Ben Cook

Centuries pass, your consciousness wanes in and out, cities bloom, "worth it" you tell yourself, but your heart aches and pulls inward. Someone or something has dispelled the only wall between them and oblivion. You blackout. You awake in a forest, semitransparent blue wings now grace your back.

The spell begins, daggers wrenching into your shoulder blades but instead of blood, blue light ripples forth, your body slowly becoming translucent. Your perspective swells and you see the continent below, defenseless. You wrap your arms around it and shield it like a child. The Barrier Stands.

Every major brand should self-release pictographs of their logos and products for AAC and just general Accessibility. It's advertising and capitalism, but damn transparent images of cereal boxes suck.

Ideas to Forget: Roll for Kink, your mental defenses are strong but there is one kink in your armor. A TTRPG where every action is innuendo but not subtle, and still functional. You've achieved O, overall victory. And then I kept trying to work in the joke that Achieving O was the Sloppy Second take

To be fair to 57% Reincarnated Mage, if they hadn't broke it, some deity would've transcended into a primordial level dingus and borked it anyway, so honestly all worth it in the end. 57% of an Infinite Fragment of Void wasn't gonna stop it, would've tried, but what even is a % of infinity?

Unnamed mage breaks the universe, an amalgam of 57% of that mage's soul reincarnated into a different mage who broke the multiverse, and now the players have to pick OG, Broken, Broken x2, or Break it x3 and then experience the consequences of their choice. Eitherway, Raptor King Arthur and Zombies.

These "new" deities latched on to words that held power. During the Cataclysm and Æther's Slumber many were embalmed in the bunkers for lack of space to bury the dead. Thus The Embalmer became deified.

As time passed, magic slowly returned to Prana, and with it "new" deities. The Cataclysm also brought anachronistic little quirks to the continent: a Spruce Goose style airplane, a tower that is actually a buried castle from a Arthurian universe where only raptors are sentient, a zombie bunker, etc.

Pokemon Legends Z-A is the first in the series that I haven't picked up Day One, and honestly, I haven't seen anything to dissuade me from this choice. I love most of the new Mega Evolutions, but I'm just tired.

Inside the Barrier, a Cataclysm of energy terraformed the arctic wasteland into a vibrant multi-biomed continent. When the dust settled, so too did Æther Slumber as magic ceased for centuries. The deities of old were lost as their names fell silent on the tongue.

Prana is setting built on 2 primordial fluctuations. Æther and Void were in balance for untold millennia. Then a fragment of Void was sundered and splintered infinitely through a nesting multiverse of Æther. Then a fragment of Æther was melded into a Barrier haulting the natural order. (1/?)

In a nesting multiverse, deities grow in power through different names. Masks that suit their setting. Your cleric's relationship with their deity might transcend one universe. They pray to their deity and find the name shifts in their mouth to the new name, or in dire settings, silence as if lost.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

So, I don't hate Obsidian for note taking, but I do hate that I need a pretty theme and then that theme looks like a cluttered mess on mobile...

I also don't know if I have the energy to see if Joplin is any good alternatively.

As an American sugar fiend, I shouldn't have bought the Costco Tim Tam pack. I regret nothing, but still shouldn't have done it to my body.

The path of the warlock aims to add another nesting layer to the world.

The path of the cleric aims to merge this layer of reality with it's predecessor.

The path of resistance aims to unravel all nested layers and return to a singular reality.

None are wrong, none are right, all have consequence

My final demand is no Harry Potter crossover plant buddies. I'll allow Star Wars plant Droid buddies, and Wednesday, Marvel, even Wicked plant buddies, but I don't want JK getting plant buddy residuals.

Dear Lego, I need a full rainbow of those plant buddies, like all able to vaguely hold hands like the first two. You got blue and yellow. I need Red, Orange, Green, and Purple/Indigo/Violet. And while I'm making demands to the Bluesky void, Black, White, Coral, Teal, Brown, and Grey too.

The world is an ever growing cycle of rebirth. (Warlock)

The world is an ever shrinking cycle of decay. (Cleric)

The world is a nesting doll of worlds that came before and seeks to become whole. (Resist)

Clerics begin to see cracks in the world, but interacting seems to heal them, while fantasy accurate events may benefit the party.

Those who resist begin to see the world lose color. If they interact with the cracks of the world which they cannot see, they begin to perceive the true world.

You do not have to reveal your choice, nor do you need to hide any abilities you gain. The world shifts in your perspective based on your choice.

Warlocks begin to see the cracks in the world, if they interact, they spread but anachronistic events may benefit the party.

You wake up in a cold sweat from a nightmare that's already fading from memory. Only one phrase repeats itself in your mind, "The world is a lie, the Void is coming."

You may choose one level of Warlock, one level of Cleric, or to resist the call of the Void.

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Just curious, does anyone know of RPGs or Settings that use a nesting doll style multiverse/planar view?

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I have this gnawing idea of a world that nests at each apocalypse.

Think if the D&D Domains of Dread were just pockets of the previous world, fragments that splintered off.

Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on!

Finally settled enough in Denver to unpack my computer, so here's a first draft Skelephyte Daggerheart Ancestry. In my word document, the alternate build would be a mixed Clank/Fungral.

Character Vidalia Skelton 3.0: Out with Tubertons, in with Skelephytes or Ostephytes, depending on mood. Vidalia's Heart stays even though it is technically anachronistic. One could argue Vidalia the town in Georgia is a Latin cross between Life and Sweet, and thus sweet onion of life still fits.

Through blessings or magic long forgotten, Vidalia's Heart sowed offspring with mortal bones and assorted tubers. Thus Tubertons were sowed. Great warriors that have fought alongside them sometimes swear a vow to donate their skeletons to aid the now massive Tuberton Taxonomy.