Isabelle (Thistle), Anxiousmimicrpgs

I’m anti-gatekeepy and I think being involved in scenes more tangentially or shifting in and out is a great way to experience them sometimes

Hey it's been, however many months I can't tell.

Doing the biannual thing again where you various creators can post your indie ttrpg down before so I can hopefully spread them to more people and maybe even make a review video on it!

GIRL FRAME by anxiousmimicrpgs Lesbians in mechs, struggling against oppression and eldritch horrors

anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io/girl-frame
Messy lesbian mech pilots, got some fun stuff going on with gm/pc concepts, oppression, and queerness

Monthly Mecha: Girl Frame w/ Isabelle M. Reubsaat Mecha TTRPGs Monthly

The March Mecha Newsletter features Girl Frame and an interview with the creator @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social! Girl Frame is a PBTA game about lesbian pilots, forced into half-living mech suits and sent by their Handler to kill eldritch beings from outside reality.

It's incredibly well-written.

Tiny Epics: Small Souls in a Big World! The small ones among us are sometimes overlooked, but they surely have grand tales to tell! This March, let's explore these tiny epics for the RPG Blog Carnival!

The small ones among us are may be overlooked, but they surely have grand tales to tell! Let's explore these tiny epics in the #ttrpg Blog Carnival. Smol mouse & a needle sword? A Shadow of the Colossus boss fight? Share your creations early! Final roundup on March 31
errantthinking.com/tiny-epics/

little doodle i wont finish

I was obsessed over Sigil as a kid, would love to do something along that “planar hub” vibe

How I learned to love the Void Calliope Tanova does not remember a lot of things. Who she is, or where she comes from. Why she is in the middle of a vicious war raging across a sun-scorched highland. Some days, she can't even tell ...

And because I've caught the bug, #TransMecha #mechsploitation

Blame @kallidorarho.bsky.social and @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social for this one.
www.scribblehub.com/series/22119...

more robot girl, I need to come up with a name for her

I think I make 90% of an OSR system once every 6-ish months

If you've had more than 1 conversation with me you know what these games are for me lol

Yeah! Am visiting my girlfriend in uk rn but I’m a local haha

It was insanely funny to me to be reading through it and be like, "wait, are parts of this set near my house???"

This is great lmao

Mechsploitation Nextdoor:

Friendly reminder that pilots are NOT permitted in the dog park, regardless of how they are designated by their Handler. This is a LEASH LAW issue, people!!!!!!

A spread from the game One Foot In depicting two USP pistols along with rules text for the game.

A page from the game One Foot In showing two Colt 1860 Army revolvers. The game's intro text is on the pages.

A page from the game One Foot In showing two compact pistols and the dice table for the first Phantom.

I'm continuing to work on my two-player narrative TTRPG, One Foot In, with my playtest/feedback group now having copies of the print draft PDF. Also working on getting a prototype for the book and prompt cards.

Follow me here for updates and info as the game gets closer!

The Mecha TTRPG Newsletter You are about to discover that mecha ttrpgs are legion. Or more likely you already know, and that's why you're signing up. It seems as if a new mech game is coming out every month, and so many of these games are worth reading, if not playing. How do you

Last week to submit your content for the March newsletter!

New releases, crowdfunders, reviews, essays: anything about mech rpgs is welcome!

It’s been really interesting to see the trends and stuff that have arisen, and I’m super interested to see what the future brings for it

'faggot game' has proven really useful and fun as a way of describing TTRPGs with certain design tendencies and intense content, made from certain subcultures, and made for certain readers. my original intent was a designer's directive, but i really think it identifies a continuity

I'm in favor of a new Evangelion series. I believe it's a human right that every generation grows up with at least one anime that makes them feel weird and bad and slightly confused.

Girl who’s watching academics for 4 hours and then getting very very drunk at a pub later :D

I don't feel like I talk about my political core beliefs very much here on bluesky.

I believe that prison abolition, decolonization, and the dismantling of both capitalism and ethnically-demarcated militarized nation-states are all essential to human dignity and achievable within my lifetime.

Cells migrating🧬 they’re sick of you taking them for granted, and have decided to find biome elsewhere

PC Bonds: Looking at PbtA & Descendants Player Character (PC) Bonds are a common staple in Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) games, and Belonging Outside Belonging (BOB) by…

medium.com/@isabellerue... looking at a bunch of different PbtA and Belonging Outside Belonging games and discussing how they handle setting up PC bonds. I think this one is pretty good #pbta

Have I never explained it to you 😭 it’s basically you have a curated set of cards (usually 360), and you get people (usually 8) who each get 3 packs of 15 from those cards, and you do a draft (pick a card from the pack, pass it on). Then you build a 40 card deck out of what you draft

Bonded Girl, Artificial Mind, Ancillary Playbooks | Isabelle Ruebsaat Get more from Isabelle Ruebsaat on Patreon

www.patreon.com/posts/bonded... some new playbook previews for #GirlFrame! #mechsploitation
- Bonded: codependent freak
- Artificial Mind: robot girl
And two Ancillary Playbooks, a new mechanic:
- the Mercenary
- the Soldier

If you haven't seen the drama, the manga adaption that started after the film came out is written by someone who thinks they're straight, and she's been cutting scenes from the source material (the film) to make it seem less gay

Cosmic Princess Kaguya was excellent - well worth a watch, and beautifully animated.

I wonder if there's any unhinged "they're just really good friends" takes out there

Digital Angel It is the dystopic far-future of 2 0 2 6 Advanced supercities have exploded with new and horrible technologies. Rampant factories on their outskirts choke the remnants of the ecosystem. Wealth dispari...

Feeling lonely?˖°.✧

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This is perhaps the most seen I've felt with regard to erotic TTRPGs in a while. It is such a frustrating but understandable sentiment, though it becomes all the more frustrating when it's the -dominant- sentiment. This is also true for Hawkmoth, and has been true for my own work to an extent.