#yze

[nivenus]

In just under an hour, the pre-game social for our next session of "On a Pale Horse," an ALIEN RPG campaign begins! 30 minutes after that we'll start gaming. Spectators are welcome!

[gridshock]

Terminal State QuickStart and GRIDSHOCK 20XX are half price on itch.io until November 28th, 2023.

[fazcinatingblog]

Guys, please don't think less of me but I've been peer pressured into attending a Carlton vs tigs game. I'm so sorry.

In better news, look at this from Dylan Grimes

[cupcraft]

I am thinking....of redoing the map of my oc's country again.

[grandturtleeagle]

[foone]

the worst thing about being a smut writer who sometimes just connects to a server and writes a text file (because I was at work or something and needed to write it SOMEWHERE)...

is that sometimes I find a text file with a kinda generic name and I look inside and it's fetishy porn but I DON'T KNOW IF I WROTE IT OR NOT.

It's got no name! no author! no attribution!

did I copy-paste a tumblr story somewhere because I wanted to save it? or did I write this? I don't remember and I'm having to anal*yze the writing style to try and spot if it uses any fooneisms**.

I did try googling it to see if it came up anywhere but google suggested a reddit argument about racism against black women, how to identify if you've been sold stolen clothes, an argument about the CSS language used to style webpages, and something from an organization called "Steel Horse Leather" which really confuses me. Is it a steel horse? or steel leather, but from horses? maybe steel horses? you can't have steel leather, that's not what leather or steel are.

Anyway, have fun trying to guess what this story is about from those results!

* no pun intend ** an excess of tangential footnotes would be one, for example.

[supersoftly]

Yeah, uh are we reading two different series or are we just cherry picking? C'mon now.

Spy x family is pretty funny but I really don't like that both of the female MCs are dumb as rocks whereas the guy is portrayed as a genius

[vintagerpg]

I was skeptical when Free League announced their Alien RPG, yet it became one of my favorite horror RPGs. Like, instantly. The Blade Runner franchise is less picked over — two movies, both of which I enjoyed, an animated series I’ve not yet seen, some book and comics that don’t cast a terribly long shadow. And yet, again, Free League announced an RPG and I was skeptical (note that in both these cases, skepticism did not prevent me from, you know, buying the games).

This is the Blade Runner Starter Set (2022), which, like Alien, has a light version of the rules, dice, cards and a cinematic scenario, complete with a rather decadent envelope of handouts. The production value here is very high — this was probably Free League’s finest looking product until the release of Dragonbane, and even then the margin is narrow.

The system is a modified Year Zero. This is the first time it’s used different valued dice, but success is still a 6, so higher value skills have greater chances of success. The rest of the system seems pretty generic — combat is essentially unchanged from the last few YZE games I’ve read, there is a stress mechanic, and so on. There is a cool chase mechanic, where each sides selects secret maneuvers and the GM pulls a random obstacle, then all the participants hash out a resolution, then resolve or continue the chase from there. There is a lot of framework for investigation, too — a digital assistant, ways to leverage assets and so on.

It all feels good but I’m still a little unsure. It didn’t have that magic a-ha that Alien did. I want to see it in play, and I’m not sure when I am going to get it to the table. It’s handsome though, and nails that early cybernoir aesthetic squarely — its so smooth and dreary and rainy it almost seems like an entirely different genre than other modern cyberpunk games. If for nothing else, I appreciate it for that. On the other hand, the only character class is “Cop,” which doesn’t feel good at all.

[mymovie14]

Happy BirthdAy, Mile! Today they wouLd've turned 20 years old.

happy birthday, 13 9 12 5 - cody.

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fsi rfdgj bmjs dtz yzes tqijW dtz'qq gj gwfaj jstzlm yt yjqq

rEally? For fuck's sakE, maN.

[nivenus]

Hey folks! Here's something I've been working on awhile. If you're on the ALIEN RPG Discord server or subeddit, you've probably seen it already, but if not, feel free to use these for your game!

Thank you to those who've already offered feedback and helped me revise these rules, most notably kylki on the ALIEN RPG Discord server and Plas-verbal-tick on the ALIEN RPG subreddit.

[realtranstybalt]

real gang

hi [friend on other side of thr world] wake up i miss you

[ablogtocheck]

I hope someone has video of the whole "anal...yze" exchange, haha.

[cyberopossumgames]

My TTRPG Projects

Might as well talk about the projects I'm "working" on as my first post on this god forsaken website. This is a ramble and will be written in a single take with little to no revisions.

I currently have 2 projects that I would consider alive. One of those currently being paused due to the evil part of my brain wanting to switch to the newer, as less mechanically complex, one.

I also have a third older project that was originally going to be built using the BRP engine. That one I paused due to a mix of reasonably high mechanical complexity and me having started playing Skies of Arcadia and wanting flying ships.

From that point I started doing that second project. At first trying to create my own original (do not steal) engine. Turns out doing that kinda stuff is real hard, and I eventually chose to switch to YZE as a base. I then spent a good few months working on it at which point the evil part of my brain told me "Opossum, you hack. Your game is just YZE with a coat of paint. It's not different enough from the SRD".

After I provoked myself I then spent a few months reworking and prototyping new mechanics. New with a few asterisks, cuz, as we have already made clear, I'm a hack and said new mechanics were not original creations by myself, rather me getting inspired by mechanics from other games written by better designers and trying to adapt them to my current ruleset.

At that point I entered the OSR hole, which is not a very surprising development considering the first YZE game I ever played was Forbidden Lands. My ventures into said hole led to me attempting to add more and more of an OSR vibe to this new system. I cut the flying ships and magitech stuff I had worked on in order to make everything feel grittier and stuff.

The good part of my brain, which rarely shows up, then gave me the wonderful idea of "Pause this fucking current project before you turn it into an abomination of mechanics that don't fit together and just make your cute little OSR game, dipshit."

And here we are. I am currently working on a game with OSR vibes which, while I don't intend to have it play like DnD, since I'm not a huge fan of that brand, I want to have it be compatible with other works made by the OSR community and the works that inspired it.

[subskz]

scrolling through tiktok is giving me new ideas

channie who came so hard and so many times he passes out before he can even think abt trying to make you cum and next morning fucking kneels on the floor and bows in mf apology BC HE FEELS SO BADDDD BWAHAHAHAHHA but it's obviously like so flattering bc you pushed him past the limit and he had never felt so good🥰🥰🤭🤭😋😋

what is it w me and wanting to fuck w skz so bad they pass out.................... someone anal-yze me

PLEASE lmao my expert analysis is that you are simply evil w good taste <3 it’s such a specific concept but so delicious who can blame you really…esp w channie…getting him to the point where he doesn’t have to worry or think abt anything else other than how good youre making him feel is the dream 🥰 what better way to make sure he gets some rest than by overwhelming him w pleasure until his body quite literally can’t take it anymore

him apologizing so sincerely for not being able to satisfy you in return 😭😭 so cute and such a channie move…it’d be even cuter to see the way his face turns red when you tilt his chin up and reassure him that watching him fall apart like that gave you all the satisfaction you needed~

[echoesoftheabandoned]

You said you had her under control. That you would keep her in line and out of trouble.

T-T oz! T aczxtdp, te'd ufde. Jzf vyzh szh dsp td Lc-

Do NOT call us that. If you have to refer to us individually at all, you know the name we have chosen.

C-ctrse. Dzccj, Lwtdeltc.

The child is getting out of hand, and she's causing disturbance among some of the others. As are you.

Hp'cp yze oztyr te tyepyetzylwwj. Jzf slgp ez slgp wplcypo mj yzh esle jzf nly'e nzyeczw lww zfc eszfrsed.

True, but I've been able to silence the rest of you idiots before. You and the... I don't even know what to call her, are being too loud.

T'x dzccj. Hp'ww ecj ez mp bftpepc.

Also what the hell was that stunt you tried to pull with the other Addison? Were you about to warn her of something? Tell her to escape?

T… T ufde eszfrse. Htes esp L.M.J.D.D. lyo esle… Dtxfwlncfx mptyr dz otqqpcpye ez zfc dtefletzy-

Everest is a character. Who is part of a story not to be influenced by our hand. It's not a story of the Creator's so we shouldn't care.

L-lyo hsj yze!? Hp'cp nslclnepcd ezz, Lw. Lyo esle dezcj sld dzxp nzyypnetzy ez Tds yzh, eslyvd ez Nstnlrz. L-lyo T vyzh jzf slgp dzxp tyepcpde ty esle hzcwo jzfcdpwq. Zespchtdp jzf hzfwoy'e slgp nzyetyfpo vppatyr fa htes te.

We have interest in it as a story, and nothing more. It's an interesting narrative, however as we said, it's not our place to interfere.

Jzf vyzh jzf'cp delcetyr ez dzfyo wtvp esp Ncplezc.

!!- Don't you DARE insinuate that again. We are not like her. We are smarter. We are stronger. We, are, BETTER.

… Lcp jzf?

Grrr-AAH! Enough! This conversation is over. Just- keep Hazel in line and quite being so prominent and individualized. ... We're going to continue work on the catalogue.

[your-arch-nemesis]

@welcome--to--wonderland

U-UH, HEY, QUEENIE!!! SOMETHING'S KINDA- KINDA WRONG WITH ME, 'S KINDA WHY I'M eclaapo HIDING ty l nwzdpe RIGHT NOW, BUT IT'S yze qtyp! I CAN FIX IT MYSELF, DON'T WORRY!!! UH- SEE YOU LATER, I GUESS?