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Also I will do a little check. Please RT this and like either of the following in the posts below. Or both. This is just a little checkup and mental marker for myself!

"I hate how the prevalence of AI forces me to be suspicious of everything all the time" bitch try being in the indie TTRPG space

Okay so Final Fantasy Tactics is a kinda shit game. That said: 1) I would follow any order from Lady Agrias yes MA'AM 2) The font for the dialogue in the remake is gorgeous. If there's a way to fuck a typeface, I choose that one

had a really weird dream last night, not weird as in wacky, but like i dreamed a conversation about irl stuff and it was way more consistent with reality than dreams usually are, i'm still reeling from that

Okay so Final Fantasy Tactics is a kinda shit game. That said: 1) I would follow any order from Lady Agrias yes MA'AM 2) The font for the dialogue in the remake is gorgeous. If there's a way to fuck a typeface, I choose that one

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

Outsourcing some vibes this morning; What do you like / not like about loot /attainable gear in tabletop games? What are some moments or pieces of loot that have stuck with you?

haven't laughed this hard in a hot minute lmao

For all the shit I talk about Pokemon Legends ZA (because it's bad), it's also true that the player character fashion/design I stumbled into may have awakened something in me.

If you watch a kid to see what's fun, and the kid plays without using any objects (pretending to be a dinosaur, for example), it would be dumb to draw any conclusions about toys, because the kid didn't play with toys that day. Such toy opinions would be invalid. This is about game design.

Except of course for statues, gargoyles, or suits of armor, who are at their most potent when they are Doing Nothing But In A Conspicuous Place. ...I *might* be evil.

And for heaven's sake, play and rate them! Our wonderful wonderful beautiful donors deserve all the love for being part of this!

Fun things about this year's bundle: - We have two explicitly erotic games! (First Time Top and Your Own Harem) - We have two games about tea specifically! (The Answer Is Tea and The Tea Road) - We have games based on Chutes and Ladders, Jenga, and playing with matches!

The book is not the game; it *explains* the game. The play is not the game; it *enacts* the game. The pieces are not the game; they *enable* the game. The rules are the game. The rules are described by the book, enacted by play, enabled by the pieces. The rules are the game. 1/2

Well, anyway, once again tapping the sign about how way more people than you think in the TTRPG space don't actually like playing games, but think they do because they like the social event called Game Night, and all of their game opinions spring from that fact, and they will never interrogate this.

Anybody have recommendations? What's a good JRPG released in the last 15-20 years? Ideally one that's considered highly representative of the genre.

Guess I had some feelings lol TTRPG discourse can hit pretty close to home when you're an abuse survivor with a psychology degree.

like idk i just think if we must tut-tut someone, maybe instead of the people who listen to what people say, it should be the people who say shit that's a coin flip between "sounds heinous unless you memorized 30 years of relationship webs" and "exactly as heinous as it sounds"

*looks around at discourse* No, telling people they can't be mad at what someone said because they secretly meant a much more reasonable thing that they did not say... ...is Bad, Actually.

Come to think of it, I should try playing a JRPG released later than 2005 sometime, lmao It's easy to tell when people wildly misunderstand SNES-era ones, but I don't actually know what norms/expectations they're working from instead. I bet it would be fascinating to learn!

"Just play ROM hacks or fan games, they're way better!" I hate to break it to you but those are often Pokemon Games too.

Articulating some feelings: I really dislike "Pokemon games." I like Pokemon. I like RPGs. There was a time when those intersected, and I loved it. But they don't make those anymore, they just make "Pokemon games" and I don't like them. And I HATE being told that this change didn't happen.

Solo But Not Alone is a gateway to the infinite variety of singleplayer TTRPGs, complete with a handy guidebook! Plus it benefits mental health supports through @takethis.org !! You gotta check it out! Or I'll GET MAD!

this is genuinely incredible

Curious about solo TTRPGS? Ask me anything! Heaven knows I'm deep enough in them after six years of Solo But Not Alone. I can also give you recommendations from this year's bundle, thanks to the handy spreadsheet! itch.io/b/3481/solo-...

Solo games as beautiful, solo games are fun, you can have so many of them for $10 and help Take This provide mental health supports!!

Brain purge time! Recently some... let's call them "fantasy worldbuilding thoughts" have entered by brain unbidden, and been rattling around for a while, so now I shall inflict them upon you. Welcome to my Unified Theory of Elven Fashion. (CW: body image, weight, etc) 1/🧵

Of course, not everyone who wears something has a "goal," and over time fashion blends and iterates. Eventually, you get elven fashion that mixes and hybridizes various traditional looks, with oversized concealment and revealed skin blended into a single outfit: 8/🧵

Brain purge time! Recently some... let's call them "fantasy worldbuilding thoughts" have entered by brain unbidden, and been rattling around for a while, so now I shall inflict them upon you. Welcome to my Unified Theory of Elven Fashion. (CW: body image, weight, etc) 1/🧵

Today is a great day to pick up our #ttrpg! We described it as "Waterworld meets Treasure Planet". People in the wild have described it as "Optimistic Dark Sun" and "Pirates of Dark Water's cousin". I think all of those are at least a little right, but check it out for yourself and you tell me.

Fantasy setting where mortal life builds and empowers the soul and then demons want to eat those juicy souls. But they can't reach the ones that have already crossed over to the afterlife, so they tend to swoop in at the time of death. Humans wildly misinterpret this.

Here are some reaction images I recently collected, for anyone who wants them:

Here are some reaction images I recently collected, for anyone who wants them:

make some noise

And we are LIVE! The solo gaming event of the year, Solo But Not Alone 6! Buy 90 items for only $10, all-new singleplayer TTRPGS! We have horny ones, we have scary ones, we have therapeutic ones and kid-friendly ones and more! itch.io/b/3481/solo-...

I'll be honest, it's becoming less and less certain whether I'll actually go to the trouble of finishing Final Fantasy Tactics. "What if we made an RPG where XP only applies to half of each character?"

okay, five, final answer for real it's FIVE

Why must choosing names for mental attributes in a TTRPG be so fraught? UGH.

Solo But Not Alone 6 has a game you'll love that is a personal promise from me. And you don't have to convince your friends to try a new game, either

slightly diminish a game Standard Mario Bros

slightly diminish a band They're Probably Not Giants

i hope i live to see the day when this discourse graduates from "games are art" to "video games are art specifically because they're an expansion into artistry of the non-art concept of games"

slightly diminish a band They're Probably Not Giants

It my BRTHDAY. My main birthday wish is for Solo But Not Alone 6 to launch on time! If you give me money or buy my games today I will spend the money on Little Treats :3 ko-fi.com/peachgardeng...

Welp, I give up on my straggler. I've remade the bundle, so if you've approved the old one, please approve the new one right away! itch.io/b/3481/solo-...