danny phantom #now just to be clear. if you do it while someone is still alive it’s vivisection. and he’s only HALF a ghost. half alive! #so I guess what I’m saying is that it’s some kind of new secret third thinf #idk I just woke up