Nuclear Mentality

Given the number of mechsplo fans and monsterfuckers following this blog, you'd think that folks would be less perplexed by mad science kink.

Fortuneteller, turning over the Death card: Don't worry. It isn't literal. It simply refers to some form of change. Me: Phew Fortuneteller; turning over the Gets Eaten by the Fortuneteller While Trying to Leave card: That can also mean many things

It's practically cliché for tabletop RPGs with detailed mechanics for tactical positioning in combat to shoehorn every other condition that could befall a character into that framework, so you end up with stuff like an infected wound being modelled as a very complicated edge case of falling down. I want to see a game do it the other way 'round. I want to play a game where detailed mechanics for modelling infectious diseases are the starting point, then combat is built atop that, so getting knocked prone is modelled in the rules as a disease with a very rapid progression. I want to play a game where you can get infected with "being on fire".

call that an inflammation

Fumbling your recovery roll to get up and progressing to the terminal stage of the "prone" condition.

It's a shame that porn games and sim games don't have a lot of present overlap, because I feel like "horny mechsplo game where you have to actually win the fights to get to the sexy bits and it's one of those hyper-detailed 1990s era mech piloting sims that uses every single key on the keyboard" would do numbers with a very particular audience.

It's crazy how Vyper is one of the hottest characters in the game while her model is still a demented tadpole thing