Lancer comm ordered by one of my patrons. It's a Death's head named Partisan piloted by Saint. Very fun to work on.

over-heating, our / district bogeyman insists / that magma roads rule

I'm really happy with this playtest build for level 3. It's all about movement, positioning and deadly strikes. And what makes even better is the change Ramon and I are thinking of. Instead of Stress as a mechanic we are switching to Focus. - which works much better for our game, see why below:

A lil Sunday night playtest game of Mechanized Body- easy way to bring in the week.

Big update for Mechanized Body coming soon! Just screwing around with some card design rn.

The Rodeo Fleet, a union of independent deep space freight crews, is responsible for the safe transport and processing of asteroids in a sol system where resource extraction on Earth is impossible. The Chavez is their first KM intended for combat- It's smaller than a Gupp, but extremely durable.

▫️▫️▫️ CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 07 -- @gee-man.bsky.social Peyton draws concept art and (super awesome) anime bullshit. He saw the AC3 intro 15 years ago and has never been the same since. Stay tuned for more zine updates! #armoredcore #armoredcoreVI #ac6

Iphigenia at Midnight's hit its last 48 hours! The campaign's been successfully funded at this point, but backing allows you to get access to exclusive updates, provide community copies on release, and potentially allow us to access additional art stretch goals. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

I hosted a game design workshop at Confluence Mn. It focused on getting BIPOC folks into ttrpg game design and sharing the lil know secret that - ITS EASY TO GET INTO GAME DESIGN! And I couldn’t have asked for a better result - I heard a lot of “I’m going to make this game!” for me, that’s Big ❤️s

While we're on the whole starter pack rush thing, here is the #LancerRPG starter pack I made for the #TTRPG. Includes a lot of cool artists and creators, and the feed that catches what people post about (usually, sometimes there's deltarune stuff, cuz yaknow) bsky.app/starter-pack...

Working and revolting & consuming and policing- such is the history of machines meant for better but corrupted for worse.

Covert ops speciality frame. Web spinner, system blower.

All PC mechs are officially in-game for Lancer Tactics, fantastic: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wic...

Getting back on the narrative train for Mechanized Body. Here's some juicy Itzamna flavor for the narrative. Damn, Lil Tach nailed this art.

The third party Lancer scene is for sure one of the coolest in the TTRPG industry. Two big projects releasing/out on kickstarter just in the last month: Iphigenia at Midnight by Ash and Gold www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash... Ironbound Shadows by Cael caelarkh.itch.io/ironbound-sh...

The last Mechanized Body piece of this year by @tachyonart.bsky.social - The Guangzhou, a MB from the Neutral Blocs Alliance. A specialist-class frame used as a tool of the NBA: a wet-work dredge designed to silence the fomenting worker revolts and protests that flare up across the blocs.

Iphigenia at Midnight's Kickstarter is now live! 🧵 Designed for the #LancerRPG, IaM will take players through three missions from License Levels 6-9, going from a city under siege to boarding actions in the stars above against a fearsome foe from Union's past. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

Now it is so important, I feel, for writers and artist who contribute to the fictional spaces of play seen in ttrpgs n the like to write compelling stories that challenge (slay) the systems we live in. There is no escape (cowarding) from combating the type of systems that dehumanize and exploit.

i will never for the life of me forget the front page Fox News website headline that suggested Freddie Gray, a black man from Baltimore who died in a police van trip, had intentionally injured his own spine to implicate the cops. thinking about that again recently

Iphigenia at Midnight's Kickstarter pre-launch is now LIVE! Sign up to be notified when the campaign officially launches, spread the word to your friends and communities, and let's get the momentum building to start off strong from day one. Early FAQs on itch.io. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

MB #5 from @tachyonart.bsky.social. What we have here is something special- the Itzamna - crafted by The Renaissance- those who claimed the skies of Venus before the Humanic Filters raged. "Follow the Youth's Master Hand, it with me leads us to the sky of skies, unity is too what we now seek."

Hello new followers, please find my wicked son, and it's rugged half dying MB build. The card packs chosen allow the Quartz to become more effective when Heavily Damage. As long as the card Forged in Steel is in my discard I can remove it from the game when reduced to 0 HP to keep the fight up!

MB #4 from the hands of @tachyonart.bsky.social. This one is the Volt-99, from an independent manufacturer in the system. It’s anime super robot incarnate. “no! pass me the class two theater meter- the output is too high. No! The meter! Not a mesh braider. Ugh…life’s work, set back another 10yrs”

SHEEEEEEEEEEEET, I can Google Sheets...sometimes. Version 1 of the character sheet's auto deck list, MB and loadout exporter thingy is up. Players wanted to share their builds with others but it was a lil time consuming to hand list everything, now you can just cpy paste ur build!

A Reddit player joined a playtest super hyped for the card-based pilot concept, but mid-game, they realized it’s more tactical RPG than card game. It caught them off guard... and honestly, made me think about our rules for elevation, LoS and the trappings of tactics games.

A new pinned post for a new cover - Iphigenia at Midnight is a module for the #LancerRPG, taking players from License Levels 6-9 and a city under siege to the stars above, fighting a desperate last stand to save the Choral Worlds from an empire long gone. Get it now: ash-and-gold.itch.io/iphigenia

For all my new and old followers, I am hosting a online one shot of mechanized body today at 6 PM CST. We’ve got a character sheet and time to teach, so if a card based mecha TTRPG triggers both your Yu-Gi-Oh brain worm and your mechs fixations then join up! #ttrpg #mecha

New MB art from @tachyonart.bsky.social - the Quartz from the Compound Alliance Triad, better known as The Mob. WORK FOR THE MOB "It was in our metal-son that we imbued our desires. We sent it to the planets to arrest human potential and inter it into our labor." MASH. CRASH. SMASH.

The August Mecha TTRPG Newsletter is out and it features Armour Astir by @weregazelle.bsky.social! Plus an interview with @drakoniques.itch.io about Sacred machinations. You can also find the monthly round-up of mecha content: a new crowdfunder, an AP with two mecha superstars, a review, and more!

Truly, this is my favorite pack. It's a tier 3 skill pack that you can select once you hit level 3. Like most tier 3 packs, it's a deck-defining pack, really making you think about how you build your pilot deck and MB to complement its strategy. #mechanizedbody

Last week of the month! That means last chance for you to submit community content to the mecha ttrpg newsletter:

Another MB from the art foundries of @tachyonart.bsky.social meet the Agojie, a MDL frame. “We built this home clean, with room to dream. Clad in comforts of tactical mesh, I answer when destiny screams. At my action foes fall right to left, Lay beside me now, for they all rot in forever rest”

Cover art and more mech art left to come! Get ready for update .151! #mechanizedbody

Big Bomba mech incoming//> I think you can't make a mecha game without a missile mech. It's a mecha genre golden rule or something. The Balistic MB just wants to drop munitions on your mechanized shell- and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. #mechanizedbody

One of our first MBs just got an illo'd @tachyonart.bsky.social . (no surprise, those who know my works) "I am Mason- and I've found my tool. Gifted to me from the voiceless and apparitious. I'll be their mouthpiece and flesh, sent to glide through the somatic layers to bring UNITY or death."

I do like me a wayward soul on some robbin hood shit. The next player background we cooked up- the Epoch Cypher Hound. They've got issues. #MechanizedBody

And dear fuck do i want to share some art with you all. Two MBs got dressed, pressed, zooted, and penciled - nice like. LT did work, sadly, we must finish updated 0.151v (current game version is 0.13v)😭

Cooking - I think. One of the many player Histories, 1 of 3 parts of a character's background- Persona and Drive being the others- the Triablist has a whole ass world view, n good reason for it too #mechanizedbody #ttrpg #mecha

This year at #Confluence MN, I’m leading a game design workshop. Here’s my session write up. The tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) field is heavily influenced by individuals whose experiences and visions for the future often fail to reflect the realities of minority communities.

The year is 2027. All video game studios have reached finally reached 100% layoffs. The only jobs left in games are Junior Assistant AI Promptgineer and Sexual Harassment Victim, both of which are outsourced. The latest Call of Duty lets players conduct actual drone strikes for the IDF

Flying mech

Something I identify as my motivation for writing and tabletop game musings is that I believe in the power gameified protest. I look around and see so many ways in which my environment subverts norms, exploitative, racist, imperial ones, thereby dulling the mind into some dull hum like thing

In Mechanized Body, we're workshopping Combat Unit Points (CUP) a system that scales with player # and advancement. Game Operators are given a CUP budget to spend on sitreps, NPCs, and tactical upgrades, making it easy to build encounters that range from routine deployments to exceptional missions.

Hey everyone, I'm very pleased to announce that my very own Lancer: NPCs Rebaked, a Monster Vault style overhaul of the Lancer core rulebook NPCs plus revised versions of grunts and several major templates, is available for purchase #lancer #lancerRPG kaitave.itch.io/lancer-npcs-...

"i'll dive into the somatic layers, accessing the Touch- bringing you dismay, and my allies- to them i prosmise- VICTORY" #mech #ttrpg #mechanizedbody

Mechanized Body uses a 2d6 system where most rolls succeed. Rolls of 3 to 5 are Glancing Hits, and 6 is a Direct Hit. Since you might not always have the right card for the moment, we made dice steady so you can still be effective. It rewards strategy without punishing the lack of it.

OK, gotta go to bed, actually answering a few review requests (thank you!) but also: if you'd like to see more of things like the Griot Anthology, please support in the ways you can: purchase, spread the word, review/rate... it all counts. thoughtcrimegames.itch.io/griot-anthol...

Mobile Attendants (often shortened to Tendas or Tendies), are autonomous all-terrain workstations developed to monitor reef health as part of Earth's rehabilitation efforts. Nowadays, it's not uncommon to see them on military installations, roaming around as mascots- always happy to help!

Thinking about Mechanized Body’s overarching narrative, I tried, and am trying 2 strike a blow for the power of consensus building. The coming together of people is the only thing that will save humanity- at the beginning of the book there’s a message from a million billion other dead civilizations-