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yourplayersaidwhat · 2 days
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Context: My kitsune Ranger who was raised by actual foxes was introducing themselves to the party
Kitsune: **Holding up a fox** This is David! Wizard: Aww, your pet is really cute! Kitsune: He's my brother... Wizard: Oh, so he's afflicted by a curse Kitsune: No, he's always been a fox, keep making assumptions about my brother, I fucking dare you
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Tragic News! Someone's made Power Word Kill into a copypasta! Half of youtube is dead!
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vintagerpg · 2 days
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Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials (1979) is a fun little book that looks at aliens from a variety of science fiction stories through the (slightly) in-universe framing of a field guide, complete with notes on ecology and biological functions.
Artist Wayne Barlowe’s selections are an interesting cross-section of the genre (I don’t recognize a lot of them, honestly) and his interpretations (of the ones I do recognize) always walk the fine line between capturing something essential that I pictured in my mind’s eye while also being surprising or unexpected in many ways. Among the beasties I did not photograph are the Overlords from Childhood’s End, the Puppeteers from Ringworld, the Izchel from Wrinkle in Time, the Masters from the Tripod books and Ursula Le Guin’s Athshean.
In a way, the Guide feels like an extension of the larger interest in fantastic art in the ‘70s, embodied most in the Gnomes, Fairies and Giants books. It, and its Fantasy companion (see tomorrow) certainly wouldn’t come out today, but for me, they’re just amazing. They gave Barlowe a whole book to draw monsters and aliens; monster and alien enthusiasts like me got a pile of rad illustrations to look at; and a stack of sci fi writers got low-key advertising for their works. Wins down the line.
Worth mentioning that this is likely a direct inspiration for Call of Cthulhu’s pair of Petersen’s Field Guides (Cthulhu Monsters and Dreamlands), right down to little nuances of layout formatting. I would bet that they were also on someone’s mind when the Ecology articles began to appear in Dragon Magazine (those started in ’83 with the Piercer).
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larkingame · 2 days
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Play as Preacher Abrams, prolific vampire hunter (and pathetic preacher) in Larkin! Episode One out June 14th!
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cursed-barbie · 2 days
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" A WOMAN COULD EASILY KILL A MAN. WITH THE RIGHT MOTIVATION . "
#CURSED-BARBIE: canon portrayal of Rebekah Mikaelson from 'THE ORIGINALS' following the events of season 1 (for now) & the crossovers in 'the vampire diaries' because mun did not finish the show yet.
a study in: numb on the outside but sensitive on the inside, hopeless romantic, betrayal, flirty for fun (so don’t mind, it’s part of playing the role).
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whereserpentswalk · 2 days
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You sell items to adventurers for a living. It's relatively easy to get business in a frontier city like the one you live in. You were planning on becoming an adventurer yourself but an injured leg when you were young prevented that. But because you already know how to find items, and how they should be fairly priced, so it's a good living.
Not everyone who thinks of themselves as adventurers actually are adventurers. You sometimes have to sell weapons to naive groups of kids, who have no idea what they're doing. Useally you humor them, they tend to go off into useless places with no gold to be found, an old mineshaft that's been explored a thousand times over has become famous for such things. If they seem like they'll go somewhere way more dangerous than they should, you point them to the mineshaft.
Of course, most of your business is from actual adventurers. They tend to be wanderers, foreigners, a lot of ex merchants or ex millitary, or children of nobility who cant inherent, the type of people who never had the chance to make a safe living. Most of them are nice to you, and if they're not you know how to get them to leave.
You also know how to become a protecter for the adventuring parties who need it. Your shop is basically the center of their community in this part of the city. If a spellcaster is part of an illegal religion, or performing banned practices, you know what symbols to sell them to help them hide themselves. If someone is clearly a runaway slave or serf, or from a race that's considered a monster in this part of the world, you know how the forge the right documents. There was a hobgoblin who frequented your shop for a long time, who you sold weapons to, who you had to testify in front of the city sherif was not a hobgoblin but was infact a member of a rare subrace of elf that you made up to protect him. You may have also recently made an entire fictional category of magic legally real for the sake of protecting some necromancers you know.
There are some people you never sell to. It's not considered good principle to sell to people who would gladly kill your other clients. There was a group of warriors weilding holy magic who talked a lot about punishing sinners, they came back with the heads of goblins and hobgoblins a lot, and vampires, and humans of religions other then theirs. After they started bringing in more of their freinds you cut them off.
There are people who you wished you hadn't sold to for other reasons. There was this human noble girl who you sold a suit of armor to, she had run away from an arranged marriage and joined an adventuring party so she could be as far from her parents as possible. She seemed so excited to be in a big city, to be out in the world, she chatted with you for hours about an epic poem from ages long gone that she liked. When she came back to your shop after her first quest she had turned undead, something happened in her first dungeon that changed her, her skin was pale, and her teeth had turned sharp, you just remember her shivering and trying to cry, and muttering about how cold she was. Her other party members said they were happy she was more durable like this, they didn't seem to care about her outside of that.
And of course, there's the fact that every adventurer you know, useally doesn't come back eventually. When a full party goes you can assume they left town, but when just one or two from a party is missing there tends to be one explanation. Most adventurers don't have long careers, and mortality especially high for rookies. But you don't tend to ask if anyone is dead, it's better to just assume they went home, as implausible as it may be.
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gudgurkan · 1 day
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We just hit 100 backers on Kickstarter for "The Cult of Dreams"! A huge thank you to everyone who has backed or shared.
For anyone who is interested there's less than a week left now.
Here are pages 69 and 70 inked, fresh out of the oven.
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arunyi · 2 days
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commission for nanakou 🌸
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pennypuller · 7 hours
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describe-hospital · 2 days
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“drank too much coffe so i can’t sleep. yet too eepy. ouroboros.”
-A player having gotten off a grueling retail shift and explaining why they’re not coming to session
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probablybadrpgideas · 6 hours
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Stealth worldbuilding.
Put in your backstory that France sunk into the waves in 1892 and wait until the GM mentions a french character to bring it up
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vintagerpg · 19 hours
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Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials was well received and won a couple of awards (and a second edition, I think in ’87?). It took a little while for the sequel to emerge: Barlowe’s Guide to Fantasy hit shelves in 1996.
Even though I am not super widely read in either fantasy or science fiction, Barlowe’s fantasy book is the one I really vibe on. Maybe because it allows him to do stuff like Grendel from Beowulf and Gorice from The Worm Ouroboros. Wouldn’t have expected Gideon Winter, the antagonist from Peter Straub’s odd novel Floating Dragon to be included, but he was. Other surprises are the Psammead from Five Children and It and the Saw Horse from Oz.
One of the coolest things about these books is the fold-out size comparison charts. I love a good size-comparison (and again, this is a big feature of those Petersen’s Guides for Call of Cthulhu, and I am sure it came directly from here).
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orsacrifice · 2 days
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𝖻𝗂𝗈𝗀𝗋𝖺𝖿𝗂𝖺𝗌 — 𝙽𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙰𝙻
𝖼𝗈𝖻𝖾𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖽𝖾 𝖼𝗁𝗈𝖼𝗈𝗅𝖺𝗍𝖾 — #𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑒
🧺★ . 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝖼𝗈𝗆 𝖺𝗆𝗂𝗀𝗈𝗌
𝗍𝗼𝗇𝘀 𝖽𝖾 𝖺𝗆𝗈𝗋 ‘ 𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗇𝖽𝖾 𝗉𝖺𝗂𝗑𝖺̃𝗈.
𝗅𝗂𝗆𝖺̃𝗈𝗓𝗂𝗇𝗁𝗈 — 🍋🧺
[𝙰𝙼𝙰𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙾] 𝖼𝗈𝗋 𝖽𝗈 𝖺𝗆𝗈𝗋
𝗑𝖾𝗋𝗈̂ 𝗱𝗲 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝖿𝗎𝗆𝖾 ✿ 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑟
[🍯📷🌱] #𝑗𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑜
𝗆𝖾𝗎 𝖼𝖺𝗆𝗉𝗈 𝖿𝗅𝗈𝗋𝗂𝖽𝗈 —
𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝖽𝗈𝖼𝖾 𝙵𝙴𝙸𝚃𝙾 𝖺𝖼̧𝗎́𝖼𝖺𝗋
𝗊𝗎𝖾𝗋𝗈𝑚𝑒𝑢𝖺𝗆𝗈𝗋 𖬺
𝗎𝗆𝖺 𝖼𝖺𝗌𝖺 𝗇⍺ 𝗉𝗋𝖺𝗂𝖺
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delirioswa · 3 days
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