Chasing authenticity

@mynameisnotholly

How wonderful, how marvellous is my Saviour's love for me. Christian, vet, introvert. 20s, UK.

Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

I say shitty not to demean the quality of my work but because it’s less an exercise in good game design and more an attempt to induce paranoid internal conflict that turns into murder (in game of course). It has like three mechanics and one of them actively encourages you to murder the other PCs

Great news!

It’s done

I put like three braincells into this, so if there’s anything about it that outright sucks, uh. Sorry not sorry, L + ratio + let’s use the 1-page restriction as an excuse for any unfun mechanics

“What if there was a game about being a genre-savvy slasher protagonist murdering their way to the role of Final Girl?”

“Sounds cool when exactly does the PvP start”

“character creation”

Earlier this year in art class, I made this secret AroAce pride watercolor painting. The AroAce flag being nicknamed “the sunset flag” was the inspiration. I had tried my best to make it look like a stained glass window using pencils, sharpie, a ruler, and watercolor. I used a hexagon clay cutter as a tracing tool for the sky.

I chose to make the AroAce flag a sunset for obvious reasons.

The Aromantic flag became a palm tree because it had green at the top and the rest as neutral colors.

The asexual flag as the sand is vertical because it would have been squished if horizontal, and the base of the tree would disappear if the black of asexual and aromantic overlapped.

The white on the aroace flag is yellowish to tie the sky and ocean together better, because those being pure white would have looked unfinished. Pure white was ok in the other two because they had black and grey to give the white context.

He gives! Oh, does he ever give!

Pressed down, running over,

Poured into the lap, and when we think it can be no more

He gives it, without end, world without end!

Hands full, arms full, heart full

Stunned by the bounty of the God who lives

Stunned by the beauty of the God who gives;

Sometimes we falter, the burden is too much

But God holds us tight, he holds us up

When our grip seems to fail, his remains

And God gives! Oh! He gives!

we hunt the mighty pasta BEAST

and breadsticks are its BONES

ALFREDO FLOWS inside its veins

its organs are CALZONES

LASAGNA plates its armored hide

and should the hero dare

you'll find the noisome Jaws are strung

with garlic angel hair

The poem is written in common hymn meter (alternating lines of 8 and 6 syllables, usually iambs), so there are many possible tunes you can use to sing it:

  • Amazing Grace
  • Pokemon theme song
  • Gilligan's Island theme
  • House of the Rising Sun
  • O Little Town of Bethlehem
  • Joy to the World

Feel free to add any favorites!

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I've been working on this project for a while and I think it's time to show them off. These are propaganda/health and safety reminder posters for the Office for the Preservation of Normalcy, an organization that deals with the supernatural in a canon I'm working on. I have some lore I'm working on, but these posters will be the main thing that exists for now. The "sample" watermark is because I would like to sell higher-quality printouts and files in the future.

At this stage I'm looking for feedback. How do they look visually? Could a tagline be punchier? Please please let me know what you think.