I was rolling up a Sister of Battle for Wrath & Glory and had just read James Swallow's novel omnibus. I tried combining my IRL nickname (Ari) with the protagonist's name (Celestian Miria) and came up with Arisia.
Gave it a field test in W&G and FFXIV and liked it, so it stuck as my user/pen name.
Also, excited to note that we'll have a table for One of Us Will Die, a social deduction RPG just about to start crowdfunding--and the game will be run by none other than the game's creator!
For my Philippines-based followers:
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It's been a couple years since Reach of the Roach God was published, and I'm still thinking about how it pulled off stat blocks without stats.
It's a load-bearing piece of tech that's criminally underused.
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3 for me
Screenshot of several long messages from me to a friend, which read as follows: It would be incredibly unpopular, but if i was in charge of this game I would make an expansion that literally just goes back to Eorzea and is about dealing with how shitty we actually are and Fixing Shit while probably starting an actual war over it. I'd make it so that neither the Royalists nor the Syndicate just quietly and suspiciously agree to let go of a ton of power for no reason other than it's "the right thing". And maybe a minor holy war breaks out in Gridania and we have to reckon with Gelmorra, the Duskwights, and the Mooncats, all while finding a way to permanently end the Greenwrath without just murdering the elementals. And Limsa Lominsa can... idk I'd have to think about what they're up to. Maybe some people from the Roegadyn home islands show up and try a fascist takeover trying to convince Sea Wolves to RETVRN to tradition (murder). It would be so fucking funny to see Ishgard of all places be like, the Adult in the Room. Also! My wife could get involved in the story again! Also also Mor Dhona independence struggle, as the three main nations start being psychos over everything and Rev's Toll is like "hey we're just gonna make a city-state finally, y'all are fuckin crazy and need to stop."
crashing out in my bestie's DMs about how buns it is that Eorzea has been sanded down from "an interestingly textured land full of deeply flawed city-states" to "the heroic land where everything is fine".
A sketch of a pink haired dapper woman with dark skin, looking flustered
More sketches of the dapper girl with various expressions and angles
I woke up this morning thinking about a lesbian harem manga about a trans princely girl who goes around rescuing damsels and they keep adding to her party like an RPG game.
I tried sketching some ideas really quick (leaning to Rumiko Takahashi style)
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
spent Chinese New Year playing Thirsty Sword Lesbians for the first time!
had a lot of fun - game does what it says on the tin - and seeing another GM run a PBTA game offered some insights
said GM also used to play Daughters of Khaine in AoS, how about that
Rogue Trader's third chapter does suffer from some weird pacing (due largely, I think, to the lack of a proper hub world and "time passes" events) but it does have some really fun and ~aesthetic moments.
(I still believe, as "Lelith Hesperax" tells us, that yuri will save Commoragh)
if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"
Last week, I ran The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh in Shadowdark, adapting the adventure from its version in D&D 5e's Ghosts of Saltmarsh.
Here's how that went, along with my thoughts on getting the adventure to the table.
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Looking for tabletop RPG work!
Editing: Copyediting, line editing, and proofreading. If you don't have a style guide yet, can help you come up with one.
Writing: Adventures, setting, flavor text, or other game elements (characters, monsters, etc.)
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feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
Looking for tabletop RPG work!
Editing: Copyediting, line editing, and proofreading. If you don't have a style guide yet, can help you come up with one.
Writing: Adventures, setting, flavor text, or other game elements (characters, monsters, etc.)
More about what I do at www.arisia.work
Five Tiers of RPG Publishing
Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…
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new handle (arisia.work) as I work on unifying/streamlining my online presence!
rest assured I remain committed to being both eldritch and cute
like, lighter than The Mecha Hack or Apocalypse Frame?
The first face grabs my attention more, but all the other elements on the new one look great. If the first one's halo and icons got the same treatment as the second's, I would decidedly prefer that one.
Wait... What ? 5 months without any update !!
A recent illustration, I hope you'll like it !
huh how about that
The Thassera quest was an absolute delight. Creepy, funny, and just plain *interesting* at every turn. While I agree that thus far, Lex Imperialis hasn't been quite as stellar as Void Shadows, this specific locale and its quest are right there at the top of what Rogue Trader has to offer.
I should probably revisit it then! Last time I took a proper look at it was in high school o:
The players were solving problems, but also kind of just kicking the can down the road to an extent, which meant tension kept building. The more they kicked sleeping dogs, so to speak, the more wandering monsters I could throw at them.
"This house is more haunted than it was when you started."
My players were admirably committed to not killing where it was unnecessary, which led to some amusing situations: at loose in and around the house, at one point, were
- a giant snake
- a smuggler
- two skeletons (who fled the room they were confined in when the cleric turned them)
I have Issues (TM) with how it was written for 5e (and how this clashes IMO with an O/NSR approach to gaming), and I intend to put this into words (for real this time T_T )
