Anything heistlike? I want to ocean eleven with my friends.

oldearthaccretionist:

yarndarling:

morkaischosen:

prokopetz:

Fun fact: did you know that the television series Leverage has an officially licensed tabletop RPG?

It’s based on the Cortex Plus system (which probably doesn’t mean anything to you if you aren’t already an indie game nerd), but it’s heavily customised for the heist genre. For example, instead of a fine-grained skill system, each character has a rating in each of the broad roles that make up a heist team: Grifter, Hitter, Mastermind, etc. Likewise, rather than just being able to declare helpful details, the game’s Plot Point mechanics have provisions for declaring a flashback scene when confronted with a sticky situation to
retroactively

explain how you’d planned for precisely this eventuality (because, you know, your character is Just That Clever).

And, of course, you get official stats for the whole Leverage crew and scenario writeups for every episode of the first two seasons, which is a nice bonus if you’re a fan of the show.

I love the idea of building flashbacks like that into a heist game – it’s much better for making the experience of play more like heist fiction than actually doing a heist.

@mnemmy

I’ve heard good things about the leverage rpg but haven’t got my hands on a copy.

As another suggestion Blades in the Dark is very neat. It has a default darker tone but also has a flashback mechanic that plays really well with heists as well as group actions that really make teamwork… work.

It’s designed well to make you feel like you’re playing the plucky underdog. You have everything stacked against you but you are competent and get stuff done. (Basically the stats work out that you can succeed with a complication or cost generally half the time even with skills that aren’t your specialty)

For it to feel oceans-eleven-like remove the supernatural bits and get rid of/modify the vice mechanic. This is exactly what i’m experimenting with to port the Seattle bootleggers into.

@asynchseedling @damnfool-of-a-took I have a mighty need

dare-i-say-asexual:

dare-i-say-asexual:

dare-i-say-asexual:

i just walked past the apartment beneath mine and through an open window i could hear my downstairs neighbor crying faintly while the song jolene played in the background and im just like… bitch are you okay…?

I actually ended up going back downstairs to check on her and brought some leftover cookies I baked this afternoon. she’s very sweet and going through a Breakup Mood™️ after being cheated on. she’s coming over to my gf and I’s annual bad movie night on Friday and she even let me pet her cat named Clarence

my gf thinks it’s funny but very fitting that our downstairs neighbor was able to summon a concerned lesbian just by playing jolene while crying about being done dirty by a man

cipheramnesia:

jenroses:

Have I told y’all about my husband’s Fork Theory? 

If I did already, pretend I didn’t, I’m an old.

So the Spoon Theory is a fundamental metaphor used often in the chronic pain/chronic illness communities to explain to non-spoonies why life is harder for them. It’s super useful and we use that all the time.

But it has a corollary. 

You know the phrase, “Stick a fork in me, I’m done,” right?

Well, Fork Theory is that one has a Fork Limit, that is, you can probably cope okay with one fork stuck in you, maybe two or three, but at some point you will lose your shit if one more fork happens. 

A fork could range from being hungry or having to pee to getting a new bill or a new diagnosis of illness. There are lots of different sizes of forks, and volume vs. quantity means that the fork limit is not absolute. I might be able to deal with 20 tiny little escargot fork annoyances, such as a hangnail or slightly suboptimal pants, but not even one “you poked my trigger on purpose because you think it’s fun to see me melt down” pitchfork.

This is super relevant for neurodivergent folk. Like, you might be able to deal with your feet being cold or a tag, but not both. Hubby describes the situation as “It may seem weird that I just get up and leave the conversation to go to the bathroom, but you just dumped a new financial burden on me and I already had to pee, and going to the bathroom is the fork I can get rid of the fastest.”

I like this and also I like the low key point that you may be able to cope with bigger forks by finding little ones you can remove quickly. A combination of time, focus, and reduction to small stressors that can allow you to focus on the larger stressor in a constructive way.

resonance-of-libra:

tarotgram:

resonance-of-libra:

iwouldliketobutteryourmuffins:

this is the arrow of destiny. reblog this and see what comes up next. this person/saying/thing will have something to do with your future

I literally reblog this every time. It’s my job as a diviner.

Lol yes, how can we not???

Ok like this comment is the one that goes around now and constantly hits my dash and I can’t scroll past it a without being a fucking liar so here it is guys. Again. Every time.

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