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Platypus species that evolved "electrostatic missile eggs".Spiral shark eggs drill into the abyss. It is not known where they go, or towards what ends.Wonton chaos egg that...
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There are no contraindications to Into Interodelia: A Probiotic Drug Cocktail Adventure (it’s system and setting agnostic), but it pairs well with:Maximum Recursion Depth Vol....
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On this next adventure, you'll be heading to The Empty Place. Accompanying you will be The Diplomat. You will be provided with basic equipment and credit for expenses. The...
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An advanced amphibious alien species that birth hundreds of young at a time. For the sake of their ecosystem and as a biological imperative, they must allow their young to be...
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I am not a fan of the "so bad it's good" mentality. I hate how people go to these campy movies with preconceived ideas about the experience they're going to have; who, when...
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For generations the Fire Kingdom has oppressed the Leaf Folk. That is until the Azure Horde arrived from the seas. At a disadvantage, the only way the Fire Kingdom can survive...
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Each player is two characters, an Ancestor and a Successor. This is a world of circular time, or at least for the PCs. Actions in one time affect the other. If it's easier,...
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The Apologists believe that in the space between life and death, one is not held on trial. Instead, one receives an intervention with their no longer living friends, enemies,...
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Thank you, I designed them myself! Yes they really work! See that vein there? Yes, I just attach it to the wheel overnight and it's reinvigored by the morning. Oh, those are...
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A little over a year ago, Tuesday September 6th 2022 at 7pm at the Barnes & Noble at Union Square in New York City, I met Grant Morrison. I even brought *them a copy of Maximum...
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I pre-ordered a Playdate a while back and it finally arrived a few days ago. It's an awesome little device, toyetic and whimsical in the way that videogame consoles used to be,...
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The new and hopefully improved MRD Vol. 2 (Gameplay Loop, Dev Log) is still in the works, but I think it makes sense to just call the Animism Setting MRD Vol. 3, which I'll be...Linked by the ring
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Have I defined Weird and Wonderful before? I talk a lot about Weird, but why Wonderful?Weird is what is juxtaposed against the known and normal. It is a feeling, unsettling, or...
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In Animist beliefs, life and death are non-binary; Ancestor Spirits carry a presence as nodes in the Superorganism network, the spirit in all things. Communing with the dead is...
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Between the previous session and this one the group did a Reach of the Roach God side adventure set in the same campaign universe, but I was not present for that game and at...
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Previous Play Report:Against the Grey Play Report 1: We Did an Akira and now the Eye Panopticon is Onto UsThe first session was fun, but this one is where we begin to hit our...
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I've been playing in an IRL game of Against the Grey GMed by Huffa, who is herself one of the designers of the game. I don't normally do PRs for games where I'm a player, but...
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I recently did a light purge of my blogroll. There are enough blogs on there still that you may not have even noticed. I do them occasionally, but this time was the most...
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You have experienced something Phenomenal, so awesome and steeped in meaning and virtue, that The World must be made to understand. And so We are Building a Religion.What is...
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In my continued attempts to do weird spacetime stuff with TTRPGs (The Art of Chrono War, Multi-Dimensional Hex Crawl), here's a system neutral Game Design Pattern for running...
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Huffa and I have been working on something called The Mycelium Matrix, like a psychedelic animist cyberspace (perfect for my animism setting whenever I get around to properly...
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Take it Easy my Brother CharlieRerunsEpisode 1Episode 2Episode 3Sometimes you just have to take it easy.I haven't posted in a while, so this is just a collection of random...
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Following up on my "Animism Appendix N" for my still unnamed "Pariah by way of Maximum Recursion Depth" setting (although the setting might be running away from that a bit...),...
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I was reading The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, a really funny and clever comic from a while back, and it reminded me of a cute, but also really cool trick, for counting on one...
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The cube is a lie.The square is a lie.Even the line, is a lie.Imagine two lines:━ ━ ━━ ━ ━Or this way:│ ││ ││ │What is their relationship? Which is length? Which is...
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While I did not design the algorithm, I've been playing around with the StereoscoPy open source codebase to create anaglyph 3D images. I've talked about my interest in anaglyph...
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I've been slowly conceiving of a "Weird & Wonderful" Animist setting, percolating over the last couple years or so at least. I've probably posted other versions of this idea...
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It's been a pet interest of mine for years to learn how to write Genetic Algorithms, but it was never quite clicking for me. I ended up stumbling upon this video (embedded...
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A super-solid state of matter like the opposite of plasma, colder than cold. Like a miniature blackhole in homeostasis. Black, opaque, bending spacetime around it. Hard, like...
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EDIT: Not sure why the majority of the images I tried attaching didn't work upon initial posting, will see if I can fix...SettingA Super Robot Wars style crossover! And also...