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14sunnydaze · 11 months

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Heya everyone, pushing for another round of ads for our game before we close the early access on Steam. We're a very small team of (2) developers from New Orleans who need your help with spreading the word on our project!!

We've been working on this game for about 5-6 years and just sold our 200th copy! We are very excited to push it before we close early access because we've made some improvements already and want to share them with the 🌎. We are hoping to be able to use the funds from this push to finish the game and start developing the next one.

Our game emphasizes choices and replayability. It contains multiple endings and really is a lot of bangs for very small bucks! It's an adorable 3D JRPG with some charming characters and a world that will only become more queer and diverse as we continue to update it over time. It has a fantastic soundtrack that features a few local NOLA artists.

It's the culmination of a lot of work and heart from two people (one of whom is trans) who want to make diverse games that raise the bar and include people who haven't previously been included. And we want to show that it's possible to make good games without a huge studio backing you.

I've included a few teaser gifs so y'all can see what we're capable of and a bit of the world of Aura and Co.

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thefalloutwiki · 5 months

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Do you guys have any info about what exactly Future-Tec is? I remember seeing some stuff in the 76 Atomic shop about it, but I can't really find any good info on what it is and what role it plays in the lore.

Heyo, thanks for the ask! I'm happy to answer anything I can!

So first, let's establish every game or publication Future-Tec is mentioned in (to my knowledge). Future-Tec is mentioned in the Vault Dweller's Survival Guide (Fallout's manual), Fallout 76 and lastly, Fallout: The Roleplaying Game!

In the Vault Dweller's Survival Guide, Future-Tec is stated to be a division of Vault-Tec, and presents an advertisement for the Garden of Eden Creation Kit (mind you, this is before the GECK was in a game too).

In Fallout 76, several Future-Tec Atomic Shop C.A.M.P. items appear, all with unique descriptions. The description for the Future-Tec Week Flag states the following:

Future-Tec was once a secret branch of Vault-tec tasked with investigating top-secret and alien technologies. Fly their flag in your C.A.M.P. with the Future-Tec Week Flag.

Additionally, the terminal entries for Vault 51 show that ZAX 1.3c copied Dr. Stanislaus Braun's writing and speaking style, in order to obtain a Hellfire Prototype Power Armor unit. The entry reveals that Braun was the department head of Future-Tec!

//SEARCHING: Hellfire Prototype Power Armor //SEARCHING: Future-Tec //SEARCHING: Department head //SEARCHING: Dr. Stanislaus Braun //ANALYZING: Dr. Stanislaus Braun published research and speaking history //COPYING: Dr. Stanislaus Braun writing & speaking style ........ Success; Probability of direct match 99.6% //SENDING: Hellfire Prototype Power Armor Requisition Request ........ Success; message delivered.

In Fallout 3, we also learn that Braun is the creator of the GECK!

Lastly, in Fallout: The Roleplaying Game, we get this short blurb about the GECK:

Devised by Vault-Tec’s Future-Tec division, this terraforming device uses matter recombination technology to transform irradiated or otherwise polluted earth into fertile soil. It also included force-field schematics and 3D printing arrays to make everything from buildings to clothing from the raw materials of the earth.

Now that we have our sources put together, let's piece together all that we know about Future-Tec, as a division of Vault-Tec.

Future-Tec was a division of Vault-Tec, headed by Dr. Stanislaus Braun. Described as a secret branch of the company, the division was responsible for investigating "top-secret and alien technologies." The Garden of Eden Creation Kit was devised by the department, with Dr. Braun being responsible for developing the device itself.

Hope this helps! Of course, sometimes I do miss a source or two, but I'm confident that that is all the info we have on Future-Tec. This was a nice little writing exercise, so I'd love to answer any more asks people have! :D

With this post, all info I've stated has been added to our Future-Tec page, which you can check out here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Future-Tec

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abby-from-hell · 25 days

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anim-ttrpgs · 4 months

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A.N.I.M. Adventure Art: Benadetta (not to be confused with Burnadette)

Art by @theblackwarden

Meet Benadetta. Benadetta is a 30-something-year-old OSHA inspector who used to chain smoke but now vapes(this is mechanically important, it’s why she has very poor Athletics and other Physical skills and also is tied to her “Comfort Item” Trait.).

This art has been posted here with permission as part of A.N.I.M.’s Adventure Art initiative in our TTRPG book club.

Benadetta is a PC from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy by A.N.I.M.

If you’d like to join the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club, you can find the discord invite on our website.

If your art fits he parameters outlined on this post, and you’d like it featured here, tag us or post it in the book club’s Adventure Art channel on discord.

If you’d like to support us and get a prerelease copy of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, check out our Patreon! Our Kickstarter is planned for launch in April 2024!

Mild spoilers under the cut, details kept vague so as not to spoil the adventure module this we are using for this adventure, it's a Call of Cthuhlu adventure module (Eureka is compatible with those without much tweaking!) not one of our own.

Benadetta was the one who OSHA inspected the warehouse that then blew up like a week later, inciting the mystery. She feels like she could’ve been responsible for the explosion by not being thorough enough and that’s why she went out of her way to try and find out the cause—along with this weird woman, Yvette, whom she thinks is a V:TM LARPer(she went on like one date with a guy like that in college who also never broke character) from the Internet she met on r/warehouseexplosions.

Investigation ensued.

They found out that Benadetta was not responsible, it was actually a bomb, and this is part of an organized crime thing that much later they have discovered is a radical cult.

Also this weird woman from the Internet has been buying Benadetta things at the drop of a hat, like meals and a whole form-fitting biker suit that costs like $600(was part of a disguise) and Benadetta has been...not discouraging her at all.

Benadetta has been losing Composure rapidly throughout the adventure and is now constantly hovering between 0 and 2. Yvette is...really bad for the Composure of people around her.

The problem is that regular people restore 2 Composure at the end of every day, plus composure from the comfort of fellow investigators. However, Yvette just plain cannot do this. She has a -4 in that skill.

She found out a little more recently that 1. Yvette is a real vampire. and 2. Yvette murdered three armed organized crime enforcers with hardly a second thought when left to her own devices. This brought her Composure down again.

In the morning of the most recent session they went to an architect’s house to get some blueprints, only for Yvette to be lured away from the living room and blasted apart with a shotgun by one of the guy’s assistants with a shotgun upstairs(that’s a whole story), while the other assistant attacked Benadetta with a knife and cut her arm open.

Yvette showed back up in the nick of time, now holding that shotgun, and punched the teeth out of the knife-wielding assistant.

It turned out that the architect had no idea about any of this, the assistants were members of the cult whose job it was to spy on him, and murder anyone who showed up asking about those blueprints.

After visiting an Urgent Care for the knife wound and Yvette treated Benadetta to an expensive meal after Benadetta basically snapped at her and insisted she owed her for dragging her around into involvement with a deadly cult, so they went to a nice restaurant.

They later went to Chili’s after Yvette left Benadetta alone for a few hours to lay on her bed and cry at 0 Composure.) Oh and also Benadetta owns 4 pet rats that she cried with. She has not allowed Yvette to see them.

They had to go to Chili’s because through some cyberstalking they found out a member of the cult frequents it and Yvette thinks this specific guy has information and might even be receiving a bomb to deliver to a certain location soon. (Yvette wants that bomb so she can drop it in the mailbox of the cult HQ, which is something I think Benadetta doesn’t fully realize.)

Benadetta, however, only came along meaning to be moral support while making Yvette do all the work. Benadetta is just getting drunk on watered down bottomless appletinis. But, even drunk, she is quickly realizing what a mistake it was to send Yvette to talk to this guy alone.

Because Yvette’s Interpersonal skills are -3 or worse almost across the board.

Benadetta ended up having to pull Yvette away when Yvette wasn’t checking her text messages (texts like “HE IS TRYING TO FUCK YOU”) and try to talk a mortified Yvette into proposing a ‘ménage à trois’, so that they could get this guy to bring them home and get him even more drunk so they could just search his house. Yvette *could not* do it so Benadetta has to call him over and say it herself while seductively unbuttoning her dress shirt—despite looking almost literally as disheveled as one can look in Eureka(0 Composure) and being drunk and even failing the Seduce roll resulting in her belching loudly and then dying inside, they were just two-drunk-beautiful-women-proposing-a-threesome-to-meathead-dude-out-of-nowhere enough to pull it off and get him to take them home.

I think Benadetta could’ve done anything short of shit her pants and this guy would’ve still taken them home.

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christiansorrell · 6 months

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MeatCastle GameWare Store Launch Sale!

My entire catalog is now available at the MCGW Store! After months of frankly terrible interactions with my last fulfillment partner (more on that later, perhaps in a future Missive), I have finally gotten my inventory back, set up my own store, and have a much better setup overall. To celebrate, EVERYTHING (print AND digital) is 30% off (applied at checkout)! VISIT THE SHOP HERE!

The entire catalog of MCGW-published supplements are here:

The Bloodfields at Blackstar Station (Mothership 1e)

Corpo Culture Killed My Dog (Mothership 1e/System-Free)

Tunnels in White (Liminal Horror)

MeatCastle GameWare Annual #1 (Mothership 1e, Mork Borg, and System-Free)

The Mole on PIRAD ONE (Mothership 1e)

There is a Goblin on the Loose in Icarus Station (Mothership 1e)

ULTIMATE BADASS: Optional Action Movie Rules (Mothership 1e)

You can grab EVERYTHING I’ve ever made in print for around $50 USD or get it all digitally for just $26! The sale will run from now until the evening of 12/10 (so two full weeks)!

Also, @indiepressrevolution will have both The Bloodfields at Blackstar Station and There is a Goblin on the Loose in Icarus Station on sale at Pax Unplugged this weekend (Dec. 1st-3rd) at Booth 3426!

#ttrpg #indie ttrpg #ttrpgs #rpg #indie #indie creator #independent #online store #sale #publishing #print #mothership #liminal horror #system agnostic

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1eos · 2 months

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been watching fear& hunger videos and i just found out what happens to the Girl

#im not playing no shit made in rpg maker 😭😭😭😭 these independent teams are CRAZY

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ips-northstar-official · 10 months

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It certainly doesn’t hurt that they’re very fond of shotguns.

#lancer rpg #lancerrpg #products #note: Trunk Security is not affiliated with IPS-N and are an independent mercenary company

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rpgpolls · 10 months

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Happy Independent TTRPG Month!

July is Independent TTRPG Month and RPGPolls is joining in on the fun in celebrating small press games that are just as if not more fun than the famed Seattle game.

This is a little overdue but I have been exhausted between work, my GM-ly duties, and some projects I have going.

Non D&D focused polls to come but for now enjoy a list of small press games I enjoy under the read more. Happy Indie RPG Month and happy rolling!

Dungeon Crawl Classics (and its variants) - An absolutely gonzo OSR fantasy game and what I currently run at my table. Cannot recommend it enough.

Shadowdark RPG - A wonderful bridge between the OSR school of play and 5e. Don't know how available it is since the kickstarter just finished but I ran Andrew Kolb's Neverland using it and had a blast.

13th Age - A super simple d20 system made by some of the devs who worked on 3.5 and 4e. Plays like a wonderful blend of the two and makes natural rolls more important beyond the usual 1s and 20s. Super fun.

Fantasy AGE (and its variants) - A 3d6 system that's a lot of fun. Popularized by Wil Wheaton's Titansgrave setting/game. I feel like it's magic system is a little lacking but overall its a fast paced and creativity focused game.

The Apocalypse Engine - For the sake of simplicity and brevity, all PbtA games will be counted under here. Requires a lot of player creativity and buy in but overall super fun and versatile. An indie darling to be sure.a

Swords and Wizardry - One of the big three systems that basically started the OSR movement (the other two being OSRIC and Labyrinth Lord). Unfortunately I only played this system briefly and without understanding what it stood for. 5e came out like a month after I started to the campaign was quickly converted. Would love to revisit it.

The Cortex System - Mostly used this to play the Serenity RPG. It's a decent system and good for what it is but the combined die types as stats doesn't work with me.

GURPS - What Fallout was originally going to be based off of, GURPS is a monster of a generic system. If you can think of it, it's probably got a rule for it. Works best when you narrow it down and can be a little complicated. You may have better luck with

Savage Worlds - A more streamlined generic roleplaying game with tons of pre-made settings. The card initiative mechanic is a refreshing take on the mechanic and the bennie system is so much fun. Full props.

Crash Pandas, Honey Heist, Goblin Quest and anything by Grant Howitt - Solid gold, great, light, comedic games that are guaranteed to make for a night of fun. No notes. Goblin Quest in particular is heavily underrated imo.

We Are But Worms - Meets the bare definition of a roleplaying game. Play it constantly with my friends. All we have to do is look at each other, say one word, and the game gets going.

I could go on. There's a metric ton of RPGs that I've played and even more that I haven't but would love to. Fiasco (I can never get anyone to play with), Blades in the Dark, Candela Obscura, Mork Borg, the Black Sword Hack and so many others with more catching my eye every day. So take the remainder of this month (and beyond) to explore the community and play something you haven't - or maybe even never planned to. This hobby has so much more to offer than WotC and Paizo and so much more to offer than just roll high on a d20 in a fantasy game. Get out there and start rolling the bones (or not in some cases!) And have fun!

#indie ttrpg #roleplaying games #rpg polls #not a poll #ttrpgs #tabletop roleplaying games #ttrpg #independent ttrpg month

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auroratownz · 4 months

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Personalized Retro Dialogue Box Desk Mats by Aurora Town Design

I had a lot of fun with this design and will likely expand this collection to include even more color variations and product options, so keep an eye out!

#gaming #retro gaming #retro aesthetic #rpg #independent artist #zazzle #desk mat #gaming gear #unique gifts #fun gifts

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hexja · 3 months

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[ ... ] i can do " NORMAL " . — when i put my mind to it.

#GUESS WHO'S BACK. BACK AGAIN. LULA'S BACK.#and instead of hopping on one of the blogs she had to abandon for irl duties.#she remade one she deleted. funny where hyperfixations take us. ANYWAY.#🔮. now i will be your shadow. ( self promo. )#🔮. queued post.#fantasy rp #crossover rp #medieval rp #rpg rp #fire emblem rp #yeah sure i'll put disney #disney rp #she talks to princesses and princes all the time.#indie rp #independent rp

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drfoxweyman · 9 months

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There's still ONE commission slot that needs filling so now's the time! DM if interested and we can discuss further!

#art #furry #anthro #commissions #illustration #digital art #fan art #oc #ocs #original character #super lesbian animal rpg #sonic the hedgehog #my little pony #other things I draw #independent artist

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deathfuture3000 · 8 months

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"THE SANITATION MAN"-- main villain character I created for an indy rpg game I helped create. Pen and ink and digital illustration.

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thefalloutwiki · 1 year

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Fallout: The Roleplaying Game: Winter of Atom Expansion Book Details

Yesterday night, Modiphius released new details about the Fallout: The Roleplaying Game expansion book, Winter of Atom!

The expansion will introduce three new player characters: The Generation 3 Synth, the Protectron and the Child of Atom!

What do you think of the expansion so far? Share your thoughts in the replies or reblogs!

You can read the full blog post on the Modiphius website here:

#fallout wiki #independent fallout wiki #independent wiki #fallout rpg #ttrpg #fallout ttrpg #fallout series

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dungeonofthedragon · 22 days

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Great Games for under 10 USD!

Sometimes times are tough, but you still want to support independent creators. Here are some great games from my own library that will set you back less than $10 each!

2400 by Jason Tocci

Cost: $6

Described as 'low fi sci fi', this game's lightweight rules can be printed on a single sheet of paper, double sided. There are so many games using this system too, with the creator keeping a frequently updated list! Playable with at least two players and a GM, 2400 is simple enough to learn in minutes, but with prompts hinting at adventures and lore that can be expanded across multiple sessions.

Bagel, Lox, Golem Talks by PsychHound

Cost: pwyw

Written by a Jewish game designer, this solo journaling game is about life in a magical shtetl. It's low-stress, vibrant and fun. The game is pwyw so you can pick it up for free, but I'd highly recommend chucking even a dollar or two the creator's way if you can. Every little bit helps!

Paranormal Wellington by Taleturn

Cost: $7 pdf; $10 physical

If you love What We Do in the Shadows, you'll enjoy this one. Play as paranormal investigators, whether you be legitimate detectives or nosy historians. There is a class that's all about being awkward about the camera that's constantly following you around.

It's a great little game.

Rooftops by Polyhedral Mice Games

Cost: $4.99 (on sale for $4.25 at the time of writing.)

Ah, beloved Rooftops! I love the simple and evocative ruleset. In a dystopian future, escape to the rooftops with your friends for a brief glimpse of freedom! Would love to play a they/them grifter with one of my groups...but usually if a game is not D&D or PBTA, I'm the one running it, so it seems unlikely I'll have that chance. xD

The Kyme Summit by Malcolm Harbrow

Cost: $5

Rich little larp taking clear inspiration from Dune. I would love to play this someday! Maybe for a birthday party, as it only takes about ninety minutes to play.

#independent creators #indie ttrpg #ttrpg recs #rpgs under $10

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cryoverkiltmilk · 1 year

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tabletop rpg about horrors beyond comprehension but the horrors are actually mass production capitalism and the removal of independent businesses from local economies

Mall of Cthulhu

#terrible puns #call of cthulhu #i'm hilarious #capitalism #malls #my local mall actually has way more independent shops than the one near me growing up #shopping malls #food court chinese just hits different #tabletop rpgs #rpgs #tabletop games #tabletop gaming

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demon-of-side-quest-hell · 1 month

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Alex Eggleston is canon to cyberpunk 2077 now...

I'm yiiking out right now

What the fuck is life

#yiik: a postmodern rpg #yiik #alex yiik #leave the demon to its demons #leave the demon to its fandoms #i'm not explaining this connection to y'all. Do the research please #I need someone else to confirm that they independently came to this conclusion #If any of you YIIKheads out there need a start #Check the official R.Talsorian games site #I'm not tagging this as Cyberpunk because holy fuck this post is not for them

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