The idea is that when your pilot looks at someone's eyes directly, all of that person's thoughts and memories get projected into your mind at once. It is a jumbled mess, so there's not much information you can get from that, but the idea inspired me to write something, which I'll leave below the cut!

In On Call, you can't shift during the full moon phase because you have to be on call in case anything goes wrong with your fellow werewolves, their families or the town due to the wolves.

It's been 11 days since On Call, the werewolf dispatching game, launched. Let's see how we're doing

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So we've slowed down for the past two days. Lets talk more about why I'm doing this backerkit.

I'm not here to make money. I just decided that I was going to get more serious about the original stuff I'm making and what that looks like is hiring people! Starting with a portrait artist: Ralszi.

For each Scenario (a call) there's at least one NPC and I want art for each of them.

Make sure to follow: @ralszii

Next up a landscape/map artist: Shan. The map of West Yellowstone is going to look like a tourist kind of road map with a part of it zoomed in to show specific details. Also each Scenario will have a drawing of the location its at.

Make sure to follow: @anonbeadraws

I also need a layout designer so in comes: Cris. I tried doing the layout and cover myself and while it wasn't the worse, Cris is soo much better at this than me and y'all deserve the best.

Adventurers, the Plate is broken! Welcome to Calorum, the continent where everything—the land, the water, and every single inhabitant—is made entirely of food. This is no fairy tale; this is the Age of the Bitter Remnant, a world shattered by war and facing a terrifying, inescapable threat: Accelerated Spoilage. Your character is a piece of food fighting political betrayal and spiritual decay.

Forget your elves and dwarves—it’s time to play a Rogue made of ripened Fructeran grape or a Paladin dedicated to the purity of the Bulb.

🗺️ Chapter 1: The Shattered Plate

Calorum is a massive continent built entirely from foodstuff: you travel on bread-crust roads, sail on the Chili Sea (where the water burns with spice), and avoid the toxic, frozen wastes of The Freezer. Our central crisis is the horrific Sugar Scar, a magically irradiated crater that cleaves the land, constantly buzzing with unstable arcane energy.

👑 Chapter 2: The Age of the Bitter Remnant

Twenty years ago, a catastrophic conflict—The Calamity—destroyed the central Concord and created the Scar. Now, power is held by warring factions in a high-stakes cold war:

The Bulbian-Proxy Axis: Led by Vegetania's theocratic Bulbian Church and their client state, Ceresia. They preach purity and seek to wipe out all "unholy arcana."

The Salty-Sweet Compact: A powerful alliance between the new Candian Monarchy (led by Milk Chocolate Monarch Milco Le Roc) and the Dairy Islands (merchants, port owners, and notorious pirates). They seek to control the volatile magic of the Scar for profit and power.

The Meat Lands: An isolationist nation driven by fear of the Scar's contamination, sealing their borders and relying on primal strength.

🙏 Chapter 3: Faith and Philosophy

The war is spiritual as much as it is political, driven by three dominant, conflicting faiths:

Bulbian Doctrine: A strict, ascetic faith focused on Purity and Preservation. They view the Sugar Scar as divine proof that sugar is the root of all chaos. Followers of the Bulb perform daily preservation rituals like brining and waxing their bodies to fight decay.

The Sweetening Path (Candia): A vibrant, decadent, and expressive faith. They believe concentrated sweetness is crystallized joy and that magic is meant to be cultivated for pleasure and defiance. They worship the Sugar-Plum Pantheon and view the Bulbians' asceticism as a denial of life.

Primal Ancestry (The Meat Lands): The faith of the Beastlords (Great Cow, Great Boar, Great Hen) focused solely on Survival through Sacrifice. They view all southern politics as soft and doomed, relying on physical endurance and the sacred ritual of curing meat to resist the inevitable rot.

🎲 What’s Next?

We're currently developing the custom 5e content, including 15 new Subclasses (like the Path of the Great Beasts Barbarian), Custom Spells (Tallow Slime, Candied Grip), and the Calorum Monster Codex (Bulb Creeps, Bacon Wyverns).

Hi everybody! I made a game called All the Witches!! I really wanted to make something magical for the queer community who have struggled with the creators of certain worlds being jerks. It’s an original TTRPG system with some cool deck building mechanics exploring the diversity of witches in fantasy. It would mean a lot if you checked out the Kickstarter here!

Poolutions free micro RPG

A one-page RPG about making dice pools, draining them, and keep going (…keeping go?) Poolutions is a free micro RPG made for 48WordRPGJam.

I'm ordering the books tomorrow, so MONSTER GUTS 2e is one huge step closer to getting into people's hands.

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I was really hesitant at first glance, probably because of how long I've felt the need to justify my existence by minimizing the accommodations and resources I ask for, even (and often) to my own detriment. The whole idea of being a burden cuts in to that and hits at the heart of the insecurity, so it was a little hard to hear spoken so plainly. Ultimately, though, seeing someone acknowledge that there is truth to that insecurity - I am, indeed, asking for a lot more from the people around me than a fully abled person would be - but that it in no way undermines the worth of my own life was really fulfilling. So yeah, thanks lol

Thank you!

(some links to previous posts about this topic that are being referenced)

I know exactly how you feel. I don’t want to speak for all disabled people, but the shame of being a burden is something that I think most of us probably feel to some degree or another, and something that we would be better off without, which is of course a big theme of Eureka’s monsters.

Hell, even “able-bodied” people need to be taken care of when they’re kids, when they’re old, and when they’re sick. The distinction “disabled” practically only exists to determine who gets minor legal exceptions in a society where you’re only valued by how much you can do particular kinds of work, and plenty of “able-bodied” people do have a lot of things about them that hinder them but just aren’t visible enough or quite bad enough to qualify for the legal distinction.

So really, it’s something I think a lot of people could stand to unlearn. A little bit of selfishness is okay sometimes.

Sometimes, people take offense to the part of the metaphor that involves the actual killing and eating of other people by monsters, and say that the disability comparison works for the monsters that don’t have to kill people, but not for the monsters that do have to kill people, especially with the fact that their targets will often end up being other vulnerable people and not cops or CEOs or something. I have a few thoughts about that.

For one, well, the cool thing about fiction and fantasy is that it can present a more extreme and entertaining version of the real life problems that the art is about.

Secondly, for some of those monsters that don’t have to kill their victims or even technically have to hurt people at all to avoid dying, well, structuring your life around personal deprivation to ensure that you never harm or burden anyone else ever is kind of the thing that this anon brings up, minimizing their accommodations and resource consumption to their own detriment. “Disabled people should go without as much as possible and subsist on the bare minimum resources to sustain them” is pretty much the complete opposite of Eureka’s themes and I feel like saying that the only acceptable disability metaphor monsters are the ones that have a slightly easier time subsisting on the bare minimum harm without literally dying is not good.

Then there’s the issue of who they eat. Really, they can try to eat whoever they want, but the “hunting tables” that provide opportunities when (and if) the monsters go out looking for victims are primarily comprised of pretty average, often pretty vulnerable people, including old people, young people, homeless or just obviously poor people, etc.

One of the reasons is because, well, non-vulnerable people aren’t vulnerable. When a healthcare CEO makes decisions that result in many poor people being unable to afford proper medicine and thus becoming disabled, the burdens that creates don’t fall back on them, they fall back on other poor people. When a politician makes policy decisions that result in more people being unable to get money for food without resorting to violence, that increase in crime doesn’t affect their fancy gated community, it affects poor people.

I talk about monsters in Eureka as a metaphor for disability a lot, but that purposefully isn’t the only valid reading. A lot of them can represent anyone whose needs are impossible to meet without taking from others.

Eureka isn’t a masturbatory CEO-eating simulator because it isn’t about wish fulfillment or power fantasy. First and foremost that burden will fall on the shoulders of one’s own community, not the rich guy causing all the problems. Eureka (and future A.N.I.M. games like Silk&Dagger) doesn’t present a world as it should be, it presents a world how it is. And Eureka says if being a bit selfish and burdensome to your own community is necessary for you to not only live, but live with any degree of happiness, then that shame and guilt isn’t helping anyone.