#how i love you

[plantboy-typhoon]

my dearest malewife

#how I love you #trigun #vash the stampede #vash the humanoid typhoon #trigun anime #vash trigun #trigun 1998 #trigun vash #vash #trigun 98

[viric-dreams]

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#my art #fallen london #rubbery men #this is another one of those instances where i joked that a new oc just dropped #and then the joke went far beyond the amount of time you'd reasonably expect to spend on a shitpost #this is my brand at this point #dip pen #how I love you #the rubbery barber surgeon

[heartofmuse]

I gift you pieces of my soul everytime I open up to you, everytime we converse, everytime I share with you my world, when I write you the words that from my heart flow, every second of time that I gift you with my all. Everything I am and give is from the heart. I know no other way to be. This is me. Know what I am...

Pure soul and all heart.

e.v.e.

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[poetrybyonur]

If you could see yourself the way I see you, you would see the ineffable beauty of your soul and love yourself the way I love you.

#poets on tumblr #love quotes #love poetry #romantic poetry #love poem #romantic writer #onurtaskiran poetry #poets and writers #love #gentleman poet #love yourself #how i love you #mirror #reflection #beautiful soul #exquisite #ineffable beauty #self love #cherishing you #exceptional

[makapatag]

so hear me out right (and this is by no means a smart blog post thing, im just rambling at 2am)

a lot of combat heavy ttrpgs (D&D4e, PF2e, ICON, Lancer, Panic! At The Dojo) rely a lot on keywording and mechanical definitions to create this interlocking (and hopefully well-oiled) combat engine that rewards good tactical choices and forward thinking. 4e needs you to know that Ranged Attacks Provoke Opportunity Attacks, and so you need to move away first to avoid that (often by spending their Move action to Shift). this goes for other games as well. ICON needs you to know that if an Ability does not have the "Attack" tag then its explicitly not an attack, even if it deals damage. This is important because some classes and abilities benefit from not attacking, such as the Demon Slayer

the far end of this is PF2e, where almost everything is Keyworded. Classes, Races, even Feats have keywords, and some keywords have Keywords in them. this is not bad design in my opinion: mastery of this keywording can create for some really cool effects (and you can feasibly design something very BotW which also depends on a lot of interactions between elements).

now consider that so much of tactics trpgs (that is, Traditional/Tabletop Role-Playing Games) rely on so much of that interaction to create fulfilling scenarios. most of the time this is because tactics rpgs also depend on build-crafting. there are a lot of tactics trpgs that don't really care about build crafting or has less of a focus on it to focus instead on the grid combat: games like Rune, Valiant Quest, maybe even Blood Neon, so im explicitly talking about the variety of tactics trpgs that are build-centered: basically anything that comes from the vein of Fourth Edition Dungeons and Dragons

one of my favorite parts about TTRPGs is that you can play them based off of the fiction. writing Gubat Banwa, I understand that sometimes you have to create that fiction, especially if its not one thats well-represented. the created fiction or genre is the blueprint from which the play-fiction arises during the game: that's the fire-like collective imagination that arises from play.

There's a design and play philosophy (common among OSR, PbtA, and FitD) known as Fiction-First. This means that you follow what happens in the fiction first before the mechanics or anything else. Not to preserve the integrity of a "narrative" but rather, to preserve the integrity of the fiction.

What would a Fiction-First Tactics TRPG look like? This is something I tried to set out to do with Gubat Banwa. I haven't really succeeded, as of 1e.3.

so i've been thinking lately. What if a game was Fiction-First? It would work similarly to the Keywording of PF2e, but more open-ended in its interpretation.

Look at the Panabas from PF2e (a weapon present in SEAsia! From the Malay Archipelago all the way to the Philippine Archipelago). It has the Forceful (your second attack on your turn gains +X (X = damage dice, third up gets +2X.), Sweep (+1 to attack if youve alr targeted a separate character), and Two-Hand d10 (roll a d10 when you wield with both hands) tags.

I'm not going to be translating these one for one, but let's use the fiction-first style of writing and mechanics i'm concocting:

Panabas. A heavy blade. Using this, you strike with Bravery. The forward-curving blade can chop through tree, bone, and bramble.

Heavy Blade is a weapon type, so this is classic keywording. The text afterwards is also keywording: striking with Bravery means you roll your Bravery stat when making attacks with it. All well and good: there's always going to be some classical keywording in there as necessity (its this entanglement of mechanic and fiction that's made me love PbtA anyway).

The later text is more important, because say then I made an enemy like:

Walking Tree. A tree that uproots itself, and whistles to kill victims. Made of wood, so they lose 1 Stamina when they suffer chopping attacks. If they're struck by flame, they start burning. [Insert other combat-important stats here].

Now the fact that the panabas can chop through trees interacts with the description of the walking tree being vulnerable to chopping attacks.

Now these really aren't too different from the concept of keywording (really they're in the same concept park), the different thing is two things:

You can now apply that chopping quality to anything in the fiction. Find some brambles on your way, maybe even brambles as hindering terrain? Then spend a Beat to attack it to remove it! That's fiction first after all

It's easier to understand just at first glance with just natural language.

The important part here is natural language. In Play, a lot of the time, my players love picking up on little things about lore-bites of the items and techniques they have and seeing how that can apply to the fiction. So this is more of that: weapons, items, techniques, armor all become things that establish fiction. When two fictions interact, a new fiction arises!

Burning: A status effect. While you're burning, lose 1 Stamina when you start your Break. You lose burning when you're doused by water or you take time to remove it. Improvise: (A basic action). Do anything that does not inherently harm, as long as it makes sense in the fiction, and doesn't take more than 4 seconds to do (Beats take up 4 seconds). You can use this to stop drop and roll to get rid of Burning. Deep Water. -1 Elevation. Water reaches up to your shoulders. Moving into deep water costs +1 Speed.

Of course there's still going to be mechanical descriptions there, we're not going for FKR full just fiction thing. We're just blending fiction into the game part. Even PbtA still has stats and rolling and mechanics to further support their fiction.

I wanted to write this so that techniques and other widgets can be written with fictional wording in mind, and that wording would affect how its used in tactical grid combat. A technique that says: "You are surrounded by a barrier of tornado-force winds. Any attack from outside your adjacency is swept away, unless it cannot be buffeted by winds." Becomes a mechanical thing: perhaps a spell of concentrated curses pierces through this, but not arrows or weak fireballs?

The Arbiter

The last piece of the puzzle will almost always be: who arbitrates the fiction? There almost always needs to be a final word. For GuBa, this is the Umalagad, not so impartial arbiter. For Solo Play, this is still the Umalagad, but as the oracle: they ask a question, ie, "Would this area of effect attack be buffeted by the wind barrier if the origin point starts from outside?" and they would roll a d10. On a 6+, the answer is no, the target would not be buffeted because the flames overwhelm. On a 5-, the answer would be yes, it is buffeted because the target is not the brunt of the attack. And the final answer becomes the ruling for the rest of that scene.

Last last thing is this particular rule that sets things down that I might put into Gubat Banwa:

The Law of Phenomenon Pay close attention to the words that you have. These words will decide whether your blade can chop down a tree, or your abaka weave blunts edged strikes, but susceptible to piercing spears. These words will decide whether your dazzling spell can daze opponents, or if the opponent you fight ignores it due to them not depending on their senses to fight. The words establish the fiction. The fiction is the world in which your characters live: follow it always.

#gamedev #ohhh fiction first gaming #how i love you #but idk if this is actually fiction first gaming or just natural language keywording #either way its so cool to me argh

[big-hot-sexy-man]

i love my girlfriend

#sam winchester #how i love you #hes my favorite boy girlfriend #spn

[brooklynisher]

Prob no more updates on spore gg

Didn’t realize that Spore doesn’t have a “Do you want to save?” menu when you close the window, it just closes.

Guess what happened </3

#It was about 5 hours from the end of the tribal stage to the end of the civilization stage #it’s 3am #I lost sleep over nothing #oh old games #how I love you #but you’re just as charming as you are janky #my stuff #if I change my mind #I’ll say I lied

[revnah1406]

Today is the birthday of our beautiful sparrow ✨✨✨😍

A little gift from me, I hope you like it ✨✨❤️

OH LOOORDD!!!!! 😍❤️🔥

LOOK AT THAT GAZE! SLAY QUEEN!!! 😍😍🔥🔥🔥

OMG THIS DRAWING IS GOERGOUS!!! ❤️❤️❤️😍😍🥰 SHE LOOKS AMAZING. I KNEEL BEFORE YOU MY DEAR 🫡🫡🔥🔥

SHE LOOKS SO OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO 🥹🥹 WE COULD DO A LIFE ACTION WITH THIS GOERGOUS FACE. 🫵🏻

I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT IT AAAAAHHH!!!😍😍😍😍

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH MY DEAREST FRIEND❤️❤️❤️

#today I'm receiving amazing gifts #and it's not even my birthday #HOW I LOVE YOU #MWAH #THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN ❤️❤️ #call of duty oc #hannah “sparrow” clayton #friend's art #my oc #you got mail! 💌

[kapitanbank]

Ol' Kiryu

#ryo ga gotoku #yakuza #like a dragon #infinite wealth #yakuza 8 #fanart #kiryu kazuma #my art #oh old boy #how I love you #did you dye your hair black all these years? #and your beard scruff too #breaking the world

[everyoneisalittlesadalittlehorny]

The sound of your name is like a pleasant wind chime from my childhood. It reminds me of soft, endless days, a sea of possibilities and no iota of fear.

#love #relationship #i loved you #i love you #their name #his name #couple #romantic #romantic relationship #yearning #how i love you

[helloimaweirdo]

oh child of the stars, where ever you are, I hope you are okay. I hope you are save. I hope you are happy.

dramatics aside I NEED to know what happened to this little guy :(

PLEASE Dana I BEG

:(

#the owl house #toh #toh the collector #toh collector #the collector #the collector toh #watching and dreaming #ooohhh baaaabbbyyy boooyyy #how i love you #i hope youre doing well

[majorproblems77]

Me looking at my wip knowing im going to have to design an entire Zelda dungeon for it to make sense...

Laughs, I'm in danger...

So if we dont get anything for a while from me its because I've gone down the rabbit hole of puzzle-making

Whoops?

#ahh yes #metamorphosis #how i love you #Yes i know this begins like 2 chapters from where I've got published but like #its in my brain and i cant get it out #ramble corner with major #and dear god are temples hard to describe

[sleepyssunshinestuff]

Yes yes yes nuance complexity and the moral conundrum etc etc. Have your little fun arguing about consent and the fate of humanity or whatever. I really am just watching it for the father daughter moments and the weird lil animals that pop up every episode.

#piano frog #how i love you #doggy! can't forget him #horsey! RIP #you shall be missed soldier #monkeys!! they're so silly #and the star of em all #giraffe #with ur ugly tongue #i adore u #the last of us #tlou #joel and ellie #green

[khoblogs]

sigh

leaf coneybear for the character bingo

50/50 for the "they could've been such a great character" is bc some productions do my boy SO dirty same reason why i prefer fanon (most of the time) :)

#khol.txt #leaf coneybear #god bless mouthbone productions and brown university leaf #how i love you

[homemantis]

Why would you be a terf when you can STAN MAIA ARSON CRIMEW

#maia arson crimew #how I love you #genuinely had a fixation on her for a week

[mymp3]

YESSSS JOHN TOOBE ED FINALLY OUT FOR CHAINSAW MAN!! TAP IN EVERYONE!

#my layout finally comes in handy #oh john #how i love you #song recs