In Golden Flame

[potent heron]

I also used the image of thumb screws for an NPC pilot. But he was used in an unrelated campaign for a group of lancers that are sent on missions that they aren't expected to back from, and miraculously do every time. He has that "another suicide mission? Alright. Keep dinner warm" kind of look

[twilit star]

I was thinking a tattoo maybe

[shadow scaffold]

started thinking of the corpse in DE's star map tattoo

would be a good inspiration

[reef estuary]

i haven spoken here in 84 years but….photobashed 1 of my character

[west phoenix]

welcome back ally

[shadow scaffold]

posts you'd see in a pirate's musenet channel

[prime terrace]

yarharhar

[west phoenix]

@tame tide core

[tame tide]

Yarr

[shadow scaffold]

https://www.tumblr.com/brattytenshi/806923193966362624/

[shell bison]

I love the yellow poncho

[shadow scaffold]

Utila's player rolled to decide her height and rolled low

[shell bison]

how low?

[shadow scaffold]

154cm, my irl height

[shell bison]

oh that's hoistable

[prime terrace]

chat i need to use Sparky is an IGF game

dumbass space hunchback alien with an aircraft Empakaai who blabbles about the craziest encounters

[prime terrace]

[CHAPTER 5 SPOILERS]
Figured i'd make a re-enactment of my party's final fight

[fast parrot]

|| Our bean man spawned only to hear American venom (Raleigh core)||

[shell bison]

Casual IGF player and GM interaction

[tame tide]

Lancer moment

[oblique berry]

Everything can be cast like a spell with the right mindset :D

[upbeat hemlock]

random thought:

You make glass from sand. All the glass in calliope probably comes from Asphodel, dredged from the lakes or harvested from the beaches

[safe glade]

Well, you make glass from silicates and sand is a source of silicon dioxide that's pre-ground and easy to work with, but S-type asteroids are also largely made of silicon dioxide so Hell's Gate probably has a few glassworks in among the foundries

[shell bison]

Ch2 Spoilers ||Post Sunbird Fight||
Last session went rather well, party has taxed a lot of their personal resources. Including ||Charlotte|| for the fight was suprisingly effective for the ||Voider|| NPC. The party had some interesting moments but overall victory. Jobs not done tho

They also didn't mess up enough for me to pull a special ability but you know what, it be like that.

[tight pier]

Looking at us on 2 structure and half HP we really cut it close

[ancient crag]

I’m somehow still on three structure

But it did cost me all my repairs XD

[shell bison]

Good luck, job isn't done yet!

[twilit star]

Was this ||current Voider or future Voider?||

[shell bison]

||Current, I can send you her stat block if needed||

[twilit star]

||was Just curious if you managed to get any Voider playtest data from the unreleased version, that’s all||

[signal canyon]

Something I made for my server.

[shell bison]

Nice

[dire cloud]

He deserves it.

[prime terrace]

after all thats happened, he does indeed

[glacial tundra]

much needed

[prime spoke]

Love the tables for “some ways a party member might get a mech”

[thorn hinge]

I love all the tables in this campaign so much. Act 2 has some really good ones and it was so much fun helping write for them.

[north helm]

Poor Jerry

[prime spoke]

Can’t wait to get to be able to look at act 2, whenever it releases

[twilit star]

You can check #909574961931362365 (the spoiler GM thread) and its pinned messages for the current act 2 draft

[prime spoke]

Ooh

Will have to check after work

[prime terrace]

on Shelly's soul we are all squishing Jerry like a wet sponge

[willow needle]

[limber fossil]

Ch2 is now officially over_!_ all downtime and some cool RP done

It was v funny the rest of the party was doing silly shenanigans together

Meanwhile my PC ||is busy dealing with secret information provided to her by Dr Nyambose and Loki||

[shell bison]

Ch2 Spoilers
Combat coming up next, good heavens they are trying to save a fellow NHP

[regal comet]

Girlie Married!

[twilit star]

Who are they? >.>

[shell bison]

Stonleigh NHP and PC Character Morgana

[cinder acorn]

Figured I should probably share these here as well.

[signal canyon]

Anybody got a good vent crab .png that would work as a server emote?

[opaque minnow]

Enjoy this custom blend of undiagnosed autism folks

[dire cloud]

I'm gonna share this in the GM channel holky fuck

[twilit star]

I’d like to drop that my group wanted to have the entire team come up with fake names, including the NHPs. One of them, Millstone (spoilers about him btw, though if you don’t know the source material of the fake name then you’ll learn nothing), came up with the fake name ||Siffrin.|| Which could mean nothing.

[opaque minnow]

I’m glad you guys like it

The smaller one is to scale, except for the AU of Stygia. My initial cradle proportion stand in was too big so by scaling Stygia up to size and putting it at proper orbit distance, it overlapped with the asteroid belt

[safe glade]

(early WIP) Not sure how I've decided I need to do a full-on matte painting for the background of my battle map for ||Anti-Capital||, but here we are

[thorn hinge]

WHOA

[upbeat hemlock]

Fucking gorgeous

[silver pumice]

GOD DAMN ‼️ ‼️ ‼️

[upbeat hemlock]

hey Calliope

What song did you most recently imagine an IGF AMV for?

Don't lie, you know you've done it.

[twilit star]

Hold on I need to figure out the most recent one… yeah it’s Killing Two Birds from A Hat In Time

[upbeat hemlock]

huh. I was expectign things with lyrics. But this is a very cool bit of music

[twilit star]

Most of my mental AMVs aren’t lyrical

[silver pumice]

too many i forgot which one was the most recent

i HAVE literally made animatics for my igf oc

i'll just list some things

https://youtu.be/1oiMwfEn7Lk

my gm made a team lyric assignment for this

and ive conceptualized an animatic but never made it

heres some actual animatics i made (ch4 spoilers ‼️ )
||https://www.tumblr.com/disastrousfeline/781399520882868224/for-the-last-time?source=share ||
||https://www.tumblr.com/disastrousfeline/751161738195599360/put-vid-here-im-your-man-frames-under-cut?source=share ||

aroace codekisser 333

>FOR THE LAST TIME.

characters: Synaptic_Static (it/they/sig/nal) + SCHRODINGER'S LYNX (aka Lynk/Alsciaukat) (they/it/lynx)

stills and context (aka rambling) under the cut [IN GOLDEN FLAME CHAPTER 4 SPOILERS] (also long post warning) (really long)...

▶ Play video

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aroace codekisser 333

i'm_ your _man

(frames + notes under cut)...

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[upbeat hemlock]

I look forward to watching these in the morning on the way to work

[silver pumice]

hmmm what else...

https://www.tumblr.com/disastrousfeline/781398946525446144/the-trembling-fear-is-more-than-i-can-take?source=share

aroace codekisser 333

THE TREMBLING FEAR IS MORE THAN I CAN TAKE /// WHEN I'M UP AGAINST **THE ECHO IN THE **MIRROR

alt ver under the cut (cw flashing gif)...

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barely counts but

oh also i have a wip project of YET ANOTHER CH4 THEMED ANIMATIC for Fate of the Stars by Tally Hall

can you tell i really really really like ch4

(bias because my char is deeply connected to it

[shell bison]

I know Vex has stated that The Evenecense cover of "The Chain" is a unofficial official Calliope theme

But personally, I lean more towards Hot Blood from KALEO

[safe glade]

Me: I shouldn't get too into the details drawing this, it's gonna be under a layer of gaussian blur anyway
Also me:

[safe glade]

(realized about twenty seconds after I started doodling it that I was self-inserting my own IGF PC's mech, quad-leg White Witch Transfer My Tragedy, pictured here ruining a mirage's day)

[clever cloud]

holy fuck

[shell bison]

Guassian blur! My beloved

[dire cloud]

That kicks ass!

[lime widget]

idk the context (dont explain it to me lol) but it looks like im flying upside down over a highway in a ring city

the perspective is very interesting

[west phoenix]

average aussie wildlife be like

[thorn hinge]

WTF HOW AM I ONLY JUST NOW SEEING THESE THEY'RE AMAZING

[west phoenix]

common lynx W

[silver pumice]

thank ye...

[shell bison]

Just a common lynx dub

[upbeat hemlock]

these are excellent

one of my groups is probably going to meet (my paltry version of) a homunculus of Lynk next week

[silver pumice]

hell ueah

[balmy obsidian]

Lynk infects yet another playthrough

[upbeat hemlock]

Lynk is responsible for the existence of Swa, the technophile NHP for one of our PCs

[upbeat hemlock]

(spoilers for act 1, chapter 4): ||our technophile NHP was going to be a clone of triple-point, but emptied of all memories - an attempt at stabilizing them that ultimately failed because while it is stable, it's not them anymore. Lynk smuggled the blank-slate NHP out of the Circuit in hopes they could get it a better life than being subsumed||

[upbeat hemlock]

to reply to myself:

I use Can't Go to Hell by Sin Shake Sin as our opening credits, so obviously I'm imagining a series of scenes from the campaign over the top of that

Man the Cannons by Jonathan Young is the theme song for Mistress Elske

For pure AMV fuel, Running by Rose Betts is perfect for a series of short shots of all the various people who came to Calliope to get away from things (i.e. 70% of the NPCs and PCs) and how they're facing the fact they have to stop running and fight for what they have

also I've been using The Grinder's Blues for the intro for Chapter 4 for... reasons that are spoilers

[safe glade]

(spoilers ch.2) Probably good enough for something that's going to be a blurred-out background

[limber fossil]

Cunty

[clever cloud]

holy fuck

[void nest]

Fantastic Work my guy! Holy Shit!

[thorn hinge]

GODDAMN NARSHERO THATS SO GOOD

[fallen geyser]

YOOOOOOOOOOOO

[safe glade]

Thanks all, I am sustained by your "this fucks" emojis

[prime terrace]

i mean hey, Vex themselves just said "yoooo" so you got the hype of IGF's creator in there too :3

[past agate]

INCREDIBLE

[safe glade]

(I know! I'm just trying to be cool about Senpai Noticing Me!)

(lol)

[dire cloud]

What's the "TPK" sign?

[clever cloud]

total party kill

[dire cloud]

I know, but whiy is there a giant building with it?

[clever cloud]

i would love it to be a joke about that, but i dont know

[willow needle]

i do recall some groups of TTRPGs being called TPK because of that specifically so it could be a club for it or something

cant see the image sadly so i cant tell

[safe glade]

Honestly it was just me going "what's a three letter acronym I can put on a sign that might make my players squint at it and go 'hey, uh,why does that sign say that?'", but now my brain wants me to invent something for it to actually be for...

[safe glade]

Spitballing: a specialty mech arena combat league that pits a team of newbie mech pilots in basic frames against an experienced "boss monster" champion and their associated gauntlet of challenges (RPV waves, obstacle courses, etc.). American Gladiators x The Crystal Maze kind of vibes. Fabulous prizes if you win, but it's called TPK for a reason.

[prime terrace]

The Penis Kage. An adults only bar owned by two siblings named Nicky Kage and Kass Kage

[upbeat hemlock]

Total Piome Kill

[prime terrace]

H A H

[split cipher]

Is there a big google drive of assets for IGF like there is for wallflower?

[light mist]

should be a link in the pins

[twilit star]

I comm’d another roll table NPC. Guys. It’s Harmony. You know her. You love her.

@thorn hinge The finished result of the very normal design

[worthy root]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SUZx4YIG9xyEtBwYjZGqicFdYQk05vFzSw_Z97O-fMY/edit?usp=sharing

[thorn hinge]

Nice!

[tight pier]

mission 2 spoilers

[balmy obsidian]

athena i'm killing you

[tight pier]

https://tenor.com/view/amanchabukswar-gif-22609133

[lyric ivy]

this is who you're killing leo are you happy

[balmy obsidian]

Don't make this more difficult...

[fast parrot]

Did anyone actually shoot shootable baby

[shell bison]

She got stabbed

[fast parrot]

Well that's just false advertising

[prime terrace]

Bunzi i cant stress enough how i get flashbanged every time i see my token in your screenshots, lmao

[shell bison]

lol

lmao even

[ancient crag]

I is sorry!!!!

[limber fossil]

Never be sorry

When you could be furry

[silver pumice]

this is INSANELY fucking cool

i May have slight aphantasia and i have trouble visualizing things so this really made me realize what was actually happening there

it's so fucking cool

[minor orchid]

https://klipy.com/gifs/iron-giant

[shell bison]

Hello Calliope, running last session in my Saturday IGF game and damn, that's wedding number 2 ;v;

[glacial tundra]

Tomorrow my players and I start (ch5) ||beat 25. so many big reveals and then the ultimate combat of the act!||

[minor orchid]

HOLY SHIT WEDDING :DDD

[light mist]

oh wait are they both knights of the dark core? just registering now that they both have swords

[shell bison]

Nope, it is a PC and Calamity HAvok

[light mist]

ohhhhhhh dunno why i didn't recognize calamity lol

[balmy obsidian]

How come not one of you deployed any lesbian bricks

Have you forgotten our good traditional values ™ ?

[icy dove]

Oh dear, I thought the brick makers were still on strike

[light mist]

i apologize, i have spent so much time abroad i forgot the ancient customs

[regal comet]

Mikaela Buinsess Goth

also fancy Jerry

[thorn hinge]

They made each other swords as engagement gifts

[last leaf]

@thorn hinge I'm dying - I introduced Pear and my players responded by immediately denying that horses exist and that they're actually a cradle myth.

[thorn hinge]

OH MY GODS

[pliant ibex]

Have they met Howl yet?

[upbeat hemlock]

hey Calliope, I'm going to be putting up a LFG announcement in the next few minutes for a IGF-adjacent short campaign.

[west phoenix]

archie the whole time was like "what the FUCK is a horse?!"

[safe glade]

(spoilers ch.2) time to commit horrible Dungeondraft crimes (striped lines are temporary, they're just me deliberating about ||how to slice up the bits of island so they can get progressively smashed by the big KSP strut||)

[upbeat hemlock]

so, just as a minor thing ||you don't need to have the strut there on the map - it's not a Slowly Encroaching thing, it's that the struts swing through the battlefield at very high speed, because the battlefield is stationary and the icebreaker is not||

[safe glade]

||Ah, yeah, that makes more sense than how I initially interpreted the text; it'll work either way, the plan was always to have it be a separate tile object in Foundry, I can just make it an overhead object as the "this is where a strut is about to swing through" indicator||

[upbeat hemlock]

that makes sense

[main scaffold]

a great terror looms

it looks like i finally have the time on my hands that i need for the motherfucking token pack

[last leaf]

not yet but I want to do it just for the bit yeah

[dire cloud]

(Chapter 3 spoilers)

[twilit star]

WAIT SHOOT I FORGOT TO CREDIT THE ARTIST! Check out my friend on @faemorrigan on Tumblr- they draw so much of a Ship Art between Jon Kent and Gossamer it’s very gay you’ll love it DC fans

[upbeat hemlock]

last call (for a definition of Last Call = about 20 hours before I close applications) for my IGF spinoff I wish to run #lancer-game-recruiting message

[twilit star]

Headcanon- because Furnace City is mostly anarchist, simply having a committee of industry reps meet to discuss things with a temporary overseer to help manage them, I believe “Lawyer” and “Legislator” are pretty much the same job in Furnace City, with a dash of “local historian”, “ethical philosopher,” and “tour guide” peppered into their responsibilities

[glacial tundra]

Had to cancel session just beforehand due to migraine ramping up, but now we’ll have two sessions in a row in March to help streamline the backend of the chapter (2x monthly scheduling, with some sessions rescheduled around life)

[warm beacon]

do we have an official logo/insignia/flag etc. of the Calliope Project and/or Calliope as a set of communities?

[upbeat hemlock]

Not as a picture, but there is a description of it somewhere

I think it was several hands holding a wrench like a flag, with the major planets and stations in the background, and a motto like "we will make heaven here"

Memory is a little patchy and I'm at work so I can't look it up

[worthy root]

Pg 121 of IGF Act 1

The logo depicts Calliope’s nine planets, Furnace City, Impact Plaza, Hell’s Gate, the CPS Borealis and several hands all clutching the haft of a very long spanner with the Project’s motto underneath: “our many hands shall build heaven here.”

[warm beacon]

nice, thank you!

[opaque minnow]

art

not what i meant to say

[wispy quail]

I can't believe it took me this long to realize that the Dragon Tooth's registry number is a Fahrenheit 451 reference

HG-0451

this is Harvest Gold Zero-Four-Five-One,

[potent heron]

Question about exotic weapon: ||The grabber, do blackbeards gain their bonus to avoid prone to the check?||

[shell bison]

....yes?

[dire cloud]

Since it's a contested check and not a save, Stable Structure doesn't even help. D:

The worst 2 SP you can ever spend.

[dire shell]

So I don't know how far I'll take this "Trying to make a Raptor-4 homebrew" meme but...

Impact Dynamic Raptor-4, "Calliope Custom" variant

The reasoning was : Raptor-4 are constantly described as "Everest but worst", so my musing was

A: that the only way one could achieve parity with other player frames would be to mod the fuck out of it in ways one might not even attempt with more solid frames, with accompanying drawbacks.
and
B: if anyone would have developed an experience in "actually making a Raptor-4 be worth a damn", it'd be the folks living in the system where the frame is so common it might as well come in cereal boxes and where chances are it's the only mech you have access to.

this is just a first draft(for one the purple WIP box might be outright removed), though I don't know if there'll be more; I'd mostly just been amused by the amount of people trying to make "Raptor-4 as an homebrew frame" that I figured I might as well throw my hat in the ring.

[celest scroll]

I dig the customization angle

[dire shell]

Was mostly thinking about "okay but what kind of way a population like Calliopeans living in a system described as turning everyone there into their most extreme selves would cut into a piece of crap like the Raptor 4 and trick it out with unstable min-max modding to try to get something passable out of it and pushes it past it's safety limits?"

[dire shell]

second pass at it after some feedback from @errant vault to try and differentiate the free action bonus of Slinger and Deluge mods

Deluge now gets to lay down a line equal to one of it's weapon's range and then perform an half damage overkill attack on everyone crossing that line;
It's a bit more complex overhead than I'd like for a LL0 frame, and feel like it might be a bit too powerful but the Overkill feels likes it adds a Risk/Reward mechanic it to it that is in itself a somewhat straightforward fashion ensuring that said half-damage is more stable but at the risk of melting you down if you're overloaded. Which risk/reward aspect feels like it'd be fitting of a what's essentially a shitty frame being kitted out beyond it's safety specs in the first place.

[signal canyon]

Exposed reactor feels like the least severe downside to take, especially compared to how much you lose w/ shaved weight

[celest scroll]

yeah I think the downsides nead some tweaking

[twilit star]

I feel like the heat cap drop could be moved there considering Shaved Weight gives 3 penalties

[dire shell]

tbh I had kept exposed reactor on it's own because it's the one that very specifically worsen your chances of experiencing Reactor Stress meltdowns ^^;;

[dire shell]

anyway tweaking the perks a bit based on feedback elsewhere

[safe glade]

(spoilers ch.3) Got Dwarf-Fortress-strange-mooded and made a ||loosely-Dishonored-inspired sprite for ??? (with a pixel art style that intentionally doesn't quite match the Retrograde standard, just for added oddness)||

[thorn hinge]

Yoooo that goes so damn hard

[silver pumice]

OOOOUGHHHH

[prime terrace]

oh yeah that fucks

[upbeat hemlock]

I took a liberty for those of us who use VTTs that ||support gifs but where we don't normally use gifs for enemies||

[safe glade]

Nice; I was contemplating ||animating the bits floating|| and may still do that if I can find the executive function

[safe glade]

The strange mood came back, it's wiggly now (||the glowy one's gonna have to wait tho, that's a whole other thing||)

[fallen geyser]

The Calliope Custom should be part of its cure system

[dire shell]

Noted!

[shell bison]

My players really enjoyed this session c:

[noble ivy]

bnuuy lancer continues to be peak lancer

[ancient crag]

The most peak lancer

[safe glade]

(spoilers ch.3) glow-up complete

[tight pier]

party member rolled two 1's on their second stress
(no igf spoilers, but video has breaking bad spoilers)

[tight pier]

this rocks wtf

[dire shell]

Seriously

[silver pumice]

my gender (this fucking rocks!!!!!!!!!)

[limber fossil]

You know when a gay bitch replies with “my gender” to sumthn that shit is gonna be absolute gas

(I can’t see it yet cuz just started chp 3)

[dire shell]

Update with a major overhaul of abilities and formatting. Unsurprisingly "flavor text" is also a major placeholder and pretty much everything is still up to change because there's a lot I'm still undecided about.

Plus I'm pretty sure some typos slid their ways in there too

But yeah for one thing I decided to change Slinger and Deluge mods' abilities from 1/scene things to something different even if it's still have wanted to keep that "LL0 1/scene action economy themed thing" trend the reality is that I didn't like how the best I could think for these two was just "once per scene I guess you get to do a skirmish with some extra for free" so I decided to change that for their current ability to try and figure something a bit more unique

[dire shell]

I'm also pondering just changing "the quality you paid for" to just exposed reactor only because that trait is already pretty infamous for its ability to increase chances of reactor meltdowns and fit the idea of "this frame is being pushed well beyond its original specs" but in still not fully decided on that though if I do that I might give the frame a -1 tech attack by default

[upbeat hemlock]

Very minor thing, but the hyperspec overclock doesn't help lobber type raptors really

While an extra free grenade every scene, especially at LL0, is really good, the other two builds get more out of the overclock

[dire shell]

Hmm
Not a bad point

Honestly this is still very up in the air. I feel it's taking a good shape but I'm still musing what adjustments i should/could make

[upbeat hemlock]

If you added "enemies get 1 difficulty on saves against you" to the hyperspec overclock maybe

[dire cloud]

Can't overcharge at all, or can't 1/scene free overcharge?

[upbeat hemlock]

The one Made has 4 weapon mounts, but one breaks as soon as it enters a fight

Allowing some live load out customizatiom

[minor orchid]

1/scene it overcharges then it becomes a tin can haha

[thorn hinge]

Carter: well, what if I told you I'm a time vampire?
Striga: Impossible. I've seen you at 3:00 in the afternoon.

[shell bison]

that tracks

[round delta]

Trying to create a Pressure Point map with Starlight Furnace assets

[minor orchid]

lookin' fireee!

[spark notch]

Hi, guys, I'm walking into this with my metaphorical eyes closed, but we just finished the second fight of Mission 5 (||Gauntlet||) and I want to double-check: what's the intended state of ||rest after it|| ? Normal, none?

[thorn hinge]

Are you a gm or a player?

[spark notch]

Player, so I'd like to avoid any information that's not a direct answer to the question. The GM sounded unsure after the combat, so I wanted to double-check for everyone's sakes. I understand that it's ultimately his decision anyway but it seems that he's trying to follow the text of the module on this one and finds it ambiguous.

[thorn hinge]

No worries, I'm really careful with spoilers, thus why I asked before answering!

[thorn hinge]

If you're sure your GM doesn't mind you checking, according to the text of the book there is ||a normal rest after the second fight.|| Specifically, your GM can find the answer at the top of page 252 immediately under the subsection heading.

[upbeat minnow]

Yep, and I would tell them so after some ||COOL MONTAGE SCENE||. For now I said ||there is no rest||. Thank you for trusting in me Anadyn, btw.

(I'm a little bit pissed, just a little bit)

[thorn hinge]

And that's why I specified "If you're sure your GM doesn't mind"...

[shell bison]

Oof

[fallen geyser]

Normal

I should probably update the book if it's causing ambiguity

[placid horizon]

does anyone have any narrative maps / images for Beat 22: ||The Hall of Mirrors||? (not the actual combat; the lead-up)

[thorn hinge]

Chapter 4 spoilers ||I used this cave for The Outer Myriad while giving them the heads up about the questions and spending some time with a few different ways their sensors were going weird. I read the Outer Myriad intro and switched to the image of mirrors to go through the horrid whispers / Testament audio log, and I swapped to the video (this is a sized down version, the one I used was 1080 and 4x slower) and continued narrating until the players realized the background was moving. The video turned into a black tunnel just as I got to ask the first question. Crypt of stars I had this barren rock and starfield thing I made, along with some foundry lighting based Chameleon effects (attached a small clip to show what that's like). ||

[cerulean valve]

Hey fellas

my friend @dull tree is looking for a game

[dull tree]

creature summoned

[cerulean valve]

here you can have them, whomever adopts them you're now responsible for them.

[dull tree]

i promise im not like

mean

but i might be a bit dense

and i might require some reading assistance because of some issues i have

[cerulean valve]

it's okay, i myself i'm very stupid, @balmy obsidian can attest to that

[dull tree]

i see

im eating some cabbage rn

[balmy obsidian]

[shell bison]

Like the whole cabbage?

[dull tree]

ye

peak vegetable

[shell bison]

based

[dull tree]

what other vegetables u like

im a big fan of the gourd family (zuccini, pumpkin, squash, that deal) and most tubers and roots

[lyric ivy]

rabbit coded

actually do rabbits each cabbage

[dull tree]

i eat a lot of vegetables

they do

vegetables are like big comfort food with me

together with red meat and dumplings (mainly pirogi and gyoza)

actually i might hit up my auntie to see if we can make some pirogis soon

she's like

cracked at cooking

srry if the talk is a bit ooc

my brain is kinda scattered atm

[cerulean valve]

It's all good, there's the general IGF chat #1445576226633814016 if you wanna chill for a bit.

[dull tree]

thankie :>

[twilit star]

Are they like. Looking to join a table? Idk if that’s exactly something this chat can accommodate for folks just hang out here

[dull tree]

i am looking to join

this is why bun got me here

i have like a massive ttrpg itch that only lancer could fix atm

[cerulean valve]

Aye, recommend them IGF since it's what i most familiarized with, and I'm sure someone is bound to need a player.

[dull tree]

now that my irl table was closed to turn it online cuz our DM is moving out

he's going to another state so we cant do irl sesh anymore

and i like

[cerulean valve]

Also IGF community is cool and i want them to be a part of it.

[dull tree]

rlly RLLY need to have an activity to do outside of grinding ffxiv and fighting games 24/7

also to gauge something

what gundam series would this be best comparable to

on a scale, where 0 is gundam seed and 10 is gundam build fighters

[cerulean valve]

I wholly apologize if that's against the rules of the chat, i just wanted to see if anyone in IGF is in need of a player or if theres a way to accommodate my friend over here with the community.

[dull tree]

wait a better gauge

0 is iron blooded orphans and 10 is build fighters

need to gauge how much mental prep i'll need

[twilit star]

I don’t think it’s against the rules (there is a #lancer-game-recruiting channel however), it’s just not something we can exactly provide for. Almost everyone in this channel already has their own table, so finding open seats for a game is gonna be a rare thing

[dull tree]

i have tried there before

[cerulean valve]

I understand

[dull tree]

got rejected or ignored in most of them

[twilit star]

Oof

[dull tree]

and also i dont have the money to afford the paid sessions

so im kinda at the mercy of my pre-existing contacts helping me find stuff

[twilit star]

Makes sense

[dull tree]

such as bun

so far ive only been able to do a single sitrep for a oneshot that a friend of mine got me in

[cerulean valve]

Well hopefully something will come up

I really, really need to sleep, I'll cach up to you guys later.

[dull tree]

ninii

[twilit star]

I don’t mean to be discouraging I just wanted to clarify that this is strictly speaking just a place to talk about IGF.

[dull tree]

understandable

[cerulean valve]

All good, figured it was a good start.

[twilit star]

Anyway go the fuck to sleep

[cerulean valve]

https://tenor.com/view/gmod-ragdoll-video-game-video-game-gif-20573521

[prime terrace]

if I wasn't already in act 2 i'd invite you over :[

[dull tree]

creature summoned

again

a

[prime terrace]

a

[dull tree]

im resting a bit rn cuz m still hella sick but if anyone needs a player shoot me a dm

[thorn hinge]

Mix 8th MS team, Build Fighters, And Gundam Wing. Then make the whole thing rewritten by a combination of the devs for Saints Row and Borderlands, but actually done well. Let Hideo Kojima take an edit pass, then stir in a glorious helping of The Expanse.

[dull tree]

ok so

thats likke

everything i want outta something like this tbh

also i signed up for a campaign form

hopefully i get accepted!!

[thorn hinge]

here's an actual list of inspirations for the campaign from the book

[dull tree]

basically my jam incarnate

[thorn hinge]

I know, right? Like three years ago when I found it I was instantly hooked, and it's become a major part of my life ever since. It hits on so many little notes I love, and constantly.

Annnyway. I'm not gonna say I'm done with my burnout, but I've been writing again. Prepping for my Act 2 game, after months of getting nothing done.

A small, spoiler-free glimpse into my creative process for planning narrative sessions:

Prep'd marks ready I am to run, with 0/adlib/book being "Yeah I can do this right now" and 5 being "I have. a title. for the scene." Weight is a rough estimate of the emotional weight of a scene, length is a very rough estimate of how long the scene might take.

These scenes also have actual names, cropped out here for spoilers. I learned the hard way that if I just leave shitpost names I'll sometimes forget what the scenes actually are...

I use a spreadsheet to plan out thes scenes and keep track of who's in which, with a running count of how many scenes each PC has. I don't have to keep them even but it's useful to know. Pear's quite light this time but will be getting more later so it works out. Being a spreadsheet it's easy to swap and re-order rows, so I can try and organize the story so no player is out of the game for too long. Then in a separate writing doc I actually plan all the scenes out and use that as my notes in-session

[upbeat hemlock]

You are significantly more organized than I can usually manage

I say that as a mark of respect, to be clear

[twilit star]

I just ad lib everything now

[upbeat hemlock]

Unrelated: do you think they have hydroelectric dams on Asphodel?

[twilit star]

I used to write bullets from the chapter to prep… I don’t do that anymore and purely rely on the brain now

[thorn hinge]

I forget things even with all this prep lmao

[north helm]

So um, obviously campaign spoilers below. Don't click unless you've cleared Act 1.

|| Our Act 1 campaign ended up with my pilot sort of merging with Feather after we defeated Andros and Ignatius ||

||Kiana is now half-herself, half-Fire God. Fortunately we ended on a good note with her taking what was left of The Faith of the One is a very different direction||

[thorn hinge]

ooooh neat!

[dire cloud]

||Betty did much the same, plunging into the Fire Gate with Prospector and merging with the fragment of Feather we found. Ignatius and Andros still control part of the cult, but we have a clock for her influence on the Faith.||

[split cipher]

Is it intended that I show my players this after they capture the LP?

[thorn hinge]

yes

if they win, at least. This is in rewards:

[minor orchid]

I love the damn chat rules of that chatroom

[signal canyon]

Possible good replacement for the old "Lift With Your Knees" token

[violet pivot]

Is there a complete list of members of the Icebreaker Board? I know Chapter 2 has details about at least 3 of them but my players wanted to know all of them, which I would think is publicly available info they could get their hands on

[upbeat hemlock]

that's more of a GM side question and should probably go over here: https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/909574961931362365

for what it's worth ||there is no canon list. I toyed with making one for my game, but didn't have the time and energy - canonically we get to know that Evelina Bondarchuk, Gabriel Sparrow, and Fayad Harb are on the board, and I believe there's reference to SSC having somebody on the board somewhere, but the SSC rep is not named to my knowledge.||

wait, no, I forgot one: ||Raphael Baza is also on the board. So you've got Gabirel, Evelina, Raphael, Fayad, unnamed SSC rep, and then probably another 10+ undefined ones||

[split cipher]

this list. Machninae supremacy listed is crazy. I listened to them so much as a teenager and completely forgot they exist until reading that

[split cipher]

So I'm reading this, and I hear some shock jock late night DJ from the american south speaking softly into the ears of the players. Are there any recordings of this? As someone from the UK, I cannot achieve the same level of sultryness

[thorn hinge]

I had a friend of mine (and all my players) record it as a cameo. They did more of a... idk. Smooth fireside chat radio personality? Something like that. I mixed it with a lot of noise and some background music to get a more somber vibe.

[split cipher]

Thanks for this

I've got another gm question. ||My crew is about to hit the borealis for the first time and I've noticed an unusual quirk of the triple beat layout, in that it lets them basically get three downtimes in a row||

||once when they come back to HG, one from Jerrys box of fun, and one from the day they have spare||

||this feels like a REALLY dramatic ability to increase power levels, with very little actual progression happening||

how have people handled this

[warm orchid]

The way that chapter has worked so far for my group so far is that they needed those downtimes (and so did I). There is so much more narrative stuff going on that they actually get a chance to use some of those non-combat reserves to progress things down the line, and I get to really build out the world a bit more than I normally would

[split cipher]

What do you mean they needed them?

One thing I'm worried about is that I do generally have to hold my players hands a bunch when it comes to unstructured roleplay/exploration, and they absolutely will jump at the opportunity to just do a bunch of dice rolls and then be like "well what now" without giving me anything to actually work with.

Which can be annoying, as they've got worse as we've gotten older, and 15 years ago they were more willing to play ball

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it feels like it could be fairly unearned, but I don't want to deny it to them if they are REALLY gonna need it in the future, and how you structured it for them, if you had to to at all.

[warm orchid]

If they don't engage with narrative scenes then maybe not all of them are warranted. The combats are tough but not "need 3 reserves" rough. I say need but really it was just good to not have them all take extra core batteries or smart ammo, but blackmail and access instead due to what this chapter involves.

[split cipher]

Ended up making this

[split cipher]

Has anyone done any kind of node design for beat 9?

There is a ton of information thrown at the GM in this section, and it's not entirely clear what's going on. There is a bunch of scene descriptions and vague allusions to an investigation section but.. Very little to support that, Then just a bunch of mech fights and location descriptions

Are the mech fights meant to be the investigations?

[shell bison]

Are you referring to the investigation within ch2?

[split cipher]

The icebreaker stuff yeah

[dire shell]

Tbh i think it's left somewhat vague out of desiring to leave it up to the GM how much the investigation side of this mission should be involved or not if I recall the book

I'll admit that I did want it to be more narratively involved challenges wise but I struggled with it a bit I'll admit.

(Then later I read Blades in the Dark and it's heist structure and it made me wish I had read that book like... 6 months ago because holy shit does Blades offer really cool mechanical framework for narrative stuff and I feel you wouldn't even need to tweak Lancer's mechanics a whole ton to have some really interesting scenes)

[clever cloud]

BitD should be required reading for Lancer GMs

you don't need to adapt mechanics from it, but it informs so much of the intended game design of Lancer in the first place. BitD taught me how to use Lancer clocks

how best to ask for skill checks

how to narrate narrative combat

[twilit star]

I should get a BitD PDF

[pliant ibex]

What are the big modern indie RPGs everybody should read and know about? BitD, Apocalypse World, uhhh?

[twilit star]

I still need to finish reading Eureka!

I like what Wildsea does with how players can contribute to the worldbuilding and how it plays with languages, in addition to the resources it provides for exploration and how to build a region + threat.

Lancer’s sitreps open a lot of doors for tactical combat with its sitreps ofc

The problem is I haven’t read enough TTRPGs yet

[split cipher]

My issue isn't that I can't design interesting investigation nodes with prompts

It's that as a busy adult, I chose to run a module because I don't have the time to do it to the level I would like

I was hoping this kind of stuff was more easily outsourced

[split cipher]

I also don't think this is true at all.

One of the things that initially attracted us to lancer beyond aesthetics, is that it handles fairly linear combat scenarios very well. SR/OWS are extremely linear, and can be run very prep light.

IGF up to this part has been very well pre-prepped for the GM, and introduces a bunch more narrative hooks for the players that lets you step away from beat - diceroll, combat, beat diceroll, combat.

but this does feel like it's a bit like "well I didn't know how to present an investigation in a concise and transferable way so I'll leave it up to you with this info dump"

No shade intended

Luckily/ we have a natural break here for a few weeks. So Maybe I'll construct a node-map framework and post it as a GM resource

[split cipher]

Morkborg imo.

[clever cloud]

I wanna preface this with "taste is subjective," but liking Mörk Borg is gonna put us in opposite opinions a lot.

I suggest blades cuz it taught me a lot about how to organize my ideas and how to direct the camera of action

[split cipher]

Maybe. I think the big thing about it is how much you can do with so little

Justin alexanders blogs is where I learned about those kinds of things

highly recommended if you want interesting analytics of things we take for granted and satisfying GM writing

and that was after I had already been GMing for 10+ years

[split cipher]

I'm also kind of curious why you say this, it feels like you're coming at me swinging a bit

I do also have issues with morkborg, I still think it's important modern reading

[livid mesa]

I feel like I need to suggest Into the Odd / Mythic Bastionland as something different but also indie

[clever cloud]

Im too combative online, so i apologize. I've played just a tiny bit of it and it wasn't fun at all, and felt more like it got in the way of things. Maybe an error in execution, but I dont have a good taste of it.

[split cipher]

"Im too combative online, so i apologize" People read me as that too, I'm just autistic, it's fine

[split cipher]

Interesting. I've managed to run morkborg as a 6 month long adventure before

OSR is usually like that though. You need to get it off the ground somewhat

[clever cloud]

I also mentioned Blades cuz it's clear that KTB Bonds are a lite version of that system and it's good and nice to see where the dna is from, what it focuses on, what it removed, etc

[split cipher]

I've known about bitd for a while, but it's not something that ever really appealed to my group to be honest, and I've not been in anyone elses games of it

my friends, as they have got older, have lost a lot of narrative initiative and curiosity

[clever cloud]

To mention some of my other too-extreme takes, I really dislike dnd5e. Honestly, to an unreasonable degree. That colors my opinion a lot. Same with dnd 3.5e, and pf1e. My heart is filled with too much hate.

So, blades, just letting me be a movie director has been a very nice chance of pace

[twilit star]

If we’re talking about disliked systems I despise the way Cyberpunk Red’s rulebook is organized. A friend tried to inform me “based on the writer’s other works he tries to make his rulebooks a fun reading experience rather than just a rulebook” and my response was “he failed at that too because of how badly organized it is and painfully thick its made up slang is laid on.”

Maybe it’s a good system but I could not stand reading it to learn if it was

[noble ivy]

-# Unsolicited take: but isn't the slang at least 40% of cyberpunk's appeal?

[clever cloud]

oh man, me with Panic! at the Dojo

layout nightmare

[twilit star]

Okay fair enough actually I think that’s more of a personal gripe than anything

The Microfictions are also more like macro fictions and they are placed in the most inconvenient places

It makes Lancer’s microfics look minimalist in comparison, and Lancer has one for every piece of licensed equipment

[split cipher]

The original cyberpunk 2020 book was great

he lost the rails a bit in v3

[twilit star]

I don’t doubt it

[split cipher]

with the.. actionmen barbie photos

[twilit star]

We should shift back to positive tho

[split cipher]

yeah

so

what prep have you all got I can steal for beat 9

[twilit star]

I think the Alien TTRPG, while I haven’t read it myself, has a fascinating take on Hiding where it doesn’t have defined mechanics for it- it makes hiding more tense by making the conversation need to expand to develop it

[twilit star]

This is probably a question best left for #909574961931362365 as that’s the GM thread. There you can talk about spoilers freely.

[noble ivy]

Here's a shared drive that has a bunch of resources for GMs including music, token art, and additional npcs
#1059603134504255528 message

[split cipher]

I feel like I got sent here before for GM stuff, when I was originally posting in there

[split cipher]

Yeah I have that, it doesn't have what i need

[twilit star]

||anyway what I did was look through the list of mysteries, write down the key locations, and underneath each key location highlighted the clues that are found within them. Then I just let my players run loose, giving out the clues as needed, until they got into a combat||

[twilit star]

You mean the pinned message with GM resources? It’s weird, that’s here but otherwise you wanna go there for GM inquiries

[split cipher]

No i mean I was asking some GM questions and someone sent me here.

anyway

I'll go back there then

[twilit star]

Odd- they prolly shouldn’t have done that

[languid sluice]

Hey how many segments is the cult influence suppose to have?

[clever cloud]

max cult influence = max station stability (12) - current station stability

[languid sluice]

Oh I see

[languid sluice]

Oh yeah is there like a map for the Icebreaker borealis to track where the players are?

maybe something like this

[split cipher]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17TSV_hBgnuf7T7NzNL6ckZWUzdwvJ6Kn

Those are made by narshero

[languid sluice]

Thank you

[thorn hinge]

who squished hell's gate??

[thorn hinge]

AGHH

[split cipher]

They aren't stopping!

oh no

somebody help jerry

[ancient crag]

This is hilarious

[minor orchid]

man it's no more hell's gate

it's hell's door

next it'll be hell's trapdoor

[upbeat hemlock]

Hell's Narrow Gap You Squeeze Through To Hide A Loading Screen

[ancient crag]

Evil

[tight pier]

This is Act 3

[upbeat hemlock]

from my players contemplating putting two instances of Ablative Thermal Composite on the same Mech:

[shell bison]

Pffff

Silly little being

[round delta]

My take on CH04 ||Event Horizon||, ||I tried to include elements from every other map where my players had fights in this one. I still need to refine the lighting in each sector||

[twilit star]

||Metavault? Wrong. 8-3 // DISINTEGRATION LOOP||

[steady adder]

https://tenor.com/view/sonic-sonic-adventure-2-back-back-in-the-building-eggman-gif-17578619098878872054

[shell bison]

Today's session went well!

The got an interview with switch post ch2 shenanigans, I introduced some backstory lore with some players, and they are about to get into some trouble in the first combat of ch3 :D

[smoky parrot]

I'm thinking of running IGF/Calliope as like a pseudo-sandbox when my players make it there. You guys think it would be fun?
Maybe like akin to a dead rising game, where you can do whatever, but there's like deadlines and a time limit and stuff.
Tbch, it would probably help if I read more into how the actual mission structure works.

[upbeat hemlock]

so for act 1, that won't really work as written. You could do it, but it'd be a bit... weird in some cases.

For act 2, which is as yet unpublished ||that is 100% the intended way to play it||

[smoky parrot]

mmmmm gyatcha

[upbeat hemlock]

I'd suggest talking over here https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/909574961931362365

[smoky parrot]

🙂‍↕️ tyty

[willow needle]

@sweet bridge welcome :3 this is the thread of igf

[shell bison]

I forgot, super important update.
@tight pier turned Ana's callsign into "Bonk Girl" because she bowed and bonked her head on the desk during an interview in our game.

@noble ivy dressed up as Jerry and was just a wet noodle

[tight pier]

It's not because she hit her head, it's because the chat started calling her Bonk Girl after she bonked her head

[shell bison]

The live chat bit was pretty good

[noble ivy]

(For context, my character's idea of formal wear somehow became "dress up like the smartest and most respectable person you know")

[shell bison]

oh yeah, You guys did show up in formal wear. So You just are cosplaying Jerry and Ana is in a nice dress bonking her forehead

Terpsi is everyone's comfort pilot over how excited they are

[shell bison]

And the "They redesigned my oshi" bit slayed me

[shell bison]

Athena, once again making banger memes

[shell bison]

Pc's meeting Karakin sibling is going great :D

[twilit star]

Jam Cockpit after all that is cruel

“You’re going to self destruct and you’re not gonna get out of it”

[tight pier]

We did this during Ch.2 ||Anti-Capital||

[prime terrace]

Just ended my Act 2 campaign, at least for now. Only got past the first mission of Act 2 so here's hoping i find the motivation to come back to it

[regal comet]

I can share this commission here actually, my buddy Mithryl is a fucking wizard
https://bsky.app/profile/selevan.bsky.social/post/3mjukpekkjs2v

Selevan (@selevan.bsky.social)

I know @mithryl.bsky.social straight up forgot, and then I forgot that Mithryl forgot so here is my ##LancerRPG pilot I had commissioned from em lmao

Bluesky · Apr 19, 2026, 6:15 PM

[shell bison]

EY THAT'S VOID

THAT DIGITIZED BOSTONIAN FUCK

[weary dust]

My group just wrapped our fourth session of IGF, in Chapter 1 of Act 1. I managed to charm a ventcrab to keep as a pet and team mascot for my squad before we ||took the trip out to Chameleon to investigate the wreck of the Tachyon||.

I suspect ventcrab taming is a very common experience for players of this campaign.

[upbeat hemlock]

It is indeed

[noble ivy]

Yep, exact same thing happened in my campaign

[upbeat hemlock]

And/or cooking

[weary dust]

cooking

Please do not the vent crab 😨

[upbeat hemlock]

Hey, tell that to Mama Patalung

Then get ready to dodge

[dire cloud]

Keeping a vent crab farm is the best way to ensure they haven't eaten anything toxic.

[shell bison]

Meanwhile the beekeeper is just vibing

[dire cloud]

Literally.

Except for the point where they snap and go, "What the fuck am I doing? I'm covered in bees! Aaaah!"

[ancient crag]

at least the Vent crab isnt the size of a great dane and has a stockpile of arms and armor that would make Harrison armory blush

[thorn hinge]

Okay but now I am suddenly quite certain that vent crabs love honey (or maybe they just eat bees) and are one of a beekeeper's greatest foes.

[shell bison]

Ada how can you do this to Char

[noble ivy]

too late it's canon now

Charlotte has to bap away sweet-toothed ventcrabs with a ventbroom

[thorn hinge]

asbjaskdjfhbaskfjhas ventbroom

[thorn hinge]

oh come on this isn't nearly the worst thing I've done to her

[upbeat hemlock]

so, you know how there's a kind of military subaltern called a Pipecleaner, designed for doing borderline warcrime type ship boarding?

Now I'm imagining somebody on Hell's gate DESPERATELY trying to get a printcode for one and then just print it at 10% scale to hunt ventcrabs

[shell bison]

Okay true but it's at least top 5

[thorn hinge]

Yeah I'll agree with that. Maybe even a solid 2nd place? Depending on how many times we're counting the one big thing lmao

[shell bison]

True, I think the betrayal and heart break was probably top 1 and 2

[thorn hinge]

Yea~ 🥰

[proven quest]

All of them are found destroyed, reduced to ashes by a secret faction of pro-ventcrab citizens who are hiding the location of the Mothercrab, which is a Commander Ultra Vent Crab

[tight pier]

🦀

[thorn hinge]

GIGACRAB was once a planned part of the story for act 2, but we deleted it

[shell bison]

Cute content pack when

wait

'Cut" content, but a cute pack would be nice too

[upbeat hemlock]

I have hope for act 3 big crab

[glacial tundra]

Still holding out hope for the ||eidolon-like puzzle combat with the vent crab queen and the minions who are swarms represented by cellular automata that iterates on the crabs’ turns, and the party can only stop it by figuring out the rule set and then shooting them to modify the automata into a stable or decaying pattern (aka, it’s not just one of striga’s conspiracy theories: it turns out the crabs themselves are the cells of the automata, not the patterns on their shells!)||

[upbeat hemlock]

Okay, that's a lot more involved than my thought (act 3 spoiler): ||size 2 ven crabs are endemic to the surface of alt-timeline Terraformed Asphodel. They want to eat the PCs||

[dire cloud]

||I dislike having an all-biological opfor, because it shuts off an entire avenue of interaction and is especially bad if a party member has specialized in it.||

[upbeat hemlock]

okay, non-spoiler as this is a statement about design in general, rather than anything in any particular act or chapter:

I agree, yeah, all bio opfor sucks for hackers. I could imagine you could get around it a little bit for a single gimmick fight by having hackable stage hazards

but you wouldn't want to do that more than once

"biological" in Lancer is kind of 1-for-1 "immune to magic" in D&D, which is to say it can be really interesting in moderation

[celest scroll]

||I think it could work as a sort of Crimson Hand/Golden Hand esque sidequest path. That way, players have to actively seek out the gimmick fight||

[west phoenix]

I don't think that works imo

Hacking stage hazards is boring compared to how involved hacking actual enemies are

Wallflower does that and i think the encounter falls flat. A few bio enemies is fine but it being the entire encounter is making someone sit on the sidelines

[upbeat hemlock]

well, good to know I'm making the same mistakes as the authors of the game :p

[upbeat hemlock]

today's cursed thought: IGF, the Musical

[twilit star]

What is so cursed about that?

[celest scroll]

Andros would probably have a sick cover of Red Sun

[prime terrace]

im imagining that one apex trailer where Revenant sings in a musical only to cut to him in the doorway as he says "No." but it's Andros

[upbeat hemlock]

okay, so, there's a song by Vixy and Tony that I know I've mentioned before, called Burn It Down

now imagine it in a minor key

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kN7It6kiI

this wasn't actually the song that got me thinking about it, but I went and had lunch and forgot what song inspired the thought

[upbeat hemlock]

having now found and watched that - top notch suggestion

[prime terrace]

teehee

[prime terrace]

||even the stuff Revenant sings is fitting for Andros xd||

[twilit star]

Spoilers, spoiler tag that

||Anyway he stays on the ship and it blows up regardless as he’s forced to let them go||

[willow needle]

i love randomly checking here just to see spoilers

[pliant ibex]

this is not the spoiler thread, please spoiler tag this using || on either side

[zinc topaz]

please delete or spoiler tag!!

[pliant ibex]

ok @pallid wraith @void pendant can one of y'all delete the comment I'm replying to? it spoils the last chapter of the module

[void pendant]

hold on

@proven quest hey please don't spoil things without putting spoiler tags on thank you

there we go

[pliant ibex]

tyty

[prime terrace]

thought i accidentally spoilered something for a sec

[bitter jetty]

Man, I'm gonna run In golden flame soon for my party but looking through some of the messages here I'm worried for nor reason because I'm comparing myself to Ada's foundry layout and thinking I'm never gonna put together something like that

[upbeat hemlock]

Yeah, but your players haven't seen Ada's foundry layout

[bitter jetty]

That's true

[clever cloud]

my setup is just 1 picture per location. it's not even a map proper. it's not a point crawl or anything, it's just a picture

[crude granite]

It's the Matt Mercer thing. You're never going to be Critical Role so don't even worry about it

Little different here in scale but same concept

[upbeat hemlock]

Different people put different effort into different things

Case in point

[thorn hinge]

Okay me being the cause of a matt mercer effect is throwing me lmao

[thorn hinge]

also this is cool as fuckkkk

[upbeat hemlock]

The tie is merch from the failed Johannesburg Olympic bid in like... The 90s

I found it on eBay while looking for awful ties

It's both visually striking and has a questionable history!

[thorn hinge]

o-o h ..

[upbeat hemlock]

I didn't know that history when I bought it

It's just... Really odd

Sorry, I probably shouldn't bring it up. I get overly excited about Trivia

[thorn hinge]

nah it's cool. Wild that you bought an actual cursed object on ebay.

[upbeat hemlock]

I do have a bigs bunny and daffy duck tie somewhere as well

Which looks cursed

Anyway, on a more light note - the mug was ordered by my lovely partner

This is the other side

[crude granite]

That's a tie you would find in Disco Elysium. What the hell?

For both the pattern and the other stuff

That is an incredibly cool mug.

[upbeat hemlock]

Yeah. It really is

[crude granite]

Inland Empire 100% gives it a voice and it probably has some very strong opinions on segregation. Not entirely sure which way it would fall.

[thorn hinge]

oh and honestly I find this extremely flattering, but I'm also always willing to help people build their own similar setups! It doesn't take much to have something decent. Even just making tiles for each PC and editing art form the book into backdrops can be really effective.

[bitter jetty]

I've been managing, I'm currently throwing together the ui elements you provided on my foundry but I will let you know if I have any problems or need anything

[shell bison]

Trust us when we all find our own methods to make the magic happen in our preferred table top ways

My players constantly say I have a knack for description, horror moments and my stand seems to always perfectly time music to key moments

[bitter jetty]

Unrelated to my previous posting, for players who mostly do not have much lancer experience is Kai's rebake worth grabbing to make combat feel better? For that matter is any other third party content reccomended for use?

[twilit star]

You can go without it but I highly recommend it, especially since IGF recently got Playtest Rebake Combats added

[shell bison]

I would say it's more personal choice. There are some optional systems and core elements of certain Base NPC's that are a little punishing and harsh but they are used sparingly in IGF

[twilit star]

Some fun stuff gets lost if you swap to the rebake admittedly

[shell bison]

True, but you can always make a "Custom" to mix and match

[upbeat hemlock]

So, I used the rebake for chapters 2-5

I generally found it a positive experience

my only critiques are that the rebake removes a couple of veteran abilities that are defensive (with good reason!) which may flatten a little bit of the kit of a couple of NPCs, and removes one veteran ability that is kind of important for a single major NPC.... but, as Bunzi says, that can just be custom re-entered

there is also one fight, which I will not go into detail about, where you don't want to use the rebake grunts

[shell bison]

Oh yeah, and if you ever need some help with balancing it there are plenty of GM's here that can help out with ideas

[twilit star]

The IGF rebake document also provides replacements for these already, + Feign Death and Self Repair exist

[twilit star]

Technically speaking Vex has already done the work of importing the rebakes into IGF

So like. You don’t have to do any work

Running the rebakes for IGF would be a great source of playtest data if that matters

[upbeat hemlock]

my comment about the defensive abilities was more a very minor critique of the rebake insofar as the removal of Steel Jaw and Shock Armour compress some amount of "build space".

But also, they were removed for a good reason, so I... don't really know what the point I'm making here is.

for all that I just typed a bunch, I really like the rebake

[twilit star]

The problem with the rebakes is that it’s really hard to find a reason not to use them apart from “it’s an extra expense”

[crude granite]

It now also has the added benefit of getting you the Wallflower NPCs too.

[upbeat hemlock]

that is an excellent benefit

[twilit star]

Well technically base Wallflower is a prerequisite to use them

The LCP I mean

[upbeat hemlock]

Huh. I don't use compcon for NPCs, so I was not aware of that

[west phoenix]

As someone who created an interactive layout: yeah idk if its worth it lmao

I was really lucky i have an artist in my group, but before they made art for it it looked kind of jank. Still, an interactive layout can be helpful so people can navigate easier (especially if you have illiterate players like mine)

[prime terrace]

Hi, diehard IGF fan here
you needn't compare your work to others :0
Your players havent seen it, so you're all good tp run it your way

[bitter jetty]

Im worried because one of my players who hasn't played lancer before is already fucking kitbashing frames

[prime terrace]

ahhh, a fellow kitbash enthusiast

colors go hard on theirs im ngl

[bitter jetty]

That's sick

[prime terrace]

been doing it for 2 or so years,
while we're here Gooblin, there's a public doc for igf assets

including some tokens people [including me] have made for npcs :0

[shell bison]

Okay, but to be fair that is a very well done kitbash.

[bitter jetty]

Oh yeah I have the docs and the sheets I could find in reference to in golden flame

[bitter jetty]

Ikr I was surprised they did that well on their first one

[prime terrace]

especially for a first bash

[prime terrace]

sweet!

hope my [and others'] tokens do good in your game :3

[bitter jetty]

I think its Sherman weapons, with the Sword Wolf, Pegasus, and, Remus parts

[shell bison]

I'm excited to see how the party starts out with the 3 base frames and how they shake up!

[bitter jetty]

I'll keep you updated, so far I suspect 2 Sagarmathas and 3 Everests. Sadly I dont think any of the party is super into the hacking playstyle

[shell bison]

Shame

[noble ivy]

damn... no Chumbawumba sweep...

[bitter jetty]

So far I have a player looking at Sherman and one looking at Vlad

[shell bison]

Alright, that's some range and some cqb

[bitter jetty]

Oh my third player is a Balor almost forgor

[shell bison]

And there is the party tank

[bitter jetty]

He plays pure melee in terraria, death knight in wow, and mostly plays martials in Pathfinder

I never expected him to do anything other than tank

[shell bison]

I respect it, tbh

[west phoenix]

i see this as an absolute win

not igf but making (and maintaining) the interactive landing page and journal has been annoying but rewarding, though there's so many NPCs in igf i cam imagine it becoming overwhelming

[clever cloud]

it would essentially be the same amount of text as my GM notes, and that can be a lot

I'd rather players journal their relationships

[west phoenix]

this is for wallflower but i get to show it off. thanks @zinc topaz. for the interactive part i stole ada's code

[west phoenix]

i like journaling who they are, not any relationship info. you don't need to be reminded of that i hope

one positive with journaling NPCs in igf is that they all(?) have in depth descriptions

[clever cloud]

well, more in-depth than wallflower, that's for sure

[west phoenix]

yeah... 😔

a quick description is all you need imo, like a paragraph. hard to assume players will all take notes. i used to be the note taker but it became too distracting

[zinc topaz]

what's funny is that I made that one and then just used the default canva one for my own game 😭

[west phoenix]

because you love me

[thorn hinge]

I tried to do a background like that once which was two hex grids moving at different speeds but the transparent video on top of another video made foundry take up more power from my PC than many of the games I play

I should try again but with the video layers baked in. The hard part is making it a solid loop tho

[west phoenix]

girl thats crazy lmao

my pc already hates foundry

[thorn hinge]

I am a little bit crazy yes I'm pretty sure this is established lmao

[west phoenix]

me within a minute of an ada game

https://tenor.com/view/overheat-computer-explosion-boom-spark-gif-17323916

[balmy obsidian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGFy5UAiC3g

[thorn hinge]

A little while ago I had my friend Fors (one of Bunzi's players) connect to foundry with her low power laptop and see what it would do on one of my scenes. She reported an fps of 1 and the laptop becoming "concerningly loud"

Then the discord call dropped

[upbeat hemlock]

Hey Artifacter, I'm making a free mission set in Calliope, that will have a section on the icebreaker. Could I put your illustration of the station in it?

[tight pier]

is this supposed to be an igf tweet??

[thorn hinge]

not that I know of! Pretty stunning, really.

[tight pier]

this person has made the perfect igf post

[halcyon swift]

No problem at all! I'm glad to see it come in useful.

[upbeat hemlock]

Odd question, as I want to edit on some locations, what font did you use for your stuff?

[halcyon swift]

I think it was Arimo.

[twilit star]

Waiter is surprised when Business Mogul walks in and speaks in perfect Jerry

[upbeat hemlock]

I think the Shelly envisioned by the OP is rather different from the one we have.

[bitter jetty]

Update, here is their second kitbash, I think they are making vast strides and improvements

[tight pier]

Yeah but that makes it funnier

[robust plank]

ive definitely gone overboard with foundry before... but it works on my machine :joyous:

[shell bison]

[noble ivy]

[bitter jetty]

Still have the players guide by any chance

[dire cloud]

[prime terrace]

@placid sparrow what chapter are you at right now?

[placid sparrow]

We finished the first campaign. Chrz runs it for another group and I added updated the Andros we had before

[prime terrace]

So funny enough Fugo

ive made several tokens for act 1

not just Andros :]

[placid sparrow]

Do you have a drive or something?

[prime terrace]

Ive made ||Bad Star||, ||Two deepest fairyland tokens||z ||Howl||

funny enough right

i made a token for Howl's mech

[placid sparrow]

For sharing? He would love your stuff

[prime terrace]

HOWL'S ACTUAL PLAYER USES IT

[prime terrace]

on it

[prime terrace]

funny enough we're right next to eachother on the spreadsheet

[placid sparrow]

Oh hey that's me. How did I get there 😄

Guess chrz knows of them and added me. Nevermind then. Still huge thanks for your stuff

[prime terrace]

teehee

[prime terrace]

check your dms. i sent the link :]

[placid sparrow]

Thanks

[robust plank]

I made an andros kitbash but only ||chapter 5 version||

here

[zinc topaz]

spoiler tag pls aaaa

[robust plank]

sorry :unjoyous:

[zinc topaz]

pensive 😔

[prime terrace]

holy fucking shit

[prime terrace]

hi yes can i gib monee for an igf blorbo portrait sometime (like the character portraits in the books) 👁️

i need a proper rebirthed-phoebe pic (though artifactor made an absolute banger token of her before thennn)

[clever cloud]

Does anyone, by any chance, have a Slinger with the Hell Hounds livery?

[prime terrace]

No, but im making one as we speak now

how quickly do you need it done?

[clever cloud]

next thursday?

[prime terrace]

o7

[clever cloud]

(ch3) ||with a Golden Hand if you would, please||

[prime terrace]

Oh, so like the ||Thief|| token I made?

[clever cloud]

close, yea. Maybe a reskin of that would be enough for this purpose

[placid moss]

Does anyone know which maps are scaled for Foundry hexes?

[clever cloud]

al's map pack works perfectly on foundry

[placid moss]

Thank you!

[minor solstice]

I was NOT prepared for my players to immediately have the hots for The Blacksmith

[worthy root]

https://youtu.be/6ORbK75WTcY?si=hd4XUPEkt0ZKhO-f

[shell bison]

Lancer players being horny, yeah that checks out

[noble ivy]

-# Pot calling the kettle horny

[shell bison]

[safe glade]

Related note: (technically minor spoilers for Ch.3) In the process of building mood playlists for each chapter of IGF, I found a song that fits the description of ||the song the Burning Forge members are singing in the Blacksmith beat|| so exactly that I'd almost believe it's literally the song being referenced: ||https://open.spotify.com/track/5p2UScFyWs7RcAtZyPR6qx?si=3f804340b71445fd||

[pliant ibex]

y'know, not to aggrandize myself, but- #909574961931362365 message
(WARNING: THIS GOES TO THE SPOILER/INDEV THREAD)

[safe glade]

hah, incredible

[upbeat hemlock]

Related chapter 3 spoiler: ||I suggest Man The Cannons for when the Knights show up||

[west phoenix]

i'm the only one in the party that doesn't think so and we have a lesbian who thinks he is

[dire cloud]

Vex designed the vast majority of their NPCs to be appealing in some way to them.

The notable exceptions are Steele, Capella, and (Act 2) ||Elvorix.||

[clever cloud]

well she failed but alright

[twilit star]

In making them all appealing or making those 3 not appealing?

[clever cloud]

in making the 3 not appealing

[west phoenix]

are you trying to say you find them appealing???

[clever cloud]

Was my statement not clear???

[dire cloud]

Okay. I can imagine the kind of person who would find Capella interesting. If IGF wasn't a third party supplement for a non D&D RPG, he'd have fan girls on Tumblr calling him a "poor little meow meow" despite everything Vex says about him.

I can also, with effort, imagine someone who finds Steele interesting. Musk did find Grimes, after all.

But ||Elvorix||!??

[clever cloud]

I largely jest, but i dug my heels. Im going to change my attractions irl to fit in this hill im about to die on

[west phoenix]

i like capella (not attracted to him) BECAUSE he's not a meow meow

i am sick of poor little meow meows give me the worst person of all time

[twilit star]

No I can see that better than Andros and Steele

[thorn hinge]

I support you in this. Godsspeed, eleonor.

[crude granite]

"Horrible bastard man" is also a character archetype a lot of people find appealing even without the little meow meow effect.

[thorn hinge]

As a wise woman one told me "Just imagine if instead it was a horrible woman" and then it makes sense to me.

This trick doesn't work for (a2)||Elvorix|| but tbh I was on the fence about that anyway. Same with (A2) ||Cordelia||, they're both kinda in and out of my interest. It's possible to be too evil to be hot.

or as another friend once put it "Ada actually has a standard??"

[twilit star]

Says you- Outta the way gay girl I’m boutta get it!

||I’ve just had my death foretold to me and it’s in a few minutes||

[west phoenix]

well as we've learned evil men= bad but evil women= good /lh

[prime terrace]

ive seen this guy on tiktok who's made memes about a "high value male" looking for a female like one of those alpha male podcasts and i think of Steele every time i see them

[pliant ibex]

and to think he was meant to be a parody

[west phoenix]

i think our group is mostly unbothered by steele because of that lmao. if we played when he was originally written he would probably be a lot more impactful

not that he's a bad character its just funny how he was supposed to be overly obnoxious and by comparison he is fairly tame

[safe glade]

We ran into the same kind of thing on the sci-fi audio drama I was involved with, We'd write our evil megacorp CEO (named Preston Jorgensen) doing something venal and stupid, and then the real life version (who I won't name here but whose name will come up if you google Preston Jorgensen) would one-up us before the episode came out

[bitter jetty]

When players gain reserves from a downtime activity that just says they gain a reserve does that mean I assign an appropriate reserve to give them or that they can choose an appropriate reserve to gain

[clever cloud]

either/or. Lancer is a bit loosey goosey with Downtimes, but in general, the players should learn about what they can get before taking their actions. Show them the calliope reserves and the 1st party reserves or whatev and let them tell you what they wanna roll for

[bitter jetty]

Sounds good

[thorn hinge]

also they can come up with their own idea for reserves. they are supposed to tell you what they want and then you use the downtime action rules to figure out how they get it. The ones in the book are supposed to be suggestions and guidelines.

[upbeat hemlock]

sometimes you can also give them surprises

like I got our party lancaster a "JUDAS_IFF_OVERRIDE"

which gives you +1 accuracy to hit your allies for one scene

she was very happy about that

[bitter jetty]

One of the reserve examples is AI assistance which I interpret as that being a card the party has for asking the gm what do you think we should do. I think it would be funny if one of the reserves I give my party is a GOOBLIN-CLASS COMP/CON which will be a little AI with a chibi representation of a goblin as its avatar that when asked for advice I will roll a dice to see whether the party learns some bullshit or not

essentially an ai 8-Ball

[upbeat hemlock]

funny you mention that, one of my groups had a technophile talent that... really didn't help their build at all

so I started using it as an excuse to point out combat stuff they'd missed

[bitter jetty]

Lol

Someone people just want an nhp

[upbeat hemlock]

oh yeah, I get it

[dire shell]

I think this is something I need to work on a bit as a GM because a lot of players would never really care about downtime(specifically the mechanics side of it) or reserves until maybe recently when I had the one player attempt to get smart ammo for her GMS HMG .

I think that's maybe why when I recently read Blades in the Dark I really liked how they specifically listed the freeform play and downtime phases as separate thing

[thorn hinge]

Every lancer player should at least read bitd and see where some of this is coming from.

[clever cloud]

it helped sooo much to understand how to run this simplified system

[dire shell]

Honestly this is my own experience reading BITD .

So much of it feels like it should be in Lancer. I don't even mean dice systems but just... structure etc

I was so mad to read about the heist preparation engagement roll approach of BITD after my players had been through their investigations on the Icebreaker.

I feel that's a structure that could have been so useful for me to know about when my players decided to investigate the bronze gift casino

[thorn hinge]

my players explicitly wanted to do a heist on the casino and I offered to run it BitD style.

Instead they opted for a more scripted sort of thing, where each player knew how their part of the plan would go, but not what it all looked like (except the one player who planned the whole thing with me), and then we played it out less like RP and more like we were all putting on little performances for each other, the story arising out of the separate scenes to become a coherent plan. Managed to nail that "oceans 11" vibe, but it took a lot of prep. Blades is perfect for doing a heist as actual play

[clever cloud]

To me, Bonds are an undercooked merger of two different games. It's awkward. However, i can't run the game without a stress bar anymore. Having, essentially, "inspiration points" used to push through problems has been so refreshing for players and me

[thorn hinge]

I do love stress, and yeah, bonds are a bit underdone imo

[dire shell]

I do have some mixed feelings about bonds because there are some powers like Broker's Spider ability of 'I know a guy' that just neuron activate me but also I have nowhere near enough narrative games experience to compare

[clever cloud]

what i truuuuly find infuriating in a "I Must Redesign This" way is burdens

[noble ivy]

Eleonor's doing her damnedest to make Lancer 1.5 for her games

[clever cloud]

Im trying to make the most minimal, but most rewarding overhaul to non-tactical rules

[dire shell]

Yeah...
They do feel like Bonds' attempt at... BITD Traumas? But also the players-invojed only nature of them kind of mean that's its easy to just... ignore them? Idk.

I also feel that the fact you don't have the Harms/Wounds of BitD is kind of a detriment idk because without them it feels like it's hard to get a player anywhere close to running out of Stress? Idk I don't have a ton of experience

[thorn hinge]

oh, have you seen https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/1494782912988713041

I haven't looked into it deeply yet but what I have seen looks really promising

[west phoenix]

and i thank her for it

the way reserves work encourages you to just take the most overpowered reserves every time because nothing says you can't just take a core battery or some similarly overpowered reserve, so if you haven't seen her system for it i encourage it

[clever cloud]

In case anyone wants to copy my homework

[thorn hinge]

I was just about to ask to see your system (and then my internet dropped for like, 30 minutes -_-)

[upbeat hemlock]

I likewise have mixed feelings about bonds. Some are great (second downtime action, always tell when someone is lying), but a lot are either "background accuracy with extra steps" or "something I'd let you do anyway"

[safe glade]

In fairness, that's true of the BitD playbooks too; everyone has a couple of "you can push yourself to (do something I'd probably let you push yourself to do anyway)" or "when you (do a thing a character like yours would be good at) take +1d" moves

[upbeat hemlock]

That's fair. I'm not sure what I'd replace them with

[limber fossil]

guys possibly hot take but like

[ch3] ||my pilot has met the blacksmith in game for the first time (she's known him before the game started as a backstory thing) and frankly I don't know if this is intentional or not but.||

||why is this brother so fucking annoying 😭||

||yammering on and on about "done doing favours" "look where it's got me" "ask anyone if i've ever gone back on my word" like why is he such an edgelord 😭||

||I couldn't talk to him for more than five minutes my GM just shared the rest of his responses with us after the conversation was done||

||also why the FUCK does he have a brocolli haircut lmfaooooo||

[upbeat hemlock]

okay, so some of that might be a you thing. And some of that might be a your GM thing. [ch3]||half my players desperately wanted to fuck him. But that aside, I think the origin of his edge and what may make him annoying to you is he is consumed by wanting revenge, and rightly so in my opinion, and the only path he has to that revenge is the power he's gotten by his reputation||

[thorn hinge]

he's also a bit dramatic and way, WAY too self important. Dude gets downright petulant about other people not taking his revenge as the most important thing in the universe. I see where Ari is coming from. And I can see where some find him more endearing. I'll acknowledge that he's hot too, if you're into that whole 'men' thing.

I'm a big fan of him as a character but if I was in calliope I'd think he's insufferable. Not that I'd dare say it out loud.

[balmy obsidian]

It's for the people that think evil is hot but also like men, however rare they may be

[tight pier]

Love him as a character, would hate to be around him for more than an hour at a time

[limber fossil]

anzora has said it. multiple times.

she is too old for his shit lmfao

[limber fossil]

may god have mercy on their so- LEO WHAT IS THAT PFP ADINASIUJNMAOAYISDB

[limber fossil]

I"m aware of his backstory and all that but I just find his personality hilarious icl.

idk i find him a bit self centered in a sense, like ada says, his revenge quest and all that

||broski acts like he is the only person in Calliope to have ever been wronged||

||very accurate man behaviour actually||

[balmy obsidian]

I had it last june too

[limber fossil]

bamboozled again

[shell bison]

Lol, lmao even

[west phoenix]

Nah I'm 100% with you

I am a man enjoyer and i did NOT see the appeal. He's also just kind of an asshole and not in the hot way

The party had to keep elbowing Serenity (my PC) to stop us from getting in trouble with him the way she talked so much shit

[limber fossil]

I would have encouraged you 100%

my plan rn is to ch3||get our hackers to fake the footage of us killing whoever the thief is while we explore the footage and stuff for ourselves||

[west phoenix]

We did something similar to that but with like 17 extra steps

[prime terrace]

god i love igf raah

[shell bison]

wild how that is such a constant thing for some groups to fake the evidence for that mission