Pyrous Red

Now you can look over the combat mechanics and some of the content before you buy.

The worldbuilding for my current singleplayer tabletop game has been an exercise in questioning my own political values and what kind of world I'd like to see.

I'm creating a nation that, for once, I can confidently call the 'good guys' of the story. One that maybe isn't a utopia, but is striving to be one in imperfect conditions. I'm giving them policies and ideologies and a culture that I (mostly) agree with, and then I look for a way to critique it.

The powers that be would not have given up control without a fight. Any radically new system would come about through revolution or immense hardship - or both. How would a nation like this realistically gain power? Why do they have such a robust interplanetary military? Where did it sharpen its teeth? How does it keep itself from going soft during a time of relative 'peace?' What has my perfect nation done to get here? Who got what they wanted and who didn't? How were these issues resolved? How violent was it? How do these events affect modern day?

Maybe this is all because I'm an American. I have trouble imagining any superpower like that being fully (or at all) benevolent. Any organization that's accumulated this much power was surely built on mountains of bones, right? Or am I so clouded by American history/politics/culture that I can't even imagine a utopia without its own dark, ugly baggage?

But I look at the rest of the world, the places orbiting the evil empires, and I see enabler states, bystander states, opportunist states, and then finally, the oppressed - and then those oppressed by the oppressed. I can't help but feel in my gut that the business of nations and states is inherently a bloody one. I just can't shake that nagging doubt. And I find the idea of a perfect utopia beyond reproach so much more off-putting and disingenuous than a flawed, even hypocritical one.

So that's what I'm trying to explore here. A state and a nation that are almost perfect as I would see it, dropped into a realistic world where it is morally contaminated by the messiness of politics and people. A fantasy covered in mud.

Just finished the first full-length playtest of my singleplayer tabletop campaign, and amazingly, my randomly generated crush survived the carnage. Her DEF die was only a D4, meaning that every time she's targeted by an enemy she rolls a D4. Whenever she rolled a 2 she was injured, meaning a subsequent attack would be lethal, and if she'd ever rolled a 1 she would have died instantly. Managing the squad is mostly about mitigating these risks with armor, fortifications, etc.

I made a random character generator for a future project of mine.

It also lets you customize it like a picrew though there aren't many options.

The password is 'hooplah'

I'm trying to run a blind playtest for my (currently untitled) tabletop game about driving a tank and blowing up big monsters.

If that sounds interesting reply/reblog this post or DM me for info. I need all the hands I can get.

It's so deceptively approachable for someone like me that's been using Blender since I was 11, but after a day of coding and troubleshooting and combing through link-rotted resources, you quickly remember, for example, that the physics engine is so busted that you can just walk against a wall and wiggle the camera back and forth to clip through it. Or that Flipper animation is genuinely broken and cannot be fixed. Or that there's no formal particle system.