Isabelle (Thistle), Anxiousmimicrpgs

There is a playbook for Harpies (corrupted Girls) at the back of the book but my Handler says it’s definitely only for NPCs and that I 100% shouldn’t think about it or look at it or attempt to play it :)

High praise! Thank you 😊

I've read the previous build, I'm very excited. Isabelle has a unique talent for making mechanics that hit you in the gut when you learn them

Yoooooo

MOCKINGBIRD You fell to the Gorgons, becoming a Harpy - a corrupted girl. The Foundation took you back, ripped you out of voidspace with a cold hand, deprogrammed and reprogrammed you back into working order. Purging what the Gorgons put in your head and body with scalpels and chemicals. You were a human, and you tasted what it was to be a dream. Now you’re less than either.

Girl Frame Releases October 21st over on anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io. If you like Mechsploitation, Evangelion, 86, or just mechs+oppressed lesbians+eldritch horrors in general, I think you'll like this. #mechsploitation #ttrpg

Here's one of my favourite playbooks:

Got age-verified on my work Discord this morning because I wanted to display a preview image of an open giant squid beak and the surrounding buccal mass

Thanks for keeping me pure and safe from the squssy Keir

Receive Orders When someone of a higher Status gives you an order, choose a response: Follow the order, making plays if necessary. Follow the order (pick 1) hesitantly, while mouthing off, with gritted teeth — making plays if necessary. Make a play to Disobey Orders. Note: Good Girls follow orders. Your Handler may reward you for being good by raising your Status.

Adding notes to Girl Frame specifically for my audience #ttrpg #mechsploitation #GirlFrame

Also this is coming this month btw

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hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ?

i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme!
gofund.me/394dc2e93

TOWNIE(S) by Jellyfishlines Rustbelt grit

So anyway the favorite game I've written this year is out!
jellyfishlines.itch.io/townies

Me (long hair, woke up at 6 AM vibes) sitting on a couch with a high armrest (unusually high, up to my head). An all-black cat loafs with her butt towards the camera, her head turned to stare intently at me (my hair specifically)

She keeps chewing on my damn hair

Emboldened by the articles of @jdragsky.bsky.social @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social @jellyfishlines.itch.io and others, I wrote one of my own.
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Rules are a Ship
and I'm a Pirate.
But my games are too Kind
and I must desire the Depths.

several clowns. four are green. four are pink. one is purple.

ashcan of DEAD INTERNET THEORY, my ttrpg about time travel and how online is a world-ending cognitohazard is now available anywhere you support my patreon.

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TAXES Sale! by Jellyfishlines A bundle by Jellyfishlines, $15.60 for 6 games

Hey, if you wanna pick up all of my paid games, go to this sale.
I'm working to try and get some cash saved for taxes this upcoming year. Everything is 45% off.
itch.io/s/160807/tax...

I feel like one of the biggest innovations of ttrpgs was essentially just acknowledging that the GM is a player as well. I don't think we're all fully there yet, but it's heading in that direction, and the bakers have been well ahead of the curve for a long time now

For legal reasons, this is a joke.

A Ttrpg playbook, with text that says: Mistress Girls aren’t too bad - most Handlers are cruel, but you prefer the gentler approach. They’re so starved for praise, for affection, for love, if they get just a taste, they’ll do anything for you. And they’re kind of cute, aren’t they? When they think you’re the only one who cares about them. You can give them what they want, so long as they put in the effort to earn it. Additional Plays Give praise and conditional love. Gently brush aside their boundaries and personal space. Catch More Flies With Honey. Catch More Flies With Honey When a Girl Receives Orders and chooses to obey without hesitation or lip, you may pick 1-2 rewards to give it: Praise it or give it sympathy. Give it a pet name, and optionally a matching Tag. Raise its Status. Offer it sex or physical affection, with you or with someone else. If it accepts, deepen your Bond with it. Give it medical care. The offer of one of the above if it’ll just do one more thing for you. The offer of a Permission if it continues its good behaviour. It can reject your reward if it wishes, and you can Punish it for that rejection, or simply smile and nod. Insidious Conditioning When a Girl has an Intense Bond with you, you can adjust any roll it makes to Disobey Orders by -2.

The Mistress Playbook for #GirlFrame #mechsploitation, one of the playbooks for the Handler player (taking on the traditional GM role)
Playtesting soon

Hey, I'm noticing you kids haven't praised the Hawkmoth King in a little while... You're not getting cold feet, are you? We can put some cicadas inside you to help with that.

Tiered Content Warnings: Safety Tools When Writing Your Game A lot of digital ink has been spilled over safety tools, and they’re a relatively controversial topic. I’m going to be discussing here one…

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Wrote a small essay on tiering your content warnings #ttrpg

Show is really a step up from my already fairly-high expectations. Great example of why we need to pay artists to make what they want to make

Bad at Being a Person When you try to hold a conversation, spend Heat and roll. You may not explain what you mean out-of-character. On an 8-10, pick 3 you can do. All others you can’t. - Human words - Normal sentence structure - Fluid body language - Correct facial expressions - Polite eye contact - Deception On a 11+, pick 4, but they give you a Tag based on whichever ones you can’t do. On a 7-, pick 2, or abandon the conversation immediately.

I'm bad at remembering to share my stuff here but the autistic mech-obsessed trans girls seemed to like this one #GirlFrame #ttrpg #mechsploitation

I've been thinking on how to apply the expressionist manifesto as a lens for looking at games, and I decided to demonstrate that approach by analyzing how Triangle Agency aims at expressionist goals and, in doing so, earns a place in my heart.

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i think a lot of conversations about whether or not a game "is safe" would be more productively shaped by:

- how risky is this game
- are players aware of and consenting to this risk
- what are tools players can use to mitigate risk

Anyways my shelves are full of people I think are dope and who ALSO make stuff I enjoy

I genuinely don't understand why this is so difficult for people

I've liked my fair share of works that turned out to be made by reprehensible people. Removing those works from my life has never once been difficult. You can just do it. Barely requires any effort tbh.

big fan of the idea of "systems in motion" this article lays out; it gives a useful way to say...
- you and i are playing the same game
- we are reading the same game-text
- we end up with different systems in motion

Expressionism and Systems in Motion Jay’s original post on expressionism, well worth a read before you check this out

medium.com/@isabellerue... wrote a bit about @jdragsky.bsky.social's Expressionist Games Manifesto #ttrpg

Spent the last 4 hours writing about expressionism, I might have cooked with the essay (or might have made something incoherent) but I definitely cooked my brain

Losing my MIND over this link not having a preview image, but!This is an article in conversation with @jdragsky.bsky.social's Expressionist Games Manifesto and @sfxprb.bsky.social's post about said manifesto. We're talking about SUBTEXT, folks! Dive in! 200proof.games/blog/express...

This is a great article for getting at the techniques and ideas behind expressionist games that uses less game specific language. Reframing them in terms of subtex; which enables a framework for pulling in lessons from other medium