#I'm happy I did this

[mumblers-lobby]

just wanted to let you know that I changed my used name, now it's mumblers-lobby, used to me murders-laura

for the old ones! <3

[fishmad122]

You Meet in a Tavern (3-8 players)

The World Outside is protostuff, unformed until it's spoken by you travellers.

Decide a setting - deep space? Fantasy world? Cyberpunk future? It's up to you.

Players then pick a title for themselves (try stick to one each):

Adventurer

Cartographer

Courier

Deserter

Explorer

Mercenary

Migrant

Passenger

Pilgrim

Rebel

Researcher

Smuggler

Tourist

Trader

Vagrant

Wanderer

If none of these fit, choose your own title. It should be a single word that indicates the reason for your journey.

Each traveller then describes their journey (agree how long each person gets) including any details below:

Where they've been

Where they're going

Who they met

Sights fantastic or terrible

Experiences grand and tragic

Let your title inform your storytelling.

Travellers should take turns building details about the world as they play, so going first may be daunting with nothing to build on. If you have difficulty deciding, the player who last took a long journey should go first.

Each traveller will ideally be interupted twice during their tale, by another at the table who can add a detail or expound on a point from their perspective on the thing being discussed.

When you are done, The World Outside becomes solid, and your travellers continue on.

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I have been noodling on this for ages, and I was always trying to come up with mechanical rules for who could interupt when, but I think the 200 word constraint works best for this idea. Can be played with 2 players if they want to pick multiple roles, but eh.

200 words exactly - and I'm happy for this to be shared and reprinted.

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)

[pangur-and-grim]

in other news, my friends got mad at me and said that I was melting the whole server with my chicken farm, but it's not my fault they're filthy casuals

[shopwitchvamp]

[demaparbat-hp]

He truly did.

[faggot-md]

It's been 20 years today since David Shore looked at all the weirdos, cripples and faggots in the world and went pspspspsps

[cait-sith]

Day 15: Spark

[ash-and-starlight]

sooo so happie to launch into space the art i did for this @zukkabigbang2024 for the beautiful fic

The Mercy of Magpies

written by the wonderful showstopping @ranilla-bean and betaed by the equally iconic @faux-fires. Featuring dilves, birdies, true love, war, crazy plans, dubious plastic surgery and a galaxy far, far away. Please check out the rebloggable fic post with its special cover art here (or jump directly to the fic, I can't blame you, it is That Good)

also, some extra juicy plot relevant characters pop up in later chapters and havent been included for 👀 spoiler reasons 👀 but you can already try to guess who they are who's that pokemon style <3

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

[teaboot]

I hate it when I have a problem and the answer really *is* "fix your sleep schedule, do some exercise, leave the house, and drink water" like fuck offffff I don't wanna

[themachine]

Dissent

[wishfulsketching]

Finally made a "finished version" of this sketch I did three years ago!

Better late than never, I guess

[egophiliac]

I don’t think we’ve ever seen you draw knight of dawn before 🤔 what are your thoughts about him? Or take?

I've drawn him a couple of times, just really little/in the background. but I should draw him more, I love this guy a lot! I have many, many thoughts about him and the way he parallels Silver...and also I think it is extremely funny that his ghost is stuck in a ring. especially considering where that ring has been for the last 16-ish years.

[thethunderthedragonfruit]

i was REALLY surprised i hadnt seen anyone animate over anything from the prevenge script reading yet, so i took matters into my own hands. i thought this bit was hilarious

audio from here

[antennabot]

feeling normal about the finale

[starwarjotta]

looking for someone on Tatooine