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Pretentious Auteur šŸŸ Artist/TTRPG Designer One half of Super Despair World, a podcast for nice people DM or sinabsentia@gmail.com for art commissions. Portfolio: https://cara.app/sinabsentia Podcast: superdespairworld.com

Yanineko and Aruko from the anime Chainsmoker Cat. They are a pair of cat girls sleeping on the ground surrounded by red, orange, pink and white flowers.
Finally, as I mentioned above, the Professor's nom-de-plume is all over this thing. Not counting the "About Us" section, his name is mentioned sixteen times, each with an air of breathless awe. It's in the title of the backerkit, the blurb, the Ultimate Dungeon Terrain is Professor DM's Ultimate Dungeon Terrain, designed by Professor DM himself! That particular phrase "by Professor DM himself", appears no fewer than eight times. It reeks of theme park podcasts where you have to use the full legal name of the attraction to stop things from becoming genericized. It's a bad look is what I'm saying.
For clarity this community is about as welcoming as indies deserve, probably moreso really. Me in particular? I've seen your drivel enough that I can see through your bullshit like the thin sheet of horseshit it is. Your enthusiasm is your self absorbed desire to force your work into everything you talk about here. Sorry your stuff isnt (and never will be) popular and isnt one of the top 20 so you will never ever get mentioned beyond your self promo that you want to shove into everything you say. But maybe if you were half as serious as you claim you are you'd figure out how to handle promo without polluting subreddits that arent looking to be billboards? And trust me, while I am very hostile to your type, this sub is frankly overly permissive as demonstrated by how people overly polite in shooting you down.
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General Trinkets: Broken / Ineffectual Weapon Walking Stick Cool Glasses Weird Musical Instrument Trophy or remains of a creature A neat cloak/cape/jacket A toy Camping gear/camp comfort Object corrupted by magic Book Playing/tarot cards A tiny familiar A better version of a common tool Something made of a weird material (ie metal flower) Coins Smoking pipe A container with someoneā€™s soul inside Unconventional holy symbol/artifact A self-replenishing object (paintbrush, jar of seeds, etc) Fantastical alcohol Token/badge/symbol of membership of an organization Creepy preserved / disembodied organ Magical sheath/holster/container for a weapon spiders A memento belonging to another character A box or container disguised as another object Portable furniture An unconventional map Item or offering that references an obscure god Symbolic object that wards off internet demons and psychic forces Bones and teeth Bizarre light source An interesting but empty container Something that shouldnā€™t be long but is Something that shouldnā€™t talk but does Something that shouldnā€™t levitate but does Something that shouldnā€™t have eyes but does Antiquated tech or device Illegible or unreadable text Keys Small effigy/statue/figurine Letter or paperwork from a mysterious source Something ephemeral made physical (an emotion condensed into a gemstone, etc) A tiny but still functional version of a much larger item Magical cosmetics and disguises Cozy heirloom or cultural memento from home An item that implies the bizarre death of its previous owner Something incomplete (a collection missing items, a journal with missing pages, etc)
A screenshot of Traveler: Singularity on drivethru rpg. The watermarked PDF costs $79.99.
A post with two images. The first one is from an unnamed artist depicting a hand holding a sword, the second is from the OP, Blair Shedd, depicting a hand holding a gun. Blair Shedd posts: For $35 you can pay this guy who drew this hand on a character (no I'm not going to say who) or wyou can have me draw you a character with hands for $35. Okay, neither is great, but they brought a sword to a gun fight. They can charge whatever they want. And people do commission that artist, I know for a fact. $35 for their full coloring digital pieces. Meanwhile, I raise to $35 from $20 and am told I overcharge. #sigh #Shrug
A scene outside a traincar diner in a sprawling cityscape. In the foreground is a long-haired woman with elf ears eating from a bowl with chopsticks, looking content. Behind her is a man sitting on a crate, concentrating on a game he's playing at a table opposite a short, anthropomorphic cat wearing a coat and sitting on a stool. A cloaked woman wearing a half-mask steps out of the traincar holding a plate, looking delighted at a man stepping towards her offering a flower. To the right of the scene is an overgrown and abandoned railroad leading into a tunnel in the distance. The background shows a cityscape with towering layers of buildings, completely obscuring the sky.
An illustration of The Dollmaker (and her Porcelain Servitor) from DOWAGER: THE SACRED & STRANGE. The Dollmaker is a slender goblin woman wearing a loose-sleeved blouse and a slitted skirt over tights and fishnets with a pair of tall leather boots. A silken sash with frayed ends is tied around her waist, and holds the sheath for a dagger with an ornate blue butterfly pattern on it. She has one hand rested on her hip and holds a dagger with a vibrant, blue crystalline blade in her other hand. The Porcelain Servitor is nearly twice her height, but bent over and leaning against a bone-like spear with a sharp crook atop the back end. She has short, vividly purple hair with a pair of cat ears and a neatly tied bun in the back. Her eyes are blank and her mouth is covered with a slightly transparent veil. She wears a violet jacket with wide sleeves and a grinning, shark-toothed goblin head painted on the back.
What can I say? Tumblr embeds look awful on this shitass website. Click the link to read my blog post about DOWAGER: THE SACRED & STRANGE A Tactical RPG of SEMI-AUTOMATIC SORCERY and PSIONIC TURMOIL across the GOLDEN COSMOS and maybe buy it on patreon or something
Yoru from Chainsaw Man holding another character's face saying "You fell for my ragebait, that means you belong to me now."
Asuka from Evangelion striking a sassy pose with the text "Feliz Jueves!"
A man's voice called from up the river, and an-other man answered. "Go on," said Lennie. George raised the gun and his hands shook, and he dropped his hand to the ground again. "Go on," said Lennie. "How's it gonna be. We gonna play a little RPG." "We'll have an elf," said George. "An' we'll have maybe a goblin an' kobolds.... an' down the map we'll have a... little Dungeon-" "For the Dragons," Lennie shouted. "For the Dragons," George repeated. "And I get to roleplay the Dragons." "An' you get to roleplay the Dragons." Lennie giggled with happiness. "An' play on my homebrew rules." "Yes." Lennie turned his head. "No, Lennie. Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the RPG." Lennie obeyed him. George looked down at the gun. There were crashing footsteps in the brush now. George turned and looked toward them. "Go on, George. When we gonna play it?" "Gonna play it soon." "Me an' you." "You.... an' me. Ever'body gonna be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gon-na hurt nobody's character nor steal magic items from 'em." Lennie said, "I thought you was mad at me, George." "No," said George. "No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know." The voices came close now. George raised the gun and listened to the voices. Lennie begged, "Le's play it now. Le's play that RPG now." "Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta." And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.
The Dollmaker and the Diabolist are looking through magic books in a library. The Dollmaker has a hardcover book wide open and looks surprised at something about to pop out of it while the Diabolist stares at her from behind with concern and disapproval as she pulls another book from a shelf. There are spooky gaseous spirits around both of them.
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
The mask merchant from Majora's Mask holding his head and freaking out. "I'm Yiik-ing out, man... I'M YIIKING OUT!!!"
When I lived in Vancouver a few years ago there was this bougie restaurant near my apartment called "What's up? Hotdog!" and they had a menu item that was a bowl of fruitloops with liquor instead of milk that cost like $20. What I'm trying to say is the karmic debt we millenials have incurred is weighty beyond measure and at the end of this life I will surely be reborn as a locust, or perhaps some kind of writhing grub
Make it Make Sense The freedom to pick and choose Traits for your Companion regardless of Type comes with the responsibility to make it make sense in the fiction. Itā€™s not unreasonable, for instance, for a Humanoid-type Magician to acquire the Blade Ward Trait associated with Spirits: You could just think of this as your ally learning a new spell. It may seem strange for a Beast-type War Dog to acquire the Soul Sludge Trait associated with Outsiders: A dog cannot normally learn to cast spells, but there is no issue with this combination if you choose to think of your Companion as an otherworldly hellhound bound to their master, or an ordinary dog corrupted by exposure to occult magicks. If a combination of Traits seems nonsensical, talk to your friends at the table about ideas on how to make it work. If the combination still seems too jarring for your liking, then simply choose different Traits. As a game, Dowager is not interested in establishing an arbitrary system of pre-requisites and legal combinations of character options outside the most bare necessities.
Screenshot from Disco Elysium. THE DESERTER: "The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone - everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed." "And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world." He's silent for a second. "You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*." YOU: "What?" THE DESERTER: "That the bourgeois are not human."
An episode cover for the Super Despair World podcast. Absentia and Dave are dressed up in vacation attire and staring in stunned awe as a diner they've just walked into is populated entirely by goofy cartoon alien characters.
A screenshot of the first page of Dowager: The Sacred & Strange, highlighting some cool characters posed together. Bright red MS Paint arrows are drawn pointing towards a magical white dog with angelic features.
Samples of Absentia's art commissions. $100 USD for fully body, colored and rendered character art with no backgrounds.
Me: and I just feel like some kinda transient creature that craves connection with other people, yet my inability to relate to them means it's never a real or authentic bond Beatiful cis woman therapist adding some cross-hatched shading to a lovingly rendered sketch of me looking distressed in her notebook whose's been pretending to listen for the last 40 minutes: And when do you think that started?
Another page of setting information titled ā€œThe Baleful Machine, REVERIEā€. REVERIE is stylized as being spelled in all capital letters, like a menacing computer program. The page details that REVERIE is the name of a psionic plane of overwhelming raw data and scattered thoughts that spreads through electronics and has a parasitizing effect on thinking beings. In Auld-Aeon, the Imperial Church teaches that it is always morally correct to reject mass communications technology, hunt down REVERIEā€™s monstrous spawn known as Proxies, and physically destroy Datacenters, the places where its infection manifests as spawling machinery.
Meme image of Woody from Toy Story stepping in front of Sora from Kingdom Hearts
Designing RPGS causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit.
a silly doodle of Absentia's avatar character holding an oversized mascot head that looks like her.
A text box from Undertale. It says: "Ah! Wow! Woah! It's a "Hole"."
Dolly Dimpley, one of the protagonists of Smiling Friends
A page excerpt from Absentia's TTRPG, Dowager: The Sacred & Strange. The top of the page is a wide image of a hooded, blue-skinned woman with long ears showing off a set of glowing polyhedral dice between her fingers. She has a black and gold mask that covers the top half of her face, and many accessories on her hands. She casts a wide-eyed grin and stands before the sun rising over an industrial cityscape. The page reads as follows: You Will Roll the Dice, You Will Invoke Your Powers Dowager is a tabletop roleplaying game where we roll dice, invoke rules, and draw upon our wits and creativity to weave a grand story about life, tribulations, virtues and violence across the Golden Cosmos. The heart of this game is bound in this most important principle about dice: We roll the dice because we agree and accept that things are more interesting when theyā€™re out of our hands. When we donā€™t accept this, we can use our items, abilities and collective creativity to get somewhere interesting without a die roll, often at a price. When we stop using any of those things to get where we want to be, weā€™re no longer playing a game. Dowager is a d20 game where all possible results are equally likely in that die roll. The d20 will swing unexpectedly and lead to success or failure in strange ways all the time, and your play wonā€™t be made better through fixing your rolls or pretending a bad result didnā€™t happen. Make peace with this before any die roll, and put to rest any ideas that you know better than these rules when you donā€™t like the numbers before you. Importantly, remember these key things whenever dice and numbers come into play: Always round down when halving numbers. Tied Results always favor the instigator. You can always choose to fail, forgoing a dice roll. You can only choose to succeed with luck, sacrifice, or your clever and creative thinking.
Absentia scored 48.57 out of 50 on dialed.gg in Hard Mode.
A doodle of Lancer pilot by Absentia. She's a tanned woman with straight, mid-length violet hair and cybernetic replacements spanning her lower jaw and neck. She wears a plain buttoned shirt with a bolero-style jacket and a flared out green skirt. Around her waist, a large centipede-shaped robot wraps around and clings to her. She's carrying a small tablet with the Horus symbol on the back.
An old Playstation magazine advert. It's a photo of two people seated at a tiny table of food wearing Parappa the Rapper and Crash Bandicoot mascot costumes.
A sketch of a tall monster girl with insect-like features. She has four long arms and four long double-jointed legs, as well as an insect-like abdomen from which webbed wings drape at her sides.
The miniature Ranni doll from Elden Ring
Gender & Sexuality You may play a Neopet of any gender or sexuality. There are no mechanical differences based on any of these choices. You are free to present your gender and/or sexuality in any way that suits your character. For example, you may find yourself playing a Uni that uses he/him pronouns but is painted Royalgirl. Before roleplaying romantic encounters with other characters, it's important to know what content everyone at the table is comfortable with. We advise that players begin campaigns with a Session 0, where they can discuss questions related to this, including: How much romance is okay on-screen before the scene needs to fade to black? How much sexuality is okay on-screen before the scene needs to fade to black? We are planning on putting a Session 0 Guide into the final book, but we are counting on you to do this yourselves for the Playtests!
A star emoji surrounded by party balloons and streamers with bright pink text that says "Officer Down!"
What's the matter vagueboy, afraid you might say something?
A bluesky post from an anonymous user. It reads as follows: Whenever I design a mechanic or effect, I like to imagine how the worst dude I ever played with (he was a creepy bigot) would use it, then tweak from there. If you've never played with a shitty person, congrats, but also there's a whole subreddit full of examples of TTRPG bad behavior. Use those.
Absolute pure skill EZ victory
Absentia has switched to playing Tomomo against the other Tomomos. She has 16 kills on Turn 19 and only needs 14 to win the game. This might be the run
Absentia is starting a fresh round of Tomomo Hell (extreme mode) in 100% Orange Juice