Praise the Omnissiah, and Now the Weather

Random stinging pain in my neck 👀

atacked by my #MindWasp

Can you put those things on a leash please

Yeah. a really Long one so they can still get u tho

can I get a job as an editor but the only thing I do is correct when someone uses the word "prone" when they mean "supine"

Getting real tired of RPGs – both computer and tabletop – where willingness to fuck very inhuman things is a signpost of how morally bankrupt a character is, or at the very least of how much they're willing to Sacrifice For The Greater Good. I wanna see an RPG where getting it on with the Pulsating Mass is treated no differently from fucking an elf.

You say that now. Wait until you've seen some of the things Pulsating Mass has posted on mainstream social media sites.

No contest – I've been on Elf Twitter.

I dunno, bawss. Maybe he escaped from da palm of da Buddha or somethin'.

The Buddha's palm was an allegory for the inconsequential nature of his martial achievements in comparison to true enlightenment, ya friggin' idiot! Now, listen: he's either here or he's achieved nirvana, and if he's here, you're damn well gonna take this gun and shoot him!

Quite so. I've touched on this before, but random lookup tables that are far too small for their stated purpose are a frequent vice of indie RPGs. A table of Weird Shit that's ostensibly meant to be rolled on at least once per scene but only has a dozen total entries is just making the hypothetical GM do your work for you in a more roundabout way.

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Also, this isn't really reader-facing, but as a designer I find that forcing myself to come up with dozens of use cases for a given rule or narrative conceit in order to fill out a big stupid table can be tremendously clarifying. Often I'll come up with a descriptive or mechanical twist that seems wonderfully useful in theory, but when I try to work out actual dice-on-the-table applications for it I'll get stuck after the first three or four, and I realise that I'm about to make some hypothetical GM do all the real work for me. Not cool!