#realis

[voyaging-too]

Austin Walker's new TTRPG is fascinating to me. Realis is built on a strange core mechanic where characters advance by becoming more specialized, and unlike in the average game where specialist skills are added on top of generic skills, here there's a serious trade-off. A weak ability to win fights grows into a medium ability to win swordfights grows into a powerful ability to win swordfights against royal guards. A weak ability to track prey grows into a medium ability to track prey at night grows into a powerful ability to track prey at night on the tundra. Austen talks about how this is partially inspired by Berserk's changes over decades, and how this will encourage players to start with simplistic, archetypal characters, and mold them over time and through play, into something more unique and specific both in gameplay and storytelling terms.

But also this game's core mechanic is literally just about aging, about the beauties and tragedies of aging and hopefully getting good at one thing but losing the chance of getting good at a hundred other things, mastering your life but letting go of other possibilities. Heavy.

[egg-tats]

jack de quidt has crafted the most wonderful music track of all time for Realis 3. I can only describe it as "confused clown solving farm mysteries"-core

[to-find-out-what-happens]

oh yeah I wanted to share this here as well

I'm reading Realis if you can't tell

[wanderingandfound]

Friends at the Table 2015: What if Han Solo used to be Beyoncé?

Friends at the Table 2025: What if Han Solo wanted to be Gandalf?

[dancy-nrew]

some nerveless chancers

[elkinboots]

upon hearing the little descriptions of each character from the realis debut, i rushed to scribble some ideas down. here's some first attempts at Hye, Donnie and Wellaway (???) we're so incredibly back

[clementineskesh]

REALIS is coming THIS THURSDAY not a drill after years of teasing and waiting it's finally heeeeeerre!!!!!!

[ahcoffeebeans2]

its here (pre-orders only)

[rancidmice]

the beasts the beasts the beasts…

[somniens]

Hyperpigxation in progress…

[filohazard]

O, Those Nerveless Chancers, O...

[laminatednewspaper]

These designs might be subject to change, but I wanted to try my hand at those nerveless chancers.

[banneduserhashtagiridewiththisbe]

Long pig is long

[mrmarielda]

Hey, little boy! D'ya know about the pigs?!

[evegoldenwoods]

The Judicious Boar receives two salutes.

I've got to get a scanner, because taking pics with my phone is just brutal 😭

You never know with traditional art how it's going to turn out when you start, this ended up much more like a children's book illustration than I was expecting.

[vforvalensa]

Let's fucking go first Realis fan supplement