My partner got me and herself really into Dandadan, which she described at one point as Mob Psycho for people who go to the club. It's so so so fucking good. Momo and her friends are my queens. Okarun is such a precious squishy boywife. The stories of the monsters they encounter and how others get wrapped into their life pull you by your heartstrings to the edge of your couch. Anyway, I was reminded that the most popular RPG in Japan is Call of Cthulhu, and it struck me how Dandadan is a p...| Traverse Fantasy
There's a really good post by Elmcat about prepping settlement-based adventures by designing neighborhood blocks and representing buildings (etc.) as people! But it also has a petty desire table that I felt like would be nice to generalize: that although people's relationships are often overdetermined by their relative positions in a social matrix (in TTRPG terms, we can refer to these as factional allegiances), it's interesting when a socially determined relationship is complicated by a pers...| Traverse Fantasy
Following Lich Van Winkle's post about dee-five-six , I wanted to post about a realization I had that I'm sure others know but thought would...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Put some thoughts on a Discord server:| Traverse Fantasy
This is partly my attempt to modularize more complex rules from Cinco! (I can’t decide how to type that) as opt-in rules for characters, as well as coming up with additional ones because they’d make more sense as special abilities than as general (if complex) rules. The following subsystems would be impacted and restricted only to characters with the appropriate feats:| Traverse Fantasy
Hi all! I've been sneakily uploading changes to my home game Cinco! over the past month. Here's a changelog: Armor items act as a virtual ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Had such a fun session of my home campaign! Got to use my new travel rules and (due to the all-you-can-roll nature of them) honestly I had to convince my friends to end each leg of the trip to actually play where they were wanting to go... But we love it when journeys aren't about the destination, right? The rulebook for Cinco! now has all the latest updates I've been using to play if you're curious :) I'm tired and a little buzzed so I'm gonna summarize this session with bullet points.| Traverse Fantasy
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I did the oopsie of assuming that a controversial, or at least non-consensus, position was actually a non-controversial consensus. From “Inaugurating the Icon0clasm Ball”:| Traverse Fantasy
The true picture of the past whizzes by. Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell in the moment of its recognizability, is the past to be held fast. “The truth will not run away from us” – this remark by Gottfried Keller denotes the exact place where historical materialism breaks through historicism’s picture of history. For it is an irretrievable picture of the past, which threatens to disappear with every present, which does not recognize itself as meant in it.| Traverse Fantasy
One common complaint about feats or even class features is that they foreclose particular actions from characters in general by cloistering them within specific character options. For this reason, I tend to like what I currently have going on in my home game CINCO, where a character's equipment in combination with their aspects determines their capabilities, which feels both more flexible and more natural.| Traverse Fantasy
I like fluxcrawls, but there's little choice involved as such. Instead of rolling for a random event or the quality of an event, check D20: on 9–, pick 1; on 10–19, pick 2; on 20+, pick 3:| Traverse Fantasy
Hi all! Hosting The Icon0clastic Ball on Itch.| Traverse Fantasy
There was a certain graffiti during the attempted 1968 revolution in France: "Structures do not walk on the streets!" Žižek summarizing Lacan (haven't read Seminar XVII unfortunately) submits that the opposite is true, and this is where one might appreciate his relative conservatism: that the street fights between the student revolutionaries and the police were in fact expressive of and overdetermined by the social order, which is in a constant and dynamic process of self-definition (comp...| Traverse Fantasy
I left my Switch at home so I've been borrowing my partner's to play her copy of Shadows Over Loathing , a silly quirky goofy point-and-cli...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I'm working on aggregating the posts on this blog into a big book so I can eventually delete it for my personal safety, considering the stat...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Thank y'all so much for y'all's interest in the last one! Will respond when I can, just preparing for a (nice) busy week and weekend :) in a...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Procedure? I hardly know her! Harharharharhar. Travel, exploration, combat. That's what we're talking about. Wait, what's this? DISCLAIMER...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Okay so basically last Friday I was going to post about play procedures—the basic bitch shit for travel, exploration, and combat—but then I ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com