#tales from the loop

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Things from the Flood

Simon Stålenhag

#art #concept art #horror #ego #retro #body horror #insp #tales from the loop

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Meditative TV

Tales from the Loop // Mushishi // Joe Pera Talks with You

“Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life's experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer "to" anyone or anything, but prayer "about" everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.”

—Roger Ebert, “A Prayer Beneath the Tree of Life”

#film criticism #roger ebert #mushishi #joe pera talks with you #tales from the loop

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#tv series #tv shows #polls #tales from the loop #daniel zolghadri #paul schneider #rebecca hall #2020s series #us american series #have you seen this series poll

[tales-from-hometown]

#surrealism #tales from the loop #cyberpunk #ufo #cinema4d #xfiles #c4d #i want to believe #nature #conceptualart #conceptual photography

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Simon Stålenhag / Tales From The Loop / Painting / 2014

#simon stålenhag #tales from the loop #painting #2014 #art

[spacetravels]

if we’re talking ttrpg alternatives cuz of wotc bs i’m never ever going to stop recommending the kids on bikes family

kids on bikes setting is very 1980s kids investigating strange town things (think stranger things! et!!) and is such an easy to learn system and creates such wonderful storytelling opportunities. it’s my favorite rpg to run (i have a lot abt my kob campaign here lol) and i think is one of the best ttrpgs i have ever, ever played. you can play with super fun tropes like the nerdy kid or jock or popular kid and the prepared adventures are great!!

& teens in space and kids on brooms follow p much the same structure but w their own twists to fit the settings :] they’re great games!!

if you’re a d20 fan you’ll recognize kids on brooms is the system that misfits & magic uses, and if you want live action play of kids on bikes i cannot recommend kollok 1991 enough !!

like yanno if u want MORE options frm what a lot of ppl share

(also in a similar vein will plug tales from the loop, an alternative nuclear scandinavian set in the 80s-90s with the pcs also being kids/teens, with beautiful art from simon stålenhag!!)

#ttrpgs #kids on bikes #teens in space #kids on brooms #tales from the loop #dnd #rpgs #fuck wotc #i like that. yea FUCK wotc #ALSO!!! the kob team is making kids in capes if u want a masks alternative too. and a vol 2 of kob :-) #PLS let me talk abt kob. i fucking love kob

[myeclecticlife]

In this image, I was trying to create an apocolytic world inspired by the works of Simon Stålenhag's Tales from the Loop or The Electric State.

#midjourney #ai art #ai artwork #ai art generator #ai girl #cyberpunk girl #cyberpunk #simon stålenhag #simon stalenhag #tales from the loop #the electric state

[bitchycatwizard]

The Haunting Beauty of 'Tales from the Loop'

#youtube #simon stalenhag #simon stålenhag #tales from the loop #beauty

[minis-and-magic]

I made this map in 2020 for a Tales from the Loop game that didn't end up happening. The whole thing from scratch took a couple hours so it wasn't the biggest loss, but I'm disappointed I never got to use it.

#not minis #tales from the loop #maps #rpg map #mine

[bagea]

Unnamed robot from Tales From The loop

Original art and concept by Simon Stålenhag

#tales from the loop #scratchbuilding #my art #bages art tag

[hikariwolf]

I'm DMing a Tales from the loop campaing for my friends and just finished drawing their characters! we have @annemationbr as Ana, @meziniart as Mika, @yumimirart as Priscila, and @moist-car as Virginia!

#artists on tumblr #digital art #digital drawing #digital illustration #art #ttrpg #tales from the loop

[goldyke]

if you have the time, what are your favorite ttrpgs? I'm interested in getting into the genre but dnd is kind of hard to break into. Again, you don't have to answer if this would take too much time to explain. Thank you!

So I’ve played about 35 different games, mostly one shots. I’ve had the benefit of playing with people I trust which can greatly influence game play. Below I’m going to include the full list of games with brief descriptions, but favorites first.

I definitely prefer non-traditional, narrative, and gmless games, so that will be a running theme.

Tales From the Loop has to go first because it’s the game that made me fall in love with ttrpgs. This game has Stranger Things vibes. You play a preteen in the 80s in a town where weird shit is constantly happening. This game is more on the traditional side. There’s a GM running the story, you roll for skill checks, there’s probably a specific story playing out that your gm will try to hook you on to. This game uses only 6 sided dice. There is a sequel listed below for teens in the 90s.

Fall of Magic is a narrative rpg with at most 3 dice rolls in the entire game. FoM is played on a beautiful, handmade map. Your characters progress through the cities on the map as you collaboratively tell the story of your journey to the birthplace of magic. Every city on the map has locations in it with a narrative prompt. Each player decides what location to visit and acts a scene at the location answering the prompt. Anything you say becomes true. There are no rolls. Nothing makes me want to write an epic fantasy more than a good game of Fall of Magic

Pasión De Las Pasiones is a PBTA game, which is one of my favorite systems. In it you play a character from a long-running telenovela. I suggest only playing with a gm familiar with the genre who can do justice to the setting. There’s lots of scandal and intrigue. In fact one of the possible characters to play is the secret evil twin of any of your fellow players. PBTA gamesone are closer to traditional with dice rolls and a gm, but emphasizes the narrative more. Rolls are based on you committing to certain tropes and are boosted by narratives rather than any sort of character skills. (I also suggest checking out other PBTA games.)

A Quiet Year is a map drawing game. All you need to play are a deck of cards, a printout of what the cards mean, and drawing materials. You tell the story of a community rebuilding after a harsh winter, answering prompts from the cards for each week of the year. As you build the village and create the story, you draw a map to show all you have done. No artistic skill is necessary. You do not play a character in this game. There is no gm. There are no dice rolls. This is the map from my last game. (I prefer to use wrapping paper for more space)

Dialect is a language building game in which you collaboratively make up new words that become completely normal to you through play. You play as members of an isolated community of any sort (lost mars colonies, online message boards, a thieves guild) which breaks down over the course of the game. You play out the evolution and eventual dissolution of your joint language. Each turn comes with a prompt for which you create a word and then play a scene. This is great as a stand-alone but I love the idea of using it as worldbuilding for a larger campaign.

I will hopefully do another post talking more about someone games tomorrow

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This is a list of all the games I’ve played with a short description for each. I do not recommend all of these, but feel free to ask more about any of them. I’ll talk more about some of these in future posts.

Masks (teenage super heroes. PBTA)

Paranoia (dystopian bureaucratic comedy horror)

Weave (app based multi genre. Left very little impression for me)

Tales from the loop (80s teenage horror mystery. D6 based game)

Things from the flood (90s teenage horror mystery. Sequel to above)

Descent into Midnight (map drawing game. psychic underwater entities in a community fighting an influence. PBTA.)

Dream askew (queer enclave as society falls PBTA. Book also contains a jewish companion game set in a shtetl, Dream Apart)

Rippers (dark Victorian. supernatural hunters)

Pasion de las Pasiones (telenovela the rpg. NDNM)

Fall of magic (map based, gmless, story telling game. High fantasy. I own but have not yet played their second scroll game City of Winter)

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Fiasco (multi genre heist-gone-wrong game. Gmless. D6 based)

Inspecteres (ghostbusters-esque, bureaucratic comedy. Some mockumentary elements.)

Dnd (we all know this one)

Quiet year (map drawing, gmless game on the growth of community)

Dialect (linguistics based game telling the story of a collapse of community)

Microscope (world-building game played over the course of an era. Great for works building for a larger campaign)

Lady blackbird (single scenario game- helping a noble escape arranged marriage. Steampunk)

Lasers and feelings (Star Trek, basically. One pager. Great for new players and gms. Good system to build a home brew based on)

Castle falkenstein (steampunk+fantasy adventure)

Headspace (cyberpunk, anticorp. Emotionally intense/triggering)

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Mouse guard (mouse fantasy adventures)

Numenara (science fantasy adventure game. Earth based, 1000 years off)

Manifest (sci-fi western)

Damn the man save the music (employees try to save their dying indie record store and achieve their personal goals. 90s)

Ryutaama (npcs travel and experience the joy of existence)

Dead Halt (a hotels AI has gone rogue. You work there. Try to survive. Horror-ish but in a campy way)

Knave (a very simplified fantasy adventure game)

Thirteenth Age (similar to dnd with a few unique interesting features. Made by creators of dnd 3&4)

Anomaly (tarot based gmless game about a sinister organization investigating supernatural anomalies)

Visigoths vs. Mall goths (conflicts and romance between the warriors who sacked Ancient Rome and 20th century spooky teens. Takes place in a mall in 1996)

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Arcana Academy (magic school game. Don’t play with strangers because they will fall into HP tropes)

Alice is Missing (silent game played over discord or similar. A mystery is solved through texts and group chats

Worlds Without Numbers (large world fantasy adventure game. OSR. Similar in concept to dnd but with plenty of differences. More human centric)

Nahual (Mestizo shapeshifting angel hunting underdogs)

Sign (sign language building game. Deaf children develop their language collaboratively in a new school setting. Played silently.)

#ttrpg #ttrpg community #dnd #fall of Magic #tales from the loop #a quiet year #pasion de las pasiones #long post #dialect #dnd isn’t the only game #answered #lucky charms #one of the six or one of one of the sixes

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vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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[victusinveritas]

Midjourney Slavic art that is a clear ripoff of Jakub Rozalski. I share Midjourney stuff because I do find some of it useful for writing prompts and hope that you might too.

In this case, though, go buy Jakub Rozalski's marvelous artwork. And the game Scythe, which uses his art. Also the stuff by Simon Stalenhag ala Tales from the Loop. Throw money at him too if you can.

#jakub rozalski #tales from the loop #simon stalenhag

[tales-from-hometown]

#ufo #surrealism #cyberpunk #tales from the loop #c4d #xfiles #cinema4d #alien #i want to believe #nature

[meziniart]

Me and my friends will be playing Tales From the Loop and this is my character, Mika, the 14 y.o. troublemaker with a soft spot for his best friend Virginia

They have matching beads :}

#tales from the loop #ttrpg character #ttrpg #ttrpg art #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #sketch #original character #oc art #character art #character design