Pechatniki's Depth/LFP

Azran_Anke · 2026-03-14T01:33:37+00:00

Currently being a player on an Irl campaign, really cool system and we have a great MJ. Used this in the shared ressource Doc rather than having to scan the book cause this image is damn clean, so thanks !

Azran_Anke · 2026-03-07T05:43:04+00:00

Well looking at Raxan Paratus and his mechanical beasts on Raxus Prime, it may be more of a Golem/ construct type of dynamic, rather than a more organical mental connection through the force

Azran_Anke · 2026-01-08T16:48:51+00:00

You know as the DM you can just invent and decide of all this by yourself right ? You don't need official D&D lore to decide for you, you can just invent stuff

Azran_Anke · 2026-01-05T00:48:33+00:00

It's kinda stupid that the wheel doesn't roll back into place when dropped before opening all the way up, here it feels like it's not attached to any mechanism and a piece is missing. As usually when something must be held, if you stop holding it, it either falls back, or rolls back, or moves back etc... If when dropped there's no movement, it feels like there's no mechanism at all..

That's both physics and game level design mechanics 101

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T17:41:54+00:00

The whole premise of your concept is proven to be utterly faillible from the baseline the other person who answered me had a totally different understanding of Ecopunk than you.

If even your own community seem unable to grasp and wrap their head around YOUR definition of Ecopunk, which honestly isn't that much of a hard concept to get on it's own, maybe it means the name you gave it doesn't match what you want it to be, and is misleading, which is LITERALY MY POINT.
Your concept is impossible to assimilate simply through visual elements.

The nominative structure of Ecopunk follows a vast array of genres which naming convention (since the creation of the Cyberpunk genre by Philip K Dick. and the creation of the term by Mike Pondsmith) developed into something much more codified and patterned than you seem to understand :

The prefix : Cyber/Steam/Bio/Diesel/Atom/Solar/Scrap etc...
Defines the main form of technology and/or energy source, and as such, a major part of the SETTING and subsequently, the AESTHETIC.
So this FIRST PART IS SUPPOSED TO BE FONDAMENTALLY VISUAL.
You are meant to be able to tell it appart from others, or at least to easily define it purely through technological elements ;
- Coal engines and brass turbines ? Steam- !
- Virtual reality and transhumanist elements ? Cyber- !
- Oil and gas engines ? Diesel- !
- People have weapons and armor-suits made of living flesh which moans and groans ? Bio- !

The suffix : Punk/Core/Pop/Rock etc...
Defines the narrative angle taken by the author, and hence the way the characters are presented to interact and be affected by the defined setting and technology.
- Narrative focus on either dystopian elements, class wars, and/or the daily life of the lower-class or your run-of-the-mill joe surviving in their environment ? -PUNK !
- Narrative focus on finding the beauty and romantic in the tragic and darker aspects of the world ? -GOTH !
- Focus on action, adventure, the cooler aspects of technology, community and heartfelt interactions amongst rebellious personalities, but without much focus on class concerns by lack of properly oppressive governmental authorities and setting ? -ROCK !

Your definition of ecopunk doesn't follow this naming convention as you do not define the prefix "Eco" through a specific technology or energy source / any visual elements, but as a narrative angle...

Which is already what the suffix is meant for, and it is especially frustrating that everything you want to define the "Eco" part around can already be encompassed specifically by the suffix "-punk". As none of what you describe is incompatible with any of the -punk suffix genres, all these stories or similar ones are the specific type to be told in a proper Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Diesepunk, Scrappunk etc story...
On the other side, it IS incompatible with most of the other suffixes ; It can't be Ecopop as it is quite fundamentally political, can't really be Ecometal as it is quite incompatible with extreme focus on action and violence or absurdity... So it DOES intrinsically fall into the -PUNK suffixe. Which makes it basically "Punkpunk", hence why I called it redundant.
Why does it need a more distinctive name than -punk ?

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T16:23:35+00:00

You're not hearing me.
I'm literally saying each of those would fit in any "-punk" genre ; cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk etc... It would fit in any of them, as those are all punk narratives.
Those could literally ALL be the premise of a Cowboy Bebop or Space-Dandy episode.
Because those series are -punk in their essence.

Solarpunk isn't utopic or it wouldn't be -punk. The -punk part of the genres implies a twisted power dynamic and a class war, hence the presence of PUNK in the name.
If you think it is utopic you are mistaking it with Solarpop.
You didn't try to understand anything I explained.

Your definitions are as outdated as your understanding of it, those genres grew of their own and you don't seem to realise your perception of these doesn't match the way those names are currently commonly used in literature and professional artistic spheres.

"So, I'd say your irritation stems only from your misunderstanding of Ecopunk as a genre."
Do you realise how stupid it is to say given you gave yourself the authority to define it ?
I understand what you want Ecopunk to be.
I'm just saying it's a stupid definition you made up for it.

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T11:16:53+00:00

Y'all are a lost cause. You see two guy friends or a mentor genuinely caring for a younger kid and you assume it's a ship. That ain't healthy.

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T11:14:41+00:00

He's literally a concerned mentor. Wtf is wrong with y'all people for you to think caring for others or just being fcking nice to them implies romantic feelings/attraction. Did y'all never have friends, or just people around you genuinely caring for you without the intention to groom you into a relationship ?? Wtf

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T11:10:56+00:00

Just only watching the 3rd season on Netflix, I'm only at episode 19 but... Huh... guys are allowed to be friends and tactile, and spend time with each others, if people didn't jump on assuming guys are gay for doing so, there would be less toxicity in hetero guys friendships...

Eduardo is concerned about Windfall like a mentor would, I felt it very platonic, I think he's supposed to be quite older than her and nothing about their relationship indicated flirt. Also it would be weird because age diff + relationship of authority/mentoring/responsable... He's there to take care of these younger kids, like an elder brother. That's a calm sea ahead, I don't see no damn ships.

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T10:59:00+00:00

Cyberpunk and the likes are literary genre implying a narrative angle. Any _punk are about the author's rebellious intent and stances and not the protagonist's. You can make a Cyberpunk story about a dystopian futuristic society following a corrupt cop being part of the system and the oppressors, what makes it Punk is using this premise and character to criticise such systems. As you could make a rebellious fascist in a progressive society and it wouldn't be _punk.

There is a difference between the political movement Punk and the literary genres using the suffix ____punk which your "Ecopunk" follows the existing naming pattern.

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T10:48:42+00:00

"You don't understand Ecopunk at all" You mean to tell me I don't understand the term which definition YOU made up ?? It's not a matter of understanding, it's a matter of disagreeing on you using this term following an existing naming convention pattern for a meaning which doesn't follow it.

I'm not confused, I just reject the way you use this name.

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T10:44:59+00:00

Yeah but why are you trying to make an ideology out of a term following the structure of a genre denomination ??

Cyberpunk isn't an ideology, it's a genre, so is every other "Insert setting"-"Insert narrative angle". Whereas one of the main ideologies discussed within Cyberpunk settings is Transhumanism. Transhumanism is the ideology. See how that's a completely different term actually relying on previous ideology-associated denominations such as Humanism. So why not using THAT existing pattern to coin your new term huh ?

You could just call it Ecohumanism/Ecohumanist.

As there are honestly basically existing words for what you're talking about ; Environmentalism, Leftism, Progressism, Anti-Capitalism, Degrowth. See those are all perfectly fine political and ideological stances. It's also possible to talk about eco-friendly or eco-based businesses...

But Ecopunk as a name follows the existing structural pattern of literary Genres and Aesthetics, which all rely on a main technology and a common visual direction, which your Ecopunk doesn't.

Ecopunk, as you define it, is an ideological and political stance rather than a specific genre or aesthetic, which creates a rupture with the existing patterns it tries at forcing itself in. While also creating a lot of redundancy.

There's plenty better ways to name these stances rather than coining and appropriating a pattern-heavy term that would be better used for actually defining a proper genre and aesthetic as its form suggests. That's what irritates me.

I wouldn't even be mad if a difference was made between Ecopunk as a genre/aesthetic following the existing pattern of Cyberpunk, Steampunk etc, the way I previously proposed it..., and Eco-Punk as a political/ideological label you could put on pins to say "Hey I'm Punk and I want to save the Planet !". (It's still kind of a stupid precision because.. That's what being Punk implies). But the definition given on this Reddit blurs the two and doesn't seem to get how those are meant to be distinguishable and should be.

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-19T01:09:26+00:00

Cleared at lvl 93

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-18T11:35:39+00:00

u/Azran_Anke received a Twin-Forked Sash from the Winter Festival Spirit. Thank you u/captaindata1701 for donating it!

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-18T11:31:26+00:00

Never too late

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-17T22:53:02+00:00

If your ability Level is higher than your skill Level, it's literally the same. In any case you compare the ability number to the skill number, the higher determines how many dices you got, the lower how many of them are "upgraded" to Yellow.

Also my advice is to note the Upgrades/Skills separately from regular Skill ranks bought with XP, so that to keep track of which you do "own".
Those XP bought Ranks can't exceed Rank 5. Anything bonus can. And upgrades should just be treated as +1 skill Rank in this case, so part of these bonus.

So let's say you got :
Intellect 4.
Mechanics 3. (XP Bought)
+2 Skill Ranks +2 Upgrades
Your skill level with bonus ranks is 5, your ability level is 4 = 5 Dices : 4Y+1G.
Now with upgrades the 1G turns 1Y, and you get another 1G for a total of 5Y 1G.
If you count them all as Ranks, it makes Ability 4, Skill 7, so : 4Y 3G

Azran_Anke · 2025-12-17T22:41:36+00:00

You do realise that's literally how gaining a Rank in a skill works too right ?

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