I believe Sir Fang (yes, that was genuinely his name) was indeed a Blackmoor PC, yes.
(2/2) So here's a fun hypothetical: what might D&D's third character class have looked like if that rival PC had been a different sort of goofy 70s horror movie critter? What does the hard counter to a wolfman or a Frankenstein's Monster or whatever look like when generalised into a character class?
If you're familiar with the history of TTRPGs, you've likely heard about how the proto-RPG that would become D&D initially just had fighters and wizards, and the cleric was introduced specifically to provide a mechanical hard counter to another player's vampire PC in a long-running PvP game. (1/2)
By making the consequences of *not* doing it even worse.
Posting this today for no reason.
Reverse "evil advisors" TTRPG where everybody has the same objective, but nobody wants to be seen taking steps to achieve it; your win condition is to manipulate your rivals into being the ones holding the knife while you make pious noises about how you agree with their goals but not their methods.
you get that too, huh?
It's striking how much mental health advice directed at kids and teenagers boils down to saying "you have to be okay with people treating you like you're not fully human because they're right, but it's okay because one day you WILL be human", then being genuinely surprised when it doesn't help.
I'm often told my games have strange player archetypes, but compared to many published TTRPGs, my stuff is pretty restrained!
(Excerpts from melsonian-arts-council.itch.io/troika-numin..., erinking.itch.io/patchwork-wo..., gormengeist.itch.io/greed, and weirdspecialty.itch.io/warped, respectively.)
For those who are also learning this fact for the first time today, apparently the font used for stats in battle is a custom typeface originally designed for the 2010 indie Flash game "Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars" called "Mars Needs Cunnilingus". Imagine a skeleton named THAT.
I was just looking up the various fonts used in "Undertale" to confirm something, and most of the answers were expected ones – Papyrus, Comic Sans, Wingdings, etc. – and then I got to the font used for displaying your stats in battle, and... WELL now.
All discourse aside, it does amuse me that "Dave" has apparently been a stereotypical "annoying bisexual dude" name for at least the last thirty solid years. I wonder how far back that goes, and whose fault it is?
I'm sorry, but I simply cannot take a Lord of Darkness type character who looks like a 22-year-old twink serious. Give me an eidolon of Outer Night who's old as fuck and built like a professional mall Santa decided to start hitting the gym on weekends and we'll talk!
Any time someone tries to convince you that this or that queer discourse is too dumb to be real, remember that "cishet men are pretending to love cock in order to infiltrate queer communities in sufficient numbers to constitute a discernible demographic" was once regarded as a plausible scenario.
People even wrote songs about it: web.archive.org/web/19991007...
Whenever someone on here is like "no actual queer person would have an opinion that bad, so they must be a straight troll", I'm reminded that when I was a kid, the prevailing opinion in many queer communities is that most bisexual men were cishet dudes faking it for clout.
Conducting an empirical study to determine exactly how close a solo journalling tabletop RPG inspired by classic first-person shooters can get to directly asserting that the gun is your dick before itch users start including it in collections of kink games.
Welcome to my new solo journalling RPG
Piss Chapel
There are people out there who want to go to the Moon specifically because they want to pee on some notable bit of lunar geography. I've met several. Pissing on the Moon isn't just a meme – for some, it's a life goal!
The trouble with fantastical architecture is knowing there are people whose highest aspiration is to pee in strange places. Your setting features a vast spire of iron and bone thrusting into the heart of an endless storm? It also features someone whose deepest fantasy is pissing from the top of it.
Today's aesthetic: that goofy Cookie Monster pantomime that stage actors do when they're pretending to eat something so that folks way in the back of the audience can see them "chewing".
They're pretty sore about the heroes constantly making fun of their disability way back when now that they know that's what that was, too.
YA TV show that does the power-scaling thing where each season needs a new villain to keep ahead of the heroes – then the final season's villain turns out to be season one's Wacky Professor type again, except they got an ADHD diagnosis and got properly medicated and are now tremendously dangerous.
New Gameplay Trailer!
[in-engine cutscene]
[protagonist running across a field]
[player mashing through some dialogue]
[protagonist petting a dog]
[another in-engine cutscene]
[protagonist climbing a ladder]
[player navigating a menu]
[monster screaming at the camera]
[yet another cutscene]
(2/2) People who act like Nicolas Cage actually did all the stuff you see in Nicolas Cage movies are generally transparent that they're doing a bit, but there's a specific subset of Tom Cruise fans who seem to sincerely believe that Tom Cruise actually did all the stuff you see in Tom Cruise movies.
Fans acting like media are documentaries of fictional worlds is of course a phenomenon that's older than film, but the interesting thing about modern actor-centric fandoms is the sincerity gradient. (1/2)
Bottom surgery lets you breathe underwater.
Whenever I see a joke about estrogen letting you double jump, some gremlin voice in my head assumes we're talking metroidvanias and tries to figure out the full upgrade tree. Laser hair removal grants an iframe dodge. Using she/her pronouns in public for the first time confers +50% fire resistance.
Supervillain monologue where it very gradually becomes clear that the science facts they're dramatically declaiming don't actually have anything to do with their current evil scheme and they're just taking advantage of a captive audience to rattle on about things that interest them.
You need to understand that I still have Kickstarter rewards sitting in my garage boxed up and ready to ship from a campaign that concluded in December of 2013.
