#and the dice are just there to make it interesting

[you-and-him]

(I'm not good at English, hoping my expression will not be confusing. qwq)

Hello Hermit!​

After playing chapter 4, I had a great interest in Saffron and I'd like to ask something. Does Saffron just want to eat YOU? Or is he getting more and more interested or maybe a little affection in YOU so his desire of eating YOU becomes stronger? I've seen something just like "the more I like you, the more I want to eat you", so I came up this question.

I really love your stories and characters!Hoping my silly question doesn't bother you. ​

Saffron is...a complicated man.

Though from what I'm feeling as of now when it comes to Saffron, I don't sense any affection in terms of how he feels towards you. Just an obsessive need and want for something he can't have which makes you like a rare delicacy in his eyes that he has to work for.

Could that change? Possibly! I can't say for sure whether he will because (again) romance isn't the main focus of the game. I let the dice mostly roll where they may when it comes to that sort of stuff in regards to the characters themselves (also why I don't promise any "romantic" routes aside from Adam since he's the most plausible and open to it.)

[rpgsandbox]

Defy the Gods is a tabletop role-playing game of daring adventure, passionate romance and cursed power, set in fantasy ancient Mesopotamia. Inspired by Conan, Clash of the Titans and Princess Mononoke, it brings queer love and resistance to sword & sorcery role-play.

In Defy the Gods, you and your friends fight jealous gods and cruel tyrants who want to destroy you. You spin a story of wild invention and heart-rending drama.

Explore a fantasy ancient Mesopotamian world that you build at the table—its Pantheon, its Cities, its trackless Wilds. Its dream of Atlantis, its fate in the Underworld.

Win hearts and give your own. Your romantic entanglements leave you vulnerable, but they may save you.

Unseat the world's powers and dare to seat yourself on their throne.

Leap into danger, surrender your heart, and ascend to monstrous, godlike power.

Defy the Gods is a sword & sorcery story game about love and might. It's equal parts romance and adventure, using a version of the Powered by the Apocalypse engine. The game's opinionated mechanics point your story in exciting directions. Like Thirsty Sword Lesbians, you get to flirt with and tempt other characters. But you also get opportunities to seize power, which cuts against the romance.

What manner of sword & sorcery is this?

Sword & sorcery is marked by propulsive action, gritty urban life, cosmic horror, protean wonder, and the drama of street-level heroes taking on overwhelming odds. Like many recent sword & sorcery works, Defy the Gods focuses on these elements, unburdened by loyalty to yesteryear's writers for their own sake. The late Howard Andrew Jones dubbed this movement "new edge" sword & sorcery.

What makes this a queer game?

Defy the Gods is a game of universal, visceral attraction. You may win anyone's interest. Spend others' hearts to aid or thwart them, throw them off-balance, or tempt them to do what you want. In Defy the Gods, love has no rules.

Also, the world is against you. The Pantheon of gods hates you, and the City's rulers want to push you to the margins. While your adventurer has tremendous talents, they are—at first—nothing compared to the forces arrayed against you.

Sword & sorcery is about underdog heroes battling civilization and unstoppable supernatural forces. This is queer life in a nutshell.

Each playbook focuses on an archetype from sword & sorcery and its resonances with queer life. Every adventurer has their own arc of terrible power. 

The Revenant: a mortal recently escaped from the Underworld, pursued by demons. Call on the power of death while exploring your new life. Inspired by Inanna, Eurydice and Persephone.

The Sailor: a wide-traveled, mischievous trickster with a plan and a network of exes. Draw the map of the world, one destination or obstacle at a time. Inspired by Sindbad and Odysseus.

The Sorcerer: a scholar of the forbidden art, with unpredictable spells and an ever-warping body. Roll a bunch of dice and look for patterns in them. If you match a pattern to a spell you have, you can cast it. Otherwise, chaos burns you. Inspired by Thoth-Amon and everyone who's usually a villain in other sword & sorcery stories.

The Sword: a big-hearted, deadly person who refuses to bow to anyone. If combat hasn't started, kill a mortal within arm's reach, without rolling. Inspired by Conan and Jirel of Joiry.

The Vessel: the devoted, submissive servant of an exiled god, suffering willingly in exchange for transcendent power. Perform miracles through your wounds. Inspired by Elric of Melniboné.

The Wolfling: a human raised by animals, curious about civilization, and belonging to neither world. Hunt your prey and destroy ugly human contraptions. Inspired by Princess Mononoke.

Every roll in this game has three possible results: 

A miss. You roll too low and don't get what you want. The story gets more complicated.

A glowing success. You roll just right and get what you want. The story gets closer to your goals.

A burning success. You roll too high and get more than you bargained for. The story gets wild. This is the most metal result.

Epithets and Dooms

Your stats are your Epithets—phrases that describe who you are. You start with three of them, worth 0 to 2 points. To make most moves, invoke an Epithet, roll two six-sided dice, and add the Epithet's worth.

When you take harm, physically or socially, it hurts your reputation: Signify your would by demoting an Epithet's worth.

Gain more Epithets by giving your heart. But your immortal pride gives you Dooms that overwrite your Epithets and grant you dramatic, story-altering moves. When all your Epithets have become Dooms, your adventurer's arc is over. They have given themselves wholly to power. This makes them a new World Force—an NPC enemy.

The World Forces

Build your own antagonists at the start of the game:

The Pantheon: The gods, goddesses and demons who rule the cosmos and hate you. Give them domains like "Law," "War" and "Sex," but also "Abyss," "Hate" and "Searing Knowledge."

The City: Your home. Choose its location, its rulers, and its one unique thing. Sketch in its oppressive laws and informal communities.

The Wilds: The trackless regions beyond the City, full of gigantic, pitiless creatures. Pick the landscapes you want to explore—that will tell you which creatures you'll encounter.

The Legacy of Atlantis: Before humans were the Atlanteans. They lived without fear of the gods or fate. Then they discovered sorcery, and the Pantheon destroyed them. Find their blasted ruins in wild places and unlock their secrets.

The Underworld: The destination of all mortals. Decide what it looks like and how to find it.

These are the forces arrayed against you.

The World Scene

In between adventures, you flip the script: Play out a single scene as members of one of the World Forces, devising future trouble for your own adventurers. Fire up the Game Master's imagination and indicate where you want the story to go.

Kickstarter campaign ends: Thu, May 29 2025 5:12 PM BST

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[la-chacha-gris]

It's been a while since I posted material from my DMs in this informal section that forms the 'cebraconversations' tag (the collection tagged here). Last night I received some questions, somewhat redundant both among themselves and within the conversation itself, and it would be a shame if others potentially interested in the answer missed them or if I had to repeat myself by giving it again. So I said I'd answer it here and my interlocutor's questions are in bold and italics.

Hace tiempo que no publicaba material de mis DM en esta informal sección que forma la tag 'cebraconversations' (la colección etiquetada aquí). Anoche me dejaron unas preguntas, algo redundantes entre sí y con la propia conversación y sería una pena que otros posibles interesados en la respuesta se la pierdan o que yo tenga que repetirme dándola de nuevo. Así que dije que le contestaría aquí. Las preguntas de mi interlocutor están en negrita y cursiva.

If you try to explore the relationship between porn and pop culture and avoid offending your audience, it speaks volumes about the limited popular acceptance of beauty. We all know this, and your blog perpetuates this ideal by excluding curvy women. Can't curvy women enjoy lingerie, be attractive, and also be widely accepted? Do your blog and research also seek to challenge current ideas?

I used the word "offend" out of laziness, getting that from Google Translate; a better word would be "dissuade." I already explained, but I'll recap. (1) It's a matter of digital marketing or positioning; photos of more limited or niche taste attract and retain fewer viewers. (2) I study or comment on what exists, so if there's less of something in the market or culture, it will be seen as lesser. The average Tumblr user uses their blog to collect photos without commenting; their blogs are a showcase of their personal tastes. This isn't my case, and this causes confusion, I understand. Remember, you yourself told me you assumed I was a lesbian. This could be reason 3.

Si intentas explorar la relación entre el porno y la cultura pop y evitas ofender a tu público, eso dice mucho sobre la limitada aceptación popular de la belleza. Todos lo sabemos, y tu blog perpetúa este ideal al excluir a las mujeres con curvas. ¿Acaso las mujeres con curvas no pueden disfrutar de la lencería, ser atractivas y, además, ser ampliamente aceptadas? ¿Tu blog e investigación también buscan desafiar las ideas actuales?

Usaba la palabra ofender por pereza obteniendo eso de google translate, mejor palabra sería disuadir. Ya expliqué, pero recapitulo. (1) Es una cuestión de marketing digital o posicionamiento, fotos de gusto más limitado o de nicho atraen y retienen menos audiencia. (2) Estudio o comento lo existente, por tanto si hay menos de algo en mercado o cultura, se verá memos por aquí. El usuario medio de tumblr usa el propio blog para coleccionar fotos sin comentar, sus blogs son un escaparate de sus gustos personales. No es mi caso, y esto causa confusión, entiendo. Recurda que tú mismo me dijiste que suponias que era lesbiana. Esto podría ser la razon 3

Just to give my opinion, you could also say I'm asexual because most of the images published are isolated nude people. Statements or positions have been made here about LGBT rights and different types of attractive bodies; there are 10,600 posts right now; you can check them out. But I won't insist because it's not my main topic. People don't want sermons (and I already give them plenty of long speeches), and in their narrow-mindedness, such that they continually call me a lesbian, they would like to explain my privacy concerns by saying I'm ugly and fat, when what actually happens is that I already get too much attention not-in-the-way-I-want and, of course, sexual harassment. I dedicate myself to disseminating the topics I address on my blog. I'm also a feminist, but I don't make providing texts and authors of the movement a main topic of this blog about culture and desire. I try to gain peace and retain an audience so I can dedicate myself to what I want to tell and have people there who can read me.

Por opinar gratuitamente, también podría decirse que soy asexual porque la mayoría de las figuras publicadas son personas desnudas aisladas. Se han hecho aquí aseveraciones o posicionamientos sobre derechos LGBT y distintos tipos de cuerpos atractivos, hay 10.600 post ahora mismo, puedes revisarlos. Pero no insisto porque no es mi tema principal, la gente no quiere sermones (y ya les doy muchos largos discursos) y en su cortedad de miras tal que continuamente me dicen lesbiana, querrían explicarse mi cuidado con mi intimidad a que soy fea y gorda cuando lo que ocurre es que ya obtengo demasiada atención no-en-la-forma-que-querría y claro acoso sexual. Me dedico a hacer divulgación en mi blog de los temas que indico. También soy feminista pero no convierto dar textos y autoras del movimiento en un tema principal de este blog sobre cultura y deseo. Procuro ganar paz y retener público para poder dedicarme a lo que quiero contar y que haya gente ahí que pueda leerme.

You mustn't be associated with research environments. I already do mine poorly, because I investigate too many things, and that means almost not going in depth at all. I have to limit my topics if I hope to make any progress; I can't talk about everything. Another thing is that the presence of something in dissemination or awareness doesn't validate, much less perpetuate, anything: if I dedicated my blog to addressing sexual violence anthropologically or legally, I wouldn't say I was "perpetuating" rape. If I dedicated myself to analyzing and addressing "broad-spectrum erotica?", then so-called normative bodies and mainstream pornography will abound, and if alternatives to this appear, like Erika Lust's work, it will be precisely to explain how they deviate from the norm, helping to see that standard that people aren't aware of in the erotica they consume and believe to be the only one, without it having manners, codes, or other ways of being that they choose not to accept.

No debes estar relacionado con entornos de investigación. Yo ya hago mal las mías, porque indago demasiadas cosas y eso es casi no profundizar en nada. Tengo que limitar mis temas si espero hacer algún progreso, no puedo hablar de todo. Otra cosa es que la presencia de algo en divulgación o concienciación no supone validar y menos aún perpetuar nada: si dedicara mi blog a tratar la violencia sexual de forma antropológica o legal, no diría que estoy 'perpetuando' la violación. Si me dedico a analizar y tratar ¿erotica de amplio espectro? pues abundarán los llamados cuerpos normativos y la pornografía mainstream, y si aparecen alternativas a esto como el trabajo de Erika Lust; será precisamente para explicar como se salen de lo habitual ayudando ello a ver ese estándar que la gente no es consciente en la erotica que consumen y creen la única sin que esta tenga maneras, código u otras formas de ser que elige no tomar.

Personally, I like toned and beautiful women like the ones you post. Their bodies are heaven on earth. So it's not a personal preference, but rather research. Have you considered why you exclude those images?

Yes, I've answered this twice, but the first one wasn't enough for you. Now you're answering yourself, and highlighting it prompts me to do it a third time. You like what I decide to post. You discover my blog, you follow it, you comment and comment, you look for ways to get me to send you DMs… Would my work have gotten so much interest adorned with scenes of bodies and genders you don't like? That's it. You call asking me why I don't post something research, and I've thought of reasons. I've answered you, but to investigate, you'll have to ask the same predetermined questions to selected girl bloggers. Keep me informed of the collated responses and share the raw data pool. THAT'S research, unless you're a random, penetrating commentator (just another one) writing in their own language, not mine, asking unasked questions at four or five in the morning. In this case, you're questioning me about whether I reflect on what I publish and suggesting that I perpetuate a problem about women. You said you were challenging me; I'm not mad, and I've responded. Now I'm giving you another one: do some real research, following what I said above. I look forward to hearing from you, bye!

Personalmente, me gustan las mujeres tonificadas y hermosas como las que publicas. Sus cuerpos son el paraíso terrenal. Así que no es una preferencia personal, sino una investigación, ¿has considerado por qué excluyes esas imágenes?

Sí, he respondido 2 veces con esta, pero no te bastó la primera. Ahora te contestas solo y remarcarlo me lleva a hacerlo una tercera vez. Te gusta lo que decido publicar. Descubres mi blog, lo sigues, comentas y comentas, buscas como conseguir enviarme DM… ¿habría conseguido tanto interés mi trabajo adornado con escenas de cuerpos y géneros que NO te gustan? Pues eso.

Llamas investigación a preguntarme por qué no pongo algo y se he pensado en razones. Te he respondido, pero para investigar tendrás que hacer las mismas preguntas prefijadas a girlbloggers seleccionadas. Tenme informada de las respuestas cotejadas y comparte el pool de data en bruto. ESO es investigación, si no eres un peneportante random (uno más) que escribe en su idioma y no el mío preguntas no pedidas a las cuatro o cinco antes del amanecer y en este caso me cuestionas si medito lo que publico y planteas que eternizo un problema sobre las mujeres. Decías que me hacías un 'desafío', no me enfado y he respondido, ahora te devuelvo yo otro: haz investigación de verdad, siguiendo lo que he dicho más arriba. Espero noticias, ciao!

[s0ckh3adstudios]

I REALLY JUST SAT DOWN FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS TO MAKE REGRETEVATOR NPC DESIGNS AND FALL DEEPER DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE. WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING TO ME

Considering the goofy nature and the endless potential and possibilities that seem to come with Regretevator and its characters, I thought it would be really fun (and a good character design exercise) to make some NPC designs! I tried to remain as faithful as you can get to the Regretevator "standards" with these. Tried to be goofy. A few of them do have lore that goes a bit deeper in my head despite their goofy designs :)

[calciferstims]

day 1 of @deadboystims’s 300 follower event

a board based on your queer identities! (mine are nonbinary, bisexual, and queer as hell!!)

(I know I’m joining this pretty late but who cares, this isn’t high school)

sources: 🩷💜💙 | 🏳️‍🌈☀️🏳️‍🌈 | 💛💜🖤

[breezere]

people dont draw kokichi wearing silly lil capes/cloaks more often and i think thats so tragic

[vorestarr]

the saves for persuasion rolls when you're trying to convince a companion to use the astral tadpole:

Astarion: 15*

Gale: 18

Karlach: 7, then 14**

Lae'zel: 18

Minthara: none lol

Shadowheart: 15

Wyll: 18

*Astarion doesn't require a persuasion roll. you have to talk him into it through multiple dialogue choices instead of a persuasion check, and then it requires either wisdom or intimidation at 15 for him to finally agree

**Karlach requires one persuasion roll at 7 and then a second persuasion or intimidation roll at 14

(note these are all from my games, not any meta data, so i don't know if there are conditions that may change the rolls, but the numbers have seemed consistent through multiple games)

[todayisafridaynight]

So what are you gonna franchise are you gonna do after Yakuza? Like you did the DB

if i knew my contract liking rgg was expiring soon then id probably have something lined up but fuuck man i dont know. maybe theyll give me an extension to keep liking rgg until i find something else

[errantgoat]

maan, I never would've thought criticism for *cr would ever breach tumblr walls...the last season really wasn't any good, was it -_-

[ilovettrpgs]

What's ttrpgs?

I just stared at my screen like this

[dlstmxkakwldrlarchive]

the way members are stereotyped even in the year 2024 makes me INSANE. Minho homophobic jock. Kibum gayer than he actually is like they want him to be a white gay so bad and he really isn't like hes actually just normie gay. Taemin either uwu audhd quirkbean or gay as well meanwhile he's giving aggressively heterosexual. Jinki boring old chicken yoga. Jonghyun I don't even wanna speak on because the way he's talked about and stereotyped these days is a big fat MESS

no bcs you would think a group that has been around for 16 years wouldn't have to deal with something like this but WRONG and it's not only new fans that do it like old fans do nawt joke abt making up shit lol. 'I'm a debutwol so i know x and y 🤓' FAWK OFF bcs these are the same ppl who started labeling minho as violent bcs of some inside joke during that vlive with the other members and joked that he was the one who broke kibum's arm in hard era or are conviced that actually the reason jinki doesnt strip is bcs he likes to 'tease jjinggus'

and jjong being reduced to #taeminniesmom pisses me off so much im sorry

[haze-of-hyperfixations]

Hi! 👋 Do you have any lgbt+ hcs for asoue or atwq? 🌈 :)

Hi! 👋

Thanks for the ask!! Here's some of my headcanons:

ASOUE:

Violet - bi. also i think it'd be funny if she had crushes on both Isadora and Quigley, and made some comment about "hey, maybe i have a type. or something." meanwhile her siblings are like. violet. they are identical.

Carmelita - aro. doesn't realize this until way after canon (assuming the entire unfortunate gen survives for the sake of both the post and my feelings) because she genuinely never considers that romantic attraction is like. a real thing. she thinks everyone's just being weird about dating because they're just weird like that. and she's totally better than them anyways, so she doesn't really give it any more thought for a while. she basically avoids the entire self-questioning stage like that, and it isn't until a while after canon, once she's kind of had a redemption arc and kind of formed some kind of connection with other characters, that she's just arguing with someone one day about something to do with romance, and the other character is like. uh. actually that's not universal and i think you might be aro. and she kind of has to process that for a few minutes. but she ends up basically going "oh, so it's not everyone? it's just me? that's awesome." also modern AU Carmelita would make those posts that are like, pink hearts and sparkly, elegant cursive saying stuff like "romance is dead and i killed it." (i just googled it, it's called aro lovecore.) anyways, post-canon aro Carmelita. :)

Isadora - trans girl. and she's unsure of her specific orientation, but knows she definitely likes girls.

Quigley - ace. questioning both gender and romantic orientation, but probably somewhere under the nonbinary umbrella. and possibly bi. listen just let the kid figure stuff out post-canon. where's that post that goes "i'm probably nonbinary but i have a job so idc about that right now". that's Quigley but the job is not dying and processing childhood trauma.

Sunny - post-canon, older Sunny also gets hit by the aro headcanon beam. i just think it'd be really neat.

not a lot of thoughts on the sugarbowl gen, except possibly pan Beatrice Baudelaire and aro Sally Sebald? idk, I think about the unfortunate gen a lot more, ha.

ATWQ:

Moxie - possibly arospec? okay, admittedly i just thought of this headcanon now. but arospec Moxie would add an interesting layer to her dynamic with Ellington and Lemony. especially if you interpret the Lemony/Ellington as onesided, with Lemony being the one with the romantic feelings. because like. platonic jealousy over your best friend's crush (who doesn't reciprocate, but maybe she does, but who even cares? not Moxie.) is an interesting dynamic. because Ellington Feint contrasts her in a thousand narrative, thematical ways that other people could write about better than me. but Lemony's also kind of infatuated with her, and she gets that slightly romanticized place in his narrative that Moxie doesn't. and of course that could lead to additional resentment. and some of it's jealousy, some of it's anxiety, some of it's frustration, but the whole thing could lead to really interesting internal conflict. especially after Lemony leaves, and the other kids have to figure out a new sense of normal after all that. idk. interesting thought.

Ellington - lesbian. also just thought of that one now, so idk. but i've been kind of on the fence for a while about the Lemony/Ellington thing and all it's ambiguity. my current headcanon is that it was onesided on Lemony's side, and that Ellington didn't have any romantic feelings for him. and i need to reread the books, i love them so much and it's been a little while, but yeah, Ellington being gay is a neat concept, i think.

in conclusion, i think basically all of these characters are Very Much Not Straight, but the ones listed were just the first ones i could think of!

thanks again for the ask!! have a great day, and happy pride month!! :)

[v3joker]

a long time ago i had a "which are you" quiz on quotev for eddsworld. for the main 4

i accidentally deleted it one day while cleaning up my quotev

then the thoughts kept invading my mind in wanting to remake it on uquiz so i did

here ya go, have fun

[arolesbianism]

Oh god the new cotl trailer is dragging me right back in... Damn you goat why must you relight my interest in this game so

[ailinu]

listen this is said without criticism but it’s so wild starting a game in a different group with a different playstyle. what do you mean you’ll describe what the conversation i’m hearing is about instead of playing it out. what do you mean you’ll just pass us sparknotes about what other characters look like instead of describing what the camera sees when they make their first appearance. what are we even doing here.

[dandyshucks]

okay last post before i decide on what im going to do for the next couple hours but old lady crafting club is tomorrow and i don't have a crochet project decided on yet still fsdjkl

my options for continuing on WIPs are: dragonscale dice bag, isopod amigurumi, or a little stuffed pokeball

or if i want to start a new project instead of completing a WIP: strawberry hat i'm going to make for a friend, hand warmers/fingerless gloves, polar bear amigurumi, and idk if i have yarn for these (definitely not enough for a the second) but i also would like to make a junebug beetle amigurumi and a hood/scarf/hat combo garment thing