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this article about rules and why people play ttrpgs and bdsm sex has a few people on twitter very dismayed

#Really love the presentation of limits and rules as friction #I have a lot to consider #about both my design and the players playing in that space

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I am so excited you're doing the sprites for lancer tactics! I adore your art style and it pairs so well with lancer's setting. Super keen.

Thank you!

And thanks to everyone else in the tags of that post who expressed their excitement for me working on this project!

It's a weird convergence of all my current skills so Im forced to be like "damn, I guess I really am the right Gen for the job"

#replies

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Super excited to announce that @gentrigger is gonna be making the mech sprites for Lancer Tactics! I've been a big fan of their work ever since I first saw it here on Tumblr. :)

#-points- it me #lancer tactics #lancer rpg #lancer art #lancer ttrpg

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We started a new Songs We Sing campaign headed by the creator herself @ gentrigger! I'm playing Bernardine again

#I love this sopping wet cat! #Songs we sing #Fanart

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Got to GM a game of Songs we Sing again and I came up with a great way to stage character sprites over a background using OBS which also lets me have a "now playing" for the current music.

#indie ttrpgs #songs we sing #my art #pixel art #Object head

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ARCHBIRD

May the sun break, may the land fall away, may the sky be all that’s left

An intimacy measured by altitude

#mech #mecha #robot #sci fi art #my art #Original content from nothing in particular

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Woke up and thought about what if sws was classless then I quickly smothered that devil. Im too far into this damn project to be thinking silly thoughts like that

#Strike me with your fists and feet if I do this

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Our Martyred Lady, Heritor of the Dawn Artemis I’Lucient Callsign: MORNINGSTAR

#commission #mech #mecha #lancerrpg #lancer #pixel art #ttrpg art #my art

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SSC Dusk Wing, “SIGRUN” Pilot Freya Arnault, Callsign: “V4LKYRIE” Last mech commission of a set for a lancer group! Really happy about the shapes on this one!

#mech #mecha #lancer #lancer rpg #sci fi #pixel art #commission #my art

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Mech: Bigwig Pilot: 8unny Lancer commission that will get the sanrio lawyers to chop off my thumbs

#pixel art #mecha #mech #lancer #lancerrpg #ttrpg art #commission #my art #my melody

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"The adage to never make a deal with a dragon is often broken by those who have grown sick of fear and now wish to swallow it whole. To enter a dragon marriage is to embrace misfortune and make it your strength." Happy New Year!

#songs we sing #pixel art #fantasy #ttrpg art #my art #dragon #horns

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What's you're stance on making Songs We Sing in different settings other than Wake?

The whole system seems very engrained in the setting, especially with things like Kin, and various deities and beasts.

Wake is wonderful mind you! I'm just wondering if you've ever thought it's a game that was meant to go beyond you're intended setting

It is indeed pretty tied to the setting of Wake where Wake is more of the blank-ish canvas to paint your expression upon (Like coming up with interesting set pieces, societies, and characters) BUT I do like to think that its engine can be dropped into a new setting with some elbow grease in the right places. The things that I think would be easy to transfer are: -Basic moves since "Juke Trouble" is universally applicable and they're slightly adjusted moves from other pbta games anyways -Harm is similarly retooled from blades in the dark so it should transfer cleanly -Instruments can work as-is -The way enemies work (Being made of facets) can also work in many types of campaigns and settings I think the most work would have to be put into playbooks where you would have to put work into creating new gig-like playbooks (classes and kin-like playbooks (races). The reason that SwS has a whole playbook dedicated to race is because the kin of Wake have a lot of narrative and mechanical weight to the way they work. Like Reveries can fly, Auditors can transform into beasts, Imps can shift between an instrument form and have the weight of taking the form of their prior owner. If the setting you're working with doesn't have that level of mechanical weight to the races though, then you could maybe even get away with just having gig playbooks. Gig playbooks would need you to consider which moves to keep, replace, remove, or move around, but I think the heart of the existing playbooks that'd work best for other settings is the idea of a motif and song move. Motif is essentially your character's larger concept and specialization, so the most obvious way to use it is to create a magical school focus for a mage (cryomancy, pyromancy, necromancy, etc.). Outside of straightforward magic though, you can establish that a warrior's "motif" is "The Ravenous Wolf" where they may establish that to mean that their fighting style is bestial and follows the physical capabilities of a wolf more than a human. So in essence you can bend the idea of a motif pretty far. The Song move itself is essentially the same for each gig but the key difference is what the song moves effects can do. For example "Dance" allows knights to move in an incredible way, infuse their instrument, etc. and what they can and can't do with that song move gives their gig its character. So if you need to retool those song move effects to better fit a new class, I'd keep that in mind. My main love for Songs we Sing is the setting and world, but honestly I have had a lot of prideful moments of how the mechanics work when I've tested it with friends. They're still being reworked here and there thus why its still in its demo version, but I'm happy to know people see promise in even just its bones

#Anonymous

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Isometric sprites of @blazemalefica's OCs Breeze and Oskar in their songs we sing forms along with special guest star: The dragon inside of Breeze.

Merry Christmas~

#blazemalefica #pixel art #fantasy art #dragon #songs we sing #ttrpg art #my art

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Lancer mech commission Balor-like machine who heats up hotter than a high end GPU

#pixel art #commission #mecha #mech #lancerrpg #lancer #sci fi art #robot #my art

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Hi gen! I've been a fan of your work since Songs We Sing was on the MSPA forum, and your creations have rly sparked my imagination a lot! I send this to ask, out of curiosity, what your dayjob is like? im at a place where idk what to do in my life, so ive been wondering what other people are doing, esp other creators. thank you for reading!

Hey there! Thank you for fondly remembering my early work there. It's nice to know people enjoyed that adventure and that I wasn't just slinging stuff out into the void. I guess I'm pretty lucky with my job stuff because the cost of living where I'm at is pretty low so I can just do part-time and supplement that with art commissions to live pretty comfortably. Also my job, which is call center insurance stuff moved all its operations to work-at-home so I went from commuting for 30-45mins one-way to just clocking into a company laptop and being able to start on dinner right after I'm clocked out.

Best advice I have to anyone who's trying to shove creative work between a day job though is to find the hours you can work on it, guard those hours jealously, then DON'T go overtime to working on your creative stuff.

Also when your hours for working on creative ventures are over, then don't try to work on them afterwards and do overtime. That's a quick way to burn out. Thinking about a project is work too so if you're just spinning your wheels stressing about it constantly because you think you haven't done anything productive for the day then you'll just end up being less efficient. Learn to actually relax and accept when a day is a wash.

#hecateshate #answers #The actual details of my work are boring but that's mostly because I'm just a customer service machine who's been doing it for a decade #despite hating it intensely #I had chronic foot pain while working my first job at a gas station because they required us to stand for way too long #dont sacrifice your health for any job kids

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PCA pilot AC6 commission for @feirun69! There’s not enough fricked up AC/MT pilots who are messed up by the Coral modifications, so it was fun to design them!

#ac6 #armored core 6 #commission #my art #sci fi #mecha art #I guess

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When you see someone accidentally join VC then immediately leave, it's like hearing someone fall into the toilet from across the house

#tbh it's always me #Love clickin'