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The Very Hungry Rust Monster is a mini-comic I made a few years back. I’ve seen it floating around Tumblr without attribution recently, so I’ve uploaded a higher-resolution version, properly credited.

youtube just recommended me a random D&D video about how RPG Writers shouldn't insert their own politics into their writing and like,

the people who don't believe "everything is political" are often the ones who bear a lot of privilege in the status quo, and if you have nothing politically interesting to say about the world around you, that probably means your politics doesn't challenge society and its injustices

he just loves murder, is that so wrong?

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The Lone Pine by Sandara Tang

honestly every time a fantasy world is like "this is what this race believes in and adheres to" i get bored as fuuuuck what do you mean an entire species believes in one universal system of thought. We as humans on Da Planet Fucking Earth are one species and we can't agree on shit and all of culture is devised from one type of animal living and building communities in different environments. Do you NOT want that? Do you NOT want to examine how the overarching societal and environmental differences change people with fundamentally similar starting points????

THIS THIS THIS

You can do this with perspective, but not beliefs. Example, the idea that an entire fantasy race who have no eyes or means of detecting light might have really wild assumptions about what sight and light are like because they literally do not experience it. Most might not be bothered by this, but maybe some hear the other races constantly framing things with sight and develop magic to detect light for them or something.

That's fun. What is stupid is the idea that all these people believe that "ackshually you're all the blind ones" like the simple idea of a society of only blind people would lead to them all believing that.

Stop writing fantasy races/species as just cultures. Stop writing fantasy cultures as opinions. Write them as people in a different situation than us.

Varúlforn

A character in the fantasy journal book I'm working on ✨

THINGS TO UNLEARN AFTER WATCHING CR

4. PARTY SIZE - 7 players is REALLY difficult to wrangle, and requires a) a lot of balancing skill on the part of the DM, and b) a lot of patience on the part of the players, for the times when it’s simply impossible for them to all be center-stage. There’s a reason that most conventional pre-made adventures are for parties of 4-5.

This IS hard to control, because of course you don’t want to tell your sixth friend “no, you can’t play with us” just for numerical reasons! But it’s something to be wary of.

Please take these to heart. I was uninvited from a game once because the DM had been expecting the table to behave a lot more like a CR episode and assumed the problem was with the players. Don't put that kind of weight on your friends.

Yeah I saw the lovecraftian horrors and didn’t succumb to madness. What- no I’m not a cultist, James. For Christ’s sake. What you’re forgetting my friend is that HP Lovecraft wasn’t a flexible man. His brain simply wasn’t stretchy enough to take it all in. I however, have short term memory issues. Flexibility is the name of the game when you can’t remember if you ate lunch or not. What’s the size of the universe? Big. You knew that already, James. Come on now. You don’t need to witness the terrifying ocean at the base of the entirety of reality itself to know that. Pass the brandy.

You must imagine the character I’ve created here wearing a suit and a monocle, by the way.

During a Eldritch Horrors based tabletop RPG my character was a young dandy who wasn't particularly interested in all this monster mystery stuff but his father (my brother's character) was a researcher who WAS very into it, so Bertie went along to make sure the old man didn't get into too much trouble. It was your average Eldritch Horrors RPG in that you don't make your characters with the expectation that they will survive for very long, both the game itself and the genre are very intent on turning your characters inside out, driving them insane, and blowing them up in no particular order.

The thing was, everything in this nightmare hellscape just seemed to keep coming up Bertie because the man was too stupid to realize what genre he was in. Every time he had to roll for a sanity check whenever he saw something crazy, the dice treated him so well that he just... didn't get it. Gee that sure is a funny costume. There's something wrong with that dog. These mean guys in stupid hats are trying to hurt that young lady, we can't have that! I had not built him this way, his intelligence stats weren't even that bad, random chance just made it so that this man was living a scooby doo adventure while everyone else was being consumed by The Horrors. The final straw was at the end of an adventure when Bertie escaped from the cultist headquarters by breaking out through the mansion's front window on a motorcycle with a hot rescued sacrificial maiden clinging to his back and leading the cultists on a merry chase through the hedge maze while the other adventurers escaped. His sanity score? HIGHER than when the adventure had begun. He had found the whole experience quite thrilling and felt very good about life in general! Bertie retired from adventuring to marry the maiden he rescued and care for his aging father and delight and bemuse his friends at the gentleman's club with stories of his 'wacky' adventures. I didn't want to risk breaking his ridiculous lucky streak.

as a player you should really internalize the intent/task sentence structure. “i wanna open this door by prying it open with a crowbar,” “i wanna set fire to the hay bale with my firebolt,” “i wanna haggle this price by commenting on some minor scratches.”

very often i see players only stating one of these. either “i wanna open the door” or “i cast firebolt on the hay bale.”

what the intent/task structure does is properly communicate to your GM what a success/failure state looks like, and what kind of challenge they propose. sometimes players have a very specific outcome in mind, but when they just state the task, even a successful attempt will be disappointing because the GM does not know what you want to achieve. and vice versa, just stating your intent puts weight on the GM to not only come up with the consequences to the actions, but what even causes them to begin with.

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Nevrmind. Me and my freind.

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