Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!

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Ennie Award Winning TTRPG design and writing. anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io and Wrote Girl Frame and Most Bloody Devotion Available for freelance writing or editing. work email: ruebsaatisabelle@gmail.com

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Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· 9d

Raining inside at the Omni severin

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· 22d

"Combat doll slice-of-life chubbos-like forged in the dark" sounded like such a deranged sentence 72 hours ago

CLEANING THE HOUSE
>In which the DOLL cleans up.
FOCUS: The doll desires to… (pick 1-5)
Sweep up dust.
Clear out overgrowth.
Fix a broken window or door.
Repaint the walls.
Wear an apron.
Reorganize the furniture.
Get rid of the pests.
Be satisfied with its work.
Make things nice enough to invite someone over.
SCOPE: Hours, days, or weeks.
QUESTIONS
How does it look when all fixed up?
What is made nicer than it’s ever been?
Does the DOLL feel satisfied afterwards?
Will the DOLL give up before she is finished?
What is still dirty, and likely will be for a good while yet?
What old object does the DOLL find, and what does she do with it?
What will be thrown out forever?
OPENING HER UP
>In which the DOLL tears open another DOLL’s chassis.
REQUIREMENT: Another DOLL.
FOCUS: Violently opening up another DOLL and ripping through her internals, or having yourself opened up in the same way.
SCOPE: Minutes
REWARD: +1 to +2 scrap.
QUESTIONS
Where is victim sensitive?
Where can the victim feel nothing?
What makes the best rents?
What does the attacker tear out?
What part is the attacker looking to take for themselves?
What do the exposed wires most resemble?
Can a DOLL feel pain?
What does the attacker put inside the victim during the attack?
What state is The victim left in at the end of it all?

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· 27d

A Most Bloody Devotion has been doing quite well (around 200 copies sold in the first 10 days!!), so I'm writing some more classes and doing a small layout update to make the game pop a bit more

River-Wife
An unearthly woman, driven from her home beneath the streams by the stench of blood in the waters.
Truths
You speak the language of all creatures of the river: fish, otters, fishermen, playing children, and herons.
Any man who tries to imprison, constrain, or keep you from the water will know your Grief — a form of Claim that drives men to weeping, terrible, and mindless obsession.
You know in your heart that you will someday flee all of this and return to the rivers, and none shall ever see you again.
Trappings
A silver fishhook stuck in your flesh. It bites deep into your thigh, and the barbs make it near-impossible for you to remove.
The Devotion of the rivers, which will never harm you.
2d6 silvers and a reed-woven basket, scavenged from the muddy riverbed, as well as a raw fish that will provide a day’s meal.
Claim
A fisherman has your Grief, and he hunts you with his meagre means.
You spied on another PC from the waters, seeing them in their secret moments, and they have your Devotion.

Doomed Princess
An ill-fated woman, claimant to the throne yet with no power to take it. The ghost of the axe has been upon her neck since the death of her father.
Truths
You have a rightful claim to the throne, through kingly will, legal technicality, or happenstance.
You have no support from among the noble houses. They seek your summary execution.
You are, in truth, still a girl, although none will recognize that until they see you broken and weeping, at which point you will gain their Devotion.
Your fate is to be on the executioner’s block before you are married. Coincidence will always conspire to whisk you away from other ends.
Trappings
A small collection of books in a case, covering a variety of academic topics.
A mourning veil, from your father’s funeral.
A simple black dress and a ring worth 1 gold piece.
Claim
You owe a Debt to your maidservant who snuck you out of the palace, though you know not if she even lives.
You owe another PC a Debt, for they took you under their wing and hid you when soldiery came looking.

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· 29d

I said I wasn't going to scope-creep A Most Bloody Devotion but I wrote like 5 classes yesterday soooo

Red-Cloak Waif
An unwanted girl, dressed in bright red and sent out to be sacrificial bait for the monsters that lurk in the woods.
Truths
Your fear has a tangible scent and weight to it, and if you are terrified out of your mind no beast or hungry man can resist the urge to indulge.
You are wary, and always know when a monster prowls nearby before you see it.
You find yourself often too afraid to speak aloud in crowds, and must whisper in a trusted friend’s ear.
Should you be devoured entire, whatever eats you will find their strength increased tenfold and all their wounds healed, and you will have their Devotion forevermore.
Trappings
A red-hooded cloak, visible from a long ways away and full of pungent smells which drive off lesser beasts and attract greater ones.
An axe, plundered from a hunter’s body, too large to swing.
3d6 stolen silvers and 1 day of rations.
Claim
The hunters who used you as bait never found your body, and so they claim Stewardship over you still.
Another PC rescued you from a monster, and you trust them more than anything in the world. They have your Devotion.

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Jul 10

Continuing to check out some of this season's anime: Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games is REALLY good. The two faces lesbians have:

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Jul 6

Slowly creeping up on tom bloom to take over the top 10 selling on itch

The top 10 selling page on itch: Lancer, Cairn, Games for Freaks Issue 4, Grl Frame, Apothecaria, Last Tea Shop, Operation Solstice Rain, Koriko: a Magical Year, A Most Bloody Devotion, Cartograph

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Jun 23

Got the full class list for my #OSR game "A Most Bloody Devotion" and I'm really happy with the spread

1d20
Class
Gender
1
Black Dog
Man
2
Blessed Corpse
Woman or Girl
3
Carrion Mother
Woman
4
Crypttender
Boy or Girl
5
Deserter
Man or Boy
6
Devil’s Whore
Woman or Girl
7
Fair Princeling
Boy
8
Houndmaster
Man
9
Kingsguard
Man
10
Lostgirl
Girl
11
Mad Occultist
Woman or Man
12
Maidservant
Woman or Girl
13
Massacre-Picker
Boy
14
Puppeteer
Woman
15
Rabid Strigoi
Woman or Man
16
Saint-Stricken Nun
Woman
17
Spiderkept
Woman or Girl
18
Treasured Daughter
Girl
19
Twice-Burned Maiden
Woman or Girl
20
Widow
Woman

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Jun 22

This is an example of what the pointcrawl creator generates. I'm quite pleased with it, I think it does its job pretty well

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Jun 8

I simply wish more people would reflect on why they
are gutting a trans woman's game of it's meaning
until it's hollow. Until it's deemed "safe enough" to
play.

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 30

I and many others subscribe more to his second way of looking at it. This describes genres as closer to how they actually form - works inspiring works. Like-and-like, rather than like-an-ideal. Genres don't exist. What we have are works that defined the genre

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 30

@lumpley.bsky.social was talking about this on the dice exploder discord recently and less recently in his excellent series on pbta lumpley.games/2021/05/24/p... . Essentially, our classic conception of genre is sorta like this. Genre is a platonic ideal which works exist in relation to

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 29

One of the classes in A Most Bloody Devotion, my OSR game, is literally a corpse. Not undead or a ghost. You're actually just a dead body that's so pretty everyone wants to worship it

Blessed Corpse
A dead woman or girl, revered in life and revered again in death.
Truths
You are a dead body, with all that entails. You do not rot, but you are truly dead, and cannot move or act upon the world directly.
All who touch your bare skin with a gentle hand find themselves devoted to you.

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 28

Girl Frame 2.0 is almost done and was def a bit of an ordeal. I'm not sure exactly how much I wrote but the game is 20 pages/4000 words longer but it's actually way way more than that because I rewrote almost everything (or at least touched it up a bit)

Every basic play, Girl, and Frame rewritten to some degree or another.
Many clarifications and wording updates in the basic rules
A new basic play ‘Engage the Enemy’ added, splitting what was previously All Out Assault into 2 separate plays.
A new mechanic where the Handler gets additional plays depending on which Girls and Frames are in their Cadre
An explanation of the difference between Soft Plays and Hard Plays added to the Handler Plays section.
Each Girl now has a unique set of starting identities.
Clarification on how status works for NPCs added to play advice.
Added a segment to the Gorgon section on how to expose cores
Added a set of Situational Plays
Added a previously patreon-exclusive Handler, the Ally
Gave each Frame a way to gain Permissions at the end of each mission

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 25

I've been working on an OSR game about gender and cannibalism recently as a side project from Girl Frame. This class lets you tell people to bite you and they have to

Treasured Daughter
A merchant’s girl, gorgeous beyond compare and beloved by all, fleeing her obligations.
Truths
Your hand in marriage is highly desired, and any man would kill for the chance to be your husband, or brawl for the chance to touch your body.
You know your numbers better than any would expect, and can do complex calculations in your head very quickly.
Should you bare your neck at someone, they will feel a great urge to put their teeth around it and claim you as theirs.
Trappings
A stolen horse, a proud and well-kept mare.
A well-made satchel, a bedroll, a tent, a sewing kit, and enough food to feed five people for three days.
Your father’s trousers and a wide-brimmed cap, to hide your girlhood from passing eyes.
3d6 silvers your mother kept hidden under the bed.
Claim
A hungry nobleman claims stewardship over you and rides to catch you, although the rest of the world waits to see if his claim is true.
Another PC tutored you, and you owe them a debt for it.

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 20

Jigsaw, a wheel, and an open door. Jigsaw is saying "Hello OSR designer, in this Saw Trap, there is a wheel in front of you. Your challenge is to leave the room without reinventing it. It works fine. It's a perfectly good wheel. The door is unlocked."

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 20

Might be one of my favourite plays I've written for #GirlFrame. Continuing with the " #mechsploitation micro-smut fics" style of design

Conditioning
When you’re taken in for reconditioning, ask who’s training you. If they’re an NPC, roll with +1. If they’re another Girl, roll with +2. If they’re a Handler, roll with +3. Roll an additional +1 if you have less than 4 Identities.
On an 8-10, your trainer chooses 2. They may choose each one multiple times, and you will work together to describe the scene as a Conversation.
Bright, flashing lights and droning sounds. They replace an Identity of their choice with one of their creation..
Teaching you who you are, filling you up with themselves. They can give you up to 2 Identities in empty spots.
Footage of yourself. They make you embrace up to 2 Tags, replacing Identities of their choice.
Simple, repetitive pain, for hours. They can make you Helpless with a word until you successfully disobey them.
Drowning, cold: dulling sensation, emptying you out. They erase 2 of your Identities.
Drugs and pheromones until you don’t know who you are. Gain an Intense Bond with them and weaken your Bond with everyone else they choose.
Surgery and blood. They can excise one of your Girl Assets, and give you a new one if they like.
Hurt you, just for fun. They can give you a Tag.
On an 11+, as an 8-10, but they choose 3.
On a 7-, as an 8-10, but they choose 1. After all of it, you can write yourself a new Identity that you’ve clung to.

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 19

Making one of these for my people

XKCD 2501 but it's the girlfriend of my girlfriend is my friend, I'm sorry did you say street magic, and we are but worms

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 15

Probably gonna try and have #GirlFrame 2.0 done in the next 2 weeks. Oral Fixation advancement

Just a Nibble
So long as you’re not Ravenous, when you Eat someone, you can instead choose (even on an 11+):
Place your teeth on them gently, holding yourself back. Deepen your Bond with them. If you rolled an 11+, you become Helpless against them for as long as a part of their body is inside your mouth.

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 8

Got my first tattoo finished! I think a total of 12 hours of appointments? Insanely happy with it

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 5

Making some adjustments to existing plays as well (new play for the stim-blissed)

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 4

The best part about writing Girl Frame is that I can just kinda write smutty #mechsploitation micro-fics and turn them into game mechanics

Lobotomy
When you give a girl experimental brain surgery, describe the room, her restraints and your tools, and then choose 1-3.
Remove all her memories. Reset her Identities back to her starting 4, and then erase 2. Tell her to describe her breathing.
Remove her ability to roll one of her plays. Tell her to describe what her eyes look like as you approach with your tools.
Remove her name. You may give her a new one to replace it. Tell her to describe the sound her skull makes.
Remove all her bonds. You may give her any bond you like with you and up to 1 other character Tell her to describe her tears.
Implant a new memory in her head. Describe it. Give her a new Identity based on it. Tell her to describe the expression on her face as you pull your tools out of her.

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 2

Also I found the criticisms of queer/kink culture and submissiveness exceptionally funny and ironic in how they relate to the mechsploitation community at large. 10/10, absolutely hilarious and biting Also I annotated it

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 1

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· May 1

Reading warhound for the first time on a double-dose of progesterone so we'll see how this goes 🥰

Discord message in the Girl Frame discord saying "starting a Warhound text liveread/annotation session on the hour mark (in 20 minutes) in ⁠Warhound Liveread, come hang out!
Also this is my first time reading the book
And I took a double dose of prog last night"

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Apr 30

Gonna be doing my first readthrough of Warhound by @kallidorarho.bsky.social on my discord at 11 AM PST tomorrow, if people want to come hang out and chat about it! I'll be sharing my thoughts and annotating it as I go

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Apr 22

One of the rebels from this update

ABYSSAL ACOLYTE Rebel
You’re a Void-drunk junkie of the Abyss Chasers. One of the fanatics who hunts down Voidspace rifts, captures Harpies, and worships them even as you lick blood from their flanks. You call them goddess and carve them to pieces.
Your pleasure is the only thing that matters.
Assets
Pick 2 Girl Assets and detail them.
Devotee Lenses
Girlcatcher
Ripped-Out Link
Sharp Knife
Worship Rod

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Apr 21

Was going to release a Girl Frame update today but itch's edit page decided to replace all its text with ...

The itch pricing page, but all the text is ellipses rather than text

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Apr 21

“Captured by Rebels” play I’m experimenting with for #GirlFrame #Mechsploitation

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Apr 18

Got my tattoo like 70% finished. First tattoo ever and a 10 hour session (ow), finishing it next month

Isabelle Ruebsaat won an Ennie!@anxiousmimicrpgs· Apr 14