Scribble M. Horror

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very concerned that The Realm of Yolmi is about to be appropriated by osr maga types

the noun "game" includes both physical components and ephemeral events, and rather than being imprecise language I think it keeps the uncomfortable truth that those two things are not as separable as we might like them to be

the game is what's in the box and also what happens at the table, and it's not an accident the language implies they are one and the same

1. 3.5e 2. 4e 3. AD&D 4. Classic Traveller 5. Microscope

Kimberly Scaryne@kimberlydairine.bsky.social

First 5 TTRPGS in the order I played them 1. Red Box D&D 2. AD&D 2e 3. D&D 3 4. Vampire: the Masquerade 5. Feng Shui

You're telling me an army of tiny animals, like thousands of really, really small animals, is what makes me sick, and that the way to stop them from invading is SOAP?

Tonight a mercedes made some aggressive lane changes/passes without using a turn signal. Then I noticed that the right side had a huge dent in it from an accident. Then I noticed sticker on the back with mock counts of various kinds of pedestrians it had supposedly hit What the hell dude holy shit

edjefferson.comLocal Wikipedia: The Encyclopedia For Local PeopleWikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.

the sticker in unbelievably poor taste just like because of how many people are killed or injured by negligent drivers every day but also then demonstrating through behavior that you definitely are ONE OF THOSE NEGLIGENT DRIVERS

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Ed Jefferson

@edjefferson.com

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

2 meter diameter disc of metallic foil. When crumpled up into a ball and thrown it captures ghosts. unfolding it back into a disc releases the ghosts.

health m insurance plan that costs $400 a month and only covers medical bills for Bumps and Bruises that are also less than $53

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KetAnthropic JoshAI

@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

rules-might makes rules-might

blark@blarkblarkblark.bsky.social

missed opportunity to call meatheads rules-might. coulda made millions fml

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@ratbastardgames.bsky.social

sometimes I think a poster and I are on the same page with wry irony and then they'll respond with something surprisingly genuine-seeming and I worry my joke-post was interpreted as sincere.

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J. Dracula

the point of ttrpg is to have fun with people. bad rules get in the way of having fun. somewhat bad rules make having fun too easy. a lot of the time fun is about having a bad time on purpose. but the most important thing to remember is that you are having fun wrong and i hate you for it.

does there exist a continuum between sauce and soup or are they decisively distinct things

incredible use of hex flower

Kimberly Scaryne@kimberlydairine.bsky.social

for all your fantasy plague needs! start in the middle hex when your character contracts a disease, then each hour/day/week/month, roll a d6 and move in that direction! then check the color key to see how your character is doing maybe if you get successful treatment, you can pick which way to go

Youtube Premium has a "download" feature which was enticing enough to make me try a trial run. Turns out it doesn't appear to actually download the video onto your computer; it just seems to allow you to play it through youtube offline? an absolute joke, lmao.

This is like how a subscription to Apple TV+ means you get to watch rate-limited 720p pixelated versions of the shows unless you use an Approved App which none of the devices I own are capable of running/logging into. Not so much a service as a scam

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Sporian Games

@sporian.bsky.social

This is a very me thing to say, but games are better when they are created for (and aware of) the specific material conditions of their play. More materialist games

GLITTERING CAMILLE@rozorosso.bsky.social

Ryuutama is like, very intentionally built for its context (that is, the author is a professional GM at a tabletop cafe where parties are made up of rotating groups of players) and doesn't perform as well in different circumstances or among groups with different expectations but it's a joy to read

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Scribble M. Horror@scribblemhorror.bsky.social

Looking to make/adapt a tabletop game where the main activity is building and flying kites

I'm really interested in this thing some rulesets do where they suddenly claim authority slightly outside their own scope. It produces incongruity sometimes; they're sort of liminal rules.

It would be a bad-faith reading to treat a "violation" Rule 0 of Farewell to Arms: Redux the same way you treat a violation of a rule in like chess, for example.

You might say that these are Exogenous rules (governing human-activity social disposition) which go out of their way to insist that they are Endogenous ones (governing player play-activity) and that's weird.

I'm really interested in this thing some rulesets do where they suddenly claim authority slightly outside their own scope. It produces incongruity sometimes; they're sort of liminal rules.

In all of these examples, the rules are attempting to use game-mechanical text to dictate something like what a player's attitude toward play should be. The result is, to me, pretty strange rules.

To be clear I understand and agree with the rhetorical aims in all of these examples: but taking the rhetorical aims seriously means weakening procedural/mechanical rules as useful game-structures at all.

I'm really interested in this thing some rulesets do where they suddenly claim authority slightly outside their own scope. It produces incongruity sometimes; they're sort of liminal rules.

Another is Farewell to Arms: Redux's Rule 0, which gives players blanket authority to ignore any rules **except** using them as "enactment or analog" of real-world atrocities. "War is never to be glorified."

Certain presentations of safety tools like the X card which are rules-like can produce odd situations where an enterprising player might have to refrain from appropriating the safety tool for game-advantage, which @samsorensen.bsky.social mentioned recently in Dead Letters.

I'm really interested in this thing some rulesets do where they suddenly claim authority slightly outside their own scope. It produces incongruity sometimes; they're sort of liminal rules.

One example is in Korsun Pocket, where the rules provide an (very funny) alternate win condition

@chloethecartog.bsky.social

OD&D's sword empathy rules are insane. I stumbled upon them mid-game yesterday and had to pause the action just to comprehend the basics

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Chloe The Cartographer

I loved drawing some old school monochrome dungeon and hex map work for a zine Wicked North Games are pulling together. (wickednorthgames.com) . They asked for something simple, which I overshot slightly and had to be reigned in, ha ha. So much fun. #osr #dnd #ttrpg #dungeonmap #dungeoncrawl

Looking to make/adapt a tabletop game where the main activity is building and flying kites

does anyone know i this exists already

Not really into fighting kites, just flying.

Looking to make/adapt a tabletop game where the main activity is building and flying kites

@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

tables for materials, kite shape & size. Players are meant to draw their kite. then for flying weather and wind conditions, kites have a %chance to fly, once flying a stability roll to see how high it can go

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Moby Dick

A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it.

@francfrancfranc.bsky.social

The keying continues!

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Sarah Creighton

@saraita101.bsky.social

There's a time and a place for a Hedgehog

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franc

freak shit continues unabated

@oblivion-txt.bsky.social

maturity is realizing that you don't have to read Susan Sontag's romance novel

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ceej

@ceej.online

waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt

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oblivion.txt

Speak, citizen.