River Ray

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River • 29 • 🇵🇱 • She/he • White • Bigender • Queer • Bisexual • Autistic • ADHD • Plural • TTRPG nerd • ***** ***

Cover art for Gas Doy VAYLANT, a diesel mecha war horror tabletop roleplaying game, Told By Wild Words. The cover depicts a minimalist mech standing in a fog, with a zeppelin floating above it and behind the logo.
Screenshot of a Wikipedia article section, captioned "a 3D rendering of a skeleton showcasing bisexual lighting"
A triangle with the cover art of three indie tabletop roleplaying games - Blades in the Dark, Brindlewood Bay, and Apocalypse World - in each corner, with text in the middle that says "TTRPGs generating endless soul-draining discourse"
A screenshot from the rulebook for the Tactiquest roleplaying game, talking about "load-bearing rules" - rules that might not seem significant at first glance based on one's prior experiences in other games, but which are actually core to the intended gameplay of Tactiquest. These include travel and craftnig, treasure and reward sizes, inventory limits, and others.
A screenshot of a Blades '68 faction sheet on Roll20, featuring all-custom factions
Kickstarter campaign page for War-Torn Ice Moon, a Europa Ice War supplement for FIST that ended with 232 backers and $7,220 pledged
The "hey guys / POLYAMOROUS / NOT WHAT I'M CALLED" meme format, only that it features the TTRPG Coriolis: The Third Horizon by Free League, and the exchange going "hey guys / SCOLIOSIS / NOT WHAT I'M CALLED" instead.
A sidebar discussing an optional set of rules for tracking character wealth for The Wildsea RPG
Warframe concept art for Caliban Prime's summons by Sergei Demidov
Some things that inspired Gas Dog VAYLANT include: Ace of Spades, Armour Astir: Advent, Band of Blades, Beam Saber, CASE & SOUL, Diesel Knights, Foxhole, Mobile Suit Gundam, music of Sabaton, Scythe, and Trench Crusade
Gas Doy VAYLANT; Diesel Mecha Horror Roleplaying; Told by Wild Words; Created by River Ray
As above, but now also featuring Walking On Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves
Image of a partial YouTube history, featuring two songs - Walkin' on the Sun by Smash Mouth, and Walk Into the Sun by The March Violets.
the "Hey Guys / Not What I'm Called!" meme, except it's the original featuring Polyphemus, spelled properly
The Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle
The Widowmaker shotgun from Team Fortress 2, having a conversation: - hey guys - WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER - NOT WHAT I'M CALLED
A post on Twitter from user lolt64 in which he explains the original context of the Europa Ice War posts that people joined in on
An excerpt describing the planet Mirqur (née Mercury) in BLOODVESSEL, pulled into the demonic guts of the Leviathan hyperspace.
An excerpt describing the three main factions of BLOODVESSEL, none of them noble - the undead of Algor, the cyber-angels of Sacra, and the extradimensional daemons.
A one-page description of BLOODVESSEL, a Savage Worlds setting mixing sci-fi, fantasy, and horror elements, describing its six key features.
Discord text message, reads: Grimwild session 0 went pretty well! we decided on doing The Fall of Bastion, a story kit about the biggest city in the region falling under siege and the chaos that unfolds, with the PCs having to sneak past the invaders and defenders and figure out who and what they wanna save once they're inside... our party are Mystics and Wardens but not Conquerors, possessing uncanny divinatory insight, chiefly thanks to the warlock patron of Monsters' character, a tiefling occultist Hypatia Born-Under-Unseen-Stars this futuresight is a power which they try to keep secret from factions that would seek to abuse them our other (still unnamed) characters include: - Selene's kobold artificer (who might try to achieve like, dragon apotheosis through technomagical means; she talked about taking the artificer's mechanical mount to be a kind of 'dragon mech') - Bernie's wanderer psion with powers of metacreation and clairsentience - and Ela's paladin, who was just a farmer before a necromancer incorporated her into their thrall forces; the party fought her shortly before all this and managed to redeem her/break the necromancer's hold over her
A still from Astérix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002); One of the main characters, Obelix, about to punch the viewer with a fist.
Isaac from The Binding of Isaac (2011), crying in a fetal position surrounded by the many gross bosses from that game (Peep, Gemini, the Duke of Flies, Chub, and so on)
A Venn diagram consisting of three overlapping circles, each one featuring a different work of media - the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and the video game The Binding of Isaac: Repetance, converging in the middle on top of three question marks
Dragon Slayer's Sword: A long wicked blade with a dragon head for a pommel, this long sword grants the wielder the Giant Killer Edge.
The cover art for the album Opera by Italian symphonic death metal band Fleshgod Apocalypse; The band's female vocalist Veronica Bordacchini is seen standing on top of a pile of skulls inside a gloomy opera hall, holding the flag of Italy
Photo of a small white-and-tabby cat on a computer desk, stretching and yawning at the same time, making a funny face
A list of Savage Worlds setting rules and arcane backgrounds
The box art for Team Fortress 2 by Valve