tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post6201882448836875989..comments2024-03-25T19:59:20.840-07:00Comments on Cavegirl's Game Stuff: Dungeon Bitches Part 2Cavegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-76553278965989183212020-05-05T07:24:19.802-07:002020-05-05T07:24:19.802-07:00This is really great stuff. The goals and mechanic...This is really great stuff. The goals and mechanics of the game are aligned in such an elegant way. Evan Buchholzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09039718602358560149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-88158089560880385532020-04-22T17:49:40.774-07:002020-04-22T17:49:40.774-07:00I know the exact place you mean, it's pretty w...I know the exact place you mean, it's pretty wild there sometimes. <br />But yeah. Considering stuff about me that came out recently (traaaaans), there's been some people using it as an excuse to be assholes. So it's nice to hear that people have my back.<br />Thanks for this message, it really made me happy reading it.<br />Stay cool, anon.Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-54430372832047901302020-04-22T04:39:52.698-07:002020-04-22T04:39:52.698-07:00This is really just a message of support because t...This is really just a message of support because the only place I interact directly with you is the shithole (you know the one) but I also do check your twitter occasionally. You're tremendous; when you strike true with your writing it's among the best stuff anyone is putting out for RPGs. Ynn and the Stygian Library are so clever, so effective, so brilliantly beguiling and so much fun to play through! And outside of game stuff you express a confidence, identity and sense of integrity that's very admirable.<br /><br />I'm very happy to have had the chance to read through and play through some of your material. I just want to express that even amongst the anonymous you have people who'll support you and who are your fans. You're great; you should be exactly who you want to be and you'll continue to be great in doing so. Take care, keep well and don't let the bastards grind you down.Anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06654479511440485281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-30359243272085566532020-04-08T17:37:16.420-07:002020-04-08T17:37:16.420-07:00Yeah, the Corpse Doll's probably the one I hav...Yeah, the Corpse Doll's probably the one I have the most issue with. If there were more alternative options to turn it into a vaguely more grounded character I think the game would benefit tremendously from it, especially for groups that want less of a Monsterhearts vibe and more OSR, everybody's just worms in the dirt and shit. <br /><br />More non-explicitly-supernatural moves for the Banshee would be fantastic, though, I absolutely love Stalk as a move lmao Captain Crowbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11959402382179885595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-86160377509525438882020-04-05T13:30:35.305-07:002020-04-05T13:30:35.305-07:00Yeah. I think there's room for grace-ace and s...Yeah. I think there's room for grace-ace and similar identities here, but if you're going for a character who flat out doesn't experience attraction that's outside the scope of the game.<br /><br />I think there's room for non-sexualy active characters, though. They don't engage with a big chunk of the rules, but then there's also an *explicit* option for a Nun who doesn't fight, which again means you're not engaging with a chunk of the rules.Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-23285277711969375862020-04-05T07:50:42.242-07:002020-04-05T07:50:42.242-07:00Asexual was mentioned as a valid choice of the cha...Asexual was mentioned as a valid choice of the character in part 1; I took the most difficult case of it (asexual aromantic), to see how system would work mechanically for such borderline case. I believe(d) that even if the game has 'attraction to women' as a part of its clearly defined 'mood' (for the lack of the better word), such character could be still valid choice because the attraction possibly could be aesthetic, of admiration, of comfort, possibly of duty or other non-romantic connections.<br /><br />My apologies if the question was not appropriate to the idea of the game. Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-9403707261067946742020-04-05T05:05:35.275-07:002020-04-05T05:05:35.275-07:00I'm PDF-ifying this currently, and part of tha...I'm PDF-ifying this currently, and part of that is adding some extra moves to each Skin. In particular, the Banshee gets a couple of extra moves that mean you can play her as being merely-iron-willed and oddly lucky, rather than displaying outright supernatural powers.<br />I think that, if you swap out the 'you're undead lol' move for the Corpse Doll, you can run her as a mundane (if unrealistically talented) surgeon; again, some of the new moves help here. <br /><br />The issue with adding an extra class is that you end up doubling up on stat-combinations; you have two hard/queer classes, etc, which become tricky to find mechanical niches for.Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-55077169718319475322020-04-05T04:56:49.011-07:002020-04-05T04:56:49.011-07:00I have known asexual & aromantic people who...I have known asexual & aromantic people who've fucked and/or dated, for a variety of reasons. Curiosity, not having worked stuff out yet, desire to fit in, not being that into it but not being particularly opposed to it either. Also there's the whole grey-ace thing. <br />This stuff all exists on a spectrum, and behaviours are often situational and fluid. <br /><br />Mechanically? You can (say) use the Flirt move, or benefit from it, because attention is nice, even if you're not attracted. This is something that the PDF I'm working on stresses more: flirting's a sort of background hum to your interactions, and it's not clear how serious and sincere it is until one or other party wants to escalate. Bonds, in particular, represent how important you are to somebody, and that can arise from factors other than sexuality. Fucking gives you some neat bonuses, but it isn't vital to every PC; a PC who is *less* attracted can just, like, Not Fuck and they'll be fine.<br /><br />That being said: I would say that a character who isn't attracted to women isn't a suitable PC here, in the same way that a man isn't a suitable PC.<br /><br />One thing I'm mindful of is that - while some non-binary identities ought to be valid as PCs in this game, I don't want to do the 'women & NB' thing which kinda erases NB identities by automatically lumping them in with women. So, my take on this is that NB people *can* be PCs in some but not all cases, and it'll vary from person to person.<br />Same deal with asexuality. It feels very iffy to me to lump asexuality in with the gays when it's really its own thing. The game's about attraction to women, and if a character just flat doesn't experience that (because they're full-on-heterosexual, or because they don't experience attraction at all) then I'm not sure they really fit here. That being said, as with NB identities, it's gonna vary from case to case and expression to expression.<br /><br />As I say. I don't want to be excluding people, but I've also got *very specific* themes in mind here, and feel it'd be doing those *other* identities a disservice if I tried to square-peg-round-hole things, you know?Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-90689991124411381932020-04-01T17:36:15.779-07:002020-04-01T17:36:15.779-07:00wish there were more strictly non-magical options ...wish there were more strictly non-magical options on the table... as it stands only the Amazon and the Nun seem to be able to get by as non-superheroes? like, there's something to be said about a group dynamic where only ONE of them's "the supernatural one," right? <br /><br />maybe a temporally-displaced playbook would fit, covering everything from a woman who's spent a decade in a coma to a fairytale sleeping-beauty type who's a century or two out of touch, idk. <br /><br />otherwise I really love the direction the concept is heading! it is tragically probably too queer for the folks I game with, but that's just an excuse to get a better, queerer gaming group together once this thing's out... Captain Crowbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11959402382179885595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-46766070825416029212020-04-01T09:25:26.183-07:002020-04-01T09:25:26.183-07:00If the character is asexual (and lets say, aromant...If the character is asexual (and lets say, aromantic as well), how does system deals with it in terms of Bonds and powers? Does it mean that such character is potentially handicapped from the beginning because they cannot use sex moves?<br />To clarify, I only mean it is from mechanical point of view on how system works for such characters.Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.com