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I have a pre-existing character that looks remarkably more like one of the relevant gremlins here than any of my others (I blame the lack of nose), so I thought I'd practice my character-making chops, and Eat God simply...intrigues me.
Name: Amber Ying
Species: Firefly
Traits: Dizzying Display (Glowworm's Flash), Fluttering Flight, Primordial Power (Fire)
Size: I unno exactly, but definitely a little short and a little light
Features: Antennae and Unusually warm to the touch
Facets: 6 Ethos (Talented), 6 Pathos (Hot-Blooded), 3 Logos (Naïve)
Creed: Having studies under more trustworthy authority, Amber has little obvious connection with Eaters; having heard much tell of untrustworthy authority, Amber recognizes their cause. Eating God, should he not be good authority, would make excellent cuisine, and a slap in the face of cultures that ought be slapped.
Rebellious Art: Autonomy. Amber sees deeper truths behind obstacles, and can bypass them almost meditatively.
Amber has a secret that makes the "true name" argument a little difficult: she's a superheroine. Cut from a group picture here is Black Ash, and anyone who knows she's both definitely knows her true name for relevant purposes.
(Credit.)
Given she's a henshin-type hero, I coulda gone with modal morphology, but even in her "canonical" form Black Ash can barely do anything Amber can't, so I'd put her ability to change as more an inventory thing, seeing as there's nowhere else left to put the suit here. Perhaps I could have gone with Guising; two different looks is a good way to fill many a role. Really, just about the only thing I feel I'm missing from the sheet is her martial art capability and interest...but that would come out more in gameplay, enough so when combined with visual design.
The next revision of the playtest draft for Eat God is now up. This version includes all of the missing rules from the previous version – advancement, Progress and Calamity Clocks, etc. – as well as numerous expansions and clarifications; the game is now considered feature-complete, though it still needs worked examples, pre-made scenarios, and a whole pile of Big Stupid Tables™.
The most noteworthy addition to this draft, however, is (mostly) complete character creation rules. All but one of the remaining blanks have been filled in, and many Traits have been revised to make them more flexible and add a few interesting new rules toys. You can more easily stat up horrible little gargoyles, there's a little something for the hypno kink crowd, and also you can be a (very small) werewolf now.
(The one remaining blank alluded to above with that "mostly" is the 36th Trait, which I'm leaving off for now because I can't decide exactly what to slot in there and I don't want to spin my wheels on that any longer; for now it just reads "reroll".)
Last but not least, Eat God now has a cover illustration, thanks to the very talented @magpiemalarkey. We decided to be forthright about the game's inspirations; for legal reasons, the depicted characters are not Muppets. (To be clear, only the illustration is their work; the text design for the game's title is a placeholder I threw together myself using a commercial font, so don't blame them for that part.)
As always, questions, criticisms, and bizarre rants are welcome – and if you'd like to give it a spin but don't have a group, character creation is its own little self-contained minigame, and all you need is six-sided dice to give it a try; feel free to post your creations in the notes!
You can find the latest revision at the links above, or below:
https://penguinking.com/eat-god/
#gaming#tabletop roleplaying#tabletop rpgs#eat god#character design#character building#riderlike#you know exactly what she rides#but she'll ride whatever#and probably get the other little devils around
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finished kamen rider hibiki's second half
this was some of the worst tv i have seen period. they were told to make it like a rider show and we got exactly that. an encapsulation of every single rider trope and flaw buried in a pile of pure spite and hatred for the thoughtful masterpiece that is the first half. this IS rider.
like it's not just random and spiteful, but it's also actively toxic and harmful. the sexism is fucking insane in this one. every character gets humilliated and demeaned, with the akira oni eps being the absolute nadir of the show. the kids are blamed for being lost and needing guidance from the adults. every adult in this is seen as an unmanly failure. and the only kid who gets to be an oni is the one who bullies everyone and acts like a loser for most of the show. what are kids supposed to learn from this?
honestly incompetence isn't enough to explain this. it can only explain so fucking much. this is too targeted to opposing every message of the first half in an almost surgical way. they went out of their way to oppose every single one of the thoughtful lessons and character arcs the show made before this, humilliating every character just because it Wasn't Rider Enough. someone upstairs at bandai or toei was really fucking mad at hibiki and burned tons of cash to make this harmful crap. they could have just made a lighter retool or even just pulled the plug but no they kept on making the expensive decisions they hated and planned to make EVEN more (including firing the entire staff and cast) just to shit on hibiki 1. like what the fuck was up at bandai.
they were willing to tell children their worries are useless, that if you are a girl you are a waste of space and that believing in people is bad, just to spite the show. they humilliated a teen girl by stripping her of her dignity and her literal clothes.
and the thing is. inoue was actually successful at what he was told to do. he made it into a rider show. sure, it's the worst example of it but. it's definitely more riderlike. a toxically masculine, sexist mess with shallow lessons. this is rider at its most exposed.
and it's sad bc since kuuga, rider did try to be more than that. but blade and hibiki failing, and this....atrocity of a show happening reversed all of it. it never recovered from returning to that.
i won't watch any more rider after this. this just killed it for me.
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would he qualify as a lanceer or a riderlike achilles?
Hmm I’d say he’d be another Rider since he impersonated Achilles by wearing his bf’s armour and stuff to lead the Myrmidons into battle!
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I don’t mind tackle’s outfit that much actually. she should be a rider and if she were a rider she should have a more riderlike design but since she’s not a rider this is fine. I don’t even mind the goofy t titties bc the whole thing is just very of its time to me. the only thing is I wish she had pants or dark tights
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