Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

I can't believe she's not sharing. #Violet #DogsOfMastodon

If you're looking for an explodey movie to watch (say, to distract your dog from New Year's fireworks), Harlock: Space Pirate has pretty animation and COMMITS to the trope.

✅ Lasers
✅ Giant skull on front of ship
✅ Lots of black leather
✅ Swords
✅ Aliens
✅ Characters constantly switching sides
✅ Weird shoulder bird
✅ Boarding actions
✅ Male gaze
✅ Terrible one-liners
✅ Eyepatch
✅ What if Space Battleship Yamato but Battlefleet Gothic?

@montecook's "The Weird" is perhaps the most Monte Cook product ever: just hundreds of pages of random one-line quirks and twists, spanning all genres. Many of them would also make good writing or drawing prompts.

#ttrpg #drawing #writing #MastoArt

If you don't cut the corners off the rectangles, is it even science fiction?

I (black) ended up losing this game by 1 point. I thought I was way ahead, so I need to learn to count better.

More importantly, AI Sensei says this move was a colossal blunder. Can you find the right move?

#go #weiqi #baduk

I dunno, man, even #GURPS Lite is awfully darn crunchy. For a simple sword attack:

1) Look up the appropriate skill for the attacker.
2) Apply modifiers for maneuvering, bad footing, visibility, etc.
3) Roll to hit.
4) Oh, you thought we were done? Defender chooses to dodge, parry or block.
5) Apply modifiers to defense.
6) Roll the defense.
7) You still hit? Roll for damage.
8) Subtract damage resistance of target's armor.
9) Multiply the remaining damage by a modifier for the damage type. "Small piercing" and "large piercing" have different modifiers.
10) Apply damage to target's HP.
11) Did you cross 1/3 HP or some other threshold? Special rules apply.
12) Target takes DX and IQ penalties for the next turn only.

This is "the fundamental rules, but not the options and embellishments that often confuse new players".

A combat round is one second. Say ... wasn't this designed by the same person who did Car Wars? 🤔

#ttrpg

Continuing to lean toward #gurps Dungeon Fantasy. I read the "adventurers" book and it doesn't jump the shark until the gear chapter. Do we really need different stats for ten different kinds of knives?

#ttrpg

Pseudoboeuf is the name of my new prosthetic meat product.