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Borscht with some 🥗 on the side https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ8jMQyn-Ip/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Sandvich test https://www.instagram.com/p/CQETSDfnZ20/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Red Knight by wang wang

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Conor Smith

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Settlement Sheet (by luckpack)

[The following text may have been edited for accessibility]

“This is essentially a character sheet, but it’s for towns and other settlements instead of persons. It’s intended to help guide the creation process and facilitate reading and organization.

I recommend using it with my [NPC Sheets.]

Below are Google Drive download links. All PDFs have two pages: the first one is the front and the second one is the back. The Form Fillable version has no lines, so you can download and print it without filling the forms if you want.

[Settlement Sheet]

[Settlement Sheet, Form Fillable]

[Settlement Sheet, Printer Friendly]

[Settlement Sheet, Form Fillable, Printer Friendly]

I intentionally left some things out from this sheet:

Some DMs like writing down “Notable Items” in their settlement notes, but this has never made sense to me. I view special items as NPC belongings or Quests rewards, not something location specific. 

The prices, foods, drinks and services provided by the local inn, as well as the inventories of stores. Rather than writing all this down for every settlement, I prefer having a single document for every store. I recommend checking this [Traders & Merchants homebrew] and this [Shopping Catalog homebrew.] Both can be referred to whenever players visit any and all stores.

Town random encounters. I don’t do those, personally.

Of course, if you want to write down any of those you can use the Notes section in the back.

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Yoko Taro’s “Scenario Writing & Manipulating the Heart of Human” Presentation

Written by Yoko Taro (Director of NieR Automata), Translated by me

The most important thing in making game design is “imagining” . The world consists of 2 things, “I” in the center and “Others” around it. A collection of “Others” is the rest of the world. 

The act of expressing and manipulate the heart of others is like throwing stones to someone’s sea of mind, making ripples. However, since I don’t know the heart of others, I need to “imagine” what the ripple looks like.

Here’s a picture searched with the keyword “sexy”. Some people think that this is sexy, but perhaps there are a lot of exposures and some people might feel uncomfortable. Some people might also think that it’s strange to wears flashy outfit when swimming.  [TL Note: The original presentation had a more flashy picture, but we changed it here so it could be more SFW]

A picture can cause a different kind of ripples in the hearts of others. And it’s important to imagine this. To the utmost, a kind of belief thinking “a girl in swimsuit is sexy”  is not an imagination but a delusion.

However, the ripples that arise in the hearts of others can be manipulated. Here’s a picture of cute kittens. Some people might think that they’re cute and adorable. But for the people that have an allergy to a cat might afraid of them.  Then here is when I put the caption “Abused and abandoned kittens”. the atmosphere of the photograph is changed so much.

With this, a lot of people will feel sorry for the kitten on the photograph. If that was a picture of a masculine man they probably would not think that way. Analyzing this, if there’re weak things being put in an unreasonable circumstances, people will think that it’s a poor thing. In another word, you can manipulate others’ minds by attaching captions in it. 

When there’re two people. One thinks “Anime is cool” and the other thinks that “Anime is awful”, the correct answer is “Both are correct”. As others’ minds are varied and it is impossible target everyone, a mass or a niche strategy must be considered carefully. In addition, if you want to do something unique, you must understand the standards.

Based on above’s analysis, it is necessary for creators to know what their battlefield is. And after you fully understand the battlefield, then “You can make a Mess of it”.

More Yoko Taro Presentation: Gun Soccer - Soccer + FPS that connected to Drakengard / NieR Lore

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Judgment by  J JP

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So how do they make that?

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So I found this CD on the street today on my way to work, right? So I decided I’d bring it home and listen to it.

And it was the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.

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I was looking for an answer and found a better question

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I can’t wait for Dark Souls Remastered where Gwyndolin has a gun

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The amazing digital art of Anna Kharitonova

Sketching from the Imagination: Characters

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Knight by Yoo G Im Found here :: Armor for you

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flamberge by Aberiu