HATE, Goblin Slaying and Pacificism
We're talking about violence, racial killings and rape - Which uhhh, very heavy needless to say. I'm not sure I handled it all with the grea...| www.failforward.moe
We're talking about violence, racial killings and rape - Which uhhh, very heavy needless to say. I'm not sure I handled it all with the grea...| www.failforward.moe
in·ter·tex·tu·al·i·ty /ˌin(t)ərˌtek(st)SHəˈwalədē/ noun the relationship between texts, especially literary ones. "every text is a product ...| www.failforward.moe
from godard's alphaville - just LOOK at that stark lighting Preface: I've always believed more art is better. Art is how we communicate. Art...| www.failforward.moe
With 65 minutes on the clock, I'm intending to keep up with my "minimum one blog a month" goal - And this time (as ever) getting a little pe...| www.failforward.moe
So those tariffs, huh? Years of folks collectively manifesting US global economic dominance and imperialism to take a hit has finally begun actualizing to the dismay of many (especially given it's at the hands of a hasty transphobic megalomaniac who managed to bankrupt a casino, instead of at the hands of a globalized labor movement). If you're curious what this means for you, the beloved consumer, here's a pretty good breakdown of what's happening. TL;DR stuffs getting more expensive for con...| Fail Forward
From Sir Ian McKellen's Excellent Acting Advise Quite a few people are aware I have somewhat... complicated feelings on theater. Even more s...| www.failforward.moe
Hey chat ~ I've been a little less active in pretty much all but my local spaces recently. Insurance bullshit, paired with house hunting, p...| www.failforward.moe
The Darken/Nier series is one of those classic "I frequently forget this is technically fantasy" series, and it's one that's shaped my taste...| www.failforward.moe
OR : A PROLOGUE TO THE GENDER MANIFESTO[*0.5] OR : I'M REALLY GETTING ON MY BULLSHIT THIS TIME No tabletop post today! Just an analysis of o...| www.failforward.moe
In the immortal words of pedagogue and deific December chanter Andy Williams, "it's the holiday season" - Which means over on the delightful birdman's Discord folks are celebrating with a new tradition called "Covert Critic" where you give another creator some 5 star reviews and talk about works we like from them publicly! One might object that this is neither covert nor critical and to you I say:| Fail Forward
Hex Crawls are something I think about often, especially considering the best campaign I ever ran was one. Many a great theses have been written on the Hex Crawl too, from Prismatic's seminal Hex Crawl Checklist (seriously if you're ever going to write a Hex Crawl read this and jump into whatever links interest you), to a personal favorite Silver Arm Press' Down With the Six Mile Hex[*2]. Most recently I was enamored with ONEZERO's post HEXEMBER: Stinging-Tree Canyon (If you haven't read a...| Fail Forward
If you've played Genshin Impact (the open world gaccha game your favorite influencer has cosplayed from) you'll know that there's gold, or in this case Mora, which can be collected by doing quests, opening treasure chests, and the usual adventuring fare. But as with so many tropey elements in Genshin, Mora is a bit more complex than its first appearances...| Fail Forward
Dying is a big part of living. We say goodbye to our pets, our friends, our family, and eventually everyone when our own time has come. It's the great equalizer, the timer we're all on to get done what we feel needs to be done in our flash of the pan of consciousness. So it stands to reason that my favorite art form (games) engages with death quite frequently - Often as an overly punitive fail state.| Fail Forward
Hey chat. Been a while - Been meaning to get back into blogging but have been busy getting into Yu-Gi-Oh and suffering from what is probably the worst mental health spiral I've had in my adult life. Oh and making a mega-game. I did mention the mega-game right?| Fail Forward
Hi everyone! Something a little bit different today :3 A thought popped into my head about the similarities between certain things and I was like "surely someone's already written light fiction or something about this" and evidently not ~ So if you're interested in some vvv short light fiction, enjoy! | Fail Forward
At the start of the year I talked a bit about Taking Yourself the Right Amount of Serious, and this is something of an off-shoot of that ~| Fail Forward
So I'm back to working on Inheritors (among a myriad of other projects, health issues and personal drama) and as I assemble the lists of Heritages a character can start with, the topic of language keeps popping into my brain. In keeping with both the game's and my own scrapper mentality, I figured I might borrow WILD's language rules which go something like this:| Fail Forward
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Last night I read through all the material that Stone Paper Scissors provides for the Megagame Watch the Skies. It was... rough. The packet cost roughly 50 USD and was alarmingly amateurish[*2], both in layout and design. Despite my usual ritual of gawking at anime feet before sleeping, I felt so deeply surprised and compelled by this work that it felt necessary to forgo that in favor of writing this review.| Fail Forward
For those unfamiliar, The Chorus is an idea from Greek Dramas[*1] where a small collective detached from the narrative gives commentary and supplemental insight to the performance at hand. This is not to be confused with a traditional narrator without whom the story simply could not proceed, though a degree of overlap exists. If you're thinking Statler and Waldorf, you're close. What does this have to do with Tabletop Games? Well for all the comparisons I've heard between Theater and Tabletop...| Fail Forward
For various reasons I've been looking back on my old Stranding the Wilderness post and decided to finally give it the Part 2 treatment! This time we're talking about gameable constructions, specifically for use with OSE[*1], but also widely compatible with whatever you want to hack it into.| Fail Forward
This is going to be (kind of) a short one, but I wanted to share something I've been chipping away at recently. Friend of the blog (and housemate) Duff once ran a very cool little Mad Max inspired game Hell's Highway for me (twice actually) and recently I decided it'd be a good idea to mash that up with my hyper fixation on my current game of the year Stellar Blade. So here we are... The first making of post for Inheritors.| Fail Forward
A buddy made me aware of yet another game that'll be hard for me to be normal about: The Forever Winter. In brief, it's an extraction shooter where you play as scavengers in a far-future war, caught in a warzone full of hostile soldiers and rampant automata. It's very much my bullshit. But one idea really stuck with me from the Gameplay Overview Trailer: | Fail Forward
Among starting too many new projects, getting involved with people and battling the the demiurge that is the black mold in my house, a recurring theme has cropped up in games for me the past few weeks: Deliberation time and ways to design around it.| Fail Forward
It's the second year of the Blades in the Dark campaign I'm playing in, and once again I find my mind drifting towards how it handles money. A "Coin" is actually a representation of a much larger sum ("about a week's wages") and can be spent whenever (despite how clearly cumbersome carrying that much coin would be). Smaller expenses like drinks at a bar or a new pair of shoes are simply assumed to be covered. Much like Blades' inventory, the Currency is Quantum, and more precisely its value a...| Fail Forward
This post is in conversation with two spectacular blog posts discussing boss monsters, number crunching and making truly memorable encounter...| www.failforward.moe
