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Clarification about the pricing for the open D&D campaigns. It's $25 for each individual session?
Yes indeed; Startplaying charges players each session the night of the game, so it's good to be aware up front. Though there's a Session 0, character creation, scheming, etc. that is just part and parcel for joining the campaign.
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🌤️ for ye Pyrates :)
🌤️Share your favorite mechanic from a game you’re working on
You can pay money to have permanent changes to your genotype, and roll to see if it changes your phenotype (eg. growing antlers if you get deer genes). Naturally you can choose to fail this roll :-p
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How do you become a gimmick blog?
step 1: think of a gimmick
step 2: blog
#taxonomist talks#ask#this is somewhat joking but is pretty accurate#think#what did dailyquests do?#they thought of a gimmick (giving daily quests as if living in an RPG). and then blogged.#what else to say
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with a regular miku on the side for comparison because Huh
#hatsune miku#vocaloid#piapro studio#doodle#ask#delicatepeanutlover#can’t decide which is worse; miku potato head or this#it gives a lot of final boss energy; that or i’ve been on too much of an rpg kick lately
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That's two jailbreaks in one day!
FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT
MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)
#deltarune#undertale#utdr#crossover#crossover comic#comic#undertale fanart#deltarune fanart#twin runes#twin runes au#twin runes comic#my art#toriel#asgore#ralsei#chara#susie deltarune#if there's one good thing about lesslo then it's that he gave them a direct hint how to get out#dead child climbs through the broken pieces of crumbling code in oder to HOPEFULLY end up out on the right end#quite a gamble if you ask me but it's Chara we're talking about#they already have self-sacrificial tendencies at least if it's for the people they care about#also lucky that the only character that is small enough to fit through the hole#would be smart enough to deal with the very conveniently placed puzzle that is probably the key to breaking everyone else out#that is RPG dungeon design 101#and now we actually get a better look at Toriel's dark world design#for any time travellers... this comic came out before the release of chapter 3+4#i can't read toby's mind nor look into the future... please forgive me for not being acurrate
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I love that the four corps in Lancer are like ... Amazon, Pfizer, Lockheed-Martin, and then like a Discord server filled with trans women with fursonas and felony hacking convictions
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If I could ask you for some advice, what do you think helps the flavour text of a mech or piece of equipment sell a player on the fantasy of using it?
I'm finding it frustratingly difficult to do so with my own homebrew content: I can come up with lore and backstory easily enough, but re-reading it feels dry, and I can't help but contrast it with how the descrptions in official content and other supplements is more evocative, at least for mechs.
Let's observe some corebook Lancer flavour text and examine the various varieties it comes in.
Purely Functional
While it's usually not the most fun type of flavour text, this just tells us what the weapon is, and - if it has any particular tags or on-hit effects - why it's like that. The Hand Cannon is a good example: here's what it is (modified pistol), here's why it does more damage, and here's why it has Loading.
The main advantage of Purely Functional flavour text is that it provides space for other types of flavour text to breathe. Flavour text is a great place for jokes, but it's not good for every piece of flavour text to be a joke - the pauses between notes in music are just as important as the notes.
Obfuscating Vendorspeak
The Bristlecrown Flechette Launcher this is a great example of dark humour that Lancer uses quite often: marketing fast-talk to cover up something really unpleasant. The joke here is based on us understanding precisely what the equipment does mechanically, and then seeing how the manufacturer tries to sell it. There's a bunch of dense technobabble here meant to obfuscate the fact that this weapon fires knives in every direction specifically designed to kill infantry.
Deadpan Weirdness
The joke here relies on describing something extremely weird like it's the most natural thing in the world. Wait, you're telling me that in a world where I can just print new parts if the old ones break, they put DRM on my fucking knife and I have to apologise to the fucking knife maker to get a new one? What the fuck, dude? Why are you acting like this makes any sense?!
My sword uploads fucking what to the Space Internet?!
Third-Act Twist
This type of flavour text disguises itself as something else - most often Purely Functional - and then hits you with Third Act Twist. It makes you go "wait, what?!" It's very classic setup-punchline stuff. You're telling me my mech can rot?!
As a side note, Lancer loves to use this for its NHPs.
WHY DID YOU PUT THAT IN SCARE QUOTES, LUCIFER
Worldbuilding
This is similar to the Purely Functional, but instead of just describing technical specifications of the weapons, it puts the weapon in the broader context of the setting's history. Okay, so we know what this weapon is and what it does - why was it built? What was the original use case, and why? Most importantly, what can the existence of this weapon tell us about the world that build it?
Whimsical Aside
This is the insertion of a light-hearted, humanising little insertion regarding how this piece of equipment gets used in the field. This serves to remind us that soldiers aren't cold, unfeeling killing machines: they can be as emotional, irreverent and silly as the rest of us, and they do things like name their mobile bombs...
... or call resupply drones "mech snacks."
The Ominous Out-Of-Context Quote That Explains Nothing And Only Raises More Questions
As I've said in multiple textmash memes, this is basically Tom and Miguel's shorthand for "this technology is Intensely Fucked Up in a way that it is more fun and scary not to explain." This is essentially Lancer's version of SCP's [REDACTED].
You might think this is the domain of HORUS, and you'd be right, but every single manufacturer indulges in these - although IPS-N had to wait until NRFaW to get theirs:
What the fuck do you mean by that, Lancer?
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For context I was fighting an art block and I thought drawing someone’s character would help, and surprise your dnd character Abbi helped me with the art block, I really do love her design a lot and she’s very gorgeous, I do hope you enjoy it
OMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH SHE LOOKS AMAZING THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU-
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More mechs
#lancer everest#lancer rpg#lancer ttrpg#mech#mecha#mecha art#lancer#please don’t repost to pinterest lmao#please don’t use in your own campaigns#digital art#my art#clip studio paint#ttrpg art#it’s meant to look horus adjacent this time but dont ask why#this was low effort for me I wanted to play with brushes a little
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A Zelda game where Hyrule castle is invaded before Link can be reborn and the hero’s spirit inhabits and animates a doll Zelda had in her bedroom.
Same open-world exploration as Breath of the Wild, just on a smaller scale. During the final boss you kill Ganondorf after climbing him Shadow of the Colossus style and stab him in the eye with a fork
#legend of zelda#yes i have been thinking about geno super mario rpg why do you ask#and also the nutcracker ballet
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“Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani” cried Christ
#art#fanart#off game#ask to tag#the batter#off the batter#bad batter#off bad batter#off mortis ghost#off fanart#rpg maker#off rpg#eye contact
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Storm cloud for the ask meme?
🌧️Share something melancholy from one of your games (name the game, or let me choose)
oh too easy :-p This is from the Magic section in Chymus
Melancholic magic hides itself in the occultists' humours, and hides other things with it. Any effect that hides can be done with melancholic magic, as can effects that involve deception or illusions. One can become invisible, change your appearance or make people believe falsehoods. The melancholic humour can hide from anything that watches. It might shield you from bureaucracy, make a machine give false readings or evade magical detection. Melancholic overshooting leads to it hiding too much, rendering the occultist unable to be found even if they want to. Whatever illusion it casts can't be lifted, for better or worse.
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It's actually kind of striking how tightly wedded most major genres of tabletop RPGs are to the decades when they were popularised.
Trad fantasy tabletop RPGs – even those that aren't positioned as revivalist – are so intent on emulating the sword and sorcery literature of the 1970s that the only reason they don't come off as quaintly nostalgic is because nobody reads sword and sorcery anymore.
Cyberpunk tabletop RPGs are, at this point, essentially an exercise in retrofuturism, endlessly polishing a vision of what people in the 1980s thought the year 2015 would look like.
Urban fantasy tabletop RPGs might include smartphones and electric cars in their equipment tables and mention 9/11 in their lore chapters, but culturally and aesthetically, most of them are taking place in a world where the 1990s never ended.
I don't mean this as a criticism – I'm just fascinated with how this tendency is so strong that, for example, a brand new urban fantasy RPG written in the year 2024 is liable to end up being a 1990s period piece at heart even when that was 100% not the author's intention, simply through the inertia of the medium's well-established tropes.
I'm mostly curious what the characteristic tabletop RPG genre of the 2020s is going to end up being thirty or forty years from now, and I hope I live long enough to find out!
#gaming#tabletop roleplaying#tabletop rpgs#game design#tropes#nostalgia#i'm not asking this question about the 2010s#because we all know the tabletop rpg genre that's culturally and aesthetically stuck in the 2010s#will be the child of people who grew up reading homestuck
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A silly Kefka requested over my Patreon~
#yes that Onceler's lyrics from The Lorax#the requester asked for Kefka as a Tumblr sexyman xD#kefka#kefka palazzo#final fantasy#final fantasy vi#final fantasy 6#ffvi#ff6#ファイナルファンタジー#videogames#square enix#patreon#rpg#jrpg#games#nintendo#snes#fanart#my art#gazkerber#illustration#request#patreon reward
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i hear in the next update they are removing men
You say removing men, I say creating a lot more women.
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I think there's something wrong with my copy of the game.
#don't ask#yes I got lazy with Daisuke's shirt#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#mouthwashing daisuke#yiik#yiik a postmodern rpg#yiiking out#art#illustration#artists on tumblr#artist on tumblr#artists of tumblr#wrong organ#mouthwashing jimmy#rinnartrae#yiik: a postmodern rpg
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