The Neon Caster, Tabletop VTuber

City of Espers is a TTRPG about found families of fashionable psychics, going on adventures in a megacity. It's X-Men meets Splatoon. Or perhaps Persona meets The Warriors.

In its initial form it was partially a miniature wargame, because I wanted a game with minis that could be fashionable, and not just armoured soldiers. Though it's now a full TTRPG, the miniature painting soul still remains - and to celebrate the game being picked up by a publisher, I'm holding an art jam for painting, kitbashing or drawing your own Esper OCs!

Use the prompts (roll or just pick what speaks to you) to create your Esper, and if you share it with #CityOfEspersRPG, we'll show it off in our launch livestream at the start of September!

Text version of the prompts below the cut.

The House wears black and yellow with a film nor aesthetic, and has a shared love of dancing. Vernon's signature gear is a cyberdeck, and has the Mind Knife psychic ability.

The House of Stiletto practice Ballroom (Waltz) just as much as Ballroom (Vogue). The Esper Battles they pose are exclusively dance competitions, though that doesn't mean they won't throw hands during one!

hear the Observer's plea for the meaning of Low Extremes.

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Starring Nathan Blades @theneoncaster as Wrenfrew, the Observer

this arc feels like everything they've been trying to build to over the whole show;

an anti-colonialist narrative which includes indigenous people who have been displaced and othered

body horror stuff with the butcher, the crimson and the various cures - the butcher's path and the church's, equally horrifying and terrible

the slow realisation of just how deep the whole system goes and how messed up it is

Two villains who embody these awful ideals and are actually smart and scary because we can see how much worse they'd get with the power to expand their range

While I won't go too much into behind-the-scenes context, thinking about how Orimar would handle the situation - as someone who has long resorted to bloody violence to protect what he cares about - in a way that stands to his ideals but isn’t reckless of other lives was a real challenge.

In real life, there are vanishingly few societal revolutions that are free of retaliatory violence from the oppressed. There are exceptions, but they're on small enough scale where things like mass walk-outs would truly affect the operations of the oppressors, who don't have further recourse.

In another timeline, I suppose we could have convinced the entirety of Sorrow's End, including its guards, to rebel against its two powers, but I don't think that would stop Truss or Aravetti from doubling down on their goals and world view.

Wrenfrew, the Observer – played by Nathan @theneoncaster Blades

In your benevolence, the Observer pleads for The meaning of Low Extremes.