Beyond the Gravity Well 🔜 dragon con

Pragmatic progressives — armed with bread-and-butter proposals to improve the lives of ordinary Americans and an upbeat message of hope — are the future of the Democratic Party.

This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope

ICE crossed a line in LA

I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

CW: Mounted police using batons to beat person who is on the ground, while the horses simultaneously stomp them #acab #abolishice #chingalamigra

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Good luck to the protesters, Godspeed and safe movement. Stay strong LA.

In light of current events let’s take a minute to remember this quote

“Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.” - Brennen Lee Mulligan

We are working on a physical release of Mon-Dane, with some quick start sensations, NPCs and player characters! Stay tuned as we finish development! Because the scope is so much smaller than BTGW, we can easily release it without a kickstarter. And the distributor we are talking to sells to b&ms :3

I miss dot hack. We really need a new series. I’d love a modern entry into the games.

Mon-dane by Subside Entertainment A TTRPG about simply holding it all together

We recently launched a 7 page table top RPG that uses tarot cards instead of dice!!! It’s a bit of a pilot game and is one of a series of tarot based games we are making

Players play as monster hiding their true self in the day to day rat race of modernity

subside-entertainment.itch.io/mon-dane

disco is one of our inspirations as devs, we absolutely love that game, the detective class has a perk that is a call back to shivers, and one of the example specialties is "outland kingdom" which should be clear :3

Pretty soon we’ll be releasing a series of games you can play with just a tarot deck!
-a light weight RPG
-a writing prompt game
-a game of skill and math
-a wold builder inspired by the quiet year
-a hidden roles game inspired by werewolf and town of Salem

I am reminded of this dialogue from disco Elysium.

If you haven’t joined the discord and are interested, we are planning to launch a westmarches style play-when-you-can series to help on board folk and test out moduals and stat blocks!

discord.gg/TXDghhDUcx

-get a publisher on board

-flesh out our “monster manual” with a SpecEvo tool kit so GMs can make fauna for home brewed star systems and planets

-make tutorial videos introducing players and GMs to the basics

-put together a nicely edited real play game or two

Alright! With the holidays past us and that terrible first week of the year, I want to take some time to let people know what our big goals are this year. #indieTTRPG #scifi

-ramp up public first impression one shots and get more feedback

-create some public lore with short stories and maps

Be sure to check out our website subside-entertainment.com! Join our mailing list to get the occasional update!

Who’s at Holmat? We are at the table top room all weekend!

Who’s at Holmat? We are at the table top room all weekend!

It’s a pretty big design consideration for us. Modularity makes home brew easier. And out skill system is left open ended to allow players to be creative when designing a character.

Where are all the holiday matsuri folk who are into table top?

Butler is on my short list of writers I need to find the time for, I have read some experts and synopsis to get a handle on her writing and she is definitely one of the greats. we are already paying some homage to her in the scifi horror section of our TTRPG’s setting.

We are a indie TTRPG project, so here is hoping blue sky is a great place to connect and reach new eyes.

So the game now features a mixed success system reminiscent of powered by the apocalypse, and a more war gamey system for that dnd style combat.

The 184 page doc is open to the public!

discord.gg/TXDghhDUcx

An other design motif

We separated narrative and detailed violence. Not every bar fight needs to be a full board game action sequence. And sometimes a big fight should have a board so players can position in clever ways.

After a conversation with Kenneth Hite at Anyone’s Game. We went all in.

Wait wasn’t this also the name of an aughts flash game?