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Okay, I'm doing that thing again where I ask many indie ttrpg creators to post their stuffs down below this post for people to see and maybe I might even make videos on some of them!

I'm mostly doing this right now because, ya know, stupid Elon shit, but whatever.

Anyway, go post them now!

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organizing my digital library

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An exercise in futility.

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It waited a week at my parents house (thanks UPS), but it is in my hands now.

A new ttrpg The Hidden Isle, with a tarot system ( and I'm sure it won't give ideas for my own tarot based game in progress)

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My Nagademon 2024 project

After a month of my inktober challenge of tying a ttrpg to each prompt, now it's November 's time to be busy with NaGaDeMon, a month long game jam I have done for the last few years with more or less success.

This year I am going to do Witch-Knights of Azulmarr

It all started with seeing a picture of a witch knights on social media. It all started with an idea for a character creation tarot system. It all started with a thought of implied system. Where does that lead ?

You are Witch Knight of Azulmarr, a prestigious order of the Kingdom. You were chosen according to prophecies. Now you must find the Major Arcanas to restore the kingdom to glory. 

The main idea for creation is thus : 

Separate the major Arcana from the minor arcanas

Divide the minor into : Pages/knight/queen/king together, Sword, Wands, Cup, Pentacle. 

For creation, draw a card from each of these stacks

Sword : you weapon, your style of knight fighting

Gives you abilities for when there is a Sword card in your hand of fate, and one when you discard a sword card ( plus one when you discard  a sword + another suit, thinking about it)

Wand : your preferred type of magic

Gives you abilities for when there is a Wand card in your hand of fate, and one when you discard a wand card. Plus a Wand +Pentacle for creating an artefact linked to your magic

Cup : your place of origin

Gives info on region

Gives you the trigger for drawing a card

Pentacle : a magic artefact in your position

Activated by discarding a Pentace card

Court : your prophesied rival/enemy

No mechanical effects

My idea was to make it semi diegetic, like based on old extracts of poems by this invented poet/prophet. Each card drawn would have a two line part of a poem and all of them together form the character prophecy That’s where the Lost Verses book comes in. The lost part that no player should see. Only written by the poet. May be seen in game if the players find them

Will gives info for the Wand card : the secret when the pc uses more than one card. For example, death magic will learn that the entire world was a battlefield. The Fate magic will learn that the kingdom prophecies are…fake. That they can choose. 

And it will gives info on the major arcana and how to obtain them. Ideas for ow CHariot : in the mountain, there is a chariot stuck there, never moving, no matter who tried. The one to make it move will gain the arcana

The Major arcana will be placed in a Past, present, future spread, which the one player who gained it choosing where to put it or IF to put it. 

Some will involve the rivals. Some can be gained when a PC accomplish a certain action, no matter where or when. And the World arcana will just be “Come find me”

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clocked back in to the chilshi factory, have more tallman au

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Sorry but if the sales pitch of your RPG includes a phrase like "more focus on story than rules" then I'm going to assume that the rules suck ass; you should instead try to convince me of how the rules help the story

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5 of Swords The Tooth of War

A warhammer made with a giant tooth. No one knows to who or what it belonged. All we know is it is heavy and robust and easily cracks bones

As long as you have a Sword card in your hand of Fate, you can crush everything in your path

Repeatly striking something with a tooth has a name. It is called eating. The question now is Who is the one eating ?

8 of Swords The Spear of Night

A Spear whose handle is made of Shadewood, the only wood that can contain its point : a scale, as black as night, as dark as shadows.

As long as you have a Sword card in your HoF, you can pierce a shadow to stop its owner from moving, forcing them into place. 

Who listens to the screams at night ? Force the shadows into view or the next meal will be you. 

My Nagademon 2024 project

After a month of my inktober challenge of tying a ttrpg to each prompt, now it's November 's time to be busy with NaGaDeMon, a month long game jam I have done for the last few years with more or less success.

This year I am going to do Witch-Knights of Azulmarr

It all started with seeing a picture of a witch knights on social media. It all started with an idea for a character creation tarot system. It all started with a thought of implied system. Where does that lead ?

You are Witch Knight of Azulmarr, a prestigious order of the Kingdom. You were chosen according to prophecies. Now you must find the Major Arcanas to restore the kingdom to glory. 

The main idea for creation is thus : 

Separate the major Arcana from the minor arcanas

Divide the minor into : Pages/knight/queen/king together, Sword, Wands, Cup, Pentacle. 

For creation, draw a card from each of these stacks

Sword : you weapon, your style of knight fighting

Gives you abilities for when there is a Sword card in your hand of fate, and one when you discard a sword card ( plus one when you discard  a sword + another suit, thinking about it)

Wand : your preferred type of magic

Gives you abilities for when there is a Wand card in your hand of fate, and one when you discard a wand card. Plus a Wand +Pentacle for creating an artefact linked to your magic

Cup : your place of origin

Gives info on region

Gives you the trigger for drawing a card

Pentacle : a magic artefact in your position

Activated by discarding a Pentace card

Court : your prophesied rival/enemy

No mechanical effects

My idea was to make it semi diegetic, like based on old extracts of poems by this invented poet/prophet. Each card drawn would have a two line part of a poem and all of them together form the character prophecy That’s where the Lost Verses book comes in. The lost part that no player should see. Only written by the poet. May be seen in game if the players find them

Will gives info for the Wand card : the secret when the pc uses more than one card. For example, death magic will learn that the entire world was a battlefield. The Fate magic will learn that the kingdom prophecies are…fake. That they can choose. 

And it will gives info on the major arcana and how to obtain them. Ideas for ow CHariot : in the mountain, there is a chariot stuck there, never moving, no matter who tried. The one to make it move will gain the arcana

The Major arcana will be placed in a Past, present, future spread, which the one player who gained it choosing where to put it or IF to put it. 

Some will involve the rivals. Some can be gained when a PC accomplish a certain action, no matter where or when. And the World arcana will just be “Come find me”

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sorry what

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MASTERLIST OF VETTED GOFUNDMES

My lists:

Verified GFM List #1

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Additional resources:

Hussein/Nairuz’s verified gofundme spreadsheet

@gaza-evacuation-funds

@gazavetters/their spreadsheet

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tumblr just deleted a huge swathe of palestinians who were on here trying to fundraise. if you've been helping any of these fundraisers please take this time to 1) check in with palestinians you're in contact with 2) help them submit support requests if needed 3) keep these campaigns circulating while the beneficiaries are being silenced. these campaigns are life or death, this isn't just social networking. do not let these fundraisers languish.

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Get Hunted by a Monster in the official Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook for only $5! Slots limited.

Alright, so there’s a bunch of slots on the hunting tables in the Eureka rulebook that never got filled. Many of them, we planned for, others, we didn’t because a whole bunch of the Kickstarter backers never submitted anything.

So now we’ve got all these empty slots for hunting table submissions, and we don’t want the monsters (or us, food costs money) to starve, so we’re selling them off.

What are the Hunting Tables?

If you’ve been following us, you probably already know that sometimes the PCs in Eureka are monsters that eat people. Often, this is one of the few ways they can restore their missing Composure, something that normal PCs restore just by eating and sleeping. If they need Composure, and can’t find anyone to eat in the immediate vicinity, they can go on a Hunt.

The GM rolls on the most relevant Hunting Table to provide the monster with an opportunty to satisfy their hunger.

If you pay for one of these slots, you can be on that table, or your friend, or your OC, or whatever you come up with, with your own little scenario for monster PCs to encounter and maybe come away from a little less hungry.

Email us at anim.contactus@gmail.com if you’re interested, and we’ll take payment after we’ve screened your submission for anything bigoted. You can submit as many as you like if you’re willing to pay $5 for each and there’s still slots available.

Submission guidelines under the cut.

For every $5, you will be allowed to submit 1 entry to be placed in the Hunting Tables in the Eureka rulebook. If you don’t know what the Hunting Tables are, you can find them in The Supernatural chapter of the rulebook. Refer to the table of contents. You can get the beta version of the rulebook here for free at this time if you need to take a look.

For a brief description of what the Hunting Tables are, they are a series of random encounter tables that the Narrator will use to determine who, or what, a monstrous investigator may encounter when they are prowling the streets looking for victims.

What we need from you is the person or persons’ name(s), a brief visual description of them, where they are, what they are doing when the monster PC sees them, and any other guidance you can offer to the Narrator to help them portray this person.

Keep in mind that your entry may be edited for grammar, spelling, clarity, and anything else we may need to do to fit it into the tables. If your entry is too far outside the tone, themes, or setting of Eureka, you may be asked to revise or the entry slightly edited to fit.

The entry will be sorted by us into the following categories based on your description:

Mundane or Supernatural

Urban, Town, Rural, or Wilderness for entries that seem right for Ambush Predators, and Nightclub/Bar, Gay Bar, Hobby Shop, or House Party for entries that seem right for Social Predators.

That being said, when writing where the person is, be more specific than “in an urban area.” If you say something like “walking down the sidewalk” we’ll know to put that entry in the Urban category. If you say “sitting on a bar stool at the counter”, we’ll know to put that entry in the Nightclub/Bar category. The more specific information, generally the better, though we may cut down entries that are overly long.

Your entry could be a character representing yourself, someone you know, or an original character, and can be a supernatural character so long as it fits within the guidelines laid out for supernatural characters within the rulebook. However, we do ask that you avoid any famous real people(unless you yourself happen to be that famous person), and avoid copyrighted characters. Also, please avoid offensive stereotypes.

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the 2 cards of the day

7 of Cups : City of Stairs

The PC comes from the City of stairs. It was there before Azulmarr, now abandoned, with few living there. Named thus because every building form giant stairs towards the sky Draw a card when clarity comes from confusion, when vision is granted and the clouds of mind recede. 

8 of Cups : The Eaten Isle

An island  close to the coast that is getting eaten little by little, piece by pieces, teeth marks on its landscape. No one knows what is devouring it, yet it is, yet people stay. But one day… it may search for a different flavor

Draw a card for your Hand of Fate when you abandon something, break from the past, left to the depths of Time

My Nagademon 2024 project

After a month of my inktober challenge of tying a ttrpg to each prompt, now it's November 's time to be busy with NaGaDeMon, a month long game jam I have done for the last few years with more or less success.

This year I am going to do Witch-Knights of Azulmarr

It all started with seeing a picture of a witch knights on social media. It all started with an idea for a character creation tarot system. It all started with a thought of implied system. Where does that lead ?

You are Witch Knight of Azulmarr, a prestigious order of the Kingdom. You were chosen according to prophecies. Now you must find the Major Arcanas to restore the kingdom to glory. 

The main idea for creation is thus : 

Separate the major Arcana from the minor arcanas

Divide the minor into : Pages/knight/queen/king together, Sword, Wands, Cup, Pentacle. 

For creation, draw a card from each of these stacks

Sword : you weapon, your style of knight fighting

Gives you abilities for when there is a Sword card in your hand of fate, and one when you discard a sword card ( plus one when you discard  a sword + another suit, thinking about it)

Wand : your preferred type of magic

Gives you abilities for when there is a Wand card in your hand of fate, and one when you discard a wand card. Plus a Wand +Pentacle for creating an artefact linked to your magic

Cup : your place of origin

Gives info on region

Gives you the trigger for drawing a card

Pentacle : a magic artefact in your position

Activated by discarding a Pentace card

Court : your prophesied rival/enemy

No mechanical effects

My idea was to make it semi diegetic, like based on old extracts of poems by this invented poet/prophet. Each card drawn would have a two line part of a poem and all of them together form the character prophecy That’s where the Lost Verses book comes in. The lost part that no player should see. Only written by the poet. May be seen in game if the players find them

Will gives info for the Wand card : the secret when the pc uses more than one card. For example, death magic will learn that the entire world was a battlefield. The Fate magic will learn that the kingdom prophecies are…fake. That they can choose. 

And it will gives info on the major arcana and how to obtain them. Ideas for ow CHariot : in the mountain, there is a chariot stuck there, never moving, no matter who tried. The one to make it move will gain the arcana

The Major arcana will be placed in a Past, present, future spread, which the one player who gained it choosing where to put it or IF to put it. 

Some will involve the rivals. Some can be gained when a PC accomplish a certain action, no matter where or when. And the World arcana will just be “Come find me”

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Fuck It, Internet Guide

Hey there! As social media becomes more and more inhospitible for the local user, I wanted to post some useful/fun links to just about anything I can think of! Enjoy! Also, if you'd like an invite to the P!rated Games discord, lmk! ^_^

I AM CURRENTLY STILL UPDATING THIS POST AND I WILL REBLOG IT WHEN I ADD TO IT! Feel free to comment things I've missed, I'm sure there's way more than this came from!

WEB CENTRIC

CURLIE: THE COLLECTOR OF URLs (Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. You can save sites and create your own mini webring!)

Internet Archive (A collection of over 818 Billion websites, books, movies, music, and more. Hosts the Wayback Machine, which can be used to access a multitude of sites, given they were indexed in time.)

Wiby (Human submission search engine for older webrings, as well as a how-to guide on how to develop your own search engine)

Unicode Text Converter (Easy way to make your text illegible to Google but be warned, it will make screen readers malfuction)

Embed Responsively (Easily convert links and embeds to work responsively within your site - perfect for neocities!)

Generator Land (Generate a list or prompt for just about anything!)

GifCities (Part of the Internet Archive, a special project done as part of the 20th anniversary in an effort to save data from GeoCities. Find a gif for just about anything!)

Animated Images (Another gif repository, though this one is easier to search and includes small animations.)

Gifs-Paradise (Another gif repository. I swear I collect these. Searchable and categorized.)

ASCII Art Archive (Database of ASCII Art, also known as text art)

Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art Collection (Another, arguably larger, ASCII Art database)

MelonLand (A web project and online arts community that celebrates homepages, virtual worlds, the world-wide-web and the digital lives that all netizins share, here at the dawn of the digital age. See their thoughts and the WEB REVIVAL they're starting.)

Sadgrl Webrings (Webrings brought to us by Sadgrl.Online - 60+ different ones to be exact) and Sadgrl Links (70+ links just like the ones in this post)

Districts at Neocities (Remember neighborhoods on Geocities? Imagine that but for Neocities!)

Neocities Banners (Banners from all across neocities. Blinkies, banners and more leading all over the web. Mostly 88x31, though there are bigger ones too. Technically counts as a webring.)

Blinkies.cafe (Site for blinkies where you can even make your own! I get most of my blinkies here and off DeviantArt.)

88x31 Collection (Possibly the largest collection I've seen for 88x31 buttons)

90's Cursor Effects (Want a funky cursor for your blog or website? Wanna be able to realtime preview what cursors would look like? Come get some code!)

The Malware Museum (Interact with malware and viruses from the 80s and 90s through emulation! No nasty virus interactions needed :D )

KNOWLEDGE BASES

Library Genesis - LIBGEN (Scientific journals - dedicated to archiving every science journal and their articles in existence.)

Information Mesh (A web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines.)

Web Design Museum (Over 2,000 sorted websites showing web design trends from '96 to '06.)

The History of the Web (A twice monthly newsletter about web history, and the incredible people that built it. Goes from 1989 to present.)

Field Guide to Web Accessibility (Principles and applications to every day web scenarios in order to make the web a more friendly place!)

CARI - Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (an online community and collective association of researchers and designers dedicated to carrying on the important work of categorizing "consumer aesthetics" from the late midcentury, when work on the subject somewhat trailed off, through today.)

The Eye (Archive consisting of 140TB of books, websites, games, software, or anything else you can really think of.)

The Uncensored Library (A project from Reporters without Borders, where they use a loophole using Minecraft to distribute information.)

National Gallery of Art Public Domain (The National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in their permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial.)

Library of Congress Public Domain (Features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.)

Public Domain Review (an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.)

New York Public Library Public Domain (Our digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over one million records for you to search, crawl and compute.)

Official articles from NASA (PubSpace is NASA's designated public access repository. It is a collection of NASA-funded scholarly publications within the STI Repository, aiming to increase access to federally funded research in accordance with NASA Public Access Policy.)

Universal Hint System (Wanna get some vague help for an older video game without getting spoiled? Check out these awesome hints!)

Smithsonian Open Access (Download, share, and reuse millions of 2D and 3D digital items from their 21 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.)

Instructables (Wanna know how to make just about anything? Check here!)

QZAP Zine Archive (Archive of LGBT+ Zines, began in 2003 with zines dating back all the way to the 1970s. NSFW AT TIMES, BROWSE AT YOUR OWN RISK.)

P!racy Masterpost (Tumblr-based masterpost of game piracy, last updated 2021. A bit old but some of the stuff there is still good. If this link breaks, please contact me.)

P!rated Games Megathread (masterpost created by r/P!ratedGames includes required components as well as anything else you need. NOTE: PLEASE HAVE SOME SORT OF PROTECTION WHEN NAVIGATING THIS SITE)

Geocities Gallery (A website hosting a working archive for many abandoned Geocities Sites.)

Snipplr (Code Snippet repository. Great for coding issues.)

GeoCities (Archived) (Great for searching ancient webrings for gifs and website ideas. Not so great for downloads.)

Freeware Guide (Archived) (The Freeware-Guide died sometime in 2021 [we think March] but it's still full of VERY valuable information. Links are broken pretty much all the way through, but the names of software as well as what they do can be useful in finding them elsewhere thru some google searching)

Peelopaalu (Where I got a good handful of these links - AND THERE'S MORE!!!)

The Simple Site (More links to so much more cool stuff!)

ART TOOLS

Untitled - Paint (An in-browser version of classic Microsoft Paint!)

KidPix (In-browser version of classic KidPix for the public domain!)

Pixel Logic - A Guide to Pixel Art (Comprehensive guide to making cool art for $10 USD, updated semi-frequently and you get all new versions for free)

SAI - Bootlegged (A version of SAI with a multitude of brushes and textures pre-installed. Quite literally the only thing I use to draw aside from Clip Studio Paint.)

Stripe Generator (Need some easy stripes for an art piece? Can't be bothered to try and space stripes evenly? This is for you!)

Photopea (Free online photo editor supporting files for Adobe Photoshop, XCF, Sketch App, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW, as well as many more!)

blender (A FOREVER free and Open Source software for 3D Modeling, full of tutorials and assets. I feel like most people don't know it's completely free to play with)

Vertex Meadow (A web-browser tool that renders 2D images as explorable 3D terrain. With it you can create detailed and unusual 3D environments to explore using a 2D paint-program-like interface.)

OpenGameArt (Need art for your game but you're not an artist? Consider checking here first [or just hire a real artist looking for work on here!])

MUSIC TOOLS AND DISCOVERY

BandLab (Social music platform that enables creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans. Completely free with an option to set up stripe where you get 100% OF PROFITS. Available for apple/android/desktop)

JummBox (Free online beat-maker with a very simple interface that runs on your browser)

Mydora (Mydora is a continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music, based on some recovered data called the Dragon Hoard, with some additional metadata (most notably the locations and genres) from a different scan of Myspace conducted back in 2009. Contains 490,000+ songs, only a fraction of what was wiped out.)

Radiooooo (A place where people are able to play hit songs from the decade of their choosing from whatever country they wish.)

WFMU (Independent freeform radio broadcasting. Currently ongoing.)

Gnoosic (A sort-of music search engine that finds you songs/bands based off of your music taste.)

Khinsider (3.1 TB worth of video game soundtracks)

Radio.garden (Listen to thousands of radio stations all around the world.)

FUN STUFF

FrogLand (The purpose of Frogland is to show that the Internet can indeed provide a wealth of useful information and still be fun. Mainly, this site is dedicated to the many teachers out there who are finding new uses for the Internet as a tool for educating youngsters. Hopefully, it will inspire some young minds to find new interest in herpetology, biology, and environmental issues...not to mention providing some inspiration for young future computer "wizzes"! No longer active but still useful.)

Windows 98 icon Viewer (Want clear jpgs of all the Windows 98 symbols and icons? They're all here!)

GifyPet (Create your own embeded pet that people can play with and feed when they visit your page! See my version HERE [only works on desktop tho])

Ultimate Mushroom (Like the idea of picking mushrooms in your area but no idea what to look for? Check out this info hub!)

Gif Gallery (Another gif repositiory, only sorted by being numbered 1-100,000. Fun and silly, not so much useful unless you're looking for random gifs. Part of the MelonLand Webring)

Interesting DOS Programs (A host of DOS programming, guides and links.)

Internet Archive: MS-DOS Games (8,000 games right in your web browser! Your browser can play DOOM!)

Tiled Backgrounds (Need some small jpegs for easy website bg tiling? Browse this collection sorted by color.)

cOOl & EMO tEXt cOnVERTer xXX (Flashing warning. Wanna type like you're in the 2000s? Need a funny Green Day lyric as a caption? This is probably the best place for you.)

0x40 (Flashing Warning. Anime images synced with music. Fun for parties, lol)

WebGL Fluid Simulation (In browser fluid simulator, great for art backgrounds and desktop wallpapers.)

Flashpoint (The biggest collection of preserved Flash Games and Animations)

NCase (Free games and open source projects from Nicky [THESE ARE REALLY COOL AND FUN, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND])

Your World of Text (A huge interactive text doc that anyone can add to anonymously.)

Text To Speech (TTS in more than 30 languages and over 180 voices.)

ASCII Art Generator (Make ASCII Art from any image.)

Petit Tube (Random Youtube videos with less than 10 views)

Noclip Website (Noclip around various video game maps in your browser!)

Monster Mash (Create and animate some monsters in browser! You can also download their files.)

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[ Alt Text : Tweet from Lina Posting. "Have just observed the existence of what I can Only Describe as the Culver's Transmutation Circle. Attached is an image of all of the locations of Culvers Burgers in denver on google maps ]

So of course like any neurotypical person, of which I totally am (sarcasm), i had to go check. Y'all. I do not want the "Culvers Denver Mass Transmutation Circle Event of 2025" to become the way we learn magic is real.

[ Alt Text : two images. The first one is a screenshot from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, showing the mass transmutation circle, that covered the entire nation. The second is the SAME transmutation circle drawn over the map of Denver, rotated slightly, with 7 of the 10 points lining up near perfectly with points on the circle. There are dots on those 7 points, and x's on the 3 spots not filled in]

Anyway, felt this would do numbers on Tumblr.

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My Nagademon 2024 project

After a month of my inktober challenge of tying a ttrpg to each prompt, now it's November 's time to be busy with NaGaDeMon, a month long game jam I have done for the last few years with more or less success.

This year I am going to do Witch-Knights of Azulmarr

It all started with seeing a picture of a witch knights on social media. It all started with an idea for a character creation tarot system. It all started with a thought of implied system. Where does that lead ?

You are Witch Knight of Azulmarr, a prestigious order of the Kingdom. You were chosen according to prophecies. Now you must find the Major Arcanas to restore the kingdom to glory. 

The main idea for creation is thus : 

Separate the major Arcana from the minor arcanas

Divide the minor into : Pages/knight/queen/king together, Sword, Wands, Cup, Pentacle. 

For creation, draw a card from each of these stacks

Sword : you weapon, your style of knight fighting

Gives you abilities for when there is a Sword card in your hand of fate, and one when you discard a sword card ( plus one when you discard  a sword + another suit, thinking about it)

Wand : your preferred type of magic

Gives you abilities for when there is a Wand card in your hand of fate, and one when you discard a wand card. Plus a Wand +Pentacle for creating an artefact linked to your magic

Cup : your place of origin

Gives info on region

Gives you the trigger for drawing a card

Pentacle : a magic artefact in your position

Activated by discarding a Pentace card

Court : your prophesied rival/enemy

No mechanical effects

My idea was to make it semi diegetic, like based on old extracts of poems by this invented poet/prophet. Each card drawn would have a two line part of a poem and all of them together form the character prophecy That’s where the Lost Verses book comes in. The lost part that no player should see. Only written by the poet. May be seen in game if the players find them

Will gives info for the Wand card : the secret when the pc uses more than one card. For example, death magic will learn that the entire world was a battlefield. The Fate magic will learn that the kingdom prophecies are…fake. That they can choose. 

And it will gives info on the major arcana and how to obtain them. Ideas for ow CHariot : in the mountain, there is a chariot stuck there, never moving, no matter who tried. The one to make it move will gain the arcana

The Major arcana will be placed in a Past, present, future spread, which the one player who gained it choosing where to put it or IF to put it. 

Some will involve the rivals. Some can be gained when a PC accomplish a certain action, no matter where or when. And the World arcana will just be “Come find me”