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I’M SORRY. JUBILATION LEE HITTING ON A COP?????????? A MALE COP???????????????? ABSOLUTELY NOT

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yeah okay "character whos powers get triggered when theyre extremely angry or annoyed" is cool and all but i will ALWAYS be a sucker for "characters whos powers get triggered by extreme sadness/grief/depression/guilt and their powers are destroying everything around them and they are just sitting in the center of everything, fully disconected from reality, tears dripping down their face, blankly mumbling apologies yet unable to stop the destruction and theyre causing to the people around them"

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What If...? dares to ask "what if Exiles Volume 3 didn't have Blink and was occasionally very bad?"

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This week's Unbundled game is This Party Sucks by Beating the Binary from the TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas bundle! It's a game about badly coping with a recent breakup.

This Party Sucks is a three-player, single-protagonist game. Gameplay takes place across three parties that the character attends, and the players trade off playing the protagonist, the venue, and other people -- essentially the PC, the descriptions of the setting, and NPCs respectively.

At the start of each party, the Protagonist for that party decides what type of party it is and how they're trying to cope, the Venue describes a party complication, and Other People describes another guest at the party.

At each party, the Protagonist has moves they can take, but External Moves take a resource since interacting with others drains your social battery. After three parties, players choose Epilogue moves to explore how the Protagonist has changed and will continue to change.

You can find This Party Sucks on Itch:

There's also an in-browser character generator for the game here:

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If X-Men is trying to do more solo books they need to utilize the fact that there’s approximately a billion X-Men characters for the supporting casts. If Laura Kinney can move books on her own, give her Dust and Mercury in her book as someone she can interact with/her girlfriends. If Gambit can sell a solo give him one of his many B-to-C-lister lesbians to be his sidekick. We’ve proved over and over again that this works with Logan!

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Extremely art blocked rn so this doesnt look good but I wanted to doodle it anyway

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the bar is underground

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This week's Unbundled game is Wight Wedding by Jacqueline "Jax" Bryk in the TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas bundle. Wight Wedding is a LARP about a wedding between a living human and a recently-deceased ghost.

Play happens across three scenes over the course of an hour--10 minute arrival, 10 minute ceremony, and 40 minute reception--and is mostly freeform. Players establish relationships between the character roles they choose and then let the drama and conflict happen.

These roles can be found in the appendices, which actually make up most of the game. The roles range from the relatively simple (parents of the intended, best ghost) to the whimsically complicated (child of an immortal relative who wants to prove ghosts did the Iran Contra Scandal)

It's set up so that any role you choose will have the potential to spark drama or find common ground with at least one other guest at the wedding, and figuring out how it goes down is part of the game!

You can find Wight Wedding on Itch here:

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reading comics really gives you an understanding of how many panels floating around have Very Different meanings in context

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The argument that the“Playersexual” label is bisexual erasure is so funny because at a certain point it becomes the nicer explanation. Like if you truly think every romanceable companion is bisexual representation because the developers care so much about representation, even you gotta follow that logic to “why don’t the devs like lesbians or asexuals or whatever?”

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Hey if anyone is on bluesky I am also on bluesky. I talk about TTRPG stuff and also other stuff!

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I retract both of the cons now actually. New Hellions was great and even if I'm still not a fan of the relationship, King Bedlam did in fact come back

The New Hellions arc of Moore’s X-Force is the best and worst thing as a Tarot fan

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Alternately, major metaplot events are decided by the outcomes of UNRELATED competitive games. Take a page from League of Legends and decide the outcome of an in-universe war based on competitive League of Legends.

TTRPG metaplots are so interesting to me but more TTRPGs should get truly weird with their metaplots

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Those are some good ones but Title: Subtitle doesn't really hit the same way for me than Title 1E and Title 2E being completely different games would. Bonus points if the mechanics are notably different to fit the genre and are tied only by metaplot.

TTRPG metaplots are so interesting to me but more TTRPGs should get truly weird with their metaplots

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Potential Metaplot fuckery:

Nearly open source metaplot -- anyone can publish in the world but must include a list of other books that are "canon" for their adventure/splatbook/whatever

Major metaplot events are decided in a competitive non-story tie-in game (card game, MOBA, autochess)

All games by a publisher have a canonical multiverse crossover.

Same as above but breakout NPCs from a less popular game world end up in a more popular one.

Same as above but the less popular game world is canonically destroyed; all games played in that world are flashbacks.

The metaplot is way larger than the scope of the game. A game about cute animal adventures has political machinations that do not affect the game in any way.

Tangentially, the metaplot in a game about cute animals is slowly revealed to be a work of classic fiction in the larger human world.

Each edition of a game changes genre drastically in response to the metaplot. Like sword & sorcery -> survival horror -> post-apocalypse -> weird west

The metaplot is told entirely through "examples of play" sections.

The book itself contains clues to an ARG that is canon to the world.

TTRPG metaplots are so interesting to me but more TTRPGs should get truly weird with their metaplots

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TTRPG metaplots are so interesting to me but more TTRPGs should get truly weird with their metaplots

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Although more often it’s “no, you included the ones where my boy kinda sucked!”

It’s so funny when comics fans get mad at a writer for incorporating different comics into the synthesis of a character they’re writing but like, the wrong ones.

Like obviously ongoing comics are a huge project and any character that has had more than a few appearances will have different characterizations from different writers. But when a writer tries to synthesize these characterizations, a lot of fans will go “no, you included the ones that I’ve decided are Bad Writing, you were supposed to ignore those!”