#BRP

[wigglys-dikrats]

guys, gals, nonbinary pals, and all other forms of sentience !!!! big exciting news from us at the Blinky’s Rewatch Party discord server !!!

we are thrilled to announce that after some hefty and much-needed changes to the server, we are finally opening it back up to the public !!!

we are so proud of our happy lil family of friends who get up to all kinds of crazy shenanigans together, including, but not limited to: starting cults, running a whole minecraft server, having a very active pulp musicals community, game nights, and of course our much-anticipated namesakes: watch parties !!!

so come join us for a whole lot of silliness and wholesome good times !!!

feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions regarding this and if you do join, welcome to BRP, we hope you enjoy your stay <3

~ meelu !!!

[witchstormm]

Heya Folks!

I'm here with a very special announcement! If you haven't heard already, the @blinkysrewatchparty discord server has reopened to the public!! If you've just been DYING to see what kind of shenanigans we get up to in there or maybe you've just been looking for a Starkid community to be a part of, then you can use this link to join us (and hopefully not die)!!

Join BRP Link!!

[samscorch]

HEY YOU! ARE YOU A STARKID/TIN CAN BROS/SHIPWRECKED COMEDY/PULP MUSICALS FAN?

Now that I've got your attention, hello! BRP, or Blinky's Rewatch Party, is reopening! If you're a fan of any of the media above, BRP is the place for you! While we started out as a server just to throw rewatch parties for Nightmare Time 2, we've since grown to include lots of other media and events.

From game nights, watch parties of other media, a minecraft server, sing-alongs, tabletop rpgs and more; we have just about anything and everything you could want out of a fandom server, and we want YOU to come join in the fun!!

If you'd like to hop in, you can do so here: https://discord.gg/JDyuCZm7AE, and if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me a message! We hope to see you around!

- Sam, BRP Mod 💙

[leeoconnor]

This is Red-Quill, former swamp bandit turned freedom fighter against the nefarious Lunar Empire, who is aided by his devotion to the god of thunder!

So I got to draw some duck-men. It was hilarious. It was a blast. They're from the fantasy world of Glorantha and you can play as them (or alongside them) in the RuneQuest TT RPG.

Here, a duck shaman is sending out her spirit to go and met her mentors’ spirits in the spirit world. Shaman business. Her look is actually based on a real duck breed. (I was thrilled endlessly that all of these fantasy ducks are based on real-world duck breeds.) The big one with the snout is a troll shaman. Also pictured: her pet bullfrog and the sculptures of it that she’s made, because she loves it so much.

So these aren’t furries or anything, they’re more realistic versions of whimsical, hissing cartoon ducks like Marvel’s Howard the Duck or Disney’s Donald Duck. They’re sword and sorcery duck people! More precisely, they’re part of the accepted and generally very well-loved fantasy setting called Glorantha. You will know about Glorantha in a roundabout way I suspect… The Elder Scrolls game Morrowind lovingly ripped off a bunch of it and it was the setting for the indie game legend King of Dragon Pass and its successors. The most popular way for people to experience Glorantha over the years though has probably been the table-top role-playing game RuneQuest.

Here, a healer initiate of the goddess of mercy Chalana Arroy, tending to some fellow ducks. (The seated guy in the middle with the shoulder bandage is supposed to look like a mandarin duck, I had to tone him down though, otherwise his bright colours would have stolen the show.) 

So Runequest has a very lovely new edition that came out a while ago. It has a unique appeal in that it’s an RPG that lets you play out mythology. Well, kinda. Being a mythology nerd (I have an in-progress Fionn Mac Cumhaill graphic novel as proof) I was powerless to resist. RuneQuest’s storied publisher Chaosium (they of the Call of Cthulhu RPG) run a community content programme for RuneQuest called the Jonstown Compendium (named after a big library in the setting of Glorantha) where people can publish their own adventures and sourcebooks as PDFs via DriveThruRPG and popular titles then become Print-on-Demand books.

A put-upon member of duck nobility here, she’s a big deal for the duck people, but sadly the humans nearby don’t take her seriously.  The crosses aren’t crucifixes, they’re the rune of death, which is supposed to look like a simplified sword. The runes that look like Ys are the truth rune. These are the runes of her god, Humakt, GOD OF DEATH. And sword fights. The duck people love the god of death. *Falls off chair*

You can buy the book with these guys in as either a PDF or a hardcopy, it’s called ‘Duckpac’ and is from Drew Baker, Neil Gibson and friends at Legion Games. (The title of the book is a bit of a pun on an old RuneQuest book about trolls, which was called ‘Trollpak‘.) This book is for you if you want to play as a fully-realised duck person, with duck-person things to think about, based on a history, genealogy and mythology of duck-people. Yes, really! It’s pretty incredible.

Runequest has a reputation online for being ‘the game with silly duck people in’, which is entirely justified, they’re like the cute mascots of the whole deal. The story goes that back in the late seventies, one of the gang of friends who help make the game world was a Carl Barks Donald Duck comic strip fan, resulting in a town called Duck Point existing on the map. There’s another story that someone involved was making lead miniatures of Carl Barks style Conan the Barbian gag ducks and he needed a game to attach them to so it didn’t look like a straight Disney rip-off. Stories real and apocryphal abound. There’s never been an official book about ducks (or the ‘durulz’ as they call themselves) for the RuneQuest game so this one’s here for you and has background, characters, locations, adventures and more.

A scarred duck boatman (boatduck?) and diver, initiate of a river god, on his barge, wondering what the heck you’re doing paddling about in his river.

The bit of decorated driftwood in the background above is his effigy of his god. I made him look like a Bronze Age version of a swimming athlete, like Duncan Goodhew with rustic trunks and a swimming hat. I was passed a reference photo of an upright duck (who looked amazing), so this was an upright composition, in a tall portrait frame.

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Here’s a little vid of me flipping through the lovely hardback print version of the book. This is the first print volume and then there’ll be another volume of solo and group adventures.

That old love of the UK comics scene Mr. John Freeman even saw this madness and featured it on his Down The Tubes site here, Which Was Nice.

Oh and as if you above verbiage wasn’t enough proof, you can check my RuneQuest nerd chops by looking at my very own RuneQuest campaign log page and wiki here, if you fancy. It’s got more drawings on there!

[tabletopgayventures]

Just an update on plans

So a few things I plan on doing going forward:

I'm going to post a Lexicon of ttrpg terms either today or tomorrow. This will mostly be my interpretation of the terms and also cover things I want to talk about with blog.

I'm going to set up an email list. If I do it correctly, I may get help from my mentor for that, it'll allow people to put their email. I'll be able to send updates when I post and what about and also let people know if my blog is deleted. Which we all know tumblr loves to do.

Currently working on overviews of Core Rule Systems. Things like D20, PBTA, Basic, Dominion, etc... The rules that make up the games we know and love. Not ever game has a pre-built rule system but for the ones that do it'll make the reviews easier.

After that I'll do a review of either Starfinder 1e or Glitter Hearts. I haven't decided which yet. But if their are any requests please let me know!

[drewis469]

Closed indefinitely! What a great ride on a motorcycle lost to Hurricane Helene.

[barilleon]

Unbound Zine Issue 1: Killers & Clues is available now on DriveThru RPG!

The Unbound Zine is an "everything-but-5e" ttrpg magazine from alumni of the Uncaged Anthology. Each issue follows a theme and contains four articles that offer a different perspective on that theme.

The first issue, Killers & Clues, is all about the murder mystery. Grab a copy and find out just how many ways you can apply these tropes to your table! Inside, you'll find:

Delicious Breadcrumbs by Cat Evans, an in-depth article about how to build mysteries your players can solve.

Sweater Weather by Margaret Mae, a mystery designed for Brindlewood Bay that has your Mavens solving a murder case at a yarn festival.

Fading Into Fog by Alex Niederberger, a system-neutral supernatural mystery about a lighthouse and its keepers.

Chasing Yellow by Arnout Brokking, a mystery for the Basic Role Playing system about a star cyclist and the devil who stole his heart.

[fuckyeahviagraboys]

[scribblingsorsomething]

Pencil drawings I made in 1986 or '87 as handouts for 'The Mauretania', an adventure for the Call of Cthulhu rpg (second edition - published in 'The Asylum & Other Tales'). I modified the adventure quite a bit, as published adventures usually need a bit of bodging. These were essentially images I handed to players when they experienced certain events within the adventure. I also used the same approach when running homebrew adventures.

[acdind]

I have been reading this book, pretty much, all damn day.

It's the game system by Chaosium that powers all of their games. Including Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and many others.

I've been wanting to check out a game system that uses percentile dice for conflict resolution and a full range of polyhedral dice. BRP seems to be exactly that. It's quite a crunchy game as well which is somewhat refreshing after spending so much time with Fate by Evil Hat.

I'll definitely be posting more about it but, in the mean time it you wanna check it out...

[adventuresandshopping]

[bugtirefugees]

Yesterday marks the 3rd anniversary of the martyrdom of Shaheed Gul Bahar Bugti and his son Martyr Murad Ali Bugti. He sacrificed his life for the freedom and rights of his people. Let us pay tribute to his bravery and commitment to the cause of Balochistan's independence. #ShaheedGulBaharBugti #ShaheedMuradAliBugti

[i-j0s]

[winterdragons]

Campaign Log 4/10/23

4/10 : In the session for 4/10, 2023, our party of adventurers, comprised of Isa, a tribal healer from the local oppida of the Bronze Men of the High Grass Valley; her friend Moonstaff, assistant to the tribe’s shaman and initiate into the elemental god of Fire; together with Longfoot, a local tracker, hunter, trapper, and beastmaster; Leo, the Ducal Keep’s Master of Horse and captain of the Special Watch of Mellipolé; and Misha, crossbowman, engineer, and all around lurker in shadows, found themselves depleted of energy, battle-fatigued, and somewhat worse for wear.  Well healed after fighting their way through several encounters in the caverns perched above the hidden valley of the Fins, and hewn into the side of the butte known as Broken Tooth Mountain, they nonetheless needed to rest. Unable to retrace their steps back down the mountain, they decided to take turns napping in the half explored and heretofore quite dangerous caves, while they recouped their energies for the suspected final push into darkness.

The party, overcome by exhaustion, soon found themselves within the realm of shared dream, wherein they encountered the diminutive figure of an unusual stone age woman who claimed not only to be the special charge of the Beastmaster Longfoot, but also to have been previously associated with the tribal folk who once lived in this region. In this dream she was depicted as having been led morosely by a procession of these tiny people,  into the very same caverns, in all the guise and regalia suggestive of a human sacrifice. Beckoning to the party as she entered the caves she pointed in the opposite direction of their most recent excursion, suggesting that they had yet more to learn before descending further on their current downwards trajectory.

Upon awakening, the party returned to a deep pit from which they had previously retreated, and, sending in their expert climber, Garvin, to find a traverse, found instead a ledge below the lip of the chasm, leading into heretofore unexplored chambers of the caves. Going down instead of across, they soon discovered a room full of murals. After meditating on their meaning, and collectively reassembling a shattered final panel, the party was enlightened on the ancient history of the area, the Pinar people who once inhabited the Fins, and the demonic entity which now seemed to possess the caverns and the Valley as his own, a former hero of the Pinar, Aska of the Fins.

Delving deeper led to a crystal chamber and apparent shrine to the great Mistress of the Hunt, a goddess worshiped in many times and places and under many names. One of her devotees was luckily the previously maimed Beastmaster, Longfoot, whose prayers and offerings  to the goddess were answered with a special boon, the ability to transform at will into a huge and ferocious panther. The rest of the party also received special healing and fortification after drinking from the magical waters of the goddesses’ font. Sacrifices of treasure were duly made, as well as pledges to remove the evil influences now present in the valley, and to purify the former sanctuary. Meanwhile, as they were exploring the history of the caverns, a telepathic message came that outside a probably magical blizzard was beginning to rage. It had become clear that there would be no easy leaving the Fins if this primal and elemental menace were not soon dispatched.

Newly fortified by the goddess and armed with spiritual weaponry gathered from the deceased artist-shaman, the party returned to its downward trajectory. Overcoming a metallic constructed guardian of bronze with liquid flowing metal in its tubular copper veins, they uncovered a secret passage. Behind this lay long wide corridors, seemingly melted right into the bedrock of the butte, and lit by magical glowing crystals lining its walls. Finally, they came to a circular chamber, centered on a raised lip and capped by a slab of black marble with dark and gold-flecked crystals growing from its surface. All about the perimeter of the room were other enormous quartz crystals, all but one of them seemingly burnt out, cracked, friable, and smoky in clarity. One of these crystals on the far side of the room, however, still glowed faintly with a flickering blue fairy-light that seemed to project itself into the quartz matrix only after crossing some vast and incomprehensible distance in space time. Heeding the warning of the doomed Ravenfolk Shaman, Yipsilix, who had been their traveling companion since they entered the caverns, they decided to leave this crystal unmolested and to open the marble and crystal-capped dias instead. 

In doing so, however, they had inadvertently released a swarm of giant centipedes which poured forth from under the great stone cap, mandibles oozing clear viscous venom, their stinging bites landing against the warriors, left and right. When the battle was over there were several dead centipedes littering the floor, numerous party members potentially poisoned, and Yipsilix, who  lay dying, his black feathered arm mangled by the blunt force of one of the insectile creature’s crushing bite. Now, the delvers stand bemused by shock and trepidation, breathing in the vile miasma of rotting flesh and bitumen radiating from the yawning portal they have only just unsealed. Below yawns the presumed lair of the genius loci of the mountain known only as Aska of the Fins, as Yip’s dying whisper echoes in their ears, “He is free!”

[mrjeka1]

[swedebeast]

Oh now, I am a silly bitch once again and bought a rulebook for a buck and copy its art.