#depending on timezones ofc.

[daemon-in-my-head]

Good timezone fellow Durges, Durge Owners and Durgetash enjoyers. I hereby declare; yeah @aleksxo and I are actually gonna do that Bhaalspawn Championship bit, let's go

So, a bit of organisational stuff first:

THIS IS A 18+ EVENT. The game is officially 18+, and so is the community event for it. And well, considering we're throwing a bunch of cannibals into one tiny arena... Do be aware there's gonna be some 'spicy' topics (but no making out on the battlefield, that's what the lockers are for!)

Date: The event will start from August 5th onwards (so, a week after the Gortash week), the Discord Server and the Sign up however will open as soon as this post is published and will end on before then. That way we can set up matches and schedules in time.

Rules: The rulework used will be 5e and for the sake of fun and fair competition, some spells will be banned.

Place: The event will be hosted on a specifically created Discord Community Server and the matches themselves will take place in a VC, meaning; all Participants must be ready to use their voice aka talk while others may listen. Ofc, just spectators are welcome too. Otherwise what's the point of those pretty stages?

OCs: Custom Durges mandatory. No default Durges cuz it's hella immersion breaking. Please give him a moustache and a name if you want to play our fav white dragonboy.

Matchmaking: We aim to keep the Matchmaking as balanced and comfortable as possible, meaning participants of the same region and similar classes will be matched against each other where possible and all OCs will compete with lvl 20 stats, spells, spellslots, feats, yada yada. Depending on the amount of participants we may expand or decrease group sizes (we're literally gonna use Soccer championship rules for ranking).

Inexperienced TTRPG Players: will recieve support! We'll help ya figure stuff out and get ur character to work how u want.

Prizes: OC Art and an OC Oneshot provided to u by your hosts! (Unless...?)

Now for the work part of this thing: we're still headhunting! Specifically people that would like to assist us who are US based (Mods and DMs, cuz we're European and we like sleep actually). If there's any Europeans out here who wanna help tho... We're also looking for support there!

And last but not least, here's the Server link, the specific rules and announcements/orga updates will be posted there (here occasionally if its big stuff) and ofc the form to sign up is live there too!

As per usual, reblog, spread the word, the more the merrier and do feel free to drag ur friends along! If ya like, they'll even get to cheer you on as you fight for Daddy's attention!

Also here's the twitter version of the post if you'd like to spread the word... Cuz neither of the hosts has any presence there. A flaw in our brilliant plans I agree.

[pseudophan]

nora, I just realised phil reblogging your gifset probably quite significantly helped us with the fandometrics both this and last week (depending on which timezone they use to cut off the weeks)

it definitely did! if he reblogged someone's gifset after every video (and they've tagged phan ofc) he would help us out so much .. amazingphil would you like to make a deal

[dayseedrawz2]

Some TADC doodles to start your day (depending on your timezone ofc)

Poor Caine yall ruined his purity with your Moon designs😭

He won't admit it, but he likes it /J

[scarapanna]

Hiya y'all!!!

I just wanted to give a bit of an update regarding au ask stuff and other things!!

For the storybook AU, I've started to cook some stuff regarding the actual story in it! (I've wanted to work on a first story Arc for a while and just got started on panel concepts, I tend to take a while for these kinds of things so I apologize in advance for the long waiting time)

I'm super sorry for the sudden drop in activity over there, I plan on answering my remaining asks and close up the inbox to start out with more story driven posts, as I've been stalling on my few remaining ones too much (I might close the inbox to finish those too but I'm still debating over it)

Here's a really rough concept for some arc 1 pages to make up for it!!

As such, to focus on Storybook i'll be stalling Intertwined opposites asks for a bit (I've finished the big info post recently so I wanted to give more time to Storybook after such, as a bit of a break)

That doesn't mean I'll stop posting about it ofc!!

My brainrot and ideas are still very fresh so I won't any time soon, I'll just be taking a bit of a break from asks for now

And lastly, ty for reading!! Have a neat day/night depending on your timezones!!

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

Hi hi ✨ so I was wondering about something and I really hope this doesn't make you uncomfy/is too personal and makes me seem like a stalker or smth lmao

Soo based on the linked main blog in your bio I concluded that you're german (at least I think that's the german language) and thus in the same time zone as I am. (I'm from Luxembourg) After following your blog for some time, I noticed by chance that no matter the time, you POST either way. 💀

It could be 7 am, 11 pm or even 2 am, doesn't matter, there'll be a new post.😭 It's not that I dislike it, in fact i love your posts, especially your writings and HC's! 🫶 But I was just wondering, how you do that, posting so much quality content several times a day and even at such hours. Ofc you could queue your post and schedule their release but something tells me that if it's Ran's birthday (like it's rn), you actually stay up late to be one of the first to see his birthday outfit and game animations.

Nothing wrong with it, was just curious to how you do that lol

Have a great day/night (depending when you see it lol, it's now quarter past midnight so I'll go off to sleep soon as well) 🫶✨❤️

No it's fine, though I'm a bit surprised anyone noticed! That is indeed German on my main blog but I am not German, that name is based on an old nickname my Grandfather (who was German) had for me. You're actually an hour ahead of me! But yeah I do scedule pretty much everything ahead, I am definitely not good enough with time keeping to get everything at the same times each day. The only things that aren't scheduled are the new things like the merch, news and new game releases. I'm actually pretty lucky that I don't really have to stay up for anything rn though since my daily routine works pretty well with Japan's timezone and the times when things are released. (The international game is pretty much the only exception).

Hope you have a great whatever too when you see this though! 💚🩷

[macaw-squawks]

Hi👋 could I request a messy-grunge Darwin's fox(or also known as chilote fox) moodboard? And maybe im asking too much, but, if in the process of making it you could think of a name for me, I would be content, just recently I have came in terms with it so... Yeah. Still pretty new to everything. Thank you if you do and if you don't it's fine either way! Have a nice evening, or morning, depending on your timezone.

Darwins fox moodboard, with messy grunge themes!

Requested by: anon

Hope this works, anon! Hoping I kinda got the aesthetic kinda accurate, but who knows. Also, the names are under the cut! Tried to theme the names around foxes, nature, and a lil bit of mischief lol (and ofc a bunch of options for you!) Let me know if you'd like any changes! :>

Names

Todd

Reynard

Rena

Vicki

Soro

Vulpe

Fauna

Maddock

Willow

Olive

Juniper

Mallory

Rowan

Laurel

Eris

Pyro

Aiden

[coconox]

my whb progress 2

as of apr 7, 2024

since whb's half anni has passed, i thought i'd do a progress check to reflect on how much has happened btwn now and this post

general info

lvl: 47

status: 🤨 mostly f2p

i say mostly cause i just recently broke the f2p status and bought bp for ppyong

i refuse to buy packs and in the future i'll prob be very selective over who i pick for bp (aka i wont buy every bp), so for the most part i'll just be having the f2p experience

when i started: launch (10/03 my timezone)

ver: erolabs

team setup

i finally have levi now lmao

sometimes i'll switch out one of the levis for attacker satan but this is what i use generally

everyone's lvls and artifacts

skill lvls (normal atk-ult-passive)

attacker mammon: 1-3-1

selfie mammon: 4-5-4

selfie satan: 4-4-1

selfie beel: 4-4-4

bloodshed levi: 3-3-1

selfie levi: 3-3-1

secret club

i only work on completing mammon's unholy board

stuck on needing attacker mammon's sig atm :'))

materials

too lazy to screenshot it all but im basically broke on pies, tears, pretzels (tbf i dont play the minigame whatsoever), red keys, yellow keys, and seals

everything else im either ok in supply or overflowing w it

overall thoughts / reflection

this section is for me to look back on in the future when i do progress posts. i'll break down this section into multiple parts similar to my prev post for consistency

STORY

honestly, its interesting in concept. since sadly only 1 chapter has released btwn now and my last post so thoughts havent really drastically changed

ch5 imo wasnt really a full on hades chapter. yes, it takes place in hades and yes we get some intro abt hades, but i think this was supposed to act more like a bridge to tartaros, which is prob why we didnt have any h scenes w any hades chars aside from levi. ofc we'll get back to it being hades-focused eventually, but the story for a while is most likely gonna pivot to tartaros bc of that big lore drop abt mammon at the end

i assume we'll prob be introduced to the cherubs in tartaros bc of selaphiel txting us near the end + it being mentioned at the end that theres a hub of angels in the lab, and hopefully part 2 of mammon's h scene. it was strange at first for mammon to only have 1 h scene, compared to satan or levi that had 2, but w him implying theres probably gonna be a part 2 in his h scene + we'll most likely see him again in ch6 (or however many chapters tartaros will be played out), we'll prob experience part 2 in his home country. tbh that prob just me inhaling MASSIVE hopium since mammon isnt rlly that popular but i can dream ok-

i hope us being in tartaros doesnt last for just 1 chapter. you cant condense the experiments tartaros went through to create a clone of mammon only for them to fail + bring up the fact that the seed is prob also in tartaros in just 1 chapter. well— technically you can, but not at the pace chapters are at atm. chapters have roughly 15 parts of story on the main branch, and imo that much info abt tartaros cant be condensed into 1 chapter unless if they make the story bits like WAY longer than what they normally do

GAMEPLAY

tl;dr as an endgame player, its too easy 💀

working on the spreadsheet ever since the games 1st month of release and now just recently testing multiple team comps, the "meta" is so monkos HSHFJDJ

this game is INSANELY dependent on you having more than 1 dps/tank light card. light is also just an unstoppable element and i wish the game was balanced a bit more to let other elements shine

enemies are now way too easy to defeat. ik i prob shouldnt be complaining abt this but pls im a pgr and neural cloud player at heart I NEED SOME CHALLENGE

ch3 and ch4 were prob the most tedious and awful chapters, but at least they actually made me think when it comes to battles. now i just place down chars and let it play in the bg while i go do smth else. ofc this may just be bc i have a team that im comfortable w using everywhere, but id like to see at least a bit more "challenge" outside of holy coin portal

also, for weekly achievements, lvling artifacts is not a great requirement

i only pull when theres a new s rank or when mammon is moved to standard, so its very, VERY rare compared to avg users. having the artifact req is essentially forcing me to pull during those gaps just so i could fulfill a weekly req which sucks. i also dont need to lvl anymore artifacts in general for my team comp. lvl 15 is the bare minimum i need to get through all content w ease, anything after that is just a small boost tbh

on the note of daily/weekly requirements, there needs to be more of them

i mean in a sense of theres still gonna be 9 daily achievements, but you get more options on HOW you get to the 9 daily achievement req. most gachas that ive played always have more options than necessary to fulfill the overall requirement to get all rewards, so having this strict number w strict reqs is rlly not that great tbh

RESOURCES

thoughts from last time still havent rlly changed. pies and candies especially are still rng dependent which sucks, and now there gonna revamp pancakes while also keeping the old pancakes ???? theres way too many currencies (w some even having very little to no use) atp which can and will get overwhelming for new players

GACHA

i hate solomon seals. you can tell that red keys were supposed to be the main gacha currency if you ever look at old packs, but smth happened along the way and now we have seals

pity is also way too high for what we're earning atm. based off of f2p earnings, every week we get roughly 1 pull of red keys, maybe 2 pulls of yellow keys (red and yellow keys are more dependent on the key boxes which again, dependent on rng), and 1 pull of solomon seals. this doesnt include the stuff earned outside of dailies/weeklies, and i think there should be more ways to earn said currency through dailies/weeklies and not be so dependent on either paying or pulling chars

speaking of pity, i wish we had pity for both of the standard banners

i also wish theyd separate char and artifacts into their own banners. that way, if someone has a char but needs their sig, they can just pull in the artifact-only banner and try to get said sig

tl;dr in general i wish everything wasnt so strict and rng dependent, also wish numbers made sense like why do we get at least 5 red keys a week when 1 pull is 3, JUST GIVE ME 6 KEYS ATP

so yeah thats all for now lmao. im pretty sure i have a lot more to say abt this game but my minds at a blank atm, so ig thatll be saved for the next progress post which will be around 1st anni

[remed1alchaostheory]

info post! 🍓

hi! I'm an 19 year old roleplayer with about 5 or 6 years of experience! this pinned post covers my rules for roleplay and what I'm interested in! please please please ensure you read my rules before reaching out to me!

rules! 🍓

- I will only roleplay with people 18 and over! sorry but this is not negotiable.

- I'm pretty much exclusively writing oc x canon double ups! I will not be writing a canon character for your oc if you are not doing the same for me.

- most of my ocs are female so my side of the rp will generally be fxm, fxf or f x other. I'm fine with my partner having male ocs ofc, I just don't have any myself and I'm aware that's an issue for some people.

- I would categorise my writing as semi lit/lit. I don't really like to set an expected amount of how much I write because it varies depending on my partner, my humour, and the plot. however, I generally do at the very least 2 paragraphs.

- I do not tolerate partners who try to control my oc's actions in the roleplay, I find it incredibly annoying.

- please do not criticise my ocs unless I ask, even if it's constructive criticism. if I want advice on how to improve an oc I will ask.

- I am okay with nsfw but I don't enjoy rps where that's the entire plot. I also only write nsfw with adult characters!!!!

- as a general rule I'll willing to try and write any character for my partner, but if I do say no to a character, it's probably because I've tried to write them before and have not enjoyed it. that or it's a character I just refuse to protray (eg- mori, bsd)

additional info! 🍓

- I am in gmt timezone!

- I am a full time student who will be returning to work in summer. if I'm not answering you, I'm probably not ignoring you, I'm probably busy or asleep.

- I roleplay on discord primarily. I will roleplay on tumblr if my partner doesn't use discord but I'm not on tumblr that often so replies will be less frequent here.

- I write third person only!

fandoms! 🍓

congratulations if you made it this far hehe.. anyways here's a list of various fandoms that I'm interested in!

the character names in brackets are characters I'm looking for someone to play for me.

the fandoms marked with a star are ones I'm particularly interested in right now.

games

stardew valley (sebastian, sam, haley) ☆

danganronpa (makoto, byakuya, fuyuhiko)

anime

haikyuu (semi, suna, sugawara, potentially others) ☆

the disastrous life of saiki k (aren)

chainsaw man (denji)

demon slayer (inosuke, sanemi)

bungou stray dogs (tachihara, kunikida) ☆

jujutsu kaisen (yuta, maki, potentially others)

blue exorcist (suguro)

tv shows

the umbrella academy (diego) ☆

inside job (brett, andre)

please reach out if interested!

[rphunter]

Hello hello! 🍓 I’m looking for an fxf roleplay and please be 20+ if you choose to contact me. I’m in a GMT+3 timezone. Here’s what I’m looking for:

- this is fairly important due to some recent encounters, I only feel comfortable roleplaying with women and women only. Trans and NB ppl welcome!

- In terms of tropes, I’m a big fan of rivals to lovers, annoying x annoyed (preferably playing the annoying character), forced proximity, etc. I would also love to hear what you’re interested in!

- the plot can be very flexible as long as these tropes are implemented! Though I do prefer modern settings or even urban fantasy. While I enjoy romance and would prefer to mainly focus on the two characters involved, we can add side characters and their interactions as well to make the story more lively!

- A specific plot I’ve been itching to do involves to office workers who have boring day to day jobs but act as vigilantes at night. They don’t know the other as a vigilante but it would be fun if they discover it and end up having to work together. (They make a pact not to rat the other out to cops).

- I’m fairly active! And will be for the next 2 weeks until work starts up again. I’d prefer to have a partner who can be just as active and ofc if life gets in the way just lemme know!

- I usually write 3 paragraphs ranging in length depending on the pace of the scene. I really value grammar (ofc the occasional typo occurs lmao I’ve done it before). And please do add some drama, have your character react to mine, make them angry, make them elated, I can get bored if it’s constantly monotone responses.

- speaking of boredom, if either of us get that feeling, we can pause and discuss it further to see if we can improve upon it or create a whole new story! Some stories just don’t work out and that’s okay.

Aaaand that’s all I think! Feel free to reach out and I’ll get back to you when I can. ^^

.

[ocrpfinder]

Hello hello! 🍓 I’m looking for an fxf roleplay and please be 20+ if you choose to contact me. I’m in a GMT+3 timezone. Here’s what I’m looking for:

- this is fairly important due to some recent encounters, I only feel comfortable roleplaying with women and women only. Trans and NB ppl welcome!

- In terms of tropes, I’m a big fan of rivals to lovers, annoying x annoyed (preferably playing the annoying character), forced proximity, etc. I would also love to hear what you’re interested in!

- the plot can be very flexible as long as these tropes are implemented! Though I do prefer modern settings or even urban fantasy. While I enjoy romance and would prefer to mainly focus on the two characters involved, we can add side characters and their interactions as well to make the story more lively!

- A specific plot I’ve been itching to do involves to office workers who have boring day to day jobs but act as vigilantes at night. They don’t know the other as a vigilante but it would be fun if they discover it and end up having to work together. (They make a pact not to rat the other out to cops).

- I’m fairly active! And will be for the next 2 weeks until work starts up again. I’d prefer to have a partner who can be just as active and ofc if life gets in the way just lemme know!

- I usually write 3 paragraphs ranging in length depending on the pace of the scene. I really value grammar (ofc the occasional typo occurs lmao I’ve done it before). And please do add some drama, have your character react to mine, make them angry, make them elated, I can get bored if it’s constantly monotone responses.

- speaking of boredom, if either of us get that feeling, we can pause and discuss it further to see if we can improve upon it or create a whole new story! Some stories just don’t work out and that’s okay.

Aaaand that’s all I think! Feel free to reach out and I’ll get back to you when I can. ^^

.

[peach-thekid]

[fandom literate rp ad] i'm back in my hunger games phase, don't @ me

just when i thought it couldn't get any worse from rewatching the trilogy, i have now fallen back into the pits of panem after watching songbirds and snakes tonight… sorry in advance friends 🤡

heyo! my name is talia! i'm a 24yo female in EST timezone! former theatre kid, wannabe author, just a silly lil guy tbh. i'm looking for, you guessed it, hunger games fandom rp! this is a specific craving and i'll admit fandom rp is not my forte so i may not follow the "norm" oops. i just want to find a collaborative partner who really vibes and can be a friend to build an amazing story with in this universe! 🧡

does that sound like you so far? cool, cool, lets proceed

🏹 rp style and looking for: 🏹

daily/weekly replies, i have a lot of availability as of right now

18+ writers, character ages will have to be discussed due to the fandom canon, but just dont be creepy gdi

third person, past tense

literate to novella replies. i can go anywhere from 2 paragraphs to exceeding nitro count, depending on scene needs and inspo. quality > quantity tho!

romance is a must. m/m and m/f couples are my preference!

OCs only! canon charas can be discussed but not as mains. i also don't double and i don't do canon/oc couples, i'm sorry ya'll i know this is a deal breaker for some

obsessed with faceclaims, pinterest boards, spotify playlists, an organized and fun server, literally give me all the aesthetics and let me fangirl i am in desparate need

no SFW limits, i'm an open book and probably too desensitized

NSFW-wise, i am like 20/80 in terms of smut/plot. i am totally fine fading to black, i am fine to write it as long as it fits and serves a purpose, but i dont do erp and i don't focus on it as a necessity to a story

ghost friendly, if it isnt a vibe it isnt a vibe. if we are an amazing fit then you will be stuck with me forever but i'm just a stranger on the internet as of right now so no hard feelings

not a canon nut, so open to changing or expanding as we want. someone open to not be a stickler for every canon detail would be cool, obvi we will follow it but i'm ok to add or adjust as we decide!

OOC chatter is a requirement, i am someone who wants to be your friend. idk how some of ya'll just be writing and not being annoying OOC i cannot do it

due to preference and previous experience, i am currently only looking for femme/afab writers, i hope you understand :)

🏹 HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT: 🏹

OCs before katniss era, childhood friends then one moves districts and they get reaped and reconnect

mentor/OC relationship (a younger mentor who won when they were far too young and are now mentoring their best friend from childhood after abandoning them?)

our own spin on canon with OCs implanted into the original trilogy story, like a spinoff of sorts?

capitol x district or peacemaker x district

ensemble casts are ok too im vv open!

tbh i would love to write our own hunger games and include some canon cameos and make our own arena and have a beautifully tragic story and cast, gimme all the darkness and angst and violence and tragedy and moral dilemmas and deep character bonds and impossible happy endings and fights and spectacle just - we can do it, that's all i'm sayin' 👀

i've attached my writing sample below! despite the casual OOC, i promise that if we're a good fit, our stories will be full of nothing but effort and a mild obsession/hyperfixation ✨

contact stuff 📱

if you are srs please reach out over discord. i do not check tumblr enough i'm the worst so i would love to get notifs bahaha my username is: muppetmania

i'm a lil picky (and full of anxiety) so please tell me youre from tumblr, a bit about yourself, your rp style, what interests you about this, and a writing sample ofc, that would be so gucci of you i will give you a big hug 🥰

may the odds be ever in your favor or whateva whistling sounds

[sigmashipweek]

Sigma ship week is finally here~! (depending on your timezone ofc)

Here is the link for the AO3 collection~! Please feel free to message me if there are any issues adding to the collection.

It’s so exciting to see everyone’s entries! We hope everyone has an exciting week!

Please remember to tag your work with #sigmashipweek2023 and tag us @sigmashipweek23 in your post.

[violetsinnovember]

RP BUDDIES

✨ alias: cee ✨ age: 30+ ✨ timezone: gmt ✨ triggers: animal cruelty ✨ genre: real life/kink ✨ about me: i work and study so my availability for rp is fairly limited, i can post once or twice a week and i'm looking for someone with a similar level of activity. please keep in mind that i'm looking for someone to join a site i'm on, a site i've been on for many years now (i'm not staff, just a member). not interested in anything else so please only DM me if you're willing to join and write these plots with me. i only write female characters in mxf plots, and my characters are quite diversified. i'm looking for someone LONG TERM ONLY, please. i cannot stress this enough. it totally sucks when someone makes you a character, then ghosts. so please please reach out only if you have the time & willingness. my word count is 400-ish to 1k+, depends on muse and what i'm given to work with. i'm also open to some tweaks and changes. feel free to DM me for details if you're interested! ✨ looking for: a long term rp buddy with similar tastes. i love writing pretty much any aspect of RL - crime, drama, smut, taboo. i have no triggers (i just don't wanna read\write animal abuse, but other than that pretty much anything goes) so i'm looking for someone who is not too limiting on that front, preferably. i love writing ships such as student x teacher, cop x criminal, therapist x client etc, and just throwing my characters into complicated situations and putting them through hell, pretty much. xD i'm also open to other plot ideas ofc, so if you have any feel free to toss 'em my way.

[butchviking]

I think ultimately the intentions for me don't justify something that has a negative impact - your mileage may vary and that's totally cool, the world would be boring if we all agreed on everything! i think i hold mcr in particular to a high standard because when all the other bands on the scene were taking advantage of their fans, mcr always seemed different - remember that bit on their dvd where some bands on some tour were asking girls to show them their breasts in exchange for backstage passes, so gerard got onstage and was like 'if a guy tells you to show him your tits, you tell him to fuck off'? they've always had a sense of responsibility for their fans, so i want them to have that energy for their gnc/dysphoric/trans fans. anyways it was lovely chatting with you, have a lovely day/night depending on your timezone!

my mileage definitely varies but also, if intent matters less than impact, u have no reason at all to hold anything against him! sure, he stated an INTENT to release binders... but he hasn't actually done it, so there's been no impact at all! actually i put off buying a binder lol cause i was like you're gonna feel soooo stupid if u finally cave n buy one and then frank iero drops his binders 3 weeks later. so when u think about it every day frank iero does not release a binder he is having a positive impact on me personally! on a less silly note i do wonder if he's done more research and/or been informed by anyone abt the risks & harms & if that has anything to do w why there's been no significant updates on the whole thing.

& yes ofc i remember that 😭 i think about that all the time. i believe his exact words were "spit in their face and scream FUCK YOU!"... thank u gerard way for all that u are and have ever been to teen girls & young women everywhere. so sincerely from the bottom of my heart im so grateful to him. (at the same time he's obviously felt way Too responsible at times and got a whole hero/martyr complex abt it and. its not healthy i wouldn't wish that on the others. its ok for them to be just some guys its NOT their responsibility to be right abt everything all the time nd thats ok.)

its midday here but im on night shift so its like midnight for me nd i should really get 2 sleep 😭😭 goodbye my sweetheart i hope u have a lovely day or night too <3

[equalseleventhirds]

Okay so this is GM anon, to answer your questions: as a friend group we definitly lean towards sci-fi and adventure, as in we enjoy movies in those genres so we know and enjoy the conventions thereof. Horror too, but in the style of Scream watch-alongs, or watching scary movies to make fun of them (and hide that you're feeling creeped out) no actual like gore or serious contemplative horror. I don't really know if it's better to go with more serious of more silly games, I was def looking at the more silly stuff bc the serious ones feel really awkward to me (but that might be informed by the fact that most serious RPG's I've heard are longform? The actors get really deep and attatched to their characters and I can't really picture feeling that intense? But maybe I'm just biased to think that short games are always more comedic and silly?). I think I'd prefer more rules/guided games to start with, I think it'll help with getting started and not freezing up when you can't think of something. I think puzzle games or like a heist or mystery sound great! Social interaction too, that's def one of the plus points of RPG's and games over watching something, that you're spending the whole time talking to eachother. Tbh I really don't know what would be best to focus on, I'm just spitballing, I just think something with a clear goal. We usually have at least a couple of hours time together, but it's not necessary for a game to last that whole time. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this!! I'm in a different timezone, it's actually pretty late for me so if I don't answer any follow up questions, it's bc I'm sleeping LOL

hi again gm anon! glad u did not wait up for me bcos it took me a while (i have...... many games), but here is a handful of recs for you!

first up, i think generally caltrop core games might be p good for a beginner; it's a very simple d4 system with very structured rules (how much depends on which game, but generally it's turn-based with set actions to choose from). there's still room for roleplaying & improv ofc, but it's easy to keep a handle on the table. there's been a caltrop core game jam with lots of submissions before, and ofc u can browse the tag on itch, but something like crystal souls or cursed confections might be fun for your group!

futuristic scifi 'group of thieves/scoundrels/rebels/etc do a mission' games are also very popular (i own like........ 20? 30? some are cyberpunk and some are spaceships and just. lot of em.) and also generally have a decent structure to work with (altho less turn-based than caltrop core, usually). a lot of them are geared towards longer campaigns, but can be done as a one-shot if you ignore some of the between-missions stuff. or do it as a post-mission cooldown thing. u kno. (lots of them are sorta forged in the dark based, but the slightly less complex ones i think are good for beginners; fitd can get really involved, but there are also simplified ones!)

you might enjoy offworlders, off the grid: resurgence, xanadu, subway runners, what's so awesome about hacking the planet, weasel overdrive, make our own heaven, bubblegum wizards 2, or dwindle.

and finally, i do love a dungeon crawl; keeps everything to a relatively small & defined space, but you can get weird with it (npcs in a dungeon? yeah! timespace fabric folding in a dungeon? yeah!) and it's a place to do all the puzzles and riddles and inexplicable creature encounters you generally don't get a chance for in a 'here you are in A World' sorta game. also, easy to keep short (my game sessions tend to run 4+ hours for oneshots, but in a dungeon crawl you can just. skip to the last room lmao.) games designed for dungeon crawling tend to lean more horror (if they don't lean..... d&d, basically), but i tried to pick ones where you can either take out most horror elements, or choose to play them lighthearted and chill/campy. you may like crwlr, the dark below, or the empty house.

.......and that's some basic game recs for your group; should be fine for 3-4 players, or even for one-on-one play if you can't get everyone together, altho that's not the ideal. as far as games specifically designed as two-player games, i know there are a bunch of them on itch, but most of them are gmless (usually asymmetrical gmless, but still gmless), and many of them lean heavily emotional (altho some are silly!). i'm not sure if you have different requirements in mind for a two-player game; lmk and i'll see what i can do? altho probably not until after this weekend, i got some stuff to work on for school T_T (this is....... part of why i'm not actively looking to gm rn, even tho i waaaaaant to. too many school.)

oh also podcasts! i know there's more than this around, but you can always check out oneshotpod for shortform games of many kinds! international podcast month also has some oneshot ttrpg episodes; i gmed a game of dwindle this year that was lots of fun! i'll poke around for more sometime, but for now i rly gotta get some sleep lol.

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Also pookie I forgot to add that I’m not specifically requesting that you write any of them!! I’d obviously be happy if you feel inspired by even one of the ideas I sent in but a) I sent in so many there’s no way I’d ever pressure you into writing them all and b) there’s never any pressure or anything of the sort

I hope you enjoy the rest of your night/evening (depends on timezone idk :)) if you’re comfortable sharing I’m curious about what timezone you operate in I’m in UTC -5

Much love💋

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omg babe dont worry at all!! yes i will work on them bc ur my fave person ever but im very thankful for all the ideas ! ur so sweet haha <3 ofc theres pressure i have to make them perfect for u

ty!! wait babe im stupid im in eastern standard time but i cant tell if youre an hour behind me or not. <3333