Atlas

TIL poetry isn't something people who write, learn for the fun of it.

#BrachyrSystem
Welcome to Nasvene! Medieval Stasis has been cracked. The workshop vault of a lost inventor has been unearthed, releasing the Age of Gears.
Clockwork technology is spreading rapidly. You're either deep in, resisting, or on the horizon. Clockworks are coming, magitech is changing.

If anyone has any TTRPG gigs or projects that need a host/DM/Storyteller, please let me know. The person who had been giving me work before has been weasling their way out of paying me.

I hate to ask you to repost, but if you could help me get word out, that would be really kind. ^^'

#DM #Furry

And please for all that matters to you; tell the creator you like it!

I had one person comment in confusion about how character creation made 0 sense, describing how confusing it was to make a character from just looking at the character sheet.
It was a one-page rpg! The review ignores half the rules on the sheet.

An Engineer has been working on a set of equations to predict the stress on a bridge. To be safe, he decides to get them double-checked. He first goes to a Physicist. The Physicist looks at the equations, runs some simulations, and says, "The math holds up within a reasonable margin of error for all known physical constants. It’s solid." Not satisfied, the Engineer goes to a Mathematician. The Mathematician takes the equations and disappears into his office for a week. Finally, he emerges, looking exhausted and annoyed. "This equation is completely flawed," the Mathematician declares. "It’s full of holes. I’ve found dozens of counter-examples where it fails miserably." The Engineer is shocked. "That’s impossible! I’ve used this formula on five different bridges and they’re all standing perfectly! Where exactly does it fail?" The Mathematician flips to the last page of his notes and says, "Well, for starters, it completely falls apart in the cases where the number of dimensions is negative, or when the mass of the bridge is an imaginary number."

Reminds me of;

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I'm fine with people playing D&D 5e as a medieval fantasy roleplay and action game. But Horror, Mystery, and Sci-fi don't work in it, and attempting to force it and then going "well 5e's the best game so this is the best way to do it" is where I get gruff

In my experience, personally, systems that can support characters like that, secretly already have them(e.g. Silver Age Sentinels has a Superman analog in the back)
But I still mark that as (1), even if it's the storyteller doing it rather than players

Just as the Step-Sisters are trying to claim someone else's work to get the credit and rewards for themselves.

Now there is no shame. That idea is my idea now, look at me, I'm playing this character someone else created. All character development has been done for them. They went through their arcs. I don't even have to come up with motives. I'm just puppetting someone elses hollowed out work.

I get I'm the odd one out here. But it just irks me so much. It feels like there's so little want to be original these days.
For ages there was the refrain "everything's a remix, nothing is original". But that was to help you get over shame for comparing your ideas to others.

1 just feels, dirty, to me. You don't want to come up with your own character, you want to invest in something else made by someone else. And you don't care for the two mediums being trounced on to live the fantasy.

2 I encounter most in a situation where once you help them get close enough(hacking the system to do it), they respond; great! Now I'm a 1!~

3 is the only ones I'm personally okay with. Because they tend to find that the character doesn't fit, go "neat, oh well" and walk away.

I see it approached for 3 reasons:
1) I want to play the character.
2) I like the idea as a thought experiment.
3) I want to see if it's possible.

In the story, the step sisters end up cutting chunks off their own feet to attempt to force them to fit into the glass slippers. People trying to make so-and-so in a given RPG are basically doing the same. You're either hacking up the character, or the system, or both.

Unhinged ttrpg rant;
People trying to build existing fictional characters in any given ttrpg are the same cinderella's step sisters trying on the glass slipper.

Anything sold in the ttrpg space that was generated by an AI(be it LLM or diffusion), I feel qualifies as "content".
If humans actually took the effort to create the material, than I agree with you.

The power of friendship is made of clickiclacks and hot plastic fumes

Brachyr - The Everyman's Artistry by AtlasSniperman

It's that time again! #ttrpg #indierpg #SelfPromo
A new #BrachyrSystem supplement!
In this weird age where artists are put down, I wanted to do just a little by highlighting the artistic expression of characters IN Nasvene.

Atlas' Writing Desk

While I wait to be able to release the next #BrachyrSystem doc. I just wanted to say; the flash fic for the book is up on my writing desk!
Title is "Masterwork" and it's my first attempt at a #clockpunk specific fiction set in Nasvene.

#indiettrpg #writesky #selfpromo

Looks awesome! Good Luck.
Minor concern, just a silly; C12 says Cthulhutech but links Deathbringer :P

And I was going to suggest #BrachyrSystem, but just because of course I would suggest it xD

Is this by chance a call for suggestions? 😛

I love writing the sort of stuff that makes me want to look in a mirror and ask "what the fuck is feasting on my brain?"
More than once something has been cut from #BrachyrSystem for being *too dark* for test audiences.
Oh well
#ttrpg #indierpg

You know the #ttrpg is made by an aussie when;
- It has exploding eucalyptus forests
- Snake poison is the most terrifying encounter regardless level
- Funnelweb spiders don't get statblocks, just trap triggers
- Distances are metric
- Individuality and Cooperation are of equal import
#BrachyrSystem

I'd invite you to my pf1e all-thief gestalt campaign

But is paid and it's weird to advertise like that xD
I know the feeling so much though!!!

You'll hear people say "so quit", and I agree. But I also sympathize.
I stuck out a game I absolutely hated, the GM made it horrendously painful. But when I asked what would happen if everyone quit?
"I'll find new players and start again"
So I get it, but at some point you need to think of yourself

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