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saintguard@saintguard· Apr 11

This was both fun and very tough for me. Lots of games I would've loved to have mentioned on here, but alas.

Image titled "About Me: Video Game" with the following list in a 4x5 grid:
Favorite Game - SIGNALIS
Best Story - Disco Elysium
Favorite Art Style - Pentiment
Biggest Personal Impact - Outer Wilds
Best Combat - Halo: Combat Evolved
Overhated - Marvel's Midnight Suns
Underrated - Battle Chef Brigade
Overrated - Red Dead Redemption II
Needs a Remake - Star Wars Republic Commando
Criminally Overlooked - The Seance of Blake Manor
Favorite Protagonist - Tactical Breach Wizards (shoutout to Jen Kellen)
Favorite Antagonist - Doom (2016) (Samuel Hayden, you utter bastard)
Best Soundtrack - Transistor
Best Multiplayer - Titanfall 2
Not Usually My Thing, But... - Hi-Fi Rush (a prime contender for Best Soundtrack)
Turn My Brain Off - Crusader Kings 3
Best With Friends - Final Fantasy XIV
Best Retro Game - Fallout
Nostalgic Childhood Game - Lego Rock Raiders
Game Everyone Should Play - Return of the Obra Dinn

saintguard@saintguard· Apr 6

Moving to a game with no book, it's Oh Captain, My Captain! I had the privilege to play this with some absolutely wonderful people at Big Bad Con. I haven't had a chance to play it since, but one of these days...

Oh Captain, My Captain! by James D'Amato, in its cardbox form. A shadowy 18th century-styled pirate stands behind a ship's wheel, the game's title emblazoned across it. Storms, waves, and nautical paraphenalia surround the shadowy figure.

saintguard@saintguard· Apr 6

The library continues with Apocalype World 2e! I can say with complete certainty that this game changed my entire perspective on RPGs when I read it. I'm ecstatic for 3e as well!

Apocalypse World by Meguey and Vincent Baker. The cover depicts a person wearing a gas mask holding it and looking toward the sky.

saintguard@saintguard· Apr 4

Continuing on with Oops, All Draculas! I picked this up at Big Bad Con and haven't managed to play it yet. Vampires aren't usually my thing, but I am all in on playing some Draculas.

The game booklet of Oops, All Draculas! A woman with glowing eyes, messy curls, and a 19th century dress lies in a comfortable coffin surrounded by flowers over the game's title.

saintguard@saintguard· Apr 4

Next up, Mothership 1e! I was quite excited for the release of 1e and have played a good amount of it since I got my hands on it. The boxed set has definitely helped for running in-person.

The boxed set of Mothership 1e. A dead astronaut with their chest ripped open prominently covers the top of the box.

The contents of Mothership's box set, including the five booklets, a GM screen, and extra goodies like tokens and a patch.

saintguard@saintguard· Apr 4

From Big Bad Con 2024 comes I Have The High Ground! I still have yet to play this, though I have listened to an actual play of it. I need to cross swords with someone!

A woven bag containing I Have The High Ground. Printed on a large tag is the cover of the game, including the names of the creator amd collaborators as well as two individuals with swords and flowing caps standing on platforms across from each other.

The materials for the physical version of I Have The High Ground. Includes the game booklet, dice, and wonderful wooden tokens for the various game actions.

saintguard@saintguard· Apr 4

Next, one of my favorite games, Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands! I picked this up at a PAX East while I was in uni. I had no idea at the time that I would end up writing a game with it at its base.

The physical version of Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands, housed in a plastic book-shaped container. Three anime-style mech pilots stand together on the cover, representing the game's three factions.

The five booklets of the physical version of Firebrands splayed out.

saintguard@saintguard· Apr 4

Starting with the first TTRPG I ever owned, it's Dark Heresy 1e! I read it cover-to-cover and made characters in it, but never actually played it (I played 2e years later). It still holds a place in my heart even though I'd probably never play it at this point.

The core rulebook for the first edition of Dark Heresy, the first Warhammer 40,000 TTRPG. Three appropriately grimdark-looking and armed Inquisitorial acolytes adorn the cover.

saintguard@saintguard· Mar 11

The Seance of the Devil Had to do some fanart for two of my favorite games of 2025. They're both amazing, go play them! #ofthedevil #theseanceofblakemanor

A scene with a limited palette featuring the protagonists of The Seance of Blake Manor and of the Devil. Declan Ward (left), a weathered Irish private investigator with journal in hand who really stepped into the deep end, interrogates Morgan (right), a red-headed cyberpunk defense attorney who definitely isn't hiding some big secrets.

Ward: "Do you believe in ghosts, Miss Morgan?"
Morgan: "Everyone has a past, Ward."

saintguard@saintguard· Jan 19

First art of the year! A redraw of my first art from last year, and a big improvement over the original. #art #signalis #discoelysium

One panel comic featuring Elster from SIGNALIS and Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium. Elster (left) has a hand on Kim's (right) shoulder.
In speech bubbles:
"I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Kim"
"Damn"

saintguard@saintguard· Dec 20

Sister Elster (another digital redraw of a pencil sketch from last year)

A grayscale picture of Elster from SIGNALIS in a nun's habit. Drawn as a SIGNALISxMisericorde crossover.

saintguard@saintguard· Dec 19

Getting back to some art with a digital redraw of the Utena meme I drew last year.

Utena Tenjou and Anthy Himemiya from Revolutionary Girl Utena doing the Tintin Wednesday meme. Utena is on the right, leaning on a table and looking down somewhat despairingly. Anthy is on the left, looking intently at Utena. The text reads:
Utena - "What a week, huh?"
Anthy - "Miss Utena, it's Wednesday."

saintguard@saintguard· Nov 4

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 31 - Apocalypse World (Grayson) Wrapping up this challenge with my first Apocalypse World campaign. Grayson was a Maestro D who ran a diner on an old military base very much divided between its ex-military and civilian trader factions.

Jesse Grayson (she/her), owner and operator of Greasy Grayson's. A dark-haired woman dressed in a long beanie and letterman's jacket leans on a diner counter with a full cup of coffee.

saintguard@saintguard· Nov 4

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 30 - Masks (PC) I've played as well as ran Masks quite a few times. Charli, aka Tremor, was a former villain turned hero who went to Phoenix Academy. She punched a dragon, got forced to betray the team, and saved the world a couple times.

Charlotte "Charli" Liu (she/they), aka Tremor, geokinetic hero and Phoenix Academy student. A teenager with long black hair and red-brown eyes. She's seen in two comic panels. On the left, she wears a black tanktop and looks quite tired as she's just been woken up. On the right, she cracks her knuckles and looks read for a fight. Earthen armor forms around her flannel and black t-shirt while rocks ripped from the ground float behind her.

saintguard@saintguard· Nov 1

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 29 - Stewpot I played this GMless adventurer retirement game about a month ago. Lily was a paladin of the Living God Zarel who retired to become a carpenter and stonecutter at The Wizard's Boot.

Lily (she/her), crafter of The Wizard's Boot and former paladin of Zarel. An elven woman with glowing eyes looks toward the viewer.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 31

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 28 - Apocalypse World (Agatha) Apocalypse World is a game that creates experiences that I can't really get from any other game. Agatha was an investigator who joined up with a boat pilot and an amnesiac to uncover the mysteries of the world. They also became a polycule.

Agatha (she/her), Bloodhound in a watery post-apocalypse. A woman with messy hair in a braid dressed in a long coat and wetsuit leans over the railing of a ship, contemplating.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 30

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 27 - Burning Wheel Burning Wheel is one of the games that inculcated my love for lifepath systems. Vivianne was a lawyer who wrote a constitution for a failed revolutionary state that ended up influencing politics across the setting thereafter.

Vivianne (she/her), lawyer and revolutionary-in-exile. A humanoid woman with headtails wearing a three-piece suit speaks at a podium.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 29

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 26 - Firebrands (Landowners) Some more Firebrands goodness! You can tell how much I love this game. Reverie was a military-type turned hero of the Revolution, while Dox was an ex-mafiosa who learned that maybe there was something more to life than just living for today.

Left: Reverie Salazar (she/her), commander of the 3/25th Arenthian "Party Starters". A buff brown-skinned woman with tied-back red hair and a black tank top sits at the bar with a glass of beer. She smiles and clinks glasses with Dox.
Right: Eudoxia "Dox" Vita (she/her), ex-Martian mafia and captain of Deimos Security Concerns. A scarred and tattooed pale-skinned woman with pale hair and red eyes sits at a bar with a glass of beer. She wears a white dress shirt with rolled-up sleeves and holds a glass of beer in her right hand and a lit cigarette in her left hand. She smiles and clinks glasses with Reverie.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 28

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 25 - The Wildsea I played a one-shot of this flying among giant trees post-apocalypse game earlier this year and would be interested to play it again at some point. Post was a quiet Wordbearer working on the restaurant ship The Tastemaker.

Post (she/her), Mothryn Wordbearer. A moth person with a very fluffy neck ruff stands on the end of a large tree branch.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 26

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 24 - Firebrands (Bantraesh) I adore playing Firebrands both as a one-shot and longform, with my most recent game ending only a few months ago. Matilda was a sidelined heir who became Queen of Bantral, while Nicoletta was a noble of divided loyalties who would leave Bantral.

Left: Matilda (she/they), Autarch Barnstar and pilot of the Sword of Damocles. A tall woman with long dark hair and blue eyes who wears a laurel on her head and a uniform of black and green with silver and gold trim. She rests her right hand on a large sheathed sword and a halo of light glows around her head.
Right: Baronet Nicoletta Salehi (she/they), noble and pilot of the Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow. A slight woman with green eyes and red-tipped black hair wears a gray coat, white dress shirt, red tie, and black pants. She holds a pistol in her right hand and dogtags in her left.
The two look at each other, Matilda looking down with a confident smirk and Nicoletta looking up with an uncertain expression.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 24

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 23 - DOGS Dogs in the Vineyard continues to be one of the most intriguing games I've read, and DOGS does a very good job making it system agnostic. Roci Vilamosa was a phoenix-blooded pyromancer who was recruited as an imperial agent, an Eye of the Empress.

Roci Vilamosa (she/they), phoenix-blooded pyromancer and Eye of the Empress. A golden-skinned woman with red hair and red eyes holds a ball of flame in her outstretched hands, giving off a warm glow. She wears a black choker and red and gold robes cinched at the waist with a dark red sash.

The same picture of Roci, but without the glow of the flame overlaid.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 24

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 22 - Golden Sky Stories It was nice to run something this low-stakes last year. Cha, Koro, Nya, and Poyo were the NPC henge in the town of Kamuiyama, the "rival" group to the PCs who they were mostly friends with.

A picture of four animals in gray shade hanging out together. From left to right: Cha (he/him), a seagull, Koro (she/her), a tanuki, Nya (she/her), a tortoiseshell tabby cat sitting on a box, and Poyo (any), a rabbit.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 23

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 21 - Urban Shadows I've played this PbtA urban fantasy game a few times, but I only played a full campaign of it three years ago. Emma was an Oracle who saw visions of her own death and had an extremely complicated relationship with her powerful benefactor.

Emma Kaufmann (she/they), Oracle. A woman with two-tone hair and a monochromatic goth outfit stands, looking away from a tarot card she's drawn from a deck she holds. The picture is in the style of a tarot card, with a column on either side of Emma, a pentagram behind her head, and a gold border.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 22

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 20 - Eyes on the Prize I've played this game of fake marriage a few times, each in a different setting. Natalya, aka Lady Minerva, was a spy from a sisterhood of spies who entered into a fake noble marriage in a bid to assassinate the Galactic Chancellor.

Natalya Guanyu Kovalova (she/her), aka Lady Minerva Darlington-Whit, spy and fake noble. A light haired woman in a hexagonal-patterned slit dress and shin boots. She holds a half-full wine glass in one hand and a thin knife from a thigh holster in the other.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 20

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 19 - Heart: The City Beneath I played Heart over the course of a year, delving into the nightmare that lies beneath. Ros was a Hound who broke free of the control of her former captors and ended up surviving (relatively) intact from the depths of the Heart.

Roselyne (she/they), better known as Ros, Hound of the 33rd. She is a drow clad in the uniform of the 33rd, a long coat, helmet, trousers, boots and leg wraps. She also wears a scarf around her neck, a backpack, and a revolver at her hip. She wields a bolt-action rifle and leans forward with a sour expression.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 20

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 18 - Imperium Maledictum I GM'd this 40K game last year in a subsector I've been working on on-and-off for a while. Galen and Glentz were guards of a Rogue Trader Dynasty assigned to protect (and test) the PCs, the Rogue Trader's nephew and a tech-priest.

Galen (he/him, left) and Glentz (she/her, right), Grelocke Dynasty Guards. Galen is a dark-skinned man with narrowed green eyes, tight red curls, and a neutral expression. Glentz is a light-skinned woman with hard green eyes, large blonde hair, and a frown. Both wear the bronze-colored armor and blue uniforms of the Dynasty Guard and wield combat shotguns.

The same picture, but washed over with a green overlay mimicking a cogitator screen.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 18

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 17 - Befallen Befallen is a game of obsession, corruption, and eldritch strangeness that I've played a few times. Cass is an ex-noble and Memento, a person cursed to be forgotten by anyone they meet unless they are left with a memento of the encounter.

Cassandra Octavia Montgomery-Harrington (they/she) aka Cass, an ex-noble and Memento. They are an androgynous person who wears a high-collared tunic and their hair short in the back and covering half of one of their eyes. They look over their shoulder with a wicked smirk and manic eyes.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 17

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 16 - D&D 5e I've played and DM'd a lot of 5e since I started playing TTRPGs, it was the first game I ever ran. Yinna was an air genasi wild magic sorcerer and flamenco dancer I played in two different streamed Tomb of Annihilation games six-ish years ago.

Yinna "Blossom of Wind" (she/her), air genasi wild magic sorcerer and flamenco dancer. A woman with pointed ears and long hair in a slit dress and heels floats in the air in the middle of a flamenco routine.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 16

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 15 - Blades in the Dark (The Beacon) The Doskvol Beacon was the name of the newspaper the crew in my last Blades in the Dark game that I GM'd ran. Octavius Netherton was the gruff but caring editor-in-chief of the paper, an established presence throughout the campaign.

Octavius Netherton (he/ze), editor-in-chief of The Doskvol Beacon. A dark-skinned man with salt-and-pepper bear and hair and a three-piece suit stands behind a desk, pince-nez glasses perched on his nose. He has a proofed story in one hand and a stack of newspapers in front of him, while a foggy window is in place behind him.

saintguard@saintguard· Oct 15

#ttrpg #artchallenge Day 14 - Scum & Villainy (Echo) The Echo was a smuggling ship, the name of the ship's AI, and my first GM'd Scum & Villainy game. Yast was a former relic hunter who accidentally bonded with an artifact and joined the crew after they rescued her from a cult ritual.