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Time to check in at the No-Tell Motel

My new single-player TTRPG, No-Tell Motel, is now available! Come on over and grab a PDF, or throw in $5 more to pre-order your physical copy.

In No-Tell Motel, you play the overnight clerk at a sleazy motel. One of your guests murders another one, and no one much seems to care who did it or why. No one but you, that is.

Playing the game only requires a standard deck of playing cards and a six-sided die. You use the face cards to identify your motel's regular guests (yes, the book comes ready with 16), and the numbers cards to randomly generate things that happen between them.

And unlike most build-as-you-go mystery games, you can make your best guess and still get it very, very wrong.

The nightly spread of the game looks a bit like a hand of Solitaire, and that's on purpose. I wanted playing the game to feel a little bit like something you'd do to pass the time in the small hours of the morning.

Here's how it works.

The rules generate different murder victims and methods, a highly randomized yet still coherent matrix of guest gossip, actions and conflict, and most importantly: a way to find out if your accusation was correct, and what the consequences are for pointing the finger.

If you like pulp crime, The Conversation, or Errol Morris's Tabloid, you should check out No-Tell Motel.

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you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

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ok lets settle it. which laios is getting the best dick rn

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What if senshi found izutsumi sooner

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SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS, IT COULD SAVE A LIFE

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Shuro: You used black magic to bring back Falin, are you stupid?!

Laios: hey what the fuck is your problem man?

Senshi:

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Life is all about being really scared and wasting your youth

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Shapeshifter who gets horribly grotesque and mutilated when flustered

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they should swirl . unencumbered and free

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the wording on this Jack russell vid beamed a permanent mark onto my brain

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The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

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Star Trek makes me soooo crazy cuz you got Picard saying things like "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose."

And Data saying things like "I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert."

And Bashir saying things like “You can't go through life trying to avoid getting a broken heart. If you do, it'll break from loneliness anyway."

And Odo sayings things like "It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice is that sometimes they make the wrong choice."

And I’m just supposed to be normal about it???

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Saw someone mention the new Boston Dynamics' robot was introduced like a Souls boss. Was not expecting it to come out so creepy.

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Oh Mr. Amtrak

Am me some tracks

Make sure I'm close to

The car with the snacks

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Hello! This might be a silly question, but yknow that wedding commission you did? (https://www.tumblr.com/sergle/748659165732454400/everyone-pls-direct-your-attention-to-these-tags).

The foliage in the background has that really nice yellow glow, and I was just wondering how you did that. Is it a layer effect or done by hand? It's a lovely touch and adds such warmth for being so subtle, I like it a lot. :^)

Have a nice day!

Ooh!! okay, I definitely remember this and didn't just go back and look through the layers to see what I did on the piece. it's basically just a couple of overlays!! in various shades of beige and yellow.

The foliage bg on its own, with nothing on top of it, just looks like this:

I have one layer of beige overlaid, which does this:

plus another layer of yellow, smudgy this time to make it look softer:

then just super loose yellow lineart overlaid on the edges of the leaves, and a noise filter to go on top of it.

it's super duper quick! the rest of the lighting comes from a super low opacity orange tint and a super low opacity watercolor scan that I keep on deck. but yeah basically just a few layers of yellow on top of shades of blue!-- I was originally gonna do a plain color bg for this portrait, but it didn't look right until I did the foliage thing!

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most important thing to remember about being a woman is if youre married you have to go under the covers with your husband and laugh cutely and play wrestle so when you die to progress the narrative he can remember it in slow motion montages

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