Brian Yaksha (He/They)
@brianyaksha
Three-time ENnie Winning Writer & Designer of Sandbox Toolkits. Narrative Designer, Horrorist. Communist.
Finished four pieces today, good lord - rusty. Getting back into the swing of it though. Been too long. Like way too long.
Mucking about with the Rogue Renderer for Duginthroat Divided, as that was part of the stretch goals for Tripura. Its getting there. Need to make the Attribute modifiers of OSE connect to the AC/Saves/HP. You can tell the thing I really care about are the flavorful things.
May 15th to July 30th. 76 days, 156 pages. Done on The Tiger Princess of Treacherous Tripura. Factor in probably 3 weeks of depression, plus that heatwave week, plus 10 days out of the state, a few weekends working conventions. I'm thrilled. Given, additionally, the research I put into things.
It inspired me to shitpost. the choices on the cover alone, Nem. It invoked it of me.
All right, this is coming together as a tool - though basic for now. Important that all the pieces fit at least. Do intend to give like... outputted statblocks a la henchmen, so one can generate PCs with this at an appropriate level. In addition to general crowd population tools. Weighted titles.
Well, there's several things wrong here which I disagree with but I think the biggest one would be their use of chatgpt to ask a question /any/ book could tell them with greater authority, to say nothing of previous cultural consults, to say nothing of just asking a person of any SEAsian experience.
I'm sorry, but you just had a meeting with a war criminal about doing crimes against humanity, and your henchman just laughed about murdering a whistleblower. And this is your car? You're taking your cellphone out in this vehicle which I can only call, as a queer, "a gay little car (derogatory)"?
I've had the fun of putting my take on a few creation myths for Pathfinder; and its fun when we make very conceptual beings deeply weird. I'll never know what happened to one of my drafts, but they DID let me make a weird stillborn dragon deity about quantum potentiality and perceptual reality.
Ringo was a good baby monkey baby boy, even if he was rank and a dingus at times. He's so damn sweet.
Coming down from the mountain, back to San Diego, then flying back tomorrow. It was good to bask in the silence. Also to swim. Been too damn long. Wedding was lovely, times with friends a godsend; but damn I am ready to return home to the filth and swelter of Brooklyn. I miss my normal routine.
Taking off in about an hour. Playing a game of how much clothes I can put on so as to bypass some bogus luggage size situation.
Attempting some last minute chores. I'd...love for my local post office to stop being fucking weird. Like, what was -the- logistic issue that we should know about? A logistic issue, sure. Also picking up the mail is different than dropping off the mail in terms of service - its worded a bit fucky.
First time ConEdison has said: "Hey, we're reducing the voltage going to your area due to the heatwave." I wonder what Times Square looks like right now. Ah yes. I see, I see. Not a problem for me in my place, but also, this right here tells me we're really all in this together. Oh wait. Nope.
Fuck it - gonna brave the inferno; I need some food. Its only 109 out. Haha... ha. oh no.
Ahh - that's mostly been my viewpoint (especially in smaller statline games), giving the individual mien tables. I've found some value in skewing generic but also delineating between humans/animals/monsters. Found this in a draft as a broad set of generalizations, vs the individual miens.
Put on "Falling Skies" in the background while I work, and goddamn - this is just XCOM by way of the Walking Dead. Neat! Also baby Doctor Robbie looking like a skeezy smuggler. Love that.
Hey @amac.bsky.social , which gundam does this mean I get? The rhombus?
I've been given little else to talk about this weekend, but its good to feel seen.
Yeah, the doctor-assisted suicide one has some nuance to it that gets reduced on the actual chart - but we don't seem to be seeing the questions for those questions. Curious metrics.