#depends on who you ask

[that-g3-artist]

you’re laughing. four is vertically challenged and you’re laughing--

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu four #lu memes #lu art #lu chain #we stan a short king #or short kings #depends on who you ask #g3 does an art

[project-sekai-facts]

We made it to #29 on Tumblr's video game YIR!

#is this a good thing? #depends on who you ask #(we weren't on the list at all last year)

[theaudiovore]

For more than a year now I’ve had a concept for a single player TTRPG orbiting in the depths of my mind, slowly accumulating mass and occasionally passing into the Observable Universe that is my conscious mind.

A concept for an Elder Scrolls single player tabletop RPG.

In its present conception I imagine it to be played with some rules, paper and pencil, and a deck of playing cards.

In this game the player will start as a Prisoner, and through their own actions, divine intervention, and the weight of prophecy they will become a Hero.

They will meet their Doom and enter the Tower.

The Wheel turns.

The structure of play will be meant to resemble an Enantiomorphic Event, as all Elder Scrolls stories do.

The Three necessary elements are of course, a Prisoner, a King, and a Tower.

The Prisoner is the player, a person who by destiny or circumstance will rise to fullfill the role of Hero. The Eternal Champion, the Imperial Agent, the Nerevarine, the Hero of Kvatch and Champion of Cyrodiil, the Last Dragonborn, the Vestige. They are noone and come from nowhere, and so they can be anyone and go anywhere. They are Free in ways others are not, while simultaneously being shackled by their prophesied Doom.

The King is the antagonist, the threat to the wellbeing of the world and the people within it. Their power shakes the stones of the Tower and threatens to end the dream that is the Aurbis. Jagar Tharn, Zurin Arctus, Dagoth Ur, Mankar Camoran and Mehrunes Dagon, AL-DU-IN. They enter the story at the height of their power, and so they have nowhere to go but down. They see themselves as the Hero because their pride blinds them to the truth.

The Tower is the prison you must escape, the fortress you must siege, the secret you must learn. It is embodied in every obstacle, it is where you will always return, it is where Doom unfolds. The Staff of Chaos, NUMIDIUM, White Gold, Red Mountain, Snow Throat. It is both obstacle and objective, prison and protection.

I imagine the player character as a collection of Tags that grows as the game progresses. You’ll start by picking some Tags that represent your background, skill set, and Sign. Something like "Dunmer, Thief, Marksman, Charming, The Serpent” or “Nord, Warrior, Axe, Endurance, The Steed”.

Play proceeds by drawing cards from a deck of standard playing cards, 54 cards total with the Jokers included. Each suit would represent a type of encounter. You decide based on your tags and the story so far how the encounter goes, and sometimes you advance a clock. The Doom Clock.

Red suits represent opportunities and advantages. Diamonds for Material (Equipment, Magic, Relics, etc) and Hearts for Living Things (Creatures, Companions, Guilds, etc). Jokers represent divine intervention.

Black suits represent dangers and obstacles. Clubs for Material (Traps, Barriers, Curses, etc) and Spades for Living Things (Creatures, Bandits, Guards, etc).

Red Jokers represent Aedric forces like Yffre, Auri-El, and Mara. Black Jokers represent Daedric forces like Namira, Hircine. and Jyggalag.

You Draw a card and think about how your Tags let you resolve the situation it represents. Most of the time, you can choose to skip a card and ignore that encounter. Perhaps you decide that the danger is too great, perhaps your equipment is better than what you’ve found. Some cards cannot be skipped. Some events advance the Doom clock, bringing you closer to the final confrontation. Some cards advance the Doom Clock even if you skip them.

The Doom Clock represents the passage of time, your steady march to the finale. The Prisoner always confronts the King eventually. It always happens that way. Time is a living being, and while AKA is patient he cannot stay still for long. While the world waits for you, it does not wait forever.

I don’t have much beyond these concepts yet, but I have been thinking about this a lot. I know I want to explore things like Fate, the Aurbic Pattern, Duality, and the Cyclical Nature of Time. I know I want to include elements of the strange deep lore and apocryphal texts that make up the internal mythology of The Elder Scrolls. I know I want to reach for the sensation of a lonely exploration, of being burdened by prophecy, of being the one that the whole world waits on, the axle that the world turns around.

Something I need to do is play games that may share tonal or mechanical elements with what I want to achieve. In my ~20 years in the tabletop roleplaying hobby I have spent the vast majority of that time with various editions of The Dragon Game and others of its style. It is only in the past 5 years or so I’ve been expanding my breadth of experience, seeking out other styles and modes of play. This thing I want to make is outside my current sphere of competence, so I must increase my reach to match my grasp.

#the elder scrolls #elder scrolls #ttrpg #ttrpg design #diceless ttrpg #arena #daggerfall #morrowind #oblivion #skyrim #eso #elder scrolls online #is mai'q the liar a jack of hearts? #or is mai'q a red joker? #depends on who you ask

[nightthinker-08]

find it funny that I put 90% of my actual thoughts on the tags, not on the text part of the posts

#talking in the tags feel like whispering #its not in your face #like yeah you can know more about my day if you want #twiddles hair* #but you gotta put effort into it #expand them tags!! #or it can be a very aggressive footnote #depends on who you ask #Anyway I only slept for 4-5 ish hours today :D #Im sleep deprived while making this is what Im saying #ramblings #rambling on tags again :p

[jewishcissiekj]

every time I see gray Jedi discourse I

#daily asajj thought of the day #good night #um actually #asajj is closer to being a gray jedi than any of them #because she's convinced she is #(in legends) #and sees the forceless as light and dark #so #fuck you #qui-gon jinn disobeying the council has nothing on her #gray jedi do not work as a concept #but it's funny when a character thinks they cheated the force like that #or just view it differently #also this is half a joke about her being grey-ish #she's more white tho #depends on who you ask

[boygirlctommy]

💬

"Yet the name rang in our heads like bells. Wedding bells, church bells, alarm bells. It stood on the tips of our tongues like a word one can't quite recall, like an insult one was biting back."

:3 !!!

#my post #hiii o/// #d.n.f valley poem my beloved for ever and ever and ever #<- unfortunate name but it stands for do not forget ^_^ or deez nuts something #depends on who you ask

[gildedwar]

João will fight for someone he loves and when the opponent is unable to fight any longer he will offer the final blow to his lover

#is it romantic? #depends on who you ask #m; jo #p; headcanon

[crossovershipstournament]

OH! Also! In the event of the tie, I won't be pairing up the ships for one big team, the next round will simply be a three-option poll instead of two. Polyamory good, but since all the ships are of varying ages, we're just gonna stick with them all fighting each other one on one.

#Mun Speaks #Poll Talk #Love...loses? Or wins? #Depends on who you ask

[damn-daemon]

What does the North think of Elyse kids ?

Bit blonde for their taste. Really, after the events that go down, they don't have much of a decent opinion on Elyse, so her kids hardly matter. That said, if any Southern lord says something wrong about her, they're more than happy to gouge his eyes out.

#elyse is a very complicated woman in the history of westeros #many stories are not kind #but a few are #depends on who you ask #elyse stark

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

Songwriters: *sings in praises of blue eyes*

People with brown eyes: what are we, minced meat??

Me: *writes main character with brown eyes described as melted chocolate, creamy hazelnut, cinnamon, perfect balls of peanut butter, steaming hot cocoa--depending on their mood, the situation, and the nearby lighting*

Also me: now I'm hungry.

#writing #character #brown eyes #they're pretty #mine are blue #maybe green #depends on who you ask

[cerealforkart]

Imagine some kid in flip flops and jorts overthrowing your criminal empire with a super soaker

#this is how alabasta went right? #one piece #monkey d. luffy #sir crocodile #doodly #also the kid might be your son? #depending on who you ask lmao #I need to draw crocodile properly sometime

[brownskin-goldhoops]

Note to self: don’t get drunk and kiss girls

#my only weakness tbh #or is it a strength? #idk lol #depends on who you ask #personal

[imdoingwhateverisnext]

The Plight of the Verbally Incontinent

A police officer was standing at the counter of the nurse's station. He was a friend of several of the people who worked there. One of the girls who worked in the office from out of nowhere said to him...

"Did you know you have tiny hands?"

Several people laughed.

He stuck his hands down by his sides and stopped visiting so much.

She later got sent to sensitivity training.

#random #funny or mean? #depends on who you ask

[aceyanaheim]

some rando on the internet: Narutos such a husk of himself in Boruto

me speaking from experience: yeah its called hitting your 20s/30s

#This Is Joking Post #...look 'i' think im funny #or a smartass #depends on who you ask #no rebagels pls

[anakinskvwalkcr]

when was the last time you updated the info on your blog? how up to date is your blog compared to present you?

why do you want to know curious george?

#anonymous #answered #i am a mystery #or an open book #depends on who you ask

[eyrieofsynapses]

hey, Leverage peeps, I've got a thought. I've seen a lot of posts and memes joking about Nate's inability to understand that his clients do not want money, they want revenge. I also find this funny. but I was thinking about it and I realized something: there's a personal reason behind it. there is a very, very good reason why Nate doesn't get that.

Nate's drive to lead Leverage, outside of the crew, originated from his son's death due to his insurance company's refusal to cover the bill for the required treatment. we all know this. if his company had paid for Sam's treatment, everything would've been fine.

…or, if Nate had been a little wealthier, had a little more change to spend… maybe he could've paid for it. maybe Blackpool never would've had a say in any of it. maybe Nate would've had everything under control from the start.

we've discussed at length in the fandom how money equals safety for some of the others in the crew (Parker and Hardison grew up with little to none and know its importance to survival, Eliot needs it to stay ahead of his old enemies, etc.), but I don't know that I've seen any discussion on how it's relevant to Nate. for him, however, money equals security in healthcare and in housing (he lost the house, remember?). Nate's older than the others. he remained in the same place for much longer, and he had a stable life for a while. the others haven't been in that position before. many of their clients, however, are at that place in life.

yes, for the others, money keeps them ahead of the game and it keeps them secure. but none of them ever lost a kid because they couldn't pay for healthcare. none of them risk losing the life of someone who is completely dependent on them when they don't have enough.

(Hardison, perhaps, has the closest understanding, considering he hacked a bank to pay for his Nana's healthcare. but he never lost her.)

Nate thinks ahead, you know? he has a long-term view of things. I imagine that for him, when clients refuse the money, they're not just refusing a month's worth of groceries, or a place to stay the night, or the ability to keep running. for him, they're refusing control over their hard-earned, stable, long-term living situation. they're refusing the potential to save a family member's life.

I dunno, guys. I think that's a pretty good reason to not understand why people don't want the money.

#leverage #leverage meta #nate ford #meta #ello folks it has been A While #but I saw another one of these memes today and couldn't help but ask myself 'why?' #and this came out #anyway I figure this is a fair reason to have more trouble Getting It #when you think about it Nate's probably gotten the closest to most of their clients' living situations #the rest of them have had Very Unusual Lives #but so many of their clients are PARENTS #they're people with STABLE LIVING SITUATIONS #they're ordinary middle-class people! #and Nate was the only one who lived as an adult in that situation! #he's the only one who understands what it's like to have a regular family depending on him to keep the household running! #no WONDER he worries more about this! #he understands the consequences better than the others do! #I dunno I feel like that gets overlooked a lot #anyway have fun playing with this #synapse meta