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Hey don't do that

*mischaracterizes your blorbo*

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When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.

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some of you need to romanticise the fucking paragraph break

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Last Chance to Steal Mickey Mouse

That's right! Only a few more hours where you, dear reader, can violate the intellectual property of The Walt Disney Company!

This business card contains not one, but two illicit works of commercial fiction about characters from the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie!

When 2024 begins, this will become just another legally published work riffing on a public domain work, but for now, this is a sort of LARP where we can revel in the theft of intellectual property. 

Remember: intellectual property is definitely real and is something you can steal even though it has none of the properties that make actual physical theft a potential problem. It definitely was not invented by book merchants so they could own the right to an author's underpaid labor and it definitely does not enables the hoarding of billions of dollars worth of intellectual property!

© Dec 31, 2023. Mickey, Minnie, and Pete are my original characters who I created and Bob Iger even told me this was ok to sell for money

Buy it here

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Rewriting Part of the Indigo Disk

Not that anyone asked,  but there was one part of the Indigo Disk that did not work for me. Why would Geeta, Rika, and Briar all agree to intentionally send in a group of children into Area Zero? Rika even scolds the player for going in previously while sending them back in. I know the first time was without permission but what difference does that make? It’s not like this trip is going to be…

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Alternate Defense for Forgotten Ballad

Over the summer, I had tons of fun playing Fellipe da Silva’s Forgotten Ballad with the kids at a camp I worked at. There is a ton to love about this acutely minimalist system! I’ve been cleaning up and posting some of the things I made for my students over on itch for the Forgotten Jam, but this little homebrew rule didn’t feel big enough to turn into a release of any kind. In a lot of ttrpgs,…

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A half-idea about rumors

I just had an idea for generating rumors that are false but contain some grain of truth. Basically, you write down something fact, then you change it slightly twice with two completely different angles. Then you combine those two angles to create something incorrect. The players might hear any one of the instances without knowing which is exactly true until they investigate. The Truth: The…

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Realistic-ish Violence for Odd-Likes

This is my own elaboration on this post from Underground Adventures about ttrpg combat systems that emphasize the real-world messy, dangerous, non-strategic realities of violence. If you’ve read much of my blog, you’ll know that I have complicated thoughts about the relationship between fictional violence and real-world ethics. (This one and this one discuss my concept of “mimetic…

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https://itch.io/jam/sky-island-ttrpg-jam I'm running a jam to make sky islands that can be dropped into existing campaigns or run as one shots. And yes I *have* been playing too much Tears of the Kingdom why do you ask??

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Wordle Hex Map Expansion

Elaborating on Loot the Room's approach to converting Wordles into hex maps.

I just came across this year-old blog post on Loot the Room. Basically, they share a method for generating hex maps based on the color key of a given day’s Wordle. Check that out first because I don’t feel like reiterating too much of it. What I’m sharing here is my own elaboration on the concept. Step One: Complete a Wordle. It can be from any day or a site like this one where you can just…

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they are doing hrt together

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Comparison of Odd-Like OSR Systems

This is the first in a series of posts detailing design variations between Into the Odd and a variety of games that have been derived from it. I'm calling them "Odd-Likes."

This is the first in a series of posts detailing design variations between Into the Odd and a variety of games that have been derived from it. My aim is to create a design vocabulary to streamline the creation of systems in this sub-genre. Eventually, I will simplify a lot of this information for easy reference, but first I want to build out my notes. For the purposes of this post, Odd-likes…

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Ability Scores are NOT Concrete

all rolls are Luck Rolls with slightly different odds #OSR #TTRPG #DnD #IntoTheOdd #Cairn

If anyone else has thought or written about this let me know in the comments! I’ll be using Into the Odd‘s roll under system and the inventory system from my own Ouroboros and Ouroboros(OnO) system for my example. Let’s imagine a character called Ludovic who has a STR score of 18 and another character called Villiam with a STR of 3. What does this tell us about each character? Common wisdom…

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A mishmash of my favorite rules from Into the Odd, Liminal Horror, and Cairn plus a unique(?) Reincarnation mechanic that draws from PbtA progression systems.

Feedback is paramount to making this as good as it can be!

(I also took a lot of inspiration from Infinity Train and Inscryption while designing the world and magic items so if you like those you might like this!)

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True OGL Jam. Create content for (or based on) games that are not on the verge of destroying all their good will with players through some questionable legal changes to the fair use of their IP!

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I’ve created a class option for Stars Without Number or any other OSR system. It’s very much based on Splatoon and my love of Pokemon. This is my first time publishing any OSR related material so I would love feedback from anyone interested. Also it’s free.