#nwod oc

[spectrolitha]

My pathetic little mew mew aka my Changeling the Lost OC.

He's an Elemental Fireheart.

Also he's a Loyalist. Which means he is out of Arcadia but still serves True Fae. These sad eyes will be the last thing you'll see before he sells you out to Gentry 😌

[cyberturbine]

[redratt]

a sketch of Lux, the Promethean (Frankenstein). her body is made of several different victims of a serial killer and her head is a preserved wolf head taken from a wall-- the victim in that killing was mutilated too badly to be be usable, so the wolf head went on instead. when she was new, Lux didn't have problems speaking, but as she's gone further along on her pilgrimage and come to terms with her inhumanity (due to a short stint in Cuprum) she's found it harder to talk. to fix the stiffness of head, Lux has to regularly re-wire her jaw. if she doesn't do this about every three or so weeks, Lux is unable to talk much at all beyond short guttural vocalizations.

she knows sign language, but the version she knows is a mix of a few different dialects, learned piecemeal along her travels.

for those who know promethean, her calcified alembics are: MOTUS ( ferrum / exemplar ) INTERNALIZE ( stannum / outcast ) IMPERATUS ( stannum / savage ) BESTIAE FACIES ( cuprum / hermit ) her current Transmutation is Phosphorum, and her current two alembics are Beacon of Helios & Ignis Aspiratus. she's occupying the Daredevil role.

Lux has mastered Ferrum's three roles.

[saintchevre]

A man and his fetch, what will become of them?

[drayners]

more OC art... this is the vampire Crow from the weekly World of Darkness game I play in! Crow is an anxious mage who spends their time hanging out with (and worrying about) the deadliest monsters in town. When not worrying away, Crow researches arcane rituals and spies on the dreams of town mortals.

[propalitetz]

magical boy polish hussar

[gristlegrinder]

one of those character inspiration memes. sorry i know i’ve never talked about marina for longer than five minutes on this blog but you need to know that she exists and she’s like this and i love her

[erisacolyte]

This month's high-res picture! The NSFW variant is available *exclusively* for my Patrons, so why not become one?

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[sprintingowl]

TTRPGs As Terrariums For Blorbos

One thing that I think isn't covered enough in TTRPG recommendations is styles of play.

There's a lot of "this game has this tone," or "this game is this amount of crunchy," but less "what are you playing towards?"

In games like Microscope and I'm Sorry Did You Say Street Magic? and The Quiet Year, you're playing to see what happens to the setting.

In games like Mork Borg and Into The Odd and Mothership, you're playing to see how far your character can get.

And in a lot of games, you're playing to create a blorbo, an OC, just a little guy, and the soul of the gameplay is the story of who your guy is and who your guy becomes.

This is blorbo style play.

And the thing about styles of play is that you can apply them to any game, even games that aren't really built to enable them. So I wanted to take a moment to shine a spotlight onto some games that do specifically enable you to fully blorb out. (I'll try to cover a mix of genres and tones, but the rpg scene is vast so if you have a favorite that I missed please feel free to shout it out in the replies.)

-Golden Sky Stories. This is the English translation of the Japanese TTRPG Yuuyake Koyake. You play as shapeshifter kids and spirits in a small town and, instead of tracking EXP, the thing that you carry from session to session is your relationships with other characters. The tone of the game is heartwarming, and if combat happens, both sides lose. There can be emotional turmoil, but this isn't a game where you have to worry about bad things happening to your blorbo.

-New World Of Darkness. On the other hand, let's say you *want* bad things to happen to your blorbo. You want to play a guy that's really going through it. If you also like modern supernatural stories, New World Of Darkness was built for you. Characters in NWoD can be entirely non-combat, or a literal werewolf, or a noncombat werewolf. The game places a lot of emphasis on navigating through the setting socially, as its supernatural creatures tend to run in factions and starting a fight usually means making a bunch of enemies.

-Pasion De Las Pasiones. Of course, not everyone wants a fantastical setting. Sometimes good old melodrama is hearty and comforting. Pasion De Las Pasiones is a playable telenovela, and it encourages you to play your characters bold and recklessly. Every class even has a built-in Meltdown, where if you're pushed to the edge they become extra reckless, ensuring a broad fallout of messy drama when they do manage to calm down.

-Cortex System / Unisystem. Perhaps you want to drop your blorbo into an existing fictional universe? But you also want stats and meaty character creation instead of just freeform roleplay? There are easily a dozen games on the Cortex engine, including Supernatural, Firefly, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Marvel, and Leverage. And on Unisystem, there's Buffy, Army Of Darkness, as well as a somewhat rare I Can't Believe It's Not Planet Of The Apes.

-Lancer / Gubat Banwa. If you like blorb-y play but still want a heavy side of combat, both of these games have you covered. Lancer has a sprawling scifi universe focused on mech pilots, and Gubat Banwa has a violent and lavish mythological Philippines setting. Both of these games also have stunningly beautiful artwork, so if you like seeing a setting visually come to life, these are for you.

-Fabula Ultima. My final recommendation is also an extremely gorgeous looking game. Fabula Ultima is built on the bones of Ryuutama (itself an excellent travel-fantasy game) to enable meaty, blorby Final Fantasy style campaign play. Combat is a rich and deep option in Fabula Ultima, but so is everything from spellcasting to crafting, and players have built-in resources they can spend to affect the story. If a scene isn't quite going the way you want it to, you can spend a point to nudge it in the right direction. Fabula Ultima also feels extremely complete without being too complicated.

So there you go. Eight options, and that's barely scratching the surface of the sea of blorb-y games (Seventh Sea, Exalted, Blue Rose, Legend Of The Five Rings, Coyote And Crow, Timewatch, Nahual, and more!)

It's also not wrong to play non-blorb-y games in a blorb-y way. Do whatever you're comfortable with! But you might enjoy dipping into these titles.

Finally, if you've read this far and you're somehow still looking for MORE recommendations, I wrote this game about runaway changelings trying to find their place in the world, and it's probably the blorbiest in my catalog.

[vamp-orwave]

I was tagged in "9 people you'd like to get to know better" by @syntheticmortal so herewego.jpg

3 ships: Tadfools polycule 🧠 (BG3), Imogen/Laudna 🌩💀 (Critical Role C3), Niko/Liam 🩸⚔ (shaydh's WoDsquad)

First ship: probably Jareth/Sarah from Labyrinth, but the first one I made art about was self insert OC/Murdoc from Gorillaz. In early high school I used to draw shitty little comics of myself and the band, and show them to anyone who expressed a modicum of interest. Some of them were way too spicy to be doing that. 😶

Last song: had this one on repeat while I was finishing chapter 7 of HFWN 😈

Last film: Blade (1998), which I gave my thoughts on here. 😎

Currently reading: I don't read enough books to have a "current" but the last novel I finished was The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (very good, highly recommend) and I have recently cracked open both the D&D 5e PHB and the NWOD Carthians source book for reference. 📚

Currently craving: McNaldo's cheeseburber 🍔

Fav colour: I literally can never choose just one, they're all so beautiful. Black is usually my go-to but she's at her best when complimented by a nice blue or red... or purple, or green... or -- look, you get it. 🎨

Relationship status: blissful long-term partnership with my lovely sweet Greek boy Bear (name and descriptor). He is also my full-time carer! We are both bisexual 💖💜💙

Last google search: I use Duckduckgo on mobile, but on desktop it was "eye contact synonym" #justwriterthings 👁👄👁

Current obsessions: Assorted vampires (does it count if it's a perma-obsession?) 🧛‍♀️ / The Emperor BG3 🦑 / the music in my Spotify likes 📻

Tagging @virginiaisforhaters @abearirl @haunted-skitty-doll @mephal @lazareneblessing @heywizards @meatcrimes @faneth @witchknightblack and anyone else who wants to do one!

[spectrolitha]

How it is going vs how it started

I spent some time staring at my Galatea OC for Promethean the Created... And then he, who was made with "spoiled, but nice kid" vibes in mind, suddenly revealed to me that he's kinda batshit insane, which I didn't plan for at all x')

Yeah, Narkizo is disobeying his creator's (mine) ideas. As a Promethean should, I suppose. That's why, using that knowledge, I drew a picture, which may be the best thing I've drawn in a while. Under the cut you can see what Narkizo was like before this reveal. He's still silly and goofy and affectionate towards Sharla, my Frankenstein girl, but now he has some sinister depth to him >:D

[cyberturbine]

VTR Ventrue OC, Knyazev Nestor Nikolaevich

[redratt]

heheheheh its her the vengeance necropolitan

[eden-regained]

I love the contrast between my Chronicles of Darkness/nWoD versus my World of Darkness/oWoD characters (especially when there's OCs that exist in both timelines)

CofD: We're just ordinary people being dragged into the whimsical and the horrifying beyond the veil of what a mere man may normally comprehend. We know there's an infinitely dark abyss waiting for us, but we will fight, no matter what, no matter the cost.

oWoD: We're all reincarnations of chaotic Gods from the collective nightmares of all earthly beings no we do not pay our taxes fuck you

(also I just realized that's basically what canon oWoD and CofD boil down to)

[disjointedaria]

A handful of finished comms from the current batch! -two of my friend, A Bear's, demonic original characters whose designs I ABSOLUTELY adore! -A series of various sketches of my friends' wonderful FFXIV Elezen and Viera couple -a delightful surprise request for not only a friend's NWoD tabletop Changing Breeds werebear, but my kitchen witch Mortal from the same game!

Slowly but surely making my way through the queue! Got a handful more to go and I've still got slots open!

[propalitetz]

im designing an npc for some friends’ princess the hopeful game

this is her non-transformed form