Rose Skye

All right, time to write some islands. Protoplastic is going to update to 0.6 soon.

Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity A Hard SF anthology of stories involving tea or coffee, stars, and gravity.

The final KS campaign day is here for the “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology: www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... - Let’s have one last surge! Appreciate all the excited backers who have pledged. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky #tea #coffee

Pokémon has got to be the only piece of Japanese media I know of where even hardcore fans collectively decided to just not bother using the Japanese names outside of a handful of human characters. Everyone tacitly accepted there were just too many nouns to memorize twice.

I'm Bringing Accuracy Back — Prismatic Wasteland Into the Odd famously jettisoned the “roll to hit” aspect of D&D derived combat. How can accuracy, specifically reducing an opponent’s accuracy by means of sand in the eyes or otherwise, be re-introdu...

If you ask someone how Into the Odd has streamlined their games, they will probably mention removing the "to hit" roll and just rolling damage.

I blasphemously ask the question: can we re-incorporate accuracy and missed attacks with Into the Odd without turning it into a major slog?
#osr #ttrpg

I'm not suggesting it's the only worthwhile way to make an RPG, nor even making a definite pronouncement on the subject at all. However, it's certainly true that the OC/neo-trad style is vastly more popular these days, and I can't help but wonder if that was always how it was going to end up.

I'm seen some really fantastic CoC OCs given lavish art and backstories, really treating the source material more like building blocks than framework.

It makes me wonder if "princess play" (neutral valence) is the crab of tabletop roleplaying, the final form it ultimately assumes given a long enough time, beside which all of us who want to do lateral problem solving are niche enthusiasts.

Not a single description, just bits and pieces from various essays and posts, along with seeing player character art get posted on Pixiv that looks... not recognizably like Call of Cthulhu as I know it, ha. A hyperreal extract of the idea of cosmic horror molded into high-detail personae.

I'm currently in an Impossible Landscapes campaign, and it's wild by contrast to read about the Japanese Call of Cthulhu scene. The shift in focus from redshirt investigators getting one-shotted by reading books to detailed supernatural OCs is a really interesting evolution.

I don't know if you mean "Transformers that came out within the last ten years" or "any Transformers after G1" but I'm going to tell you to watch Beast Wars either way.

Protoplastic Version 0.5 - This Vorpal Coil It's been close to three months since I updated Protoplastic officially, but believe me, I never stopped working on it. In spite of a variety of other projects and things going on in my life, when not...

At last, Protoplastic 0.5 is now available to the general public! Check out the most recent version of my plastic robot Citizen Sleeper/Monster Hunter clone.

A comic book man inked in rainbow rings of color, asking about nightmares.

Art is VATS targeting but for the soul.

Pigeon The most commonly used instant messaging service, named in honor of the recently de-extincted carrier pigeon. Capable of transmitting text, images, sound, and video in real time. Can also send other file types, but not open or display them. Ahoy The other commonly used instant messaging service. A few years older, with a slightly clunkier design than Pigeon, but a significant contingent of people (especially those from the first wave of noosphere usage) still refuse to switch to Pigeon, so many inheritors just end up running both and sighing about it. Colloquy The other other instant messaging service. The newest of the three, with a few zealous adherents. An ambitious project possessing a number of innovative features not found in Pigeon or Ahoy, but less polished than the former, lacking a handful of capabilities that some considered deal breakers.

The recent fragmentary exodus away from Discord to a dozen different Poob-adjacent platforms has me thinking of this set of services I wrote for a science fiction setting back in 2017.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Well deserved.

Congratulations to all the winners this year!

Pokémon Is OSR — Prismatic Wasteland I elucidate the ways that the Pokémon games embody several principles of the OSR playstyle, which is maybe unsurprising when you consider the history of JRPGs.

Pokémon Is OSR. Yes, seriously
#osr #ttrpg #pokemon

what the hell did I just read

Masterful play.

NULL_SPACE by Binary Star Games Freelancing in the solar system of the 24th century

ONE DAY MOOOOOOOORE

(on the itchfund)

binary-star-games.itch.io/null-space

I know, I know, I keep talking about the Bloggies.

But I built an archive of all the past Bloggies Awards. If that's your kind of thing, take a look!

You can also grab yearly OPML files of all nominees for your RSS reader.

bloggies.org

Into the Oddish is Heistfunding Now — Prismatic Wasteland Pre-Order a Pokémon tabletop roleplaying game parody of Into the Odd with Vileplume Mountain, a funhouse dungeon adventure.

Catch ‘Em All while you can! In commemoration of the 30th anniversary, I’m heistfunding a Poképocalyptic game based on Into the Odd. I call it INTO THE ODDISH!
You can pre-order it now (until ???)
#ttrpg #pokemon #osr

Second season never, by the looks of it...

If you're interested in fantasy, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is fantastic, it approaches the genre with an academic slant (e.g. copious footnotes) that may be appealing.

Designing Lore Blocks An alternative to stat blocks designed for The 1 HP Dragon.

It's been a couple years since Reach of the Roach God was published, and I'm still thinking about how it pulled off stat blocks without stats.

It's a load-bearing piece of tech that's criminally underused.

www.explorersdesign.com/designing-lo...

NULL_SPACE by Binary Star Games Freelancing in the solar system of the 24th century

The final pamphlet job for NULL_SPACE is up! (This is the last week of itchfunding. Get in while you can.)

binary-star-games.itch.io/null-space

Manga guy saying "Short form video causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit."

One of the very few privileges that writers have is our job lets us be the weird little freaks we are in peace. Why do I have to record myself talking about my writing? You can just read my damn writing lmao don't look at me let me crawl back under my damp log, let me live damn

In an effort to bribe you into voting for me, I have once again broken my record for longest post.

Enjoy my review of Daggerheart.
It's full of statements that are approximately true.

valerialoves.com/daggerheart-...