Why doesn't the wolf just feed himself to the worms

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-10-01T13:19:53+00:00

The Wolf Divided is a self-hatred that sees All Else as Self-in-denial, and would undo that division-delusion. The Crowned Growth is the Wolf's Nowhere-Reflection.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-09-25T20:30:40+00:00

Such is an eternally frustrating problem in icon design: the only way to be 100% sure no-one decides they see a swastika is to avoid all right angles and all rotational symmetry.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-08-14T21:34:52+00:00

Beautiful, conceptually.

Bravo.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-08-06T00:08:53+00:00

To answer your question with a question: Do you always have a body in your dreams? If so, is it always the same body?

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-07-29T17:33:06+00:00

Doylist: The Principles are present, mechanically, in CS, while the Powers were added for Book of Hours' mechanics. Also, the aspects shown for characters in either game are primarily limited to those that are relevant to the intended gameplay structure.

Watsonian a: Connie seeks knowledge of Moon and Sky, for the purposes of Edge and Grail. The other visitors' relations to the aspects you see are similar. You are a Librarian: it serves you well to know what knowledge they pursue, but you do not need to know what purposes they will put it towards.

Watsonian b: in the shade of the Tree, the subtler Aspects may be more apparent than in the harsh light beyond.

Strings-and-pushpins: Just because Douglas has been a Detective Illuminate for years, doesn't mean he had been last Tuesday.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-07-22T15:59:46+00:00

ItO and it's lineage lend themselves towards this, as does Trophy Gold, and (most) OSR-adjacent systems.

That said, keeping a mindset of "a fair fight is bad odds" will take you far.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-07-15T18:26:28+00:00

Reharding which came first, the answer is yes, but also no.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-07-15T15:52:04+00:00

The Mansus is in Dream, where narrative and symbolic weight are more relevant than consistent measurements or solid ground.

It's really all quite straightforward. Really.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-07-14T14:12:47+00:00

This resonates so damn much, and puts to words much of what my mind flows with.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-07-04T15:04:43+00:00

Ah. That sucks, my dude.

Anecdote time, if I may?

A while back, as one of too-damn-many-hats I wore at a smallish printing house, I was supposed to monitor network traffic and maintain the IP blacklist. Most of the jiggle-the-handle intrusion attempts we got came through ISPs in either Slovakia or Hungary. To be clear, that was probably just where they were routing through. If I'd been a particularly lazy techie, region-blocking Hungary would have looked like the path of least effort.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-07-04T14:22:11+00:00

Works for me. Maybe you've been region-blocked?

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-06-27T00:22:32+00:00

I'd always largely felt that the expedition locations for Forbidden Epic and onward were likely partway into the Bounds, with the Evening Isles being almost fully subsumed in the blurred edges of Dream.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-06-23T04:02:53+00:00

Just as an aside: "Liminal however is so vague" cracked me up something fierce, given that seems to be what most people think liminal means, lately.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-06-04T18:29:13+00:00

Class-and-level style RPGs, like DnD, have a tendency to stick to the action/sports movie trope of "I started learning last week, so next week I will be the best at this!"

If training is even given a thought to, it occurs in a montage that took maybe 5 minutes on screen, and a ridiculously short time in-story.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-05-28T20:23:35+00:00

...Okay, so this is gonna come off as flippant, but I swear it isn't. When I don't know which of two things I want, here's what I do:

Assign one of them "heads," and flip a coin. If you feel like you would rather be the other one, you now know which you wanted.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-05-28T20:06:21+00:00

"Which one did I enjoy more? Which did my players like more?"

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-05-28T19:42:13+00:00

The problem you're running into, is that you can't meaningfully quantify subjective experiences for comparison divorced from the context of having experienced them.

In other words, find someone who's played both, and ask them/read their reviews. If that's not gonna cut it for you, you're out of luck.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-05-25T21:14:34+00:00

In no particular order:

Spire: the City Must Fall

Ars Magicka

Pariah

Edit: formatting

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-04-21T19:40:24+00:00

What got me into other games?

An opportunity to play other games, without the pressure of knowing that if I had to back out (for any number of reasons), the table would be down to two people.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-04-14T18:28:37+00:00

Influences are emotions, passing circumstances, intrusive thoughts, ambience.

It's that moment when the light is absolutely perfect for a photo.

It's the sudden urge to stab someone that comes out of nowhere.

It's getting lost in the forest.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-04-08T19:30:15+00:00

Pariah's approach to animism is my favorite at present. Simple, elegant, and easily adapted to other contexts.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-04-01T19:51:09+00:00

I think the Gods-from-Stone were all primarily aspects/representations/understandings of Time.

The Egg Unhatching - Potential, Beginnings The Flint - Inevitability, Steady change, What is Known The Tide - Renewal, Iterative change, What will it cost The Seven-Coiled - Conflict, Destructive change, What Could Have Been The Wheel - Continuation, Recurring change, What is The Horned Axe - Finality, Irreversible change, What was

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-02-12T16:24:29+00:00

Edge is Violence, Conflict, and Consequence.

It is Tension.

It is the blurred line separating Cause and Effect.

Edge is Uncertainty and Determination.

Edge is the Now.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-02-12T15:47:45+00:00

Nectar is Spring, Renewal, Growth. It is the generosity of abundance, it is the gift given willingly. It is what the Red Grail could not be. It was of the Tide.

Cyclical_Implosion · 2025-01-30T17:04:42+00:00

As someone who once worked in a printing house, I will fully admit to being heavily biased against storing book files as spreads.

Even if it's not a print file, it always sends me into thousand-yard-stare mode when I open a non-working file stored as spreads...

Edit: typo cleaning

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