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Lhuzie Féleç-Ougusta. She/Her TTRPG designer and critic. Artist. Sound engineer. Writer. Cybernetic Cyborg Witch. PfP by melonkind

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Every time I rotate the cube "how to bring the magic of SRPGs and Horny Chess to TTRPGs" for Coat of Arms I feel like a massive genius.

11.03.2026 20:35 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
11.03.2026 13:10 👍 15540 🔁 4083 💬 92 📌 36
The frontpage of the Kickstarter for the IDW Godzilla RPG, which currently has $143,709 out of $60,000 pledged with 22 days to go.

The frontpage of the Kickstarter for the IDW Godzilla RPG, which currently has $143,709 out of $60,000 pledged with 22 days to go.

Lee Smith
8 days ago

Will I also get a PDF of the rules? I'm not interested in the App thing you have, I avoid these.

EllenCollaborator
8 days ago

Hello Lee! Thank you for your question! The digital edition of the Kickstarter Exclusive Core Rulebook will be hosted on the IDW App. For licensing reasons, it will not be available as a PDF download. The IDW App is available for download on smartphones and tablets. I'm sorry we won't be able to offer the rules in your preferred digital format. I hope this helps!

Lee Smith 8 days ago Will I also get a PDF of the rules? I'm not interested in the App thing you have, I avoid these. EllenCollaborator 8 days ago Hello Lee! Thank you for your question! The digital edition of the Kickstarter Exclusive Core Rulebook will be hosted on the IDW App. For licensing reasons, it will not be available as a PDF download. The IDW App is available for download on smartphones and tablets. I'm sorry we won't be able to offer the rules in your preferred digital format. I hope this helps!

Speaking of RPG kickstarters, this seems like a pretty big misunderstanding of how the current RPG scene works and I can't imagine it's going to be good for this game's long-term visibility when people who might be interested in giving it a try get told "okay first, you have to download the app"

11.03.2026 16:10 👍 213 🔁 51 💬 16 📌 22

I know what video you saw.

10.03.2026 13:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sometimes at random I remember when @anemoneart.bsky.social said the Deedees "fixed" their racism (19th century english brainrot) with racism (ancient roman brainrot) and chuckle.

10.03.2026 10:52 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Name one example then.

10.03.2026 10:18 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
 My group recently tried running a campaign using Vampire: The Masquerade 20th. We really enjoy the setting and lore and would like to keep playing in that world, but the system didn’t quite support the kind of gameplay we were hoping for.

The main issue for us was that combat didn’t feel very satisfying, especially compared to more tactical RPGs. A few things contributed to that:

    Very little tactical depth. Positioning, terrain, and movement didn’t matter much, and the system doesn’t really support grid or map based play. Most fights felt like trading dice pools rather than making meaningful tactical decisions.

    Limited differentiation between combat actions. Many turns ended up feeling mechanically similar; roll to hit, apply damage without many interesting choices about abilities, positioning, or teamwork.

    Hard to judge encounter difficulty. Our GM struggled to estimate how dangerous enemies would be ahead of time. There isn’t really anything like encounter building guidelines or a CR style framework.

    Combat pacing felt awkward. Some fights dragged due to multiple rolls and resolution steps, while others ended abruptly depending on how damage rolled.

None of this is really a criticism of the design; it's clear the game is focused more on drama, politics, and personal horror than on tactical combat. But our group tends to enjoy combat heavy campaigns with structured fights and tactical decision making.

What we’re hoping to find is a system that:

    Supports tactical combat (grid/map play preferred)

    Provides tools for building balanced encounters

    Can replicate vampire style supernatural powers similar to disciplines

    Works well for a combat focused campaign

We’re happy to adapt powers or do some conversion work if necessary. Mostly we’re looking for a system that handles tactical fights and encounter balance better while still letting us run a World of Darkness vampire game.

Any recommendations?

My group recently tried running a campaign using Vampire: The Masquerade 20th. We really enjoy the setting and lore and would like to keep playing in that world, but the system didn’t quite support the kind of gameplay we were hoping for. The main issue for us was that combat didn’t feel very satisfying, especially compared to more tactical RPGs. A few things contributed to that: Very little tactical depth. Positioning, terrain, and movement didn’t matter much, and the system doesn’t really support grid or map based play. Most fights felt like trading dice pools rather than making meaningful tactical decisions. Limited differentiation between combat actions. Many turns ended up feeling mechanically similar; roll to hit, apply damage without many interesting choices about abilities, positioning, or teamwork. Hard to judge encounter difficulty. Our GM struggled to estimate how dangerous enemies would be ahead of time. There isn’t really anything like encounter building guidelines or a CR style framework. Combat pacing felt awkward. Some fights dragged due to multiple rolls and resolution steps, while others ended abruptly depending on how damage rolled. None of this is really a criticism of the design; it's clear the game is focused more on drama, politics, and personal horror than on tactical combat. But our group tends to enjoy combat heavy campaigns with structured fights and tactical decision making. What we’re hoping to find is a system that: Supports tactical combat (grid/map play preferred) Provides tools for building balanced encounters Can replicate vampire style supernatural powers similar to disciplines Works well for a combat focused campaign We’re happy to adapt powers or do some conversion work if necessary. Mostly we’re looking for a system that handles tactical fights and encounter balance better while still letting us run a World of Darkness vampire game. Any recommendations?

User:  GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade
GURPS Vampire Companion

You can thank/curse me as you see fit. 

OP: I have heard about GURPS, but the key thing is some sort of CR system or guidlines on making balanced encounters. Does GURPS have that?

User: GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade GURPS Vampire Companion You can thank/curse me as you see fit. OP: I have heard about GURPS, but the key thing is some sort of CR system or guidlines on making balanced encounters. Does GURPS have that?

D&D Player's Handbook cover. In the bottom left corner is a red box that says

"Mark Fisher
ELFGAME REALISM
IS THERE NO ALTERNATIVE?"

D&D Player's Handbook cover. In the bottom left corner is a red box that says "Mark Fisher ELFGAME REALISM IS THERE NO ALTERNATIVE?"

09.03.2026 21:16 👍 36 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 0

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

09.03.2026 01:26 👍 12618 🔁 7644 💬 13 📌 3
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If you boot up Heart of the Machine and immediately understand it, congratulations -- you might actually be a machine intelligence.

But if you're normal, we have some guides to help you out. Here's a gameplay overview to help you navigate the complexity of the city.

https://youtu.be/Ostq5U-3S1M

08.03.2026 17:15 👍 48 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 4

Support women's wrongs (eating people) for International Women's Day!

08.03.2026 17:48 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

You can respect me by giving me your money immediately

08.03.2026 17:46 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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For International Women Day you should read Maria Ying books since we're a team of 3 women, so that's 300% women in the bargain.

mariaying.itch.io

08.03.2026 15:24 👍 144 🔁 70 💬 4 📌 2
Preview
Review: THE LITTLE OWL FLOWER SHOP by Autumn Wolff Originally pitched a cozy story set in the universe of Gunmetal Olympus, The Little Owl Flower Shop quickly reveals itself to be something else entirely: the story of a trans woman who, due to a un…

New at Lesbians, With Teeth: a review of The Little Owl Flower Shop by @autumnwolff.bsky.social! A short read that packs an incredible punch.

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08.03.2026 16:25 👍 34 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
Screenshot from Kay F. Atkinson's author page on amazon, featuring the cover for Unlimited Combat Dolls, then, separately, the covers of the Fleet and Fabricant trilogy.

Screenshot from Kay F. Atkinson's author page on amazon, featuring the cover for Unlimited Combat Dolls, then, separately, the covers of the Fleet and Fabricant trilogy.

happy women's day!

why not celebrate with Girl Violence?
I write a lot of Girl Violence :3
it could be said, as a matter of fact, that Girl Violence is the primary focus of my work

tinylesbianrobot.itch.io
www.amazon.com/stores/Kay-F...

08.03.2026 16:24 👍 154 🔁 46 💬 3 📌 0

Four thousand

08.03.2026 15:07 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Uhhh how many arms do women have again? Asking for a cover art. It's four, right?

08.03.2026 15:06 👍 61 🔁 12 💬 18 📌 1

I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.

07.03.2026 17:54 👍 2791 🔁 771 💬 60 📌 11

That is also a ridiculous point. The actual addressing of the problem is in the drugs that actually constitute an additional health risk, while the performative police state focuses on weed smugglers.

08.03.2026 09:19 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The dissonance of handing out heroin to save lives while an old man in his 80s spends the rest of life in jail because he had some hemp in his garden.

08.03.2026 09:17 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It has to be decriminalisation, "legalization" wont solve shit, it will just create another parasite cottage industry.

And if you don't are careful, you can have both a decriminalisation of drugs AND still end up as a drug war police state fortress.

08.03.2026 09:11 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

on bolstering drug war militarized policing which is used as a cudgel for police harassment and violence and nonsensical shit like banning people from having *fast boats* because "drug trafficking uses those"

Oh and also how the major figures of drug traffic at the national level have all been cops

08.03.2026 09:09 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

State-funding farming clinics that wish to get to serve and maintain as many patients as they want, actively benefitting from their continued social misery and chemical addiction. At the same time, because of pressure from drug war brained European countries, European is spending absurd money

08.03.2026 09:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

These numbers are awfully out of date, however. We have been forced by the FMI and Brussels to privatize the support for this program away. The result was that most of the benefits were utterly obliterated, as there is no longer social treatment for the sources of addiction, instead it is just

08.03.2026 09:09 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A woman with crackling energy around her as she floats sideways wearing a shirt labelled 'go nuts' while her overwhelmed girlfriend wears a shirt that says 'stop'.

A woman with crackling energy around her as she floats sideways wearing a shirt labelled 'go nuts' while her overwhelmed girlfriend wears a shirt that says 'stop'.

Tessa's girlfriend is now the host to an impossibly powerful alien entity. How much of her girlfriend is left?

Well, enough that the entity demands cuddles.

beedok.itch.io/alien-super-...

www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWWQK44C

books2read.com/u/4A68Z0

www.patreon.com/posts/alien-...

07.03.2026 17:42 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0

@anemoneart.bsky.social did one of the most amazing pieces I ever seen. I am so impressed, in utter way and so proud of how perfect everything is from colors, composition, illumination, just peak.

07.03.2026 15:28 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of Lo, Nuns!:
A picture in colours that resemble a medieval illustration, comprising five nuns in various habits. It is set in a golden oval frame, with flowing plumes of red and blue, and ribbons.
The first nun is dressed in a gold habit, and has an elegant breastplate and a curved sword.
The second nun wears a crimson habit and a sensual pose. She has long claws, and she plays with a long string of beads. She has bright blue eyes.
The third nun wears a ragged, feathery habit, in raven black. She carries a sickle. Her hand is stained red/black.
The fourth nun is in a normal brown/gray habit. She looks alarmed, and is trying to grab a cat, who is jumping out of the frame.
The fifth nun is in a blue/black habit, and is holding up an ammonite. A demonic, clawed hand approaches her shoulder.

Cover of Lo, Nuns!: A picture in colours that resemble a medieval illustration, comprising five nuns in various habits. It is set in a golden oval frame, with flowing plumes of red and blue, and ribbons. The first nun is dressed in a gold habit, and has an elegant breastplate and a curved sword. The second nun wears a crimson habit and a sensual pose. She has long claws, and she plays with a long string of beads. She has bright blue eyes. The third nun wears a ragged, feathery habit, in raven black. She carries a sickle. Her hand is stained red/black. The fourth nun is in a normal brown/gray habit. She looks alarmed, and is trying to grab a cat, who is jumping out of the frame. The fifth nun is in a blue/black habit, and is holding up an ammonite. A demonic, clawed hand approaches her shoulder.

Cover reveal: Lo, Nuns!

@anemoneart.bsky.social has done an amazing job on the cover, introducing us to just five of the many interesting nuns (and the pussy) to be found within these pages.

I am honestly blown away with how incredible the art is!

07.03.2026 12:47 👍 146 🔁 63 💬 11 📌 8
Preview
Bloodstained Porcelain Buy Bloodstained Porcelain by Stubbs, Lucy from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

Oh wow!! Look what just came through the post! My own physical copy of Bloodstained Porcelain. Words can barely describe how giddy with flee I am about this. The art is even better up close @windygria.art!! If you want something that will really spice up your book shelf then you really need a copy.

06.03.2026 18:13 👍 24 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
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I'm looking to put together a party for a campaign of Vampire: the Dark Ages.
This is a spin-off from the TTRPG Vampire: the Masquerade, set in the 1100s. I'll be running the classic edition of the game, as opposed to any other because it's the one I'm the most familiar with.
Details in comments.

06.03.2026 10:29 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

Also, last I checked the writer's strike was two years ago, that is when the magical moment could be reproduced.

I guess it would not make sense, since LLMs are now the native speakers of Whedonism.

06.03.2026 10:26 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Overhyped then, overhyped now, I saw the dull boring places the story goes in continuations, everything has become Whedonised slop, his scumbag cynicism has aged like sour milk.

Not interested in Space Confederates Dollhouse Ride Again.

06.03.2026 10:23 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1