#astir

[ankharel]

Hullo

[misskazehana]

This beautifully messy nerd has been stuck in my mind and I wanted to dig him out today. The two pics are to show off the colors and the piece itself. I call em Astir (like the flower but with an I)

I watercolored this piece and the scanner denies the existence of yellow. And he's a bit too big for the scanner being 9 X 12" horizontal.

He's based off a character in my plague comic I wrote back in 2018 and completed in 2021 with 270 pages. I wanted to write someone better than the character in that work. Alas, they became two different people entirely in the end.

Rather, he's an entirely separate character who suffers traumas from heartbreak and human experimentation. He's at war with himself. He's horribly vivid depiction of how your own mind betrays you and how easily you can get stuck inside of it.

Imagine his inner demon makes light of all the misery it causes and mocks his whole existence in trying to rid himself of it. Astir denies it all the same but can't escape it. Especially, when it manifests and causes irreparable damage.

The horror is within himself. He'll either swim or drown in dealing with it.

Astir belongs to me, misskazehana

[foolmoonbun]

mech design: One-Armed Bandit

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

Trans made TTRPGs

Due to… recent events that I would rather not talk about, today's post is a highlight of different tabletop games made by trans peeps! These games are fantastic in their own right, of course, but you can also know that they were made by incredibly cool and attractive people

(Also, these are flyover descs of the game, they'll get more in-depth singular posts later, this is because I am lazy)

Perfect Draw is a phenomenal card game TTRPG that was funded in less than a day on backerkit, it's incredibly fun and has simple to learn hard to master rules for creating custom cards, go check it out!

Songs for the dusk is fucking good, pardon my language, but it's a damn good post apocalyptic game about building community in a post-capitalist-post-apocalypse-post-whatever world. do yourself a favor and if you only check out one game in this list, check this one out, its a beautiful game.

Flying Circus is set in a WW1 inspired fantasy setting full of witches, weird eldritch fish people (who are chill as hell), cults, dead nobility, and other such things. It's inspired by Porco Rosso primarily but it has other touchstones.

Wanderhome is a game about being cute little guys going on a silly adventure and growing as the seasons change, its GMless and very fun

https://weregazelle.itch.io/armour-astir Armour Astir has been featured in here before but its so damn good I had to post it twice. AA demonstrates a fundamental knowledge of the themes of mech shows in a way that very few other games show, its awesome

Kitchen Knightmares is… more of a LARP but its still really dang cool, its about being a knight serving people in a restaurant, its played using discord so its incredibly accessible

https://grimogre.itch.io/michtim Michtim is a game about being small critters protecting their forest from nasty people who wish to harm it, not via brutal violence (sadly) but via friendship and understanding (which is a good substitute to violence)

ok this technically doesn't count but I'm putting it here anyways cuz its like one of my favorite ttrpgs of all time TSL is a game about baring your heart and dueling away with people who you'll probably kiss 10 minutes later, its very very fanfic-ey and inspired by queer narratives. I put it here because its made by a team, and the expansion has a setting specifically meant to be a trans "allegory", so I'll say it counts, honestly just go check it out its good shit

https://willuhl.itch.io/mystic-lilies

Mystic Lillies is a game inspired by ZUN's Touhou Project about witches dueling powerful foes, each other, and themselves. Mystic Lillies features rapid character creation and a unique diceless form of rolling which instead uses a standard playing card deck.

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/141424/nobilis-the-game-of-sovereign-powers-2002-edition I… want to do a more general overview on Jenna K as an important figure in indie RPG design, but for now just know that Nobilis is good

https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/apocalypse-keys Apocalypse Keys is a game inspired by Doom Patrol, Hellboy, X-men, and other comics about monstrousness being an allegory for disenfranchisement. Apocalypse Keys is also here because its published by Evilhat so its very cleaned up and fancy but I love how the second you check out the dev's other stuff you can tell they are a lot more experimental with their stuff, this is not a critique, it is in fact a compliment

Fellowship! I've posted about this game before, but it is again here. Fellowship has a fun concept that it uses very well mostly, its a game about defining your character's culture, and I think that's really really cool

Voidheart Symphony is a really cool game about psychic rebellion in a city that really does not like you, the more you discover for yourself the better

Panic at the Dojo is a phenomenal ttrpg based on what the Brazilian would call "Pancadaria", which basically means, fucking other's people shit up. Character Creation is incredibly open and free, meaning that many character concepts are available

Legacy 2e is a game about controlling an entire faction's choices across time, its very fun

remember to be kind to a trans person today! oh also don't even try to be transphobic in the reblogs or replies, you will be blocked so fast your head will spin

[exocynraku]

[fatt-twitter-updates]

Friends at the Table reposted:

austin walker @/austin_walker, quote reposting weregazelle's post:

If you enjoyed the last year of @friends_table, you have a lot of thanks to give to Armour Astir for that. If you haven't backed the physical copy yet, you should! kickstarter.com/projects/weregazelle-armour-astir-advent-hardback-edition

💀 briar sovereign 🎃 @weregazelle:

dawn of the final day... the armour astir kickstarter is in its final 24 hours!!! we're 300% funded!! tell your friends and don't miss out <3

7:00 AM PDT, 29 October 2024 (Source)

8:31 AM PDT, 29 October 2024 (Source)

[himecommunism]

incoming pest control

[gronzen]

Armor Astir: Advent is (maybe) coming to print!

So breaking my little work-silence to say that the TTRPG Armor Astir is going to start a kickstarter for a print version on/around September 30th.

Armor Astir is a mecha-fantasy roleplaying game in the vein of Escaflowne or Knights & Magic using the Powered by the Apocalypse system (Masks, Monsterhearts, etc.). Think mechas powered by engines made of mithril-infused dragon hearts instead of Helium-3 reactors, elves using their inherent mana to pilot, and energy weapons that fire will-o'-the-wisps instead of plasma bolts.

The playbooks (essentially the "classes" of PbtA games) are split into four pilot "Channeler" playbooks and four "Support" playbooks that are things like an engineer, diplomat, etc. with an expansion adding more. Unlike typical PbtA games however, it also has a pretty decent mech creation system. It's not exactly a Lancer level flowchart, but it's still giving you a lot of customization options to build what you want.

So, if you're looking for something to scratch that magitech itch, go check out the game on itch.io!

[girldong]

Not a lot of people tell you this but you can actually make some of your best creative work by throwing everything you like into a blender shamelessly as long as you have a sense of craft

[aglennco]

The Deputy Mayor is dead. But she was already fucking dead. She was just an animated corpse wasting away in a nightmare she called a city. And she thought she was untouchable so she spirited me away to the inner city to beg me to end your world, Milton.

Alternate version under the cut:

[qserasera]

based off of this text post

[wakethedevils]

i don’t intend for this to sound derogatory but there’s something innately hilarious about friends at the table deciding to branch out into things like more frequent streaming on twitch and making a tiktok account to post highlights while doing shit like City City at the same time, the audio equivalent of staring into the sun for anyone who’s never branched out past dnd podcasts

[creppersfunpalooza]

little scenario doodles based on @radvercity and i’s conversation ignore these please

[nonegenderleftdrawg]

My Imposter's mech, the 055-18-Worker-B. I had a really fun time designing the mechanical components, see if you can make out the details in the blueprints!

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

Armor Astir: Advent

Armour Astir Advent is a gundam and escaflowne inspired ttrpg set during a conflict between the fascist Authority, and the rebellion. and that's all you need to know about the setting, any further details are chosen by the players, it's in essence a mech game like lancer, but trying to emulate the felling of shows like Gundam, which focus more on faction fighting and the psychological toll of war.

[exocynraku]

here's the first 2 cats for my new clowder!!! it's actually 2 clowders!!! the dire clowder and the astir clowder. and they're fantastical!! yippee!!