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Portraits of the main cast of Friends at the Table: Perpetua.

#friendsatthetable
i’ve never actually played any of the mainline perpetua games but i LOVED the mystery dungeon spinoff when i was a kid 🤣

Here's a few more pieces of fanart I found on my archives for #fattrewind

a fake album cover for aria joie, with aria in a purple leotard holding a microphone

a fake album cover for aria joie, with aria in side profile singing

#fattrewind aria :)

I'm only on the ttrpg indie space because of @friends-table.bsky.social and the fan community surrounding it, happy 11th fatt anniversary and good #fattrewind to everyone celebrating it! Here's a sad Cori I drew for #15daysofFatT 2023

A tablet showed a page from PALLAS trrpg, next to a Tim Hortons mug of tea and a tote bag full of laptop and notebooks.

Beautiful cool morning to sit in the shade and read some more PALLAS.

Love a burnable ttrpg, that’s the quality I look in a game

two ladies standing at the shore by ruins. there is a giant humanoid octopus attached to the ruins

field research

weratedogs: We only rate dogs. This is the goth cousin of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Please understand it's not just a phase, and only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (credit u/vincidelaunc) pic is a fluffy black pomeranian w a nose that looks like an eye + my interpretation of the dog

im obsessed

PALLAS by Genderphage Games a surrealist Austen-esque Social TTRPG in an endless Borgesian Palace of Dreams

1. PALLAS (@vivien-holmes.bsky.social & @alicesamv.bsky.social )

That's right, I'm talking about this game again, but it FITS! Jane Austen meets Piranesi - you'll find infinite halls and rooms of surrealist, fantastical parties thrown by god-like patrons of the arts. 🎭🪭

I would definitely spend hours staring into space listening to an actual play of it

Lovers of indie #ttrpg, what are some of your favourites that you've read recently and are desperate to play?

Here are some of the gems I've got hold of, and recently read, that have me REALLY excited by their concepts, lore, design, or cool mechanics! 🤩

Thank you for the shout out! I hope you enjoy the game!

And then we have the Underbelly Domain, for those who are no longer a part f polite society, amongst them:

For the Military and Rural Domain, my favourite elements are actually interconnected. So here is Game, the Rural Guest, and The Wild Hunt, the Military Faction:

The Jury [Guest(s)] Reputation: Variable The Jury is a multi-headed ever dissenting entity which we all might temporarily be a part of.

Fun fact! I wrote my thesis on jury trials. Here is what I have to say on the subject, as a guest of the Law Domain:

The Union [Faction] Whispered about in awe or fear depending on the whisperer. There are rumours about whether or not this faction might even truly exist, but sometimes the power of the possibility is enough.

With unending parties and countless guests, there is, of course, an unending number of waiters, cooks and maids in the Downstairs Domain. There are even rumours that they might be unionizing.

The Mice King [Guest] Secondary domain: Downstairs Reputation: 10 Not too far away from the throne room, underneath the floorboards there is a second much smaller throne room with a second much smaller throne. That throne seats the Mice King. The Mice King’s authority is not recognized by any Patron and there have been military campaigns to dethrone him. His sovereignty is recog- nized by all mice in PALLAS and so he keeps on rulling.

Those of the Crown Domain align themselves closely to the Monarch, the grand ruler of Pallas, who exists above the Patrons. There is, however, a second lesser known monarch in Pallas, one that I would gladly pledge my allegiance to:

Fig Apotheosis, Hedonist Prophet [Patron] Reputation: 12 Not all churches worship a god or even a patron, Fig Apotheosis has built a church that worships beauty and pleasure. His court is composed of incredibly beautiful people dawning clothes more beautiful still.

Being from the Church can mean a great deal of different things in Pallas as it is up to debate what classifies as divine. I think Fig Apotheosis has a pretty compelling answer to that.

The Astrologers’ Guild [Faction] A real mishmash, from fortune tellers to the more fanciful side of the Mathematicians, but altogether everyone who looks to the ceilings of the great halls to uncover truth.

I’m an astrology girly, so my favourite setting element from the Academia has to be the astrologer’s guild. Being an infinite palace, there is no sky on Pallas, but that has not stopped people from looking up in search of answers.

Pallas is a very stratified society where one’s affiliations matter a great deal. Using the Resistance system, we could represent that through the different Domains. The book includes setting write-ups with Patrons, Guests, Factions and Rooms from each Domain. Here are some of my favourites:

#ttrpgradar finale. Here is my top 4.

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Thank you for the shout out!

The Starlet is perfectly represented by Hester Prynne by Hugh Thomson

Last, but not least, we have the Starlet! The original influencer, this class is about being famous and being pampered for it, what exactly is your art form is unclear. In many ways, the Starlet is the class that really has their finger on the pulse of Pallas’ social structure.

The Groundskeeper is represented by The Countess of Effingham with Gun and Shooting Dogs, by George Haugh, who has not one, but two dogs

There's no outside in Pallas. But there are gardens and rooms with entire forests inside of them, manicured and taken care of by people such as the Groundskeeper. This profession has abilities that give you control over space or history. But my favourite has to be the one where you get a dog.

The Spectral Soliloquist is represented by Mezzetin by Jean-Antoine Watteau

A Thousand Heirs Once per session, you may make a gossip+law check about an NPC. If you succeed, they are a descendant of one of your souls, which you can prove with an old family secret/recipe/tradition. A Thousand Names So forgetful… You may replace any of your titles with one of a different skill, but you lose it at the end of this party. A Thousand Ears You may leave one of your ghosts somewhere, where they will hide and observe, but will run back to you before long. They are very weak while detached from you and quite scared of the bright lights, so will fly back to you if they are discovered (unlikely) or too surprised. A Thousand Ancestors When concealing a secret about one of your descendents, you may compel them to share with you a secret about another family member of theirs, of one dice size smaller than the one you concealed

The Spectral Soliloquist is an actor, but it is first and foremost an entire troupe of ghosts condensed into a single character. When social connections are as important as they are in Pallas, this is a Profession about community and ancestry.

This was a tricky one to find, but in the end, the illustration chosen to represent the Etiquette Lawyer was Miss Goody Two Shoes Accused of Witchcraft by Walter Crane

The Ultimate Edit You may add, remove, or change one word or number on your character sheet. Null and Void It is a great shame to be shamed. Once per session you may ignore all results of a dice roll and roll it again, keeping the new result. Metalegal Practice Your powers reach outside of the universe itself. Once per session, if a player makes a mistake regarding the rules of this game and you successfully correct them, you may gain a d6 secret on someone in the room. Contradiction The mathematicians are getting worried. You may take d12 Justice stress to disprove any claim about you.

The Etiquette Lawyer is another unconventional artistic profession, but, when faux-pas can be the end of someone’s career, there is an art to knowing how to outplay your conversation partner. This is class came around because of my irl profession, and it is for the rules lawyers out there.