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Hell. Yes.

I'm a deer with a knife at your throat.

200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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i bet belle and hua mulan would love each other. the filial piety brothers 💪

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If Kaede weren't the protagonist this scene would have massive "she's gonna be the first murder victim" energy

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Devout Artisan

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Middle-aged magical girl.

She's been defending the Earth since the early 90s and she's very tired.

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I like it!

I drew a picture of Jace Beleren. I hope you like it. Please pay more attention to me.

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There's so much natural storytelling in Vivec's split skintone. Showing vs telling in its most distilled form. (Which is tricky advice - all writers must summarize by "telling" at one point or another. It's about knowing when.) Especially when you learn that he chooses to have it that way. The unnatural sharpness of the line, the immediate awareness to anyone looking that this guy is . . . altered from normality. The gesture to his people that he chooses to look like their new appearance and it's not a problem, how magnanimous, how kind, but that he also gets to keep the Chimer golden skin and evoke the ancient high period of Velothi culture. The blend of genders and the blend of color. Except no, he doesn't actually blend, he just draws a line down his vertical plane.

Vivec does not take the opportunity to be something new. He just assembles qualities onto himself and wishes, perhaps without realizing, that he becomes more than the sum of his parts.

I haven't played ESO but they did right by Sotha Sil's analysis of Vivec. "Vivec craves radical freedom - the death of all limits and restrictions. He wishes to be all things at all times. Every race, every gender, every hero, both divine and finite... but in the end, he can only be Vivec." And that's not enough? To be a god hero? "Not even remotely."

He just cuts right to the heart of Vivec. Appropriately enough for the member of ALMSIVI who actually figured out how to use the Tools.

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all of my pacman comics

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XXV. The Crossroad

obsessed

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If you hate all of MtG's main characters, most of the sets released in the past 3 years, its tournament structure, and its approach to storytelling, you don't like magic. Maybe you just miss being 15?

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I'm kinda not cool with the criticism of there being no option for Max and Chloe to still be together in Double Exposure as "lesbian erasure?" Like, sometimes LGBTQ relationships will... fail, and it's actually healthy if that's depicted occasionally?

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>Lost, but seeking

>Cannot become lost, except by magical means.

Hm

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beyond which no waking eye may see. Behold! in darkness, a doom sweeps the land. This is the 27th of last seed. The year of Akatosh 433. These are the closing days of the 3rd era... and the final hours of my life.

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They were talking about this format Pendragon, which is like pauper commander, except your commander is a common creature and a legendary equipment of any rarity.

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kaitos outfit in the new collab is killing me. they gave him bikini armor

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I am extremely hyped for universes beyond, in a "There is a point where we needed to stop and we have clearly passed it, but let's keep going and see what happens" way