Avernus Labs

I will no longer be working on projects for use with Savage Worlds.

To be fair, I'm mostly dealing with the issues of moving & medical issues, so it isn't like I was working on much of anything at the moment.

But damn. I can't be party to this. Charlie Kirk was a fascist. There is no defense.

A cat laying in my lap at my desk. No hope of getting work done now, is there?

Alright! Up early, got breakfast. It's time to write some cosmic horror adventures for Savage Worlds. Until suddenly... Oh.

A movie poster for Virus starring Jamie Lee Curtis. A lightning bolt from space divides the poster, striking Earth. On the left side are the optical sensors on the head of a murderous robot thing. On the right are the faces of two of the protagonists. The earth is in the bottom right. "Life on earth is in for a shock VIRUS"

A really low quality photo of the paperback novelization by S.D. Perry. Look, nobody loves this movie and even fewer people remember it had a book. I tried.

Yes, THAT Virus. Look, the novelization was pretty good. S.D. Perry kept teenage me engaged from page to page.

Excellent! I have performed... uh... step one of game design.

Did you know, step two is really hard?

Seriously, Will's advice is helpful across more than just the visuals. My boss fight design is DIRECTLY inspired by LoK: Soul Reaver; I've written an entire campaign based on Dino Crisis & Virus.

... Shit. I gotta add these now.

Okay so good news: the rabbit hole of Orion Imperial naval doctrine did actually make designing the Republic Navy better and more interesting, as well as giving me strong lore reasons to provide the Bwa Hir multi-role fighter as the preferred platform for player characters.

Well this backfired horribly. I forgot that if the IRN is all Imperial hand-me-downs, I have to design the Orion Empire's tactics first.

Scope creep, GO! Savage Starfighter will now include a bonus section about the military and tactics of a faction that isn't even in the campaign.

Today in #ttRPG #gamedev I am going to be writing military doctrine & designing starfighter stats for the Isocene Republic Navy!

The Republic Navy consists of salvaged vessels of the Orion Empire pressed rapidly into service to address piracy that arose in the wake of the Imperial Withdrawal.

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How about growing with GIT THE FUCK OUTTA HERE?
Blocked.

Australian job hunt is hard work. But in between real responsibilities, I've started writing a mini-campaign to serve as a tech demo for my Savage Starfighter combat rules.

The campaign is a combination of Le Morte d'Arthur and Enterprise vs. Japan for its main inspirations. That's a sentence!

I'm closeted, but I'm trans. The American election results are an extreme danger to my life. The time, money, and resources I thought I had to dedicate to this company are gone now. I'm doing everything I can to get out before it's too late.

I hope some day I can work on what I love again.

It's been a bad first year for Avernus Labs. My production time got replaced with surgical recovery time, & now I'm quitting the job that was my production budget to work somewhere healthier. This means any serious release schedule is out the window. I will re-assess what this account is for soon.

That's not true. Even after you burn down the forest, you don't have a novel. You have very expensive lorem ipsum.

Even if the energy needs were cut by 99.99%, it'd still be shit.

I love it. Here's hoping you can get some VHS quality recordings so you get all the analog distortion in there too

How dare you. There is nothing unhealthy about being obsessed with Team Venture... I tell myself daily...

This is so evil it's something I'd do.
Player: "I'd like to rescue her."
DM: "From what? Why? In-character reasons only."

"Only". I'm confident you'll knock that out way faster than I do my own work. You got this!

I scrolled through all the comments, but I did not see Ridley Scott.

Ridley Scott?

A screen grab of the alien* from The Cat from Outer Space at the controls for his ship. *The alien is a talking cat with a collar that gives him telekinesis and telepathy.

The Cat from Outer Space

Why Does the World Exist? Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book." —Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review Tackling the "da...

Why Does the World Exist? was a fun read
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I will make time this week <3

I have been very quiet for the past 5 months because I'm in a bad full-time job. The good news is I might be quitting REALLY FAST and really soon, and once I'm out from under this weight I should be able to make proper progress again.

Good things to come in 2025 once the move gets sorted.

Ooo. MST3k did Doctor Mordrid? How did I miss that?

Children should be fed always. I'll never have kids, but I want my tax dollars to go to something like this. What is even the point of making someone's childhood into torture because we should be (allegedly) punishing their parents?

Feed the hungry, house the homeless, tend the sick. Always.

We doing a playthrough of The Quarry? ;P Because I'm down. I love that game.

I felt that. This cat and I have seen the same sneezes.

Heck of a lot less hate speech here! I feel like if I had my branded account on Twitter, I'd be stuck constantly defending my pro-LGBT stances.

Secrets of Grindea on Steam Secrets of Grindea is an old-school Action RPG with co-op support for up to 4 players. Journey through fantastical lands and battle tons of different enemies and bosses in your quest for truth, friend...

The closest thing I can think of is Secrets of Grindea, which I don't think counts under LitRPG (maybe it does?) but it has a very fun meta sense of humor.
store.steampowered.com/app/269770/S...

"[Specific Genre] is terrible because they would all make terrible [completely different thing]"

It's true. I made really terrible orange juice out of these apples.

That aside, it sounds like an unimaginative person. I have no doubt a cRPG made with a LitRPG story is doable.

The Black Marauder is an SLDF prototype for a short-range wireless Direct Neural Interface, and the bulky armor plating is a component of "Project Bee", some sort of advanced SLDF descendent of the Null Signature stealth system.