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I dreamed that I was writing an adventure for Delta Green. Or rather, running it, improvising as I went. There was a scene where a character (a child) is sneaking around an empty school, because there is a monster on the second floor of the school. The kid doesn't know it yet, but the monster is a bunch of people stuck together in a slimy heap. He only knows about the monster because of the sounds it makes - like someone slapping a wet mop on the floor.

The school is empty because there is a September 1st assembly going on outside the school. I have no idea if they do something like this in the US, but it was ambiguous whether the adventure was taking place somewhere in the former USSR or somewhere else. It could have been any other event that required all the students to be gathered outside.

There was a clue that the history teacher was telling the kids how before WWII Germany hired people in the USSR for sabotage and they had a secret sign to identify each other - a coin. And he showed this coin. It and the monster were somehow connected. And the child was trying to decide - either to use something from the chemistry class to try to defeat the monster, or not to approach it at all, find a coin and run.

At the same time, another character, also a child, was riding a train and trying to figure out how to send her mother a text message so that she would think it was from her father, who was now on an expedition at a polar station.

Unfortunately I don't know what the context was, but in the dream I really enjoyed watching the player figure out how to do it from a child's point of view.

Literally cannot read your name correctly

My brain always reads sugarporn

given my line of work it's not even totally incorrect

More bookssss

The reason why some of the covers have weird lines is that it's recycled from delivery bags

I think I should make it even more obvious in the next batch so it looks more intentional 🤔

Horsy🐎

Horsy🐎

I can't stress enough how happy I am to see someone with the same type of brain worms that i have

I'd like to post more, but I'm stuck in a pile of half finished boxes

Boxesssssss

They will be covered with paper mache, but I kinda don't wanna do it, I like them already

You know what I'm obsessed with? How internet slang is adapted to different languages

Like "lol" for example. In Russian we just type "лол" which sounds the same but is no longer an abbreviation for "laughing out loud". But at least it sounds the same, so if you know what the original meant it makes sense to just type it in Cyrillic like that to save time.

But then there is XD. Which looks like a face. And in Russian we did the same and started typing "ХД". So it no longer looks like a face. And the russian "x" actually represent a "h" or "kh" sound. So it lost BOTH original meaning AND sound, but is still used in place of "XD". You might think that it's to save time, but people never type ":д" instead of ":D", they switch to English for that one alone and then don't switch for "хд" in the same post!

I don't know what about it is so fascinating for me but it's FASCINATING

Coffee gnomes

*wakes up*

I finally came up with a perfect setting for my weirdo characters to live in

*goes back to sleep, never mentions it ever again*

My girlfriend's tarnished gal

We were joking that with the sunflower boss fromsoft has really connected with their core audience - people who miss beating grass with a stick as a kid. And it got me thinking - is it even a universal childhood experience? Do americans have fond memories about fighting local flora?

Extra points if it's dangerous flora, like nettle, then it can fight back and the fight has more stakes

I guess mother Russia gave me at least some trust issues

Because I just found myself at 4:00 being sad that I'll eventually have to stop being friends with all my friends because they will probably end up transphobic or something

It doesn't help that I already know that they are not homophobes. They are actually all queer. (We only found it out by accident after playing dnd for half a year, no one asked, no one mentioned it)

The fact that they know that my gf is former trans activist doesn't help either

In my head everyone that didn't explicitly state their support for some minority group is against this group and it's too dangerous to ask

ah, so this is what happened I was scared by sudden 40 notifications from tumblr for a second thought that somehow porn bots returned :D

People seem to like my hare linoprint

So here is a little notebook I stamped with it and also a snail (also from marginalia)

Notebook covers are made of paper bags and some recycled cardboard

Was trying to sketch some birds in a park, but they were too fast

So I drew a guy instead

So, uhh.. I'm not a fan of wireless headphones... But I guess they are the way for when you are cutting stuff that can easily catch on those wires 🫠🫠🫠

Indie game idea...

So basically those videos where they make souls bosses fight each other

+ cartoon making games for kids

+ BattleBots

You make your own bosses from different parts, customize their moveset, customize the arena, and watch them fight

You can also share your bosses with other people and participate in tournaments

Time to make some bookssssss

Btw never saw MDF as a book cover material in any tutorial. But right now thin MDF is my favorite material ever... It probably has acid in it or something and I'll find out in 5 years when all my books start yellowing and falling apart, and I will be like "ahhh that's why nobody uses it"

It has some other flaws, like I can't use my favorite method of adding an elastic band. But otherwise love it

I almost missed it

POV: kitten

Also one of like two other artists there was a guy with a funger fan art that I saw on Twitter

Because no matter how many people are there on the internet odds to run into someone in a tiny gay bar in Argentina are pretty high

Visited a russian-speaking lgbt immigrants fair (god what a mouthful)

It had an extra hour in a ball pit

And this guy who wasn't selling anything he just sat there and painted. I heard him say "well I just excepted a magical way of life"

I'm planning to become this guy when it's time for me to retire

Visited a russian-speaking lgbt immigrants fair (god what a mouthful)

It had an extra hour in a ball pit

And this guy who wasn't selling anything he just sat there and painted. I heard him say "well I just excepted a magical way of life"

I'm planning to become this guy when it's time for me to retire

preparations for the fair

Little notebooks

The design on the covers is delivery bag paper

actually no I'll be online quite a lot because we share one gaming PC with my gf and it's not my turn

to three people seeing this post..... elden ring/souls/bloodborne related art requests, anyone?

I will never be online again if you need me I'll be in the Elden Ring DLC

On D&D vs TTRPG

I got my start in RPGs when an elementary school friend brought his older brother's 3rd edition dnd book to play pretend with when we had indoor recess. That holiday season I asked my mom & grandma to get me my own to imagine with, and began running games for friends in middle school. Since then, from 3e, 3.5, to Pathfinder, to 5e, I've enjoyed playing D&D with friends. I'm currently lucky enough to be playing in multiple D&D campaigns.

We also have played games like Mörk Borg, Death in Space, Dungeon World, Blades in the Dark, and smaller things like Lasers & Feelings, Honeyheist, Tunnel Goons, etc. And personally I've played/tested more experimental stuff with folks online, and have been floating around the indie rpg design scene for years as I tinker on my own ultralight indie rpg.. which several of my groups have offered to playtest with me.

What I mean to say is not only, for us, is there no split between d&d and other ttrpgs, but that I have never once in decades of playing encountered a d&d group that was unwilling to try other games.

People in online ttrpg spaces, including very young people, often make quite condescending posts saying all kinds of things about d&d 5e players, all of which completely disconnect with the reality i've experienced in my years of play. Some of which are self-contradictory, such as saying 5e doesn't provide mechanical scaffolding for social roleplay outside of dungeon crawls and combat (and that people who want roleplaying in their roleplaying game should play something else), while also praising quite rules-light, on-the-fly, trust-based systems, with even less structural meat for all of these, as elegant. (And personally, i think all of these game styles can be fun as hell with the right group.)

"Begging 5e players to try literally any other game" is a meme that, again, seems to me to be an entirely fictional problem (and, I would guess, based on my own past attitude, a sort of defensive dnd-is-too-mainstream posturing outsider-elitism. My head spun around the other day when I saw a 20 year-old call themself a grognard.)... But I want to grant the possibility that this is a specifically generational phenomenon for Gen Z dnd players. (The first generation to grow up with nerd culture as mainstream.) Though, honestly I find it hard to believe something so condescending about them.. I hear of "D&D" as consumer content/lifestyle brand and [bracketing out WotC entirely, all my homies hate WotC] I can't help but think... yeah I watch a lot of fun rpg&dnd content on youtube, and everyone I know loves Dimension 20. Yet somehow this doesn't stop us from enjoying indie, osr, nsr, and ultralight rpgs. And, yes, D&D is what most people play for a lot of reasons, including the social momentum and visibility factors, and the fact that its a pretty fun and flexible fantasy game that is good enough to get a group of people together to play (which, when it comes down to it, the fact that you're playing together with a fun group will always be more important than which game you decide to play.)

I've thought about writing some version of this many times over the past couple of years. I usually ignore it but these types of posts online seem to have risen to a new degree of condescension and absurdity recently (though it may simply be i've run into it more often despite my efforts to avoid it). Obviously, this is not a 'callout' post for any individual. It's a trend that you know what i'm talking about if you have been anywhere near the ttrpg scene for the past several years. Though i am absolutely sure much of this post will be actively disinterpreted, projected upon, argued with a-guy-they-made-up-to-get-mad-at instead of what I actually said, I know that I am not the only one who has been saying this for years. I also know that many D&D players who WANT to get into indie and osr rpgs are often actively turned away by the vitriol and condescension they encounter. So if you want the ttrpg space to be more ecologically diverse and creative, indeed, if you want to encourage people to try new types of games.. DON'T MAKE US ALL LOOK LIKE SNOBBISH ASSHOLES.

With Love,

Ultra

I will never be online again if you need me I'll be in the Elden Ring DLC