#Grant Howitt

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript: 1. “I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey, if you stay, you'll be forgiven; nothing you can say can stop me going home."

2. "Prior: Dreaming used to be so… safe.

Harper: It isn't, thought, it's dangerous, imagining to excess. It can blow up in your face. Threshold of revelation."

3. "He thought about wanting to feel like he had been made for something more than dying."

4. "You must fix you heart, and you must build an altar where it swells."

5. "Here is the game: today you are not going to die."

6. "Yes, it comforts me much more, yes it comforts me much more to lay in the foundations of decay. Get up, coward!"

7. "You will save yourself. You cannot help it."

8. "I don’t want to die in here. I don’t want to die in here."

9. "O plunge your hands in water, plunge them in up to the wrist; stare, stare in the basin and wonder what you've missed."

10. "Say that it is the impulse of the soul to endure forever. Say it again." /End transcript]

my chemical romance– famous last words/tony kushner– angels in america/maggie stiefvater— mister impossible/my chemical romance– the foundations of decay/grant howitt/my chemical romance– the foundations of decay/molly brodak– bee in jar/the mountain goats– heel turn 2/w. h. auden– as i walked out one evening/joyce sutphen– say it

[cookiecrumbconundrum]

six months since || just another day, thank god

and i am glad, so deeply glad, that six months since the worst day it is just a normal day. i feel normal. i am on meds now. i am happier. i am in therapy. and i am no longer in the space. a thousands times happier and a thousand times more stable. i do things that make it easier for me to move through the world instead of just pushing through. it is another day and tomorrow will be another days and those days will bleed into a future.

when i was done dying, dan deacon | tired, ramón casas | “letter to violet dickinson”, virginia woolf | interior, model reading, edward hopper | sand and foam, kahlil gibran | burn it down, brian luong |tim kavanagh | grant howitt | the aeneid, virgil | jujutsu kaisen, gege akutami |undertale | nickie zimov | please stay, lucy dacus | suzanne siegel | rhythm of war, brandon sanderson  | stranger things, matt duffer & ross duffer | letter to an old poet, boygenius | sower at sunset, vincent van gogh | oathbringer, brandon sanderson | everything everywhere all at once, daniel kwan & daniel scheinert | once a lady told me, nikki giovanni | poet’s loft, david hettinger | kurt vonnegut | downtown express 72nd st. station, subway, new york, 1977, willy spiller | thanK you aIMee, taylor swift | daughters of the dust, julie dash | loose lips, kimya dawson | vincent van gogh | letters to vera, vladimir nabokov

[rqgender]

Today's gender is a disembodied tit.

[baddywronglegs]

People who've played Honey Heist:

I've been thinking of a game about Goblin Energy. I don't need to explain Goblin Energy to Tumblr. But the idea is that the characters' Goblin Energy is an attribute that increases and potentially decreases over the course of the game.

Does this sound like something Honey Heist's core mechanic already handles? If not, what would have to change about it?

Has anyone used Honey Heist's mechanics for anything other than a heist and how well did that go? Or ported it in as a subsystem of another system? If so, how did that go?

[haveyouplayedthisirlgame-poll]

Beautiful Space Pirates is a one-page scifi RPG by Grant Howitt.

[codassential]

More Weird Stats Please

One of the things that I love about non-D&D/Pathfinder TTRPGs is the propensity too make very specific, highly evocative, and extremely funny stats. Grant Howitt's One pagers are great examples of this like honey heist only has two stats: "bear" and "crime" which

Is easy to understand and use, especially for new TTRPG players

Encourages the players to think within the constraints of acting as an inconsistently intelligent wild animal (something they may not be used to)

immediately communicates the tone of the system

Makes me laugh

This isn't just for systems designed for one shots, Golden Sky Stories is a system where you play as a shapeshifting animal called a henge solving problems for humans in a nearby town. GSS has four stats: "henge," "animal," "adult," and "child," the first two used for your animal form and the second two used in human form to imitate their behaviors. I don't think I've played another system with any of those four stats, but they do such a good job of putting a player in the right frame of reference to tell the kind of stories GSS is trying to tell.

There's a reason why every PBTA system makes slight tweaks to apocalypse world's "cool, hard, hot, sharp, wierd," there's real power to the specific name that you use to describe a character's qualities. A Monster of the Week character with +2 charm, +1 wierd, and -1 cool gives me a much more evocative picture of how a character acts then "18 charisma" ever could.

obv there are benefits to the dnd str/dex/con/int/wis/cha spread, but whenever I open an RPG and see a stat named "grink" or somethin my heart is set aflutter

[animesickos]

OUT NOW: Grant Howitt, a game designer who rules, joins the Sickos (plus Gwynn and Allie from Modesty City, Sicko Shock 2, and Shuffle Quest) for a one-shot game of GOBLIN PUNKS, an RPG where you are shitty goblin teens fucking around. Will we be able to disrupt the community car wash and become goth? Listen and see asshole

You can get Goblin Punks here: https://gshowitt.itch.io/goblin-punks

[shyestbarbarian]

#6 RPG That Is Easy To Use

Can't go wrong with Grant Howitt's "Honey Heist"! It's one page, easy to learn, and chaotic to play!

[merelymatt]

I got to play Grant Howitt's Fucked Up Little Man at the last Indiemeet / London Indie RPG Meetup! I have never played a darksouls so every choice I made in this game was influenced by cultural osmosis. My fucked up little guy was a tooth enthusiast with a wet cough who knew a lot of gross and dangerous shortcuts. And I took the record for fastest death of The Damned One – I tried diving straight back into the acid pit we crawled out of post-resurrection and rolled a 1, perishing immediately

And I was pretty proud of the map area I drew, a broken staircase guarded by a phalanx of soldier mummies! Drawing is not a skill I've put a lot of points into, but maps are stylised and so is Dark Souls, and that helped, and I feel like I found creative ways round my own constraints

[firstofficerrose]

Kaiju Girls by Grant Howitt is an awesome game and y'all should play it.

You play as teenage girls who have all the pressures of school and sports and the expectations of grownups... and a secret ability to turn into giant kaiju monsters!

It's a d6 dice pool system with a fun little stress mechanic that can trigger involuntary transformations.

I ran it for the first time tonight and we had a blast. My duo of Kaiju Girls had to deal with everything from tutoring your crush in physics to a rival sabotaging the culture fair to portals tearing rifts in the sky and pouring out a massive evil flying lobster!

[carfuckerlynch]

do you happen to have a link to the ‘here is the game: today you are not going to die’ piece grant howitt wrote?? i’ve always loved it as your blog title & did realise it was a larger think especially by grant howitt bc i love his rpgs so much & i just did some googling to see if i could find it myself but i wasn’t successful 😔😔

i don’t :(((( he posted it on his twitter a long time ago and i didn’t keep it :(((

EDIT I FOUND IT. LINK HERE (it’s an image no plaintext sorry everyone)

[ex-libris-craux]

So not long ago I ran Sexy Battle Wizards for my Friday night game group to give our forever DM a break, and I am dropping the opening here for posterity because I love it very much:

You are returning from a successful rescue mission, assisting The Vestal Vanguard in retrieving the holy, gem-encrusted Garter of the Order from the sleek and lovely thigh of Synchron Moreover, villain (and sexy, sexy beast). Moreover is now moreunder guard (possibly moreunder moreguards), and you have returned to the College Errant, where wine, the spa facilities, seven masseuses and masseurs, an Olympic-sized swimming pool (the mountain, not the event), a chef, and twelve puppies await you.

Oh, and also Elysian Traipse, who as you coalesce from ephemeral (and quite sexy) mist greets you with a worried expression, wringing hands, and a wailed "What have you DONE??? There are DEMONS in the INNER SANCTUM!"

A sexy battle wizard's work is never done, in this case because Traipse has locked you out of all the College's amenities until you get rid of the demons.

[rqgender]

Today's gender is too busy smoking cigarettes and kissing girls.

[jkcorellia]

"Grant Howitt made both Spire: The City Must Fall and Honey Heist" feels like the TTRPG world's equivalent of "George Miller made both Mad Max and Happy Feet"

[hopeshearthpod]

HERE WE GO SEXY BATTLE WIZARDS TIME!

Just as a caution, Dirk and Izze get very loud in this recording when they laugh lmao

Anyway uuuh back to the sexy demon and three book thieves

also here's that drawing of Husky that Izze did