we're havin an informal playtest at the gubat banwa discord server where we're taking the narrative combat update for a spin discord.gg/httcxyKG?eve...

Did you know the City of Baghdad in the 8th century had fully functioning sewage systems, built on deep understanding of water and ground? Vienna was the first European city that achieved this honor, in the 18th century. Literally a whole millennium to realize poop sitting in open cesspits is bad.

Not that the West teaches this. The Western world is so scared of teaching its own cruelty & failings that they'll pretend the "Dark Ages" were global to avoid having to admit most major inventions powering Western ascent were stolen after being developed while Europe figured out "no sewage" was bad

Morbid irony in the US and Israel destroying the very peoples and civilisations that first established the Siyar - the international laws establishing distinction between civilian and combatant, the protection of infrastructure for life in warfare, and the sanctity of places of worship and healing.

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its very fun to design the disciplines with the new gb lore since i can make references in the actual mechanics that resonate and imply events in the new poem of time or in the mahamandala lore.

If you see this, post a robot

bustin my ass over designing these days that im so glad to have a lil bit of a break and cook laing !!!

The Gubat Banwa Community Zine has been released!!! I've contributed some art and OCs to this so please take a look if you're interested! gubatbanwazine.itch.io/gubat-banwa-...

good morning y'all, part 1 of batch 2 previews is public now, maybe check it out! in it talk a bit abt martial arts, initiation, cross-training, and the elements + me and @dylvillanous.bsky.social also do a deep dive on the sword poet in true first edition www.patreon.com/posts/151885...

YAYYY I finally got around to getting the gubat banwa community zine up for free download!! Please let me know if you read it everyone worked so hard I'm very proud and full of love 🥺 Enjoy!!! gubatbanwazine.itch.io/gubat-banwa-...

one thing they dont tell u about having a day job where u type a buncha code, a post-grad that makes u type a buncha code but also a buncha academic essays, and an in-development ttrpg with necessarily wordy mechanics updates, simultaneously, is that its a matter of when you hurt your wrist, not if

something that i found surprisingly reassuring is seeing people speculate about foundational systems that i designed for the game and reach a conclusion that's similar or almost 1:1 what you designed that foundation to support, before its been explicitly defined as an option or possibility

been awhile since I've posted sketches on here, so have some fun faces from a WIP I just got back to working on

Dragon-ish posting

Dinulifu Kl'dgusen, Busalian. Protagonist of What Fire Can Mend, a Gubat Banwa short fic I wrote in the midst of a buncha calamities and an illness at the tail end of last year. Lines by me, colors by Sword Isles Studios AD Fae

Sir Paul is a scene OG and a true force of nature and Im so stoked we got him to draw for us, looook at that

"Eat God" on Rule Zero.

A little tribute piece for a local bookshop's anniversary, not my usual thing but they were nice enough to support us for the event so I wanted to draw something for them

i know i shouldntve expected much but why is AUH's implementation of ph so ass pfft

October has been fuckin hellish "Kate its been one week" Did I fucking stutter

if you want Skyrim 2 then good news: you can mod Skyrim to your heart's content if you want an action RPG about trauma & redemption & imperialism & prejudice in a vibrant fantasy setting, then Avowed may be right up your alley

it's like this in Skyrim too, btw. the thievery side of things is completely at odds with the core gameplay loop and that's fine, because encouraging players to spend 80 hours not touching the main quest is classic Bethesda design. but Avowed *wants you to play the story*. that's the game!

a more serious answer is that adding theft & reactions & consequences and items worth stealing is an enormous amount of work for what is an insular behaviour if you're stealing, you're not engaging in the strengths of the game: exploration, fighting, dialogue. it's an actively dissonant mechanic

reading the Steam reviews for Avowed is a solid reminder of why i do not give a shit about the opinions of internet randos "the game should have a theft system!!!" your desires are utterly alien & incomprehensible to me "i don't like guns in my fantasy RPGs" what are you TALKING ABOUT

i wish that with the way a lot of larger scale video games tend to skew heavy on your pc that more of em would like release a sort of benchmarking tool of some kind, like they do for the ffxiv expansions? im not in the video game industry so i dont know the logistics of pulling it off but-

The kuglung (also spelled kuglong or kuglung) is a traditional two-stringed boat lute used by the indigenous peoples of Mindanao, particularly among the Manobo, Bagobo, and other Lumad groups in the Philippines. These are the one of the many instruments that resonate the sounds of home

And at last Gubat Banwa Quickstart+ is here, heralded by the face of the game, the iconic Mangangayaw Sam'baha Dimantag herself. NOW AVAILABLE ON OUR ITCH ❤️‍🔥 gubat-banwa.itch.io/gubat-banwa-...

A looot of our local languages and cultures gets swept under the rug or sidelined in favor of the constructed, reductive and homogenized "Filipino culture", so Im very glad there are people out there fighting to celebrate and preserve our rich diversity. Makagana pud para sa among paglimbasog

The host of one of their shows was like, we cant stop our sugbuanon language from evolving, incorporating more tagalog and english words, but we also have to take care not to leave behind what's ours. And that really stuck with me

Its been a welcome surprise to listen to the Radio again these days, there's a new local channel that exclusively plays artists from the Kabisay-an with a lotta songs in Sugbuanon Binisaya and honestly I wish that for every region in the PH.