#that would be a really different game

[fantasyfantasygames]

Living Prism

Living Prism, Hebdomad Press, 2013

Living Prism is a modern-day game of supernatural conspiracies. You'll find a lot that's familiar here - a hidden society and low-end supernatural power in the depths of a city's underbelly - so I'm going to focus on what makes it different.

The name of the game refers to your character's ability to split themselves into multiple "facets", presumably because "rays" sounded a little weird. (I, personally, can split myself into Ray Stantz and Ray Terrill, so that's pretty awesome.) Each facet has only a fraction of your abilities and being, which doesn't sound great until you find out that you get to define which specific fractions. You can make a facet that holds your tangibility for you, letting you pass through solid matter. You can create a facet that doesn't have your sense of pain so that it can fight for you. Really, they're all you, so you're the one fighting for you, but you generally just play a gestalt self rather than individual facets. Re-merging your facets requires physical contact.

Living Prism is a Fate derivative, which I think is a great choice of system. It uses Aspects to handle the many different ways you might assemble a facet. The game encourages you to be creative but stick to low-level powers. Tucking all of your weight into a facet will not give you the ability to fly, but you might float on the wind. However, giving away the fact that you reflect light in order to become jet-black and hide in the shadows is perfectly ok. It's very much driven by GM-party consensus. Skills include Exploration, Investigation, Subterfuge, and Athletics.

Your society revolves around a strange pool of light found deep within the hidden subway tunnels of Amsterdam. The first Living Prisms were unhoused people and urban explorers some forty years ago who found the pool and were changed by it. Since then, they've worked their way into all kinds of strange situations, discovering ghosts, angels, demons, mole-men, dimensional shifters, and my personal favorite, naturally-evolved AI-like organisms that live in communications networks.

There are several factions to belong to, each with a strong central thesis that guides their actions. One of the weaknesses of the setting is that there's no good reason for these factions to work together unless it's a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" kind of way.

Living Prism went through several incarnations before becoming what it is now. It started as WoD netbook "Digger: the Invisible", shifted drastically into modern-day Battlelords-inspired "Matrix Runner" (well before the Maze Runner books), settled back toward urban fantasy as the homebrewed "Urban Light", and finally became the Fate adaptation it is now. It's a wild journey. If you have copies of any of the earlier versions, send them my way - I'd love to review Matrix Runner, but all I have right now is memories of a long-gone tattered copy that somehow found its way into the public library.

#review #rpg #ttrpg #imaginary #indie ttrpg #thankfully you're not a triangular piece of glass #that would be a really different game #probably not a very good one

[eldritch-thrumming]

scream 7 fires their highly successful female lead who revitalized their franchise & made them millions of dollars all because of her pro palestinian stance but not a single word from netflix on their side characters in an ensemble cast who are literally saying shit like “zionism is sexy” and advocating for absolutely no ceasefire under any circumstances. this is a hell world.

#i’m talking abt melissa barrera noah schnapp and brett gelman respectively #hollywood is such a fucking joke i hope it collapses #i get it’s different studios and companies but for fucks sake really #will be interesting to see what jenna ortega has to say abt this i have no idea if she’s even attached to scream 7 tbh #also something so sinister abt an industry that would drop a new hunger games installment rn

[zellk]

Githyanki doodling on post-it notes that I cleaned up a lil bit Lae'zel from memory on the first (im only happy with the profile tbh), and Anma and Mitas on the second (It was SO easy to fit them in BG3 lore it's insane... I even have a whole storyline roughly figured out for them and it came together in like 30 minutes on my walk home from work.) I don't have any energy to draw nowadays except on post-its, but it's better than nothing.

#baldur's gate 3 #ocs #oc #mitas #anma #lae'zel #beary sketch #mitas camcara #anma camcara #mitas and anma aren't really classic “crèche” githyankis... or well they used to be but :^)c #let's say that Anma follows Voss' ideals #Mitas tries to help her but she's never in the same spot so Mitas gets to be Tav's companion #while Anma is an npc you meet on his storyline #the meeting goes.... very differently depending on your choices :^) #zellk #i made a game with the two of them together in it #and most of the time i have lae'zel in the team too (after she learns a few things Anma would get along quite well with her) #so it's like #3 giths team #it's so fucking funny #3 toads #bg3

[aashiyancha]

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It's been some beautiful spring days that made me think of the summer to come. So, I decided to give this game another whirl

Also peak summer moment. I wanted Jeremy to come back just so I could pour another cup on him.

#our life #our life beginnings & always #gb patch games #cove holden #mc ash cha #fanart #derek suarez #jeremy king #lee (i guess she doesnt have an offical last name?) #i was gonna name mc aashi again but ash was a voiced name and its practically the same thing #and ash isnt really the same person as me so they might as well have a different name #aashi doodles #olba fanart #this game is fantastic guys you pksy the same general story no matter what BUT #the flavor of how you want things to go is SO expasive and immersive i was able to play almost every scene excatly how i interpreted #it would go in my head #fantastic visual novel #gb patch

[francy-sketches]

sorry I got posessed by the wattpad demon I'm normal now (lying)

+alt version that didnt fit the #aesthetic but it better represents my #vision of them ^_^ hashtag couplegoals

#I am not immune to 'she can fix him'-ism. jk that's not why I like them #got #game of thrones #joffrey baratheon #margaery tyrell #my art #sorry 2 the marg fans I haven't drawn her in so long and this is what I give you. if it makes you feel better I'm also disappointed #ok jokes aside im actually really happy w the like. messy scrapbook vibe it was so fun :3 I need to do it more ^o^ #I'm so jealous of people who fill up their canvas like this n I finally did it yipeee #whats their ship name btw is it just a slightly misspelled version of one of their names that would be funny. does anyone even ship them #...I know what this looks like but um ackchually I like them in a ironypilled divorcecel way. it's different -_- #and I also like drawing them being cute but um its because ☝ um. well its fun :3

[willyhoos]

the mikes.. the michaels, even...

#fnaf #fnaf movie #mike schmidt #michael afton #michael schmidt #does any1 call him that.. besides william lol #i like the hc that game!mike is freaky tall like his dear old dad #so movie mike being a certified shorty is soooo <3 appreciated. #i really appreciate that movie mike is #like. sane. #hes disturbed definitely but he is still Trying to live functionally hes just. struggling to succeed in that regard #game mike? not a chance. hes an identity-hopping arsonist #i guess thats the difference elizabeth (abby) makes. #if game mike had somehow managed to save elizabeth #maybe he would have turned out ok #movie mike shows us what would have happened if michael DID actually have something to live for #game mike has nothing at all no one . no desires no family no friends nothing. just a death wish and a lot of regret. #btw movie mike is michael afton .. in the sense that he is the movie-adapted versoin of michael afton. #they have different stories obviously but they are INTENDED to be the same person #gnerally that is #i mean. lil sis. responsible for lil bros death. the weird offputting rude pushy personality. #so ill take it as proof that in the games mike=michael #OK I GOT OFF TRACK UM SORRY #now ill never get over how game mike and vanessa never met. #i mean theres the glammike theory but. that is an extremely altered version of mike who arguably isnt awake hes possessing a robot. hes Dea #but according to the movie... they woulda gotten along. #brings a tear to me old eye #my nyart #i miss queue #ah yes.. 4:34 am again garfie baby

[hellspawnmotel]

I finished wild arms yesterday! what a great game

#wild arms #wild arms 1 #cecilia adlehyde #jack van burace #rudy roughnight #earth golem #art tag #i really really loved this one im so glad i finished it #its really fun and not overly long for a jrpg (about 30 hours) #also gets my seal of approval in that despite what all promotional material would have you believe cecilia is the main character #like its not even a question she just is. compounded by the fact that if you want to you can play as her the whole time #my biggest criticism would prob be that by the end of the game the party feels kind of unbalanced especially in boss fights #cecilia can do so much shit and the boys basically just do different kinds of big damage lol #cecilia can also do big damage but shes too busy healing and buffing and debuffing and all that #its not all that hard though so its not a huge deal just kind of funny #anyway i definitely want to play the rest of the series at some point. apparently theres an anime too?? exciting

[metamercury]

Have you all met my pesky husband? He told me how ugly the place was, negged me for a week, and then proposed. He winds up in the medical tent after every fight and gives the wettest kisses.

#cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl kallamar #it's not how i was expecting things to go but it was very funny the way it played out. he really is a pest. #so kallamar kept making me do different rituals to 'prove i had godly power' and a ritual glitched and i had to force close the game #and i lost two gold skull necklaces because of that. So. He stole them from me. Lets be real this guy would definitely steal shit #He'd steal shit and then try to charm his way out of any repercussions. And I guess it worked in the end. In this case. #my draws

[tharenia]

you think it'll ever be the same again between us?

#sorikai #sora #riku #kairi #kh3 #kingdom hearts #thareniart #if the games don't show me the aftermath of sora's disappearance then fine i will draw it myself #also i just really wanted to draw the difference in dynamics esp cause i love exploring riku and kairi's dynamic #they deeply care about one another but they also both love sora so much you can't tell me it would be sunshine and rainbows #they'd be so heartbroken with no one to take it out on other than each other

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

#tumblr polls #hrmm... a little poll perhaps.. about a subject I find interesting.. since this image came across my facebook today #still really not feeling that well. no longer shaking violently and such but I still feel weird and weak much more than usual #They did say my markers for like infection or inflammation were elevated but that they werent sure of the cause so hopefully #it's nothing too serious. they did also say a lot of different things can cause that thing to be higher than normal but didn't go into spec #fics of what. maybe some of them are relatively benign or something. I still havent felt much back to normal since #I got really sick that one time though. I feel fine on and off but then little bouts of feeling weird and sick happen. hrmmm #ANYWAY.. looking for small ways to be productive. such as little doodles on evil ipad or editing game videos #or posting polls or cat pictures or some other like not very labor intensive things #I WISH I COULD FOCUS on writing HHRGGhh... I need to finish my game.. it would be so freeing.. a project that's been looming #over my head for like 5 years even though througouht that 5yrs I've probably spent a total of 3 months working on it lo.. ANYWAY #I still partially really cannot beleive that people CAN see stuff in their heads. There's always part of me that's thinking like. well mayb #e everyone DOES see the same exact thing but we just describe/conceptualize it so differently that we think we're talking about #different things when we're really not. But I have been assured by people I've talked to about it that they can GENUINELY really see #stuff in their heads like as vivid as an actual picture in real life or something. And the other senses are neat too. Like for exmaple I #can hear in my head much better than I can see imagery. I still CANNOT hear vividly like as if I were listening to actual music out loud.. #but I think it's developed more than my sight. AND interesting how this varies the creative process. a friend I was talking to on the phone #said they write by literally just watching stuff play before them like a movie. where my process is COMPLETELY different. AND that affects #the content/what details we focus on as well as our individual styles of writing have differences that can be traced back to that.. hrmm

[turbo-tsundere]

Let’s disturb da balance of the universe

#gonta gokuhara #gokuhara gonta #kokichi ouma #ouma kokichi #danganronpa #v3 #ndrv3 #pregame #ougoku #if you squint at the second pic #my art #tbh I don't really subscribe to the fanon that the pregame personalities are the exact opposities of ingame ones #(but then does anyone really?) #with v3 writing being overall more nuanced and usually going the 'yes but no but maybe except it's complicated' route #personally I like to imagine that even if they act differently at their core they aren't that different #and their in-game personalities are actually their repressed/subconsciouss true selves - or perhaps their ideal versions of themselves #that they couldn't reach due to being cynical/jaded and disillusioned with society #(nevermind what they wished for comes with its own set of grievances and pitfalls ;p) #that's just my impression given the audition tapes and what-not #BUT for the purpose of entertaiment let's imagine how much of an absolute menace the first combination would be XD #(whether it's a menace for Kokichi or they're a menace to everyone else is an entirely different matter ;p) #side note but drawing this made me realise and appreciate smth - Kokichi's gakuran is dark contrasting his in-game outfit #but Gonta also has his own contrast - the blue/indigo color historically associated with royalty #vs the brown of his in-game suit - color more associated with commoners and plainness but also symbolising being down to earth and friendly #that's really neat actually #esp considering he's from high-status family

[bdugo]

SONIC RUSH! 💙💜

Double-sided, 3.5” acrylic charm, available now!

#Sonic the Hedgehog #Blaze the Cat #Cream the Rabbit #Miles Tails Prower #Sonic Rush #I love the DS and the Rush games so I'm really excited about this one!! #They're big charms since I was worried the little text would be hard to read otherwise but honestly they're really cute! #Tiny baby DS #It's one charm btw it's just double-sided I'm realizing this pic makes it seem like two different things lol #Shop

[aethersflood]

Just don't say I didn't warn you. You're Cid now, and if anything happens to him, we're finished.

#ffxvi #clive rosfield #jill warrick #ffxviedit #ffedit #final fantasy 16 #final fantasy xvi #i started this gifset bc i wanted to gif these two in their cool hoods but then i realized #i really love the way this second half of the game is set up #how they both think they're saving the world and expect everyone to thank them #but they're unintentionally making life harder for a lot of people #and what “saving” looks like to them is very different than how others see it #and they can't expect a thank you from people when they never asked to be saved #in fact their presence is making things worse #it's a lesson they sorta learn but Not Really bc otherwise they would have changed course in their destroy-all-mothercrystals plan #but most importantly they both look so hot like this #my husband and my wife #and what a way to open up the second half of the game too bc the writers were like “clive got hotter!! jill's still a beaut!!” #and i was like yES this is all i care about #mine

[rawliverandgoronspice]

no but genuinely it's actually wild how little sense totk story makes. it's beyond small continuity errors or character arcs being beyond botched: their own self-contained proposal for a world is actively nonsensical, there's layers upon layers of stuff that doesn't even try to strive for an internal logic, and it gets worse and worse the longer you consider everything

#thoughts #totk #totk critical #I know no zelda story is airtight logic and it's fine!!! #it's actually fine and good! #but here it has so little to say? #beyond having the grueling task of coming after BotW #which is one of the most grounded and “realistic” entries in the IP narratively speaking #so the fact they didn't really maintain that tone and that choice of trying to portray a tangible and believable world hurt the game so muc #again if they wanted a reboot tone-wise they should have made a different hyrule #and it would have been much more forgiveable imo

[essektheylyss]

Honestly the fact that they fit three distinct combats on top of plenty of character and story progression into the episode before 11pm was a really strong argument out of the gate for Daggerheart as a system for streaming. That was super neat, not gonna lie.

#daggerheart #cr spoilers #look I love 5e for crunch! I love crunchy combat! but this honestly makes less editing more attractive imo #and I REALLY love unedited AP. like idk man editing makes my attention wane way faster #I think cuz I do want to feel like I'm watching a game at a table? like if I wanted to watch a different format I would #okay anyway I am so wiped and I must pass out. before I start going to write some more cuz I have to commute tomorrow #if I could use my anguish and suffering emote of my cat's face that I have on discord in all modes of communication my life would be better #ANYWAYYYY

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

coriolanus's sob when he found sejanus's picture of the two of them

THAT BROKE ME

#HE PROMISED HE WOULD KEEP HIM SAFE #everything is so tragic #i think that was his tipping point #i really do #their friendship is so tragic #watching tragedies and knowing how they end with the hope they will end differently this time #coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #sejanus deserved better #the hunger games #hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes