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MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· 28d

10,000 swords against heaven gaming tonight. they set up a three point kamen rider kick to punt a biomech zombie into an exorcism empowered shrine and smashed it into smithereens i think this game is good + lore accurate memes

the ten trillion dead communists underlying
existence (and the internet) when you keep clocking in to work

walter white screaming saying: IT HAS TO BE THE REVOLUTION!
UNTIL THE HUMAN IS HUMAN!

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· 29d

out of context 10,000 swords against heaven memes by hiver from out chat

tired yuta okkotsu saying "you fucking commies?"

kazuya with a gun saying "YOU'RE AN UBER COMMIE?!"

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 18

the newest version has new Sect art, a new dice system, some modified combat rules, and a whole slew of new Art. the rules reify the "streamlined simulationist" design philosophy, as 10k Swords considers games like Exalted, Fading Suns, and Artesia its ancestors

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 17

it can be used for tag teams, for reversals, for counters, roman cancels, combo extenders... LIQUID STEEL ULTIMAVIOLENCE has been described as closer to being a Fighting Game or even smth like YOMI Hustle than a traditional turn based affair

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 17

the core of 10kSWORDS' battle system is the INTERRUPT. since battle progresses through Actions instead of Turns, anyone can take their Action by interrupting another person. but this means you won't be able to act later down the line

At any point during someone's Action, another Combatant else can spend their Action to perform an Interrupt. The original actor cannot interrupt themselves.
The Interrupt happens at any point in the Action, as chosen by the Interruptor.
Can only use 1 Action to React. Never 2 or more.
If two or more combatants want to Interrupt the same Action, they must make GAMBLE: all that wish to interrupt must roll d6. The highest roll gets to Interrupt.
An Interrupt can itself be Interrupted. The second Interrupt happens at any point in the 1s Interrupt, as chosen by the Interruptor. The cascade ends there: no one can Interrupt the 2nd Interrupt. Tre can only be up to 2 Interrupts.
Resolve the Actions according to the Cascade: 1st Interrupt → 2nd Interrupt → Action
Some uses of this include...
+ Interposing one's self in between an ally and an opponent to take their attack or block it for them.
+ Another person interrupting to make an Attack at a target's hand or weapon to weaken their incoming attack.
+ Attacking an incoming attack to parry it.
* Applying a magick barrier to someone right as they're hit by an attack.
If the target of the original Action is no longer a valid target, the Action still goes off but hits no one. Essentially wasting the attack.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 17

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is Dark Science Fantasy Xianxia TTRPG about playing as Wanderers organized into revolutionary Sects (which act similar to FF Jobs) toiling, surviving, and committing ultraviolence against Heaven www.patreon.com/makapatag/po...

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 7

EMPTINESS IS THE VIOLENCE OF ENTANGLEMENT. FIND US IN THE PLACE GOD CANNOT TREAD. THE MENDICANT SECT for 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN, the dark science fantasy xianxia #TTRPG

MENDICANT LAYOUT SPREAD FEATURING RAXRI UTTARA FOR 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 6

made a funny cheeky thing of this over on ig reels using the marathon alpha cinematic

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 5

SWORD DIALECTICIAN for 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN, the Skull-On-Pavement Cultivation RPG www.patreon.com/makapatag/po...

SWORD DIALECTIICAN
THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS WITH A SINGLE STEP

WIELD SWORD DIALECTICS
POLITICAL POWER GROWS OUT OF THE EDGE OF A BLADE
THE PEOPLE'S SWORD AS THE WORKER'S WEAPON

A Sect arising from revolutionary theorists and professional revolutionaries who wielded the blade that flensed not just the Body but also the Mind.

Their Sword Art, SWORD DIALECTICS, is all about the unity of opposites, the cutting of duality, the negation of wounds, and the sublation of cutting.

Every cut has its negation. Feared for its vaunted double movements: each attack followed up by its own negation, each defense followed up by its own negation.

Job Prospects: professional revolutionary, philosopher, mercenary, assassin, spy, fight club fighter, fencer

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 4

hey gang if you don't alr know you can buy a bunch of award winning games and some adventures for them in the summer sale over on my itchh. its got dark metal horror fantasy, technomystic mecha, and sitan hunting and a legacy version of the porcelain period southeast asia rpg

itch steam sale featuring my games karanduun, maharlika rpg, and a legacy version of gubat banwa

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 3

its social play system is inspired by SMT's Demon Negotiation system blended into OSR reaction rolls. i didn't want to make a social system that makes a minigame out of social interaction or persuasion, but rather, something that lets you influence it sycnhronically across play

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 3

more importantly, you can interrupt your ally's actions as well to set up some crazy team combos! so much of the playtesting in the combat in this game has led to so much emergent team combos that were contextual on their environment and it was great

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 3

the game is focused around breaking apart the opponent team's defenses by interrupting. it is important to note that in this game there is technically no action economy: you get 3 actions and there's no action list for it. every action is an "improvised" action

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 3

the game's design philosophy is like a mashup of OSR realism and Exalted abstract simulationism. its combat system is dedicated to modeling RWBY/Dead Fantasy style combat that at low Levels start out relatively deadly, but lengthen into anime pugilism as you gain power

EXAMPLE RULINGS AND INTERCESSOR CONSIDERATION SPREAD

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 2

10,000 swords against heaven is like if D&D was good* *was southeast asian and marxist-leninist and kung fu cultivation and cosmic capitalist horror but also set during the heat of death of the universe after innumerable past celestial communist societies invented what is essentially Qi

10,000 swords against heaven alt cover featuring wanjo against a psychorealist backdrop

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jul 1

one of the Sects you can gain Licenses (Ability packages) from in this game is the Immanent, which are essentially Hegelian White Mages

spread for the immanent: The Sect of preservers,
protectors,
and reconstructors of the here and now,
as opposed to the destruction and equilibrium of Eschatonians. Often considered White Sorcerers. Taught by the Lazuli Enlightened One to his illustrous disciples. creating the first sect of Metta Wizards. Metta means: Loving-Kindness.
Magick Healing targets Health-that is to say, the Inner Sidhi. The Life Force of a person. It does not regrow lost limbs or impaired functions, only the vivacity of a person. And so, surgeons, prostheticians, and other medical professionals are still required for more specific healing jobs.
Their main job prospects are as medics, shrine maidens, healers, doctors, nurses surgeons, and physicians.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

meditations on liberalism and its hegemony, the farce of democracy which is in truth dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and the social dishonesty of liberalism as an ideology of democracy when in truth it is an ideology of the objectification of humanity

Under liberal hegemony, it is better to say: “Murder The King!” and “Kill God!” This is because the bourgeois have captured them, turned them into their own weapons, wielded them to cow and control the working class.

To say: “Murder the bourgeois!” and “Seize The Means of Production!” makes most liberal spaces awkward. Because it is the bourgeois liberals that are in power, and to say such things is to challenge Reality once again.

To even hint at the necessary violence that will arise in the fight to seize the means of production and the ultimate emancipation of humanity will have you ostracized, alienated, kicked from your place in the liberal social ladder of power, and be branded a Fascist. Or at least, fash-y. It is not their character or nature, no: it is structural necessity. The bourgeoisie hand political power to the fascists if it meant the preservation of their property.

Under liberal hegemony, humanity becomes an object.

Take heed: liberals will call you a a monster and continue to fabricate fabulisms of you. The liberals will reduce you to nothing but an atom, to strip you of power.

But it is the atom—shaped into the sword of history, tempered by the fires of theory and the hammer of organization—that pierces the Eldritch God Maw of Capital.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

Arise, ye prisoners of Spirit! Awake, ye scorned of heaven! The keys to our emancipation lay before us, we must only needs seize the hammer and shatter these chains! Until all the hells are empty, until all beings are free!

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

It is a game inspired by the struggle of the Global South interconnected with the broader struggles of the working class across the world.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

It is a game inspired by cosmic horror and alien-occult apocalyptic fiction of the 90s and early 00s: Shin Megami Tensei, Digital Devil Saga, Neon Genesis Evangelion, NieR Automata, Marathon, and so on.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

It is a game inspired old Weird Fiction (Perdido Street Station, Ashton Clark Smith, Neuromancer, Lord of Light, Book of the New Sun). By Kung Fu Films (Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain, The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2, Ip Man).

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

everyone can spend Actions to Interrupt another, creating a brutal and kinetic cascade of blows akin to RWBY or Dead Fantasy, while at the same time serving as a point of tactical reads and anticipation.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

The combat rules are semi-turn based. Inspired by Fighting Game mechanics and Kung-Fu/Silat Films. They move thorugh Actions, count in Ticks (but isn’t really Tick-based), and emphasize Interrupts—

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

It has a sleek core resolution system, rules for SMT--like social play through leverage and disposition, rules for discovering knowledge through exploration called Clarity, rules for dungeons, and rules for the most intensified moments in the cosmos: Violence.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

Game-wise it is a game of struggling to gain and maintain power. To gain a fighting chance, you must navigate the Martial Underworld, which is pincushioned by Sects. These Sects function like Classes—they grant social position, abilities, and skills. That is to say, they organize you.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 30

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a science fantasy spirit cultivation RPG about Cultivators struggling against unfair heavens seized by the Bourgeoisie. The setting is a technogothic weird realism xianxia nightmare at the Heat Death of the Universe, where life force is hoarded.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 26

the aswang sect is made up of murderers, assassins, flesh eaters, perverse devils, and wicked witches. their magick is all about harnessing death and grotesquery itself, until this very death shapes life. for 10,000 swords against heaven patreon.com/makapatag

once there was a virgin…
whose knife was buried deep into her womb…
The Aswang Sect prizes its assassination arts over all. Considered the most antinomial, they are named after demonic liver eaters in the Archeprimval Urdic cultures who sailed the Starsea. These shapeshifting living cancers perfected the art of Death—corpse consumption, life-draining, and night movement. Aswang are professional murderers, nothing more and nothing less.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 25

excerpts from the carnage, fun fact the concept of cultivation wombs come from southern esoteric theravada/boran kammathana which has a very similar "embryo-growing" esoteric tradition that is now associated with daoist neidan

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 24

on dungeon gameplay in 10,000 swords against heaven

Dungeon Exploration
Exploring dungeons are the second smallest slice of gameplay in 10,000 Swords Against Heaven, outside of Situations.
Dungeons do not just mean prison cells kept underground. Not anymore. Now they also mean: drug dens, police stations, ancient Balthrasian ruins, an inframat-phenomena infested Higanbana Hildemej factory, a destroyed Hokou data-processing plant, a primeval sky-fortress jutting out of the sea, your best friend’s party where your ex-girlfriend is, an office taken over by an annoying capitalist overlord, a housing complex with a demonic landlord, and so on.
When traveling through a Dungeon, you can take an Dungeon Exploration Turn. One turn is 10 minutes, or an incense. On an Exploration Turn, the party can…
✦ Move up to MOV x 3 meters
✦ Search a room thoroughly
✦ Listen at a door, scoping the area out
✦ Do a significant or major action

Every 6 Dungeon Exploration Turns, the Intercessor may roll a d6: 1-in-6 chance of a random encounter. Higher if the dungeon is more dangerous, or if the Wanderers have been in here for a long time.

MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag· Jun 23

the perfect werewolf the apocalypse video game