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2023 is the year we oppress gamers

@corsairesix

Erin, 27, she/her, white. Video games, TTRPGs, writing.

Hey everyone, since I've got some new follows, here's a little bit of who I am.

I'm Erin, and I write, design, and create layout for TTRPGs. I got my start writing D&D stuff for DMsGuild, and now have branched out into designing my own creations. My three biggest projects are FIRMAMENT, Orphans!, and The Dreaded and the Deep.

FIRMAMENT is an action fantasy tactics game inspired by MOBAs and hero shooters. You play as a Champion of the Firmament, a warrior or mage empowered to fight back against the corrupt magic of Affliction. It's a power fantasy action game, so expect quick action and sick combos.

Orphans! is an all-ages rules-lite narrative-driven game inspired by gothic kidlit. If you loved A Series of Unfortunate Events or The Mysterious Benedict Society as a kid, or you know a kid who does, this is your game.

The Dreaded and the Deep is a play-to-lose nautical terror game. You will die at the end, it's just a question of how long you can last and how you are changed trying to stave off the inevitable. It draws a lot of inspiration from Sunless Sea, so if you like exploring the Underzee, you might like sailing the Dosolti Sea.

You can find all of them on itch.io at Veil's Edge Games.

Okay my sister and I were talking about Exiles comics and I want to ask other people, who would you put on an Exiles team?

They need to be:

1. AU versions of different characters and

2. Mostly X-Men or X-Adjacent

My team would be:

  • Obligatory Age of Apocalypse Blink
  • Leah Williams version of Magik from What If..? Magik
  • Amazon (Elizabeth Guthrie) from a House of G universe where Ma Guthrie is a mutant with the political clout of Magneto
  • Rita X (a mutant version of Ricochet Rita/Spiral)
  • Chamber as a Spirit of Vengeance/ghost rider
  • Penance but it’s the original plan to have her be a mutant named Yvette instead of secretly being Monet St Croix
  • Dig Billy Braddock/Spider-UK up and stick him on yet another multiverse team
  • A version of Tarot that was on the Midnight Suns

Okay my sister and I were talking about Exiles comics and I want to ask other people, who would you put on an Exiles team?

They need to be:

1. AU versions of different characters and

2. Mostly X-Men or X-Adjacent

watched columbo for the first time tonight it was so swag. i like how he doesn't show up for 15-20 minutes. he should get a subspace emissary style freezeframe and nameplate when he makes his first appearance in each episode

I want Vraska and Jace to be lesbian cowboys together so bad

I love Legion of X so far. I love how it doesn’t totally feel like it has a static cast, it’s just Nightcrawler, Legion, and whatever group of gay mutants they can scrounge up on any given day

Cyclops gets such a rough deal man. imagine having brain damage that caused you to uncontrollably shoot laser blasts out of your eyeballs destroying everything in sight that you had to worry about literally 24/7 and also you had to supervise teenagers throwing cars at each other because your father figure and his ex are taking leftist infighting to the streets and also on top of that whenever you show any amount of concern over this situation people are like "jeez what a buzzkill. loosen up control freak. why can't you be all chill and cool like wolverine" meanwhile wolverine is having his amygdala forcibly removed by the us military for the third time this month

Usually the somewhat awkward writing in Midnight Suns is part of the charm, because the midnight suns themselves are all awkward gay twenty-somethings and the stilted dialogue fits.

But despite my best efforts I got to friendship level 1 with Tony Stark and apparently this charismatic playboy’s idea of hanging out was making a bowl of clam linguini and watching me eat it

It’s not presented as like, sharing a meal either. He makes a big bowl of pasta and then presents it to you to eat

I have to assume it’s a fetish because it’s the weirdest thing the game tries to presents as normal social interaction

Usually the somewhat awkward writing in Midnight Suns is part of the charm, because the midnight suns themselves are all awkward gay twenty-somethings and the stilted dialogue fits.

But despite my best efforts I got to friendship level 1 with Tony Stark and apparently this charismatic playboy’s idea of hanging out was making a bowl of clam linguini and watching me eat it

She Baldur in my gate when I- *INCORRECT BUZZER* She Coast on my Sword till- *INCORRECT BUZZER* Call me Misc bc I'm her Boo- *INCORRECT BUZZER* I'm Baaling in the nine hells call me- *INCORRECT BUZZER*

Yeah I’m a ttrpg designer, but if you talk to me about D&D I will look back at you with a gaze best described as haunted and empty like the rotting corpse of a rust belt main street.

If you’re largely unfamiliar with TTRPGs broadly, I will also have a plastic smile on my face as I try to talk about anything else and/or determine if you are open to an anti-D&D rant.

#its like being in a metal band #and every time you mention youre in a metal band someone cheerfully asks “oh like [awful metal band made up of open white supremacists]?“ #and you gotta read in their face whether this is a “theyre the only metal band i know of” or a “theyre my favorite band of all time” #or a “i frequently send death threats to people who mention this band’s infatuation with nazi imagery”

And also, frequently, Varg is there.

RE that last reblog. If you play my games and tell me about it I am eternally grateful to you