Traverse Fantasy

I've been working in a pride org at work to advocate for a better understanding of health benefits for trans people and more representative, humane language for trans people in general. I've been blessed to not have had to deal with much bullshit in my life, but nowhere have I dealt with as much bullshit than from: consultancy firms who ask for millions of dollars to misrepresent trans people's experiences and throw them under the bus for political convenience; HR demons who invoke those consultancy firms to speak over actual trans voices; and gay people who already got their bag and want to retire to drag brunch for ever and ever, amen. I'm tired of this shit. I'm irritated that conservatives, liberals, and leftists alike willfully misunderstand our experiences. I'm angry that this 'misunderstanding' is the ideological foundation of how society mistreats trans people . Correcting the misunderstanding will not correct the mistreatment; rather, the misund...

Thank y'all so much for y'all's interest in the last one! Will respond when I can, just preparing for a (nice) busy week and weekend :) in any case, yep... they're back ! Been using them. Just slightly different. Bracket Hearts Power Aptitude Defense Speed Grunt 2 1 +1 11 3 Elite 4 2 +2 12 4 Champ 8 3 +4 14 5 Boss 16 4 +8 18 6 Minion* 1 1 +0 10 2 To translate each of the columns: Hearts: How much damage they can take. Power: How much damage they can deal per turn, possibly split into multiple attacks or spent on special effects. Aptitude: Attack bonus, or more generally for D20 checks if applicable. Defense: Roll against for D20 checks to attack. Speed: Initiative score to beat . Then, you can quickly build encounters by spending heart budgets on opponents (hold off on minions): Difficulty Heart Budget Easy 1/PC Medium 2/PC Hard 3/PC Deadly 4/PC Having used this to plan sessions an...

Procedure? I hardly know her! Harharharharhar. Travel, exploration, combat. That's what we're talking about. Wait, what's this? DISCLAIMER The author wrote this article out of her interest in this hobby, and also to synthesize this with her other interests in literary, mathematical, or political theory . Any criticism in this article was written in pursuit of that interest, and it is not intended as ammunition in factional disputes nor as a personal denouncement of the individuals whose works are being criticized. The author also has no interest in petty arguments on any topics discussed in this article. What the fuck? Anyway. Art by Norn Noszka !! Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah The word ‘procedure’ is interesting in that became a sort of buzzword for marketing rulebooks without people necessarily agreeing on what the word meant or referred to. Some held the notion that ‘procedure’ referred to the discursive, non-written structures that which encode how a table interacts wit...