[TTRPG] My Welcomed Guest (PDF)

[elf]

My Welcomed Guest is a single-player tabletop RPG "about being trapped in Faerie and trying to bargain your way home." It's short and charming, and despite the instructions, does not actually require any writing.

It needs a d6 and some kind of counting method - scratchmarks on paper, beads in a bowl, books in a stack, whatever. (There won't be many. I think 9 is absolute max.) Writing is suggested but technically optional.

Price: Normally $3, but the author has an offer: "send me an email (dawnbeargames at gmail) and I'll send you a copy. It will come with the caveat, that if you play it, just let me know you played it."

I don't think I would've paid $3 for this on its own, and the PDF is basic with no fancy structure - no pretty fonts, no images other than the cover pic, no booklet layout, etc. Whether or not you think $3 for a few pages of text is "worth it" to buy, it's definitely worth playing. (So I guess that means it's worth the price of a cheap coffee to pick it up.)

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Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality - Final numbers

[tozka]

So the bundle is closed now and we have the final numbers:

The bundle includes 1,741 items worth ~$9,506.

814,682 people raised $8,174,980.62, 163% of the 5mil goal.

Average contribution $10.03 and the top contribution was $5,000!

(All proceeds will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund split 50/50.)

Arcade Spirits

[tozka]

Arcade Spirits (2019) is a LOVELY game, one I highly recommend to anyone who enjoys playing romantic visual novels. It's set in the near future, in an alternate timeline where video games are even more popular than they are in this timeline. You play as Ari Cader, a down-on-their-luck dreamer with no ambitions. ( More words and three images )

I definitely want to go back and play a few different choices. The nice thing is that I can do that but still maintain my Kindly personality type if I want, because not all plot choices lead to personality type choices. For instance, for this first play-through I chose to build a retro arcade. Maybe the next one I'll pick a family-friendly esports center! etc. Or I wonder what would've happened if I sold out earlier on in the game, or was harsher with some trouble-makers. That's the exciting thing about this game: it has lots of replayability!

It took me about 6? hours to play through the first time and even with the speed-run options, it'll probably still take another 3 for EACH of the different romance/plot points. And now that I've done it once, I can speed through some scenes and go back and make other choices IN the game. Nice!

Price: $19.99

Content notes: Parental abuse, depression (/disassociation?), guns/knives (teenage gangs), sexism.

(Crossposted from misthold)