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We are a small independent team of LGBT and disabled individuals who make innovative and well-polished tabletop roleplaying games that have a lot to say, best known for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.
Combined, our team has over 20 years of experience.
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You need to include the Darl Souls classic of random scaled up humans in Death Bed. Otherwise, you'll break the streak of all your games having something kink-adjacent in them.
This is something that will almost certainly be included as bosses and/or NPCs of some kind, but I’ve also considered including them as playable characters. There are logistical and mechanical hurdles to overcome with that though, so it’s really low priority right now and may not make it into the final game.
Oh but don't worry, Death Bed: A Souls-like RPG will include elegantly dressed women with bare feet.
Recently got into @anim-ttrpgs' Eureka! TTRPG and I'm enamored by the unique game mechanics and creatures, especially the TFBs and just couldn't resist making a little guy to play.
Excerpt from his file:
"A disgraced FBI agent, twice suspended in the past five years, working hard to restore his career and reputation. He's lost the faith of the bureau and his teammates, and his job is on thin ice should he fail to resolve his latest assignment. Several former friends and co-workers have stated on record that Saul has been 'off his game' and behaving erratically ever since he returned from a botched assignment, the exact details surrounding which are still unclear."
wow what an ordinary human man! I bet he's been a human his whole life since he ~~fell from space~~ hatched!
Here’s an unobstructed view of his pancake form
It's all come down to this...who will win it all? The butch mob boss looking out for her crew against the cthulhu mythos....or will it be the divorced dad living out his detective dreams to the fullest....or will it be everyday normal college girl who tries to hide her true nature....
only you can decide!!
Violet woo!!
The “Narrator” is the game master role in Silk & Dagger, and it is like that of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy in a lot of ways. The Narrator describes what the PCs can perceive with their five senses, and runs the NPCs, but otherwise absolutely does not interfere with the PCs’ success or failure.
Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy encourages rotation of players in and out of the GM role, but it just sorta says it, it doesn’t really do much mechanically to incentivize it beyond that. Silk & Dagger, however, does.
Every time the Spider Goddess gets a Favor Point for pointing out the PCs failing to embody what is expected of their caste, so too does the Narrator. These Favor Points add up to Boons they can be given to the Narrator’s PC next time they rotate out and play a PC.
This separation of duties and power, where the Narrator is not directly in charge of their own reward system, and the Spider Goddess is not directly in charge of their opportunities to gain their rewards, also helps prevent abuse of the positions to the detriment of the game.
Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy doesn't want you to think of the events of the game in terms of heroes, or a grand narrative, or even really a story that you are crafting, but as a peek into the lives of ordinary people going through extraordinary events.
I feel like the big push for AI is starting to flag. Even my relatively tech obsessed dad is kinda over it. What do you even use it for? Because you sure as hell dont want to use it for fact checking.
There's an advertisement featuring a woman surreptitiously asking her phone to provide her with discussion topics for her book club. And like... what. Is this the use case for commercial AI? This the best you could come up with? Lying to your friends about Moby Dick?
One of the big pushes tech companies are making for AI is entirely in the tool of convenience. Take Gemini for example, one of Google's really big pitches for it is in features like Help Me Read and Help Me Write, which are like the lowest tier use case for deep learning models but are also the two AI features that the average consumer will actually care about. Sure they advertise the GenAI stuff Gemini Advanced is able to do, but they've woken up to the idea that the average consumer does not care about GenAI and non-AI Bros fundamentally loathe GenAI.
Every company with a language model got sucked into the venture capital pitfall of AI and now have to market the one set of features the general person actually cares about.
I work in advertising and the culture shift surrounding AI even from January until now (end of March) has been drastic. At the beginning of the year, the company I work for was using AI to design most of their assets. Clients started coming back and requesting that we no longer use AI generated images or videos for copyright liability reasons. Basically, there's no way to tell whose art or photography was scalped to make an image, so as companies who are trying to make a profit using potentially stolen images, it puts them in a gray area, legally.
Also, companies do look at their comment sections. Anti-AI commenters on social media ("this is not a real image" "I don't trust companies who use AI" etc) are seen by higher ups of a company. Basically, keep bullying brands who use AI, it's working. Now my company uses almost no AI for deliverables, which is a huge win.
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The “Narrator” is the game master role in Silk & Dagger, and it is like that of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy in a lot of ways. The Narrator describes what the PCs can perceive with their five senses, and runs the NPCs, but otherwise absolutely does not interfere with the PCs’ success or failure.
Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy encourages rotation of players in and out of the GM role, but it just sorta says it, it doesn’t really do much mechanically to incentivize it beyond that. Silk & Dagger, however, does.
Every time the Spider Goddess gets a Favor Point for pointing out the PCs failing to embody what is expected of their caste, so too does the Narrator. These Favor Points add up to Boons they can be given to the Narrator’s PC next time they rotate out and play a PC.
This separation of duties and power, where the Narrator is not directly in charge of their own reward system, and the Spider Goddess is not directly in charge of their opportunities to gain their rewards, also helps prevent abuse of the positions to the detriment of the game.
writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.
searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.
Agent Sharpe TFB form!
I love drawing his unfurled form so much, he's so shapes ahaha
